
At any gathering of the Dead -- which is to say, the four surviving members of the Grateful Dead, now all in their 60s -- the weight of history competes with the magic of the moment. For the band and its fans, reunion means remembrance: an unavoidable thing, given the depth of documented history, the persistence of nostalgia and the absence of...
Corrections Appended I WENT to a Phil Lesh concert in New York last fall, on the third night of a 14-night run. I sat next to a man who looked informed: he listened with familiarity and good humor and a touch of impatience, as if he wanted to fast-forward through certain parts. ''Seen any of the other shows?'' I asked. ''I've been to every show...

As the head of Google's philanthropy division, you oversee a budget of about $1 billion to be spent on socially constructive causes, like developing plug-in cars or tracking bird flu along the Mekong River. Is that enough money to make a difference? I think that we have a generous allotment of resources -- money and people and the talent of...
Jerome John "Jerry" Garcia (1. august 1942 – 9. august 1995) var en amerikansk musiker og sangskriver, bedst kendt for sin rolle som leadguitarist og sanger i det psykedeliske rockband Grateful Dead.
Mens Garcia optrådte med Grateful Dead i hele dets tre årtier lange liv (1965 til 1995), deltog han ligeledes i en del sideprojekter, inklusiv Legion of Mary, Jerry Garcia Band, Old and in the Way, den akkustiske duo Garcia/Grisman og flere soloalbum. Han bidrog ligeledes til en række kollegers albums.
Senere i livet blev Garcia sommetider syg grundet sin ustabile vægt. Efter at have oplvet en diabetisk koma, der næsten kostede ham livet i 1986, begyndte Garcia at leve sundere indtil hans pludselige død i august 1995.