Grateful Dead News

Maybe it was the energy in the room, this veneration coming off the crowd in adoring waves.

Would-be home buyers in Silicon Valley and San Francisco are going hungry this spring as major media report on the lack of sellers and new homes.

A federal appeals court in San Francisco today ordered a new trial in the long-running case of a man sentenced to death for murdering two followers of the band Grateful Dead at a homeless encampment in Berkeley in 1985.

On the evening of May 8th, exactly thirty-five years ago tonight, two remarkable things happened at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

For all the looming cultural resonance of the Grateful Dead's taste for psychedelic improvisation, that band amassed a song book that can stand with the body of work of any other American practitioner of popular music.