In much the same way that Hank Williams songs aren't country clichés because they invented those clichés, Wavy Gravy was an original hippie. Michelle Esrick's suitably good-natured, empathetic ...

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. A portly, bearded, 74-year-old hippie clown, born Hugh Nanton Romney but better known as Wavy Gravy, he has been sending ripples of good will that have ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- He's a hippie icon, a former ice cream flavor ... invited to his birthday party in San Francisco Sunday night. Wavy Gravy (real name Hugh Romney) is turning 87 and he's having ...

SAN FRANCISCO - He's a hippie icon, a former ice cream flavor ... to his birthday party in San Francisco Sunday night. Wavy Gravy (real name Hugh Romney) is turning 87, and he's having ...

Good vibrations are the main export of the hippie icon known as Wavy Gravy, the activist-clown who serves as the subject of the frankly adoring documentary “Saint Misbehavin’: The Wavy Gravy ...