This East Bay Express article by Zoe Brezsny ran in April (thank you @IMGoph for pointing it out), but this correction is to good to be ignored over mere timeliness: Correction: The original version ...

If you partied with Timothy Leary and the Brotherhood of Eternal Love in the 1960s, documentary filmmaker William A. Kirkley would like to talk to you. A colorful piece of Laguna Beach’s history — ...

It was 1988. Back then, the simple act of cutting the plastic rings that hold six-packs together was lauded as Earth-friendly behavior. If you were cutting up rings, you were really doing your part to ...

he hippie "scene" on Haight Street in San Francisco was so very visual that photographers came from everywhere to shoot it, reporters came from everywhere to write it up with speed, and oportunists ...

The hippie icon Wave Gravy epitomizes the myth of the flower-children as being far more revolutionary than they actually were. Getty Images American schoolbooks often employ romanticized language to ...

It was the most frolicsome funeral in memory. Through San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park wended a legion of hippies, the lads bedizened with beads and scrapes, the lasses with furs and long velvet ...

One sociologist calls them “the Freudian proletariat.” Another observer sees them as “expatriates living on our shores but beyond our society.” Historian Arnold Toynbee describes them as “a red ...

On June 13, 1968, a nationally syndicated newspaper article stated that “hundreds of hippies” were pouring into Boulder. The long-haired drug users claimed that two days later, an asteroid would hit ...

I want to feel as peaceful as flowers. I want to move as freely as the wind. I want to see the world through the eyes of every person and creature I come across. Some people say these yearnings ...