Elizabeth Selvin has been appointed the next director of the Welch Center for Epidemiology and Clinical Research at the Johns Hopkins University, effective May 1. She succeeds Lawrence J. Appel, who ...

Dr. Beatrice L. “Bea” Selvin, former clinical director of the department of anesthesiology at what is now University of Maryland Medical Center and professor of anesthesiology at the University of ...

Coinciding with the arrest of Charles Manson, the Altamont Speedway Free Festival is often presented as the symbolic end of the 1960s counterculture. The mayhem at the notorious rock concert, some of ...

You’ve driven past it on 580, in the hills past Livermore. It’s on your right, just where the highway turns slowly southward. That little racetrack. Altamont. It’s been called a raceway, a speedway or ...

Selvin ( Monterey Pop ) brings an astonishing amount of anecdotal detail to his history of the late 1960s and early '70s drug and musical scene of hippiedom's hippest city. ``The so-called Summer of ...

The complicated Jan Berry of Jan & Dean not only sang surf music - he actually surfed! Credit: Photo by Jill Gibson/Courtesy of Bob Merlis M.F.H. The old adage goes that high school is the place to ...

Tuesday marks the 20th anniversary of the death of concert impresario Bill Graham, founder of a business empire and a major player in rock 'n' roll history both in the Bay Area and throughout the ...

The year was 1970, and Jim Gordon was in rock ‘n’ roll heaven. The drummer was a part of Joe Cocker’s infamous Mad Dogs and Englishmen revue, a traveling circus of sex, drugs and legendary music, ...

The 'American Fiction' Oscar winner will be honored at the April 14 ceremony. By Tyler Coates Awards Editor Additionally, American Fiction — based on the novel Erasure by Percival Everett — is ...