The U.S. Navy made it official in 1913 when issuing short-sleeved, crew-necked white cotton undershirts. Sailors stationed in ...

Playing With Fire, two weekends of blues, rock, funk and R&B music, is moving this year to Slowdown, a club in north downtown ...

My Wild Ride with Jerry Garcia and Grateful Dead” Len Dell’Amico describes the band’s concerts as “fundamentally a spiritual ...

Len Dell’Amico, the Grateful Dead’s longtime videographer, writes about his friendship with Jerry Garcia in a new memoir.

While hugging is second nature to us, dogs tend to have a whole different perspective. Why? It all boils down to our ...

In 1948, an undeniably strange song written by a proto-hippie who slept under L.A ... a wing of the Lebensreform (“life reform”) movement ultimately dubbed Naturmenschen (“natural people ...

The marchers looped around campus on the 17th Street and Pico Street sidewalks before returning to the quad through the ...

Whatever else that is, it is not a route to a free Gaza, much less a free Palestine. That concept of freedom might be better ...

Freedom was very important to Patrick Henry, who lived in a time with a lot of self-governance and liked it. Unfortunately, ...

As two recent books show, free speech protections were forged a century ago by people who fought for the rights of activists.

One thinks of Franklin at the tail-end of the Beatniks and the beginnings of the radical hippies. Franklin’s ... He was a man of the Movement. Adept at the cut-and-thrust of sectarian in ...