Jerry Garcia and his Grateful Dead bandmates lived on Ashbury, a short walk south of the intersection with Haight Street. Somewhat surprisingly, if anything of that era could be surprising, Hells ...

The thing about the Summer of Love is that it was also, simply, 1967 in San Francisco. It’s true that hordes of hippies heeded Timothy Leary’s call to turn on, tune in and drop out, and that less ...

This summer, The Haight Street Art Center will present “Between the Dark and Light: Grateful Dead 1965-1995,” which will run from July 12 through September 3, coinciding with the final Dead & Company ...

Editor's note: This article originally posted on the San Francisco Examiner. Click here for more culture reporting at sfexaminer.com The youthful exuberance and freewheeling idealism that burst forth ...

Few intersections in the US hold as much cultural gravitas as San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury. Made famous during the 1967 Summer of Love, these two then unassuming street corners blossomed under the ...

The Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco is not so much a neighborhood as a state of mindlessness. The Erewhon of America’s “pot left,” a 10-by-15 block midtown section, has over the past year ...