Hunter S. Thompson News

When an American compound in Benghazi was attacked last year, the Obama administration targeted a filmmaker named Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, accusing him of setting the Muslim world ablaze and then throwing him in prison.

The thing about Vegas is the untrue story seems so much more probable than the true and sport is still a mainstay of this engagingly strange city, captured in the iconic Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

Oscar Zeta Acosta — hero to the Chicano movement, hard-living pal of Hunter S. Thompson — first raised hell in Riverbank.

Oscar Zeta Acosta — hero to the Chicano movement, hard-living pal of Hunter S. Thompson — first raised hell in Riverbank.

All adults and teens are invited to read and discuss "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" by Hunter S. Thompson with the Books By Night group this month.

Illustrator Ralph Steadman spoke to James McCarthy about his long friendship with Hunter S Thompson after revisiting his work on Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas The Wales-raised artist celebrated for his work with American author Hunter S Thompson has spoken of his long friendship with the legendary writer.

In 1967, the FBI was keeping close tabs on The People's Weekly, the communist party's west-coast newspaper affiliate.