The Sacred and the Dead: ‘Ripple’ Is a Spiritual Manifesto
A stack of amplifiers three stories tall loomed over the 7,000 faithful arrayed on sun-baked…
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The Sacred and the Dead: Three Ways to American Beauty
One sentence, spoken by an anonymous “usher” to a maverick producer who then riffed to boisterous…
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The Sacred and the Dead: The Trouble with Sugar Magnolia
My childhood home was equidistant between two of the Grateful Dead’s regular Bay Area venues:…
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The Sacred and the Dead: ‘Friend of the Devil’ is a Love Song
Despite its provocative title, the Grateful Dead’s song “Friend of the Devil” actually can be heard…
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The Sacred and the Dead: It’s (Not) Just a Box of Rain
“The Grateful Dead were more than just a band. They were their own planet, populated by…
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The Sacred and the Dead: How an Iranian-Jewish Angeleno Discovered Her Tribe
I was born in Tehran, Iran, to a Jewish family three years before the Islamic…
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