David Talbot, the San Francisco journalist and founder of Salon, has issued a gritty corrective to our rosy memories in "Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror, and Deliverance in the City of Love." ...

Rock 'n' roll rebellion is mainstream today, but Peter Bebergal's new book summons a more shadowed past, when artists like Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin brought an occult mystique to the music.

David Talbot presents a history of San Francisco from 1967 to 1982. The city, connected to the counter culture movement of the 1960s, witnessed a series of transformative events in the succeeding ...

Season of the Witch At the beginning of "Season of the Witch," Peter Bebergal sketches an autobiographical scene right out of the movie "Almost Famous": He's 11 years old and his brother has left ...

Season of the Witch, David Talbot's vivid recounting of the history of San Francisco from 1967 through 1982, is unquestionably well-written except when it isn't, a contradiction justified by the ...

Donovan's "Season of the Witch" doesn't sound much like any of The Beatles' albums. However, Donovan said that one of the Fab Four's albums drew from the track.

“Season of the Witch” is an enthralling — and harrowing — account of how the 1967 Summer of Love gave way to 20 or so winters of discontent. As Salon.com founder David Talbot tells it, San ...

Season Of The Witch was originally scheduled for a March 2010 release before being delayed and dumped in the January graveyard, but it probably shouldn’t have been released at all.

Women vocalists reunite for Season of the Witch at d.b.a. on Friday, Oct. 13. Provided photo by Edward Carter Simon ...