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She wrote about politics and the patriarchy as a left-wing writer, then alienated her compatriots with exposés critical of the Black Panthers and the environmental movement.

"Language is the glove into which I stick my hand, which permits me contact with the world," says the writer and poet Wayne Koestenbaum.

When the musician Donovan’s hit single Mellow Yellow first came out in 1966, my older brother bought it on vinyl. I was still a kid, but like the rest of the...

Ronald “Ron” Noel McNicoll, a longtime journalist and poet, died Nov. 9 in Walnut Creek from heart failure, according to a family member.

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Buffy Sainte-Marie’s claims to Indigenous ancestry are being contradicted by members of the iconic singer-songwriters own family and an extensive CBC investigation.

The inductees will be honored at New York Comic Con on Oct. 13. Five are from the world of superheroes, and one is a pioneer of underground comics.

Of all the psychedelic era’s counterculture rabble-rousers, perhaps none was more outlandish than handle-bar-mustachioed, High Times founder Thomas King Forçade.

The wild life and times of '60s and '70s countercultural giant and marijuana activist Thomas King Forcade make for a cinematic new biography.

In the late 1960s, then-student at UC Berkeley Bob Plantz read an article in an underground newspaper, the Berkeley Barb, featuring two unidentified men embracing one another. The article was intended to promote openness surrounding gay identities.