When Jim Belushi was playing Ken Kesey — a literary giant gone to seed — in “The Chronology of Water,” he’d hear Kristen ...

The younger brother of Ken Kesey, the novelist and counterculture luminary, he turned a defunct creamery into what is now ...

O. U. Levon, Author, Ken Kesey, Author, Robert Blucher, Author Penguin Books $9.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-14-012208-4 Eccentric characters and entertaining incidents boost the pace of this novel but cannot ...

A new documentary rescues old footage from Ken Kesey’s cross-country bus trip in 1964, through a miracle of digital restoration and editing. Alex Gibney and Alison Ellwood’s documentary “Magic Trip” ...

The family of writer Ken Kesey is reviving plans to restore his original psychedelic bus in time for the 50th anniversary of its passengers’ LSD-laced trip across America. Stephanie Kesey said she has ...

ast month, I found myself in La Honda for the very first time. This cozy corner of the Santa Cruz mountains is best known for providing safe havens over the years for the likes of Steve Jobs, Neil ...

The moment the lights went down in the jam-packed Koret Auditorium at the Main Library during a tribute to the recently deceased Ken Kesey, somebody fired up a joint. The boho-beat-hippie-freak ...

What was One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest about? One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest has an original, odd, and compelling plot. In the movie, Jack Nicholson portrays McMurphy, a man who decides that rather ...

The Oregon women’s basketball team (10-0) defeated the Oregon State Beavers (5-4) 96-73 in an in-state rivalry game that saw the Ducks blow... On the corner of East Broadway and Willamette Street in ...

Sixty years ago today, on December 4, 1965, the Warlocks debuted as the Grateful Dead at the first public Acid Test in San ...

A successful novelist in his own right, Kesey is often cited as a livewire that connects and electrifies some of the most creative personalities in the beat and hippie worlds. Awarded a fellowship in ...