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San Francisco police seize the unlikely drug of choice of Grateful Dead fans

W hen you walk out the exits of a major concert at Golden Gate Park onto 30th Avenue, usually you hear a chorus of vendors ...

Review: Grateful Dead celebration strikes Phish-y note during S.F. finale

Trey Anastasio of Phish joins John Mayer and Dead & Company on final night of Grateful Dead celebration at Golden Gate Park ...

Grateful Dead celebration fills hotels, lifts spirits across San Francisco

The Grateful Dead's 60th anniversary celebration is doing more than drawing tens of thousands of fans to Golden Gate Park — ...

San Francisco's Grateful Dead weekend kicks off with a monumental night at Golden Gate Park

San Francisco welcomed Grateful Dead offshoot Dead & Co. back Friday night for a hell of a birthday party. The first night of ...

How did Grateful Dead get their name?

This is how Jerry Garcia gave The Grateful Dead got their name after the group he founded previously went under the name of the Warlocks before changing names.

Grateful Dead concerts boost S.F.'s Haight-Ashbury merchants: ‘Biggest weekend for us of the year'

"All the Deadheads, they all want to come to the Haight," said Robert Emmons, president of the Haight Ashbury Merchants ...

Business booms on 'Shakedown Street' as Grateful Dead take over San Francisco

Back when he was a teenager, before he was even a fan of the band, he found himself at a Dead concert in Berkeley in the ...

Behind-the-scenes photos of the Grateful Dead in their early years

Legendary music photographer Jim Marshall started photographing the Grateful Dead in 1966. The resulting images are intimate ...

A guide to the Grateful Dead's 2025 Meet-Up at the Movies

Traditionally celebrated only one day each year, its 2025 edition - featuring a 4K restoration of the 1977 concert film "The ...