4/20 at Hippie Hill is a San Francisco tradition said to date back to the1970's. Each year, tens of thousands of people organically arrive from all over to celebrate the use of Cannabis. This years ...

In the spring of 1966 Steve Slavin joined a pickup basketball game on a playground in Greenwich Village. Who should show up but Bernie Sanders, his old friend and roommate from Brooklyn College. He ...

One sociologist calls them “the Freudian proletariat.” Another observer sees them as “expatriates living on our shores but beyond our society.” Historian Arnold Toynbee describes them as “a red ...

I spent a lot of time with hippies with I was a young(er!) man, in many parts of the American West, primarily Missoula, Mont. I was even a bit of a hair farmer myself in those days. But these were ...

The Midland Mall was flowing with a free and relaxed vibe during the grand opening of the BoHo Hippie Hut at 8 a.m. on Black Friday. The bohemian and hippie lifestyle store opened in its first ...

Pseudo-hippies everywhere will probably nail me to their Pinterest hit lists, but I don't care. I will no longer stand for the injustice that is overpriced napkins and mass-produced flower children.

“It was easy to see that the young men who were hippies on Haight Street wore beards and long hair and sometimes earrings and weird-o granny eye-glasses, and that they were generally dirty.” The ...