LSD

Mixtape review: Chance the Rapper's stellar, infinite 'Acid Rap'

2013-05-03 16:45:00

This post has been updated. See below for details. An infinite jest, Chicago lyricist Chance the Rapper's stellar new mixtape "Acid Rap" begins with a woman's seductive voice -- chanteuse Lili K. -- uttering, "Even better than I was the last time, baby,...

Scientists explore mystery of a psychedelic HIV/AIDS drug

2013-04-22 15:25:00

For those taking antiretroviral medications for HIV/AIDS, there is one drug in the mix that can put a particular kick in the cocktail: the drug efavirenz, marketed under the commercial names Sustiva and Stocrin, appears to have an "LSD-like interaction"...

Judy Juanita and her 'Virgin Soul'

2013-04-19 06:00:00

In the late 1960s, Judy Juanita was a college undergraduate in the Bay Area and editor of a Black Panther Party newspaper. Now her new novel, "Virgin Soul" (Viking, $26.95), recounts the story of Geniece, an undergraduate who joins the Panthers. But...

Theater for the unfocused mind

2013-04-15 05:00:00

PALO ALTO — We hallucinate. But we are often of two minds about having two minds. We produce drugs to enhance hallucinations and drugs to dull them. Medical science seeks to relieve schizophrenics of their visions. Religion, on the other hand,...

'Mad Men's' John Slattery, Matthew Weiner talk Roger Sterling

2013-04-06 06:00:00

The last time viewers caught a glimpse of Roger Sterling, the rakishly charming advertising executive played by John Slattery on "Mad Men," he stood naked looking out a hotel window, arms raised in a state of LSD-induced bliss. The image of Roger's bare...

An appreciation: Phil Ramone's golden ear for the hits

2013-03-31 17:45:00

That Phil Ramone was a musical force in the recording studio is undeniable, and the evidence lies in the range of his accomplishments. For example, within one three-year period in the early 1960s, Ramone mixed Lesley Gore's smash hit "It's My Party,"...

SXSW 2013: Iggy, Cafe Tacuba among nine shining moments so far

2013-03-15 13:29:00

AUSTIN, Texas --Three days gone, three remaining at the South by Southwest music festival.�Already, millions of notes and beats have been played using dozens of tunings and effects. Untold lyrical cliches involving love, nature, haters, enchanted...

Gerald D. Klee dies at 86; psychiatrist involved in Army LSD experiments

2013-03-12 13:32:04

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Sterling Lord shares insight, memories

2013-02-01 07:05:00

Without Sterling Lord, there would be no Jack Kerouac — not Kerouac as we know him, anyway, the writer who introduced the Beat Generation. Lord was a former magazine editor and fledgling literary agent working in a basement apartment in New York...

Judge finds Riverside boy responsible for killing neo-Nazi father

2013-01-14 09:54:03

22 students arrested in drug bust at Temecula high schools

2012-12-12 11:33:24

Larry Hagman, boyish to the end: An appreciation

2012-11-24 13:52:00

Larry Hagman, who as J.R. Ewing was famously shot but survived to finish 14 seasons and 357 episodes of "Dallas" and who rose again to lie and scheme in this year's successful revival, died Friday in Dallas, just down I-30 from Fort Worth, where he was...

Three letters: LSD. Roger's trip was one for the ages. But beyond that, he divorced second wife Jane and seduced Megan Draper's mom. At an American Cancer Benefit. Then took acid.

2013-04-02 13:36:00

Armstrong, who played Jane Sterling's LSD-peddling shrink in Season 5, went to high school in Baltimore and appeared in John Waters' Baltimore-set "Pecker." Her husband, John Fiedler, produced that film along with other Waters flicks. Any chance we might see him collaborate with the "Mad Men" staff?

2013-04-02 09:24:00

Dr. Gerald Klee led an unsuccessful effort to persuade President Nixon to renounce the use of LSD as a chemical weapon.

2013-03-08 19:09:03