Counterculture

The Rise Of The New Spiritual Counterculture

Jonathan Talat Phillips | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Counterculture, Burning Man Festival, Youth Activism, Activism, Spirituality, Christianity, Occupy Faith, Religion News
Jonathan Talat Phillips

Enthusiastic crowds have greeted me on my book tour. This shouldn't be happening as first-time author in a wilting publishing industry. But I've had a secret grassroots weapon, one that a lot of mainstream America doesn't know about.

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Gavin McInnes' How to Piss in Public

Toni Nagy | Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: Counterculture, Vice Magazine, Memoir, Hipsters, Life Advice, Comedy, How to Piss in Public. Gavin Mcinnes How to Piss in Public, Gavin Mcinnes, Gavin Mcinnes Book, Books News
Toni Nagy

Gavin McInnes's memoir How To Piss in Public is one that I highly recommend. It's not only insanely hilarious in a mental hospital sort of way but it's also so outlandishly offensive that you get tricked into thinking it is totally politically correct.

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How 'White Bread' Became 'White Trash'

Aaron Bobrow-Strain | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: White Bread, Bread, White Trash, Counterculture, White Bread Humor, History, Social History, Books News
Aaron Bobrow-Strain

In 1970, Richard Pryor stormed off stage in the middle of his popular Las Vegas nightclub act, refusing to do another minute of "white bread humor."

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Meme Wars and the Death of the Underground

Rajiv Naresh | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Counterculture, New York Times, Underground Art, Internet, Internet Memes, Evgeny Morozov, Le Flaneur Paris, Richard Dawkins, Media News
Rajiv Naresh

We must consolidate a singular identity. With 845 million users worldwide, Facebook has decided on behalf of the cyber universe that everything MUST be social. And the tyranny of a compulsorily social world is that it negates the possibility of the underground and the alternative.

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Battle Of The Banana: Warhol Vs. Velvet Undergound

Posted 01.11.2012

Read More: Copyright Infringement, Copyright, Art Lawsuit, Pop Art, 60's Counterculture, Velvet Underground, Bananas, Banana, Ipad, Iphone, Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol Art, Counterculture, Video, Exploding Plastic Inevitable, Andy Warhol Banana, Multimedia-Art, The Velvet Underground and Nico, The Velvet Underground, Art Law, Arts News

Andy Warhol's career was based on repurposing well-known celebrity images and brands, but now the Warhol Foundation has found itself in a heated battl...

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'Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky: Revisiting the Monterey International Pop Festival Through A Perfect Haze

Holly Cara Price | Posted 02.19.2012

Read More: Bob Weir, Rock Festivals, Santa Monica Press, Kenneth Kubernik, Monterey International Pop Festival, Alex Gibney, Lou Adler, Zeitgeist, Magic Trip, Roger Daltrey, New Books, Ravi Shankar, Al Kooper, Pop Culture, D.A. Pennebaker, Otis Redding, Pete Townshend, Big Brother & the Holding Company, The Who, Woodstock, Altamont, Booker T. Jones, Harvey Kubernik, Books News, Book Publishing, Alison Ellwood, Ken Kesey, Simon & Garfunkel, Hippies, Music News, Counterculture, Steve Cropper, 1967, Sixties, Monterey Pop, Merry Pranksters, Jimi Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane, Books News
Holly Cara Price

The Monterey International Pop Festival took place at such a guileless time that the promoters used the word "pop" in its title. Not long after this would have been unthinkable, after the lines were drawn between "pop" music and rock and roll.

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Steve Jobs' Google of the 60s: Whole Earth Catalog Revisited (VIDEO)

Kirsten Dirksen | Posted 01.04.2012

Read More: Self Sufficiency, Book Publishing, Shelter Publishing, Owner Built House, Back to the Land, Backyard Garden, Domes, Homegrown Food, Lloyd Kahn, Hippies, Dome Building, Backyard Chickens, Grow Your Own, Steve Jobs, Whole Earth Catalog, DIY Home Building, Diy Home, Stewart Brand, California, Green News, Counterculture, Bolinas, Seventies, Sixties, Green News
Kirsten Dirksen

In this video, Shelter editor Lloyd Kahn shows us a rare first issue of the Whole Earth Catalog, takes us for a tour of his homestead and gives us a sneak peek of his upcoming book Tiny Homes: Simple Shelter.

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What #OccupyWallSt Can Teach Us About Student Activism

Arjun Balaji | Posted 12.12.2011

Read More: Counterculture, Student Activism, Facebook Activism, Twitter, Occupy Wall Street Protest, Occupy Wall Street, #Occupywallstreet, Occupy-Colleges, High School News
Arjun Balaji

Occupy Wall St. could lay the necessary foundation for the next surge of student activism. And this time, we teenagers have mass communication at our disposal and a great deal of tension compounded by decades of silence.

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Theodore Roszak, Who Defined Boomer Culture, Dies as American Vision Fades

Paul Kleyman | Posted 09.13.2011

Read More: Counterculture, Women, Entitlements, Debt Crisis, Social Security, President Obama, Medicare, Boomers, Seniors, Recession, Politics News
Paul Kleyman

Ted Roszak understood the fallacies of bipartisan deal-making as well as any social historian. He chronicled the arc of my baby boom generation from his books and was an original thinker.

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American Terror

Madison Smartt Bell | Posted 05.29.2011

Read More: Vietnam War, Counterculture, Manson Family, Manson Murders, Charles Manson, Gabrielle Giffords Shooting, Gabrielle Giffords, Books News
Madison Smartt Bell

How many of us are old enough to remember just how scary Charles Manson was, back in the day? Of course he and his minions only did away with half a dozen victims--not 10 percent of the people that die in car wrecks every day.

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Is Adam Parfrey Really the Most Dangerous Publisher in America?

Anthony Papa | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Counterculture, Book Publishing, Publishers, Media News, Publishing Industry, Serial Killers, Books News
Anthony Papa

Adam Parfrey is the founder of Feral House, a counter-cultural publishing company that is as unique as it is controversial.

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Remembering Tuli

Paul Krassner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Counterculture, The Fugs, Ed Sanders, Tuli Kupferberg, Tuli Kupferberg Dead, Entertainment News
Paul Krassner

My friend and counter-cultural icon Tuli Kupferberg was a dedicated truthseeker, and I'd like to honor that quality, and his memory, with a couple of truths.

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Ben Talbert: Luck and Love Revisited

Robert Berman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Counterculture, Los Angeles Art, Wallace Berman, Walter Hopps, Hal Glicksman, Ben Talbert, Semina Group, Los Angeles Galleries, Los Angeles News
Robert Berman

In the late 1960s, Ben Talbert became increasingly known for works depicting shockingly provocative sexual acts within the scope of pop imagery.

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The Specter Of The Counterculture III: The Land Of False Dreams

James Block | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Forrest Gump, Cutural Crisis, Counterculture, Consumer Culture, Amnesia, Cultural Crituque, Culture, The Balanced Life, Healthy Living News
James Block

What so desperately needs forgetting? Drink the Kool-Aid like Chance the Gardener and the very question recedes. Americans want to live in Pleasantville, and every pill they take and ad they watch is their friend.

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Woodstock Film Fest -- William Kunstler

Stewart Nusbaumer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Counterculture, Bill Kunstler, 1960s, Radicalism, William Kunstler, American Indian Movement, Chicago 7, Vietnam War, William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe, New York News
Stewart Nusbaumer

A sensitive, truthful, insightful film about a lawyer who stood at the center of a confrontational movement as it spearheaded a political assault on injustice in America from Vietnam to the Chicago 7.

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Baby Boomers and Hippies Were Not the Same

Paul Krassner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Counterculture, 1960s, Barack Obama, Hippies, Boomers, Chez Pazienza, Politics News
Paul Krassner

It gives me a sense of hope, as well as a sense of continuity, that countercultural values have "infiltrated" mainstream awareness.

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Wrong Turn at Paradise: Woodstock at 40

James Block | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Counterculture, Woodstock, Materialism, Woodstock Anniversary, Entertainment News
James Block

The lump in the collective throat on this anniversary is commentary on what we chose instead.

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The Specter of the Counterculture II: The Cunning of Desire

James Block | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Counterculture, Political Psychology, Psychopolitics, Culture Wars, The Cultural Right, Politics News
James Block

In the decades since the 1960s counterculture, our hypocrisy has grown, not from some native evil, but from an unrelenting sense of confusion and entrapment.

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Revenge of Gen-X: What Movies About the 80s Mean

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Counterculture, Civil Rights Movement, The 70s, The 60s, Vietnam, The 80s, Mccarthyism, The 50s, Eisenhower Era, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

In case you needed proof that Hollywood is dominated by and aimed at people in their 30s and early 40s, look at all the movies about the 1980s currently on screens.

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An Interesting Walk Through Counterculture

Al Seckel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Counterculture, Obama, California, Barack Obama, Venice, Politics News
Al Seckel

I took my first walk down the boardwalk since Obama became president. Gone was most of the anti-establishment merchandise. Replacing it was merchandise filled with "Hope."

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Interview with an Investigative Satirist

Paul Krassner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Abortion, Lsd, Atheism, Weather Underground Press, Cia, 9/11, Disneyland, Yippies, Counterculture, Timothy Leary, The Realist, Satire, Charles Manson, Groucho Marx, Jimi Hendrix, Jerry Garca, Media News
Paul Krassner

I thought that some of you might enjoy this Q&A with me in The Sun magazine, an oasis in the desert of gossip mongering And while I'm here in Blogsvi...

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The Progressive Dilemma

James Block | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Barack Obama, Counterculture, Ronald Reagan, Obama Presidency, Progressives, Progressive Movement, Barry Goldwater, Ronald Inglehart, Chicago News
James Block

Many progressives are anxious and even skeptical about the emerging Obama administration. As a card-carrying devotee of the (cardless) progressive movement, I sympathize.

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Why Save Capitalism?

Stephen Mo Hanan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Counterculture, Greed, Economy, Psychology, Spirituality and Consumerism, Militarism, Love, Spirituality, Sermon on the Mount, Business News
Stephen Mo Hanan

Consumers everywhere are in revolt. Not so much from choice as necessity. But what if we noticed that paying attention to real people was more rewarding than shopping or TV?

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Making Sense of the Sixties: Reflections for the 40th Reunion of the Harvard-Radcliffe Class of 1968

Stephen Mo Hanan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Counterculture, 1960s, The Sixties, Loose Morals, 1968, Counter Culture, Gop, Rebelling, Harvard, Hippies, Style News
Stephen Mo Hanan

The dress, music, drugs and loose morals of the emerging counterculture must have looked to a Sixties puritan like a reversion to chaotic paganism.

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Woman Of Style Faith-Ann Young: Counterculture Is Back

Lesley M. M. Blume | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Slideshow, Faith-Ann Young, Lesley Blume, Hendrix, Vogue, Client 9, Birkin Bag, Jon Favreau, The Doors, Music, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Jim Morrison, Barack Obama, Bjork, The Hamptons, Counterculture, Style, Frida Kahlo, Ali Mcgraw, Designers, Fashion, Stephan Wuerth, Healthy Living News
Lesley M. M. Blume

Produced, directed, and reported by Lesley M. M. Blume Photography by Stephan Wuerth Photo assistant: William Taylor You can probably sense it: this...

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