Author and historian Dennis McNally has written extensively on the Grateful Dead, including the 2002 authorized biography “A Long Strange Trip.” In his new book, “The Last Great Dream: How Bohemians Became Hippies and Created the Sixties,” McNally (who also served as the Dead’s publicist in the 1980s and 1990s) …
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The Mayor of San Francisco is ready to welcome Deadheads to the Grateful Dead‘s birthplace: the Bay Area. On Monday, Mayor Daniel Lurie posted a video of himself in front of Golden Gate Park, announcing that Dead & Company will be performing there for three consecutive shows in August to …
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After Democrats lost the White House, the Senate, and the House of Representatives in last year’s election, Saikat Chakrabarti waited for the party’s leaders to acknowledge — if not address — their mistakes. “I was sort of expecting the Democrats to have a big realization that, ‘Oh my Gosh. We …
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Once upon a time on the West Coast, two bands were plotting a revolution. Well, really, it was one musician concocting a grand plan to dismantle the record industry, bring back a massive revival of 1960s psychedelic rock, and achieve total world domination. His name was Anton Newcombe, and this …
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It’s about to get hyphy at Levi’s Stadium. On Friday, Saweetie and P-Lo released the fiery collaboration “Do It For the Bay,” an anthem written for the San Francisco 49ers as they fight to make it to the Super Bowl in the NFL playoffs. In the lyrics, the duo references …
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There is a snippet of “The Illiad, or The Poem of Force,” Simone Weil’s 1940 essay about the blind poet Homer’s Trojan War epic, that has always stuck with me: “The progress of the war in the Iliad is simply a continual game of seesaw. The victor of the moment …
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A long time ago, in what might as well have been a galaxy far, far away, Donya (Anaita Wali Zada) was a translator for the U.S. Army in Afghanistan. Now, this young woman lives in the Bay Area town of Fremont, a stone’s throw from Silicon Valley and a dozen …
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The San Francisco music scene was bursting with magic during the Sixties and Seventies, from the rise of radio DJs and eye-catching poster artists to Rolling Stone magazine and a number of iconic acts who emerged from it, including the Grateful Dead, Sly and the Family Stone, Steve Miller, Santana, …
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Christopher Beale never expected to be at the center of the latest drama to arise from Elon Musk‘s takeover of Twitter. True, he’s lived close to the company’s Market Square headquarters in San Francisco since 2020, and regularly uses the app — as an independent journalist it’s a convenient way …
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From 1965 to 1975, San Francisco saw the rise of the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Sly and the Family Stone, Janis Joplin, Big Brother & the Holding Company, Steve Miller, Santana, Moby Grape and more. A new two-part docuseries, San Francisco Sounds: A Place, examines this decade that propelled Bay …
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