Peter Richardson

I live in Richmond, just a few miles north of Berkeley. Its progressive City Council has received a fair amount of national coverage recentl...

David Gans came by the Freight & Salvage yesterday and dropped some serious Grateful Dead knowledge on us. Between the books, articles, ...

Blair Jackson visited our Grateful Dead course yesterday and shared his vast knowledge of the band and its history. Aficionados will recall ...

Rosie McGee shared her photographs and memories at the Freight & Salvage this week. Truly illuminating, and a great counterpoint to Nick...

The Grateful Dead class got off to a great start at the Freight & Salvage last week. Nick Meriwether, Grateful Dead Archivist at UC Sant...

So grateful to Berkeleyside , the award-winning news site, for running a piece on my Grateful Dead course at UC Berkeley's Osher Lifelo...

My forthcoming book on the Grateful Dead has a lot to say about Ralph J. Gleason, who covered music (and the San Francisco music scene) for ...

The Grateful Dead signed a deal with Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG), which will handle global administration of the Dead's son...

My first book review at The National Memo. This is the third volume in Rick Perlstein's epic history of the modern conservative movemen...

This material is too late to include in the book, but I relished Branford Marsalis's reflections on playing with the Dead in 1991. Lots...