In The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, the journalist broke free of his contrarian clichés to illuminate the origins of 1960s ...

In 1953, the CIA launched a covert program to try to harness the power of mind control. Though the majority of the documents ...

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Don Buchla was in the right place at the right time to make that instrument for the Tape Music Center, and his revolutionary circuits would go on to inspire countless other musicians, not to mention ...

Listed as “Grateful Dead 1965 San Jose, CA First-Ever-Performance Acid Test Advertising Poster,” the crayon-drawn event announcement calls attention to Kesey’s December 4, 1965 gathering in ...

Grateful Dead founding member and bassist Phil Lesh died Friday morning, according to a post on his official Instagram account. The California native and rock legend was 84. Phil Lesh of the ...

Back in 1968 the story of Ken Kesey’s Merry Pranksters and their attempts to spread the gospel of LSD was not exactly breaking news – it had not, as the saying goes, been torn from the screaming ...

And so, I will tell you that “Acid Test” holds up, a wild ride with a bunch of folks who traveled across the country in a 1939 International Harvester school bus they called “Further ...

Column: Taking another ride with Ken Kesey, Tom Wolfe and a bunch of Merry Pranksters in ‘Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test’ ... American author and journalist Tom Wolfe in New York, late 1965.

And so, I will tell you that “Acid Test” holds up, a wild ride with a bunch of folks who traveled across the country in a 1939 International Harvester school bus they called “Further ...

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