"Once upon a heady afternoon on April 30, 1978, the Haight-Ashbury Street Fair burst onto the scene like a psychedelic phoenix rising from the incense-scented ashes of a faded Summer of Love. Born ...

Where the spirit of '67 meets the sound of now. Two stages. Dozens of acts. A celebration of San Francisco's counterculture legacy--louder, bolder, and more electrifying than ever. A searing, ...

Editor’s note: This is Neighborhood Explorer, a series in which neighborhoods and culture correspondent James Salazar highlights the people and places that make their pockets of San Francisco unique.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Sure, there’s the Golden Gate Bridge, the Painted Ladies, Lombard Street and the sea lions that hang out at PIER 39 in Fisherman’s Wharf – all of which are on tourists’ “must-see” ...