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Oh, Hey ... Do You Want to Buy Some Candy From Me?

LaughSpin | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Candy, Marriage, Fatherhood, Nursery School, Schools, Parenting, Hippies, Humor, Comedy News
LaughSpin

Oh, hey. How's it going? You look sooooooo nice today! What's that you're wearing -- pants?! Verrrrry cutting edge. They say pants are the new black. ANYHOO, i have a box of Hershey chocolate items on my desk.

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Why One Aging Hippie Mom Loves Twitter

Holly Robinson | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: match.com, Book Marketing, Kim Kardashian, Children, Writing, The New York Times, Fiction, Novels, Marketing, Twitter, Tweeting, Sleeping Tigers, The Daily Beast, Moms, Hippies, Twitter Nation, Justin Bieber, Books News
Holly Robinson

I love Twitter -- especially for the friendships it has brought me.

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Paul Rudd Offends Bearded Alan Alda In 'Wanderlust'

Posted 02.13.2012

Read More: Paul Rudd, Alan Alda, Video, Jennifer Aniston, Wanderlust Clip, David Wain, Justin Theroux, Wet Hot American Summer, Paul Rudd Jennifer Aniston, Hippies, Bearded Alan Alda, Wanderlust, Comedy News

We hope you're as excited as we are about "Wanderlust," the new comedy from "Wet Hot American Summer" and "Role Models" director David Wain, starring ...

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I Was a Retro Teenager

Barbara Greenberg | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: History, Psychadelic Poster, Art, Records, Clothing Styles, Parenting, Grandparents, Hippies, Music, Nostalgia, Mothers, Teenagers, Fathers, Fifty News
Barbara Greenberg

Let me tell you about some of the aspects of my colorful childhood and teen years that parents may relate to but may be totally foreign to the younger set. It will be a good history lesson.

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Sexagenarians, Drugs & Rock 'n' Roll: Post 50s Transform Retirement Communities

Orange Coast | Shawn Hubler | Posted 03.06.2012

Read More: Retirement Communities, Flower Children, Aging Hippies, Hippies, Retirement, Laguna Woods Village, Woodstock, Fifty News

Baby boomers are transforming Laguna Woods and other senior communities. Call them the Woodstuck Generation....

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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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Reading the Pictures: Occupy Demographics: Dirty Hippies?

Michael Shaw | Posted 12.12.2011

Read More: Ows, Politics, Occupydc, Protest, Occupy Wall Street, Media, Hippies, Bagnewsnotes, Michael Shaw, News, Photojournalism, Media News
Michael Shaw

2011-10-12-Screenshot20111012at9.08.15AM.jpgIs Occupy Wall Street comprised of hippie youth? Not according to these photos.

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Occupy Wall Street Is Like a Parody of a Protest

John Hawkins | Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: Hippies, Wall Street, Protest, Occupy Wall Street, Politics News
John Hawkins

The greatest thing about Occupy Wall Street is that it's practically a live re-enactment of the hippie jam festival from South Park. You have a bunch of hippies, stoners, and left-wing tag-alongs protesting Wall Street in order to... well, nobody seems to know.

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Wall Street Protest, Circa 1967

Chris Weigant | Posted 12.03.2011

Read More: Dollar Bills, Tea Party, Hoffman, Stock Exchange, Temple, Occupy Wall Street, Hippies, Abbie Hoffman, Movement, Wall Street, Chris Weigant, Protest, Guerrilla Theater, Money Changers, Street Theater, Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture, George Metesky, Politics News
Chris Weigant

Abbie Hoffman's merry band of pranksters took a tour of the NYSE on August 24, 1967. The tour ended at a gallery overlooking the trading floor. Hoffman and his friends rushed to the railing, and began throwing money onto the heads of the traders below.

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Rita Wilson Talks 'Boomers'

Posted 12.03.2011

Read More: Energy, Lexicon, Names, Video, Rita Wilson, Titles, Boomers, Hippies, Fifty News

Huff/Post50's editor-at-large, Rita Wilson, asks fellow post-50s to reflect on the energy, drive and (perhaps) condescension inherent in the heavily c...

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Top 5 Ways Hippies Can Make You Rich

Ben Zolno | Posted 11.16.2011

Read More: Sustainability, Community, Hippies, Communal Living, Communes, Living Communities, Cost of Living, Sustainable Communities, Community Living, Co-Ops, Art of Community, Business News
Ben Zolno

Community living has serious advantages that are looking more and more appealing to the average American feeling the hard times of the recession.

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Thoughts From A Road Trip of Reflection

Porter Gale | Posted 11.01.2011

Read More: West Coast, Mendocino, Community, Adult Camp, Hippies, Summer, Travel Blogs, Camp, California, Travel News
Porter Gale

A variety of families from different parts of California gather at the hippie camp for a week of "temporary community." Days are spent picking berries, gathering eggs, floating on inner tubes and milking Delilah the cow.

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Culinary Woodstock At MAD Foodcamp

Kalle Bergman | Posted 10.30.2011

Read More: Festivals, Redzepi, Recipes, Mad, Food, Noma, Woodstock, Hippies, Camp, MAD Foodcamp, MAD Food Camp, Food News
Kalle Bergman

This past weekend saw the first annual MAD Foodcamp staged in the Danish capital of Copenhagen. A nerdy Woodstockish foodie festival and conference th...

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Escaping a Teepee at Escape to New York Festival

Farryn Weiner | Posted 10.10.2011

Read More: Escape to New York, New York, Hamptons, Best Coast, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, Xaphoon Jones, Southampton, Festival, The Vaccines, Music, Hippies, Music Festivals, NY Around Town, Indie Music, New York News
Farryn Weiner

Escape to New York had a lot on its plate... and I'm not just referring to the World's Largest Festival Brunch, which was planned to kick off on Sunday.

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PHOTOS: Hippies vs. Hipsters, The Showdown

SF Weekly | Posted 10.03.2011

Read More: San Francisco Around Town, Hipsters, Hippies, San Francisco News

It a battle of tie-dye vs. tight jeans as hippies and hipsters squared off in Dolores Park on Sunday, July 31 for a squirtgun battle. Lines of battle ...

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Ode to San Francisco on My Way to New York

Michael Tong | Posted 09.28.2011

Read More: Castro, Hippies, City Life, San Francisco, Haight-Ashbury, Bay Area, San Francisco News
Michael Tong

When people move to San Francisco, I often hear a lot of disappointment in their tone. This was, in fact, my own impression of the city when I first moved here two years ago from Washington, DC.

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WATCH: The Rebecca Black Of Hippies?

Posted 09.22.2011

Read More: Puff Puff Give Song, Video, Songs, Bad Music Videos, Marijuana, Puff Puff Give, Urlesque, Singing, Music Videos, Music, Hippies, Hannah's Field, Bad Songs, Comedy News

Hannah's Field is a "gypsy reggae duo" from Portland, Oregon that consists of vocalist HannaH and her sidekick, Bongo Bliss. According to the grou...

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It's On Us, San Francisco

Morgan Fitzgibbons | Posted 09.11.2011

Read More: Peak Oil, Farmers Markets, Beats, Climate Change, Clean Energy, Pollution, Hippies, San Francisco, Bay Area, San Francisco News
Morgan Fitzgibbons

While we like to think we've got it all figured out with our farmer's markets, strong bike culture and radical social tolerance, the reality is that the Bay Area, like every other major metropolis at this point in time, is a lot of talk and very little walk.

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PHOTOS: Mick Jagger Pouts His Way To The National Portrait Gallery

Posted 09.04.2011

Read More: Photography, Super Heavy, Mick Jagger, The 60s, Dave Stewart, Music, National Portrait Gallery, Hippies, UK Arts, Michael Joseph Gross, Gered Mankowitz, Terry O'neill, The Beatles, A.r. Rahman, Bookshop Gallery, David Wedgbury, Peter Stone, Joss Stone, Michael Cooper, Cecil Beaton, Colin Jones, Rolling Stones, Philip Townsend, Rock and Roll, Damian Marley, Arts News

Colin Jones' 1967 portrait of Sir Mick Jagger, with a confrontational gaze and a military coat à la Sgt. Pepper's, says it all. Jagger and the Rollin...

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The 17 Funniest Things You Might See At Bonnaroo

The Huffington Post | Steven Hoffer & Christine Friar | Posted 08.10.2011

Read More: Video, Bonnaroo Videos, Music Festivals, Concerts, Bonnaroo, Bonnaroo Photos, Slidepollajax, Slideshow, Hippies, Bonnaroo Bingo, Bonnaroo 2011, Bonaroo 2011, Bonnaroo Live Stream, Bonaroo, Bonnaro, Bonnaroo 2011 Videos, Bonnaroo Music Festival, Comedy News

What happens when you drop 80,000 party people, hundreds of great entertainers, this guy and ... um ... other "party favors" onto a farm in Tennessee?...

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WATCH: Why You Should Never Have A Hippie Roommate

Posted 07.27.2011

Read More: Roommates, Standup, Video, Cartoons, Cats, Dave Meowthews, Pets, Standup Comedy, Urlesque, Didgeridoos, Hippies, Louis Katz, Hippie Roommates, Comedy News

Comedian Louis Katz once had a roommate who played the didgeridoo and adopted a cat named Dave Meowthews from a dumpster. Funny stuff to hear about? S...

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Let's Talk About Lawn Care!

Graham James | Posted 07.26.2011

Read More: Lawns, Hippies, New Jersey, Masonry, New York Lawn Treatment, Lawn Care New York, New York News
Graham James

As per usual we had about a week of spring here in the tri-state area before summer hit us full in the teeth. In between those two seasons we had about 10 days of rain (which is also the name of my Lynyrd Skynyrd cover band).

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MOVIE REVIEW: 'Phil Ochs - There But For Fortune'

Jonah Green | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Phil Ochs, 1960's, NY Culture, The Turbulent 60s, Documentary, Greenwich Village, Folk Music, Folk Singer Phil Ochs, Film, Hippies, Michael Ochs, New York News
Jonah Green

"Phil Ochs - There But For Fortune", a new documentary about the late folk singer Phil Ochs, had its New York premiere on Wednesday. Friends and famil...

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Jason Linkins

Is The 'No Labels' Movement Secretly Brilliant?

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Centrism, No Labels, Eat the Press, Hippies, Heads Filled With Cotton, Politics News

The recently-launched "No Labels" movement consists of of rich patricians who'd like the rabble to quiet down about their problems and feel the wonderful, numbing effects of David Gergen's voice.

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