“From the strength of their personal decency and dedication, the musicians summoned up an oceanic passion, a commitment to the true experience of their materials that short-circuited the hair on the back of one’s neck”

“What's happening?” said a lady tourist to a lady cop. “It's the moral majority versus the unmoral majority.”

The funeral notices had been printed. They were small stiff cards, bordered in black, reading “HIPPIE. In the Haight-Ashbury district of this city, Hippie, de­voted son of Mass Media. Friends are invited to attend services beginning at sunrise, October 6, 1967, at Buena Vista Park.”

Here are letters between two seven-year-old girls about the ’80s. Their names are Zoozoo and Linda and they have parents.

“The nation’s only openly gay city official had been shot dead, allegedly by the city’s most anti-gay official.”

In “Just a Shot Away,” Saul Austerlitz revisits the concert that started in hope and ended in bloodshed

Re-creating “Vertigo” without “Vertigo”