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Days before playing her first concert in San Francisco with Big Brother & the Holding Company, Joplin apologised to her folks for her "self destructive steak." ...
“I feel like people can see a lot of crazy stuff in San Francisco,” Powers said. “I like to be the good kind of crazy. I like ...
War, drugs, and racial tensions set the stage for the summer of 1967.
Haight Street building will take the first step toward leasing it out or forming some other partnership arrangement to create a "public-serving cultural facility," according to a website launched for ...
Stevie Nicks reveals the song that helped her see into "the future" and provide a view of her own career and how she would ...
A year after that interview, the man Annie Leibovitz hailed as “the rock ‘n’ roll photographer” died in New York at age 74, ...
She also took several of Janis Joplin and her band Big Brother and the Holding Company, including the photograph used to create the poster included in the Smithsonian’s American Art Museum’s ...
Other photographs include peace rallies and concerts in Haight-Ashbury, Coretta Scott King speaking at an Anti-War protest and portraits of Allen Ginsburg and Timothy Leary. From her life in New ...
Housed in a spacious building on the southeast corner of Haight and Ashbury streets’ intersection, the Counterculture Museum ...
Even in Haight-Ashbury, this seems like bad business. Unfortunately, the Booksmith’s book ban, as it touts “Books, Not Bans,” although ironic, does not strike as atypical.
It's rare that the opportunity to own the same property that legends such as Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Allen Ginsberg, and George Harrison have wandered through; however, now someone has the chance ...