Las Vegas experienced a strange convergence of music scenes on May 16. Electric Daisy Carnival, which draws 200,000 revelers to dance in the desert, had hit town; Pearl Jam was playing the MGM Grand ...
Las Vegas' most eye-catching venue welcomed its second band over the weekend. Phish took over the Sphere, Sin City's $2.3 billion attraction that opened last September. The group delivered a four-show ...
When Frank Stella painted "Double Scramble," a painting of a pair of concentric squares from 1968 that's in the San Antonio Museum of Art's permanent collection, he tried to minimize the optic mixing ...
In 1943, a chemist in Switzerland synthesized a drug that alters consciousness. His discovery changed the study of medicine, psychiatry and biology—and became a central component of the counterculture ...
When the earliest humans searched for answers about the less-than physical world evidenced by their dreams, they turned to hallucinogens and music. Psychedelics are so closely linked to dreaming that ...
What do monkeys, LSD and Stanford University all have in common? More than you think, probably. The connection is one man: the famed novelist Ken Kesey. A colorful figure whose work infused American ...