Berkeley Barb
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The Berkeley Barb was a weekly underground newspaper published in Berkeley, California, during the years 1965 to 1980. It was one of the first and most influential of the counterculture newspapers, co
A 1977 front cover of the Berkeley Barb
Stew Albert
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Stewart Edward "Stew" Albert was an early member of the Yippies, an anti-Vietnam War political activist, and an important figure in the New Left movement of the 1960s.
Berkeley Barb
…that banana skins were not psychedelic. The Barb was itself subjected to hoaxes. At a memorial for the social activist and founder of the Yippies, Stew Albert, the following story was told: One victim of an Albert prank was Max Scherr, editor of the Berkeley Barb, that legendary paper of the days of the…
Stew Albert