Timothy Leary

The Psychic World of Stanley Krippner: A quest to document ESP

Hallucinations Made Clear

The Harvard Psychedelic Club: Altered states of America.

10 Things to Do This Weekend For Under $10

Christopher FairmanAgent Ribbons perform on Friday  Friday. Countdown until we get our weekend on. Countdown of the options to consider if you want to spend less than $10 going somewhere. Agent Ribbons @ The Knockout (Friday)Sacramento's Agent Ribbons give old-timey music a swift punk kick. The ... More >>

Deadiquette: Common Deadhead courtesies demystified

Christopher FairmanAgent Ribbons perform on Friday  Friday. Countdown until we get our weekend on. Countdown of the options to consider if you want to spend less than $10 going somewhere. Agent Ribbons @ The Knockout (Friday)Sacramento's Agent Ribbons give old-timey music a swift punk kick. The ... More >>

A Long, Strange Trip

An originator of acid rock in the '60s, Tommy Hall used LSD to expand his consciousness. He’s still psychedelic.

Punk Family Values

Meet the Rosenthals: two generations of art stars in one six-story warehouse.

Altman Snaps

Meet the Rosenthals: two generations of art stars in one six-story warehouse.

Apocalypse Now

A sharp, revelatory multimedia show casts a blinding light on the tragic events of today

Inside the Savage Nation

He adored beatniks, trolled the streets of North Beach in a beret, and was once Timothy Leary's gatekeeper, and now he packs a gun.

Our guide to readings, spoken word, and other literary events

He adored beatniks, trolled the streets of North Beach in a beret, and was once Timothy Leary's gatekeeper, and now he packs a gun.

A Sinful Score

Devil Music sweetens silents

Brother, Can You Spare a Heart?

"The Summer of Love is dead. You dig? Got any change?"

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

"The Summer of Love is dead. You dig? Got any change?"

Pranks for the Memories

V. Vale and RE/Search – still disseminating the alternative-culture virus

The Only Way From L.A. to S.F.

One definition of heaven: A week, a t-top Camaro, and the Pacific Coast Highway.

Head Trips

Drugs and their religious uses, as experienced by three explorers of psychedelia

He's Gotta Have It

Local filmmaker Caveh Zahedi's career was waylaid by his addiction to prostitution and porn. Today, his sexual compulsions could be the source of his comeback.

Sound Advice

Ancient slack-key, futuristic sex slaves, and time-spanning schizophrenia

Peace, Love, and Misunderstandings

Followers of the late John Lilly, the guru of higher consciousness, are squabbling over his legacy

Look Ahead

D.A. Pennebaker doesn't make history, but he's captured so much of it

Best Bookstore for New Books

The Booksmith

Night Crawler

Going in the Tank

Reel World

Going in the Tank

Sex on Wheels

Playboy magazine throws a sexual revolution party, and nobody comes

Beat the Press

Playboy magazine throws a sexual revolution party, and nobody comes

Young Urban Psychopaths

Axcess magazine tries to find its target audience

Riff Raff

Axcess magazine tries to find its target audience

Tripmasters

The Bay Area's chemical gentry

Letters

The Bay Area's chemical gentry

Slap Shots

The Bay Area's chemical gentry

Night Crawler

The Bay Area's chemical gentry

Slap Shots

The Bay Area's chemical gentry

Drug Story (Part II)

Discovered by brain researchers in the early '60s and resurrected by bodybuilders in the late '80s, the semi-illict compound GHB is now marketed on the club and smart-drug circuits as a sexy wonder drug. But beware GHB's knockout punch.

Mondo 1995 (Part II)

Mondo 2000 nailed the emerging cybersexcomputerdrug zeitgeist with its first issue in 1989, making media mavens out of its founders, Queen Mu and R.U. Sirius. But the trippy, fractious family that was Mondo began to implode in 1993, torn asunder bu inter

Mondo 1995

Mondo 2000 nailed the emerging cybersexcomputerdrug Zeitgeist with its first issue in 1989, making media mavens out of its founders, Queen Mu and R.U. Sirius. But the trippy, fractious family that was Mondo began to implode in 1993, torn asunder by inter

Bumpy Flight

The Marin revival of Cuckoo's Nest is a sturdy, if reserved, rendition of the archetypal good-vs.-evil play

Acid House

The Marin revival of Cuckoo's Nest is a sturdy, if reserved, rendition of the archetypal good-vs.-evil play

Acid House

The Marin revival of Cuckoo's Nest is a sturdy, if reserved, rendition of the archetypal good-vs.-evil play

The Electric Multimedia Psychedelic Time Trip

Haight-Ashbury pioneer and Oracle editor Allen Cohen resurrects the Summer of Love with a CD-ROM

Night+Day

Haight-Ashbury pioneer and Oracle editor Allen Cohen resurrects the Summer of Love with a CD-ROM