The summer of 1967 saw a surge in protests and the rise of the hippie movement. Frustration with the Vietnam War fueled social and political discontent. The Haight-Ashbury district in San Francisco ...

And as for the areas where we're not re-experiencing 1967 -- the sexual revolution, the drug culture, the civil rights movement, the civil unrest -- that's because the subculture has now become the ...

The Summer of Love didn’t just happen in a vacuum nearly 60 years ago. It wasn’t a kind of spontaneous combustion that created the hippie movement and the peace and love ethos of the ‘60s generation. ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Over the past few months, the Bay Area has been waxing nostalgic over the 50th anniversary of the “Summer of Love,” the 1967 season when hippies and tens of thousands of seekers, ...

SAN FRANCISCO — First came a moratorium on head shops. Then, neighbors turned out in force to support a new development that includes an upscale grocery store. And the local street fair banned open ...

Janis Joplin, right, performs with guitarist Jorma Kaukonen. (Photo by Marjorie Allette) Dennis McNally is the author of “The Last Great Dream.” (Photo by Susana Millman) Show Caption 1 of 3 From left ...