The wild parrots of San Francisco's Telegraph Hill had an unlikely champion in Mark Bittner, the busker-turned-caretaker whose bond with the birds was chronicled in a celebrated film and memoir.

She had rock’s most explosive voice. She ascended to the forefront of the 1960s counterculture at Woodstock. Fifty-six years after her death, Janis Joplin still exerts a pervasive influence on female ...