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Housed in a spacious building on the southeast corner of Haight and Ashbury streets’ intersection, the Counterculture Museum ...
War, drugs, and racial tensions set the stage for the summer of 1967.
One of those movements took place in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco, where an estimated 75,000 young people gathered looking for the values of freedom, peace, and love spread by hippies.
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Joan Didion Undone
Notes to John, posthumously published journal entries chronicling Didion’s therapy sessions, is a peek into the myths and ...
In The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, the journalist broke free of his contrarian clichés to illuminate the origins of 1960s ...
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." ...
OB has been the Haight-Ashbury of San Diego since the 1960s. With the clothing and merchandise sold, the hippie vibe of the area lives on.
A year after that interview, the man Annie Leibovitz hailed as “the rock ‘n’ roll photographer” died in New York at age 74, ...
In an exclusive interview, the band's lyricist opens up on how they came together, made their most beloved records and got turned onto LSD ...
Get your hiking boots on if you're planning on visiting this West Coast city, which was dubbed one of the best urban hiking destinations in the country.