Grateful Dead

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Reckoning with the Dead at the Sphere July 24, 2024

In May, I came across an ad in the subway promoting the months-long residency at the Sphere, in Las Vegas, of Dead & Company, the current permutation of the Grateful Dead, featuring two surviving members, Bob Weir and Mickey Hart, and the pop star Jo...

The Grateful Dead’s Afterlife April 08, 2024

All things must pass, and with the coming senescence of the Boomers, we may finally be able to lay the legacy of the 1960s to rest. And yet, by all appearances, one part of that legacy is still going strong – one might even say truckin’ – in the popu...