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Music
fromOpen Culture
1 week ago

The Illustrated Version of "Alice's Restaurant": Watch Arlo Guthrie's Thanksgiving Counterculture Classic

Arlo Guthrie's 18+ minute song 'Alice's Restaurant' recounts a 1965 littering arrest and satirically protests the Vietnam War, ultimately affecting his draft status.
Music
fromSan Jose Inside
2 weeks ago

Underground Music Thrives in San Jose - Let's Keep It Going

San Jose's rich musical and counterculture history, preserved by figures like the McKays, deserves recognition through exhibits, plaques, and promotion.
fromAnOther
1 month ago

In Bed With Mick Jagger and Anita Pallenberg on the Set of Performance

"It was the post-war period in England when everything came back to life and suddenly had a different energy primarily expressed through music. Music was the great driver," says documentary filmmaker and screenwriter Andrew Maclear.
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Miscellaneous
fromThe Atlantic
2 months ago

Allen Ginsberg, Great American Poet-Buffoon

Allen Ginsberg embodies the American poet-buffoon: swashbucklingly vulnerable, politically provocative, influential in Beat culture, and a vocal advocate for marijuana legalization.
New York City
fromwww.amny.com
2 months ago

Living legacy: Jamie Bernstein, daughter of the Maestro, becomes the Village's unofficial tour guide | amNewYork

Jamie Bernstein formed a lasting bond with Greenwich Village in the 1960s, embracing its hippie scene and later returning to live there as an adult.
Film
fromIndieWire
3 months ago

The Wave Broke: How the Movies of the Early 1970s Crystallized the Cynical Individualism of the 'Me Decade'

The 1960s counterculture's idealism faded into disillusionment by the 1970s, shifting towards individualism and consumerism in American society.
Film
fromwww.esquire.com
3 months ago

All 9 Paul Thomas Anderson Movies, Ranked

Inherent Vice immerses viewers in the hazy world of 1970 Los Angeles through a stoned private investigator navigating various cases.
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