Bill Kopp

Free love & LSD: How the ‘Human Be-In’ launched the Summer of Love

Culture

More than half a century ago, a group of influential poets, musicians and political rabble rousers drew 20,000 to Golden Gate Park to celebrate liberation and acid.

Photos of U2’s Bono vandalizing an iconic work of SF public art

Thirty-five years ago, on Nov. 11, 1987, Bono spraypainted a “dumb” message on Vaillancourt Fountain.

The Elvis Costello-Jerry Garcia connection: How the new wave icon learned to love the Grateful Dead

Modern rock legend Elvis Costello comes to San Francisco next week for two concerts—one honoring The Dead and a headlining set at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass.

Sex, drugs & San Francisco: The Tubes were known for spectacularly naughty shows

The Tubes loom large in the pantheon of theatrical shock rock. The San Francisco collective deftly combined artistic ambitions, progressive rock arrangements, street-level punk sensibility and sharp satire on their albums. And their concerts were legendary.

Prepare for ‘Jerry Day’ with these historic photos of the late Grateful Dead frontman

Jerry Garcia was for many the embodiment of the Grateful Dead’s musical and cultural aesthetic. These archival images help give a sense of why.