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." ...

Housed in a spacious building on the southeast corner of Haight and Ashbury streets’ intersection, the Counterculture Museum ...

In The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, the journalist broke free of his contrarian clichés to illuminate the origins of 1960s ...

Get your hiking boots on if you're planning on visiting this West Coast city, which was dubbed one of the best urban hiking ...

Notes to John, posthumously published journal entries chronicling Didion’s therapy sessions, is a peek into the myths and ...

As I drove into last Saturday's Ocean Beach Street Fair & Chili Cook-Off, there was a crowd protesting against the United ...

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.

“The Last Great Dream: How Bohemians Became Hippies and Created the Sixties,” a new book by Dennis McNally, explores the roots of counterculture that flowered in SF’s Haight-Ashbury in 1967.