Watergate mastermind G Gordon Liddy dies aged 90

Liddy helped orchestrate the crime that began unravelling Richard Nixon’s presidency

Various Artists: Beautiful Freaks review – when bands used to stick it to the man

An intriguing compilation of alternative sounds from the 1960s counter-culture

Psychedelic Cyclists – An Irishman’s Diary about Albert Hofmann and Flann O’Brien

How Silicon Valley rediscovered LSD

Long read: A new generation of San Franciscans believes the drug makes them more creative

Trips Down Memory Lane – An Irishman’s Diary about Timothy Leary, John Lennon and LSD

Grace Jones: ‘Carry yourself with class’

The icon of sound and style on partying in Dublin, why the Eighth Amendment should be scrapped and how she learned from the likes of Talking Heads, Cyndi Lauper and Debbie Harry

Drop in, bliss out: a yoga retreat with a difference

A four-day forest retreat promises yoga, food, dance, creativity and a lot more, writes Kate Holmquist

Authors want rethink on a ‘hell of a drug’

Seventy years after LSD was discovered, the authors of a book on the drug say it should be legalised again