Since 2005 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in ...

The cartoonist R. Crumb has captivated readers — and sometimes agitated them — since the 1960s. A pioneer of counterculture ...

A diverse group of friends posing near hippie van. Anyone remember the VW Bus? In a world that seems obsessed with AI, tech and everything new, a groovy blast from the past is getting ready to make a ...

A pioneer of counterculture comic book art, R. Crumb created Zap Comix, which included iconic strips like “Fritz the Cat” and ...

The Volkswagen Beetle — the curvy car developed at Adolf Hitler’s direction that became an improbable symbol of the hippie counterculture of the 1960s — is set to become a thing of the past. The ...

Some call them flower children. Others refer to them as drug users or stoners. People of younger generations think of ’69’s Woodstock, of peace and love, of an old, hidden picture of a parent decked ...

We’ve all heard the Legend of the Hippie. How in the mythical area of Haight-Ashbury in the wonderland of San Francisco in the year of our Lord 1967 there was the “Summer of Love.” Where young people ...

Frustrated with the Vietnam War, The Man, and the general state of the nation, hippies set out to do everything differently. They founded rural communes, dabbled in psychedelics and cultivated a ...