Skip to: Content
Skip to: Site Navigation
Skip to: Search
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2009
| Subscribe to Newser's RSS feeds RSS | Follow Newser on Twitter Twitter

NEWS ABOUT: Grateful Dead

Grateful Dead stories: 7 news summaries

 Santa Cruz Seeks 
 Deadhead Archivist 

UC offers $70K for job made in hippie heaven

Nov 11, 09 3:03 AM CST
(Newser) - Far out. The University of Santa Cruz is seeking an archivist to help handle its horde of Grateful Dead material—for a very un-hippie-like $70,000 salary, plus benefits. The school is seeking a "creative" professional with a master's degree, and preferably "expert knowledge" of the "history... More »

MORE ABOUT:
music • California • rock and roll • University of California • Santa Cruz • Grateful Dead • Jerry Garcia • UC Santa Cruz • Bob Weir • David Grisman • archives

SLIDESHOW


 How Skulls 
 Took Over 
 Fashion 

Once scary, now stylish, skulls are trendy—and not just at Halloween

Oct 30, 09 11:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - Skulls, once seen as sinister symbols, are now used on everything from children's shirts to underwear. Sara Dickerman of Slate takes a look at how the trend developed:
  • In the 16th century, artists like Albrecht Dürer were still using skulls to remind people of their mortality.
  • French
... More »

MORE ABOUT:
fashion • skull • Grateful Dead • pirates • Halloween • Vivienne Westwood • trend • Jay-ZTV • women's issues • trends • Alexander McQueen

 Corpse 
 Sex Show 
 Stirs Up Swiss 

Exhibit ignites outrage in Europe

Sep 16, 09 3:09 AM CDT
(Newser) - German anatomist Gunther von Hagens just opened his traveling corpse sex show in Zurich and is steeled for controversy, reports Gawker. Von Hagens discovered a way to plasticize human bodies and has exhibited corpses stripped of their skin all over the world doing various activities. His latest show revealing bodies... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Europe • Switzerland • sex • Zurich • Grateful Dead • Gunther von Hagens • cadaver • Life Cycles

 San Fran Returns to 
 Its Psychedelic Roots 

Not that any band there would say they knew of a scene

Sep 5, 09 9:42 AM CDT
(Newser) - San Francisco seems to have had something of a psychedelic rock resurgence, though don’t ask any of the bands involved to identify themselves that way. “People are so aware of everything and don't really separate it that much,” a man whose band has the telltale brooding drones... More »

MORE ABOUT:
San Francisco • rock and roll • Grateful Dead • 1960s • bands • psychedelic • Jefferson Airplane • scene

 'Grateful' Symphony Debuts  

Baltimore to unveil work based on various Dead classics

Jul 27, 08 2:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra will debut this week an opera derived from the music of the Grateful Dead, on what would have been Jerry Garcia’s 66th birthday. Titled Dead Symphony No. 6, each movement goes truckin' on a different Dead song. The Grateful Dead is “long overdue to... More »

MORE ABOUT:
music • opera • composer • Baltimore • Grateful Dead • Baltimore Symphony • bands

 Dead Archives Head
 to UC Santa Cruz 

Collection valued at millions fits with crunchy campus' 'community spirit'

Apr 24, 08 11:42 AM CDT
(Newser) - The thousands of pieces that make up the Grateful Dead archive are truckin’ to a new home at UC Santa Cruz, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. The materials—worth millions and ranging from the band’s first record contract to life-size skeletons of members—currently occupy 2,000 square feet... More »

MORE ABOUT:
music • archive • memorabilia • Grateful Dead • UC Santa Cruz

Dude! Deadheads Get Own Channel

Sirius radio targets niche market
devoted to legendary band

Aug 29, 07 4:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - Twelve years after Jerry Garcia's death, the band is getting back together—on satellite radio. Sirius will launch a channel that's all Grateful Dead, all the time on September 7, kicking off with a legendary 1974 performance at the Hollywood Bowl. "This is gonna be one fun channel,"... More »

MORE ABOUT:
music • radio • Sirius • Grateful Dead • Jerry Garcia • Hollywood Bowl

7 Stories


from our news partners