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. ...

Chaucer's Bookstore will host Santa Barbara author Max Talley for a book talk and signing of his novel ”Peace, Love & Haight,” 6 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 11 ...

The youthful exuberance and freewheeling idealism that burst forth from San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury neighborhood in the 1960s is now on full display inside a new museum located at the very ...

"Once upon a heady afternoon on April 30, 1978, the Haight-Ashbury Street Fair burst onto the scene like a psychedelic phoenix rising from the incense-scented ashes of a faded Summer of Love. Born ...

Editor's note: This article originally posted on the San Francisco Examiner. Click here for more culture reporting at sfexaminer.com Haight-Ashbury neighborhood merchants will continue to celebrate ...

One of my most vivid summer memories goes all the way back to 1967, which now seems almost like an age of innocence. I was lucky enough to be living in Santa Cruz, California, and for once, I was in ...

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 ...