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Poet Pride: A Charm City Classic on Film

Timothy Cooper | Posted 11.09.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: 1960s, Civil Rights Movment, New York, Baltimore, 1990's, Muggsy Bogues, Hbo, Drugs, 1980's, War on Drugs, Basketball, Film, The Wire, Carmelo Anthony, Len Bias, USA Today, Reggie Lewis, Chicago, Documentary, Boston Celtics, Rudy Gay, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Nba, 1970s, Entertainment News

A new basketball documentary, Poet Pride, takes a look at Paul Laurence Dunbar High School. This famed East Baltimore institution has produced some of the greatest basketball players in the country.

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It's November 22, 1963 On Mad Men: HuffPost Review

William Bradley | Posted 11.04.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Mad Men, Betty Draper, Don Draper, Matthew Weiner, JFK Assassination, 1960s, Entertainment News

I've always wondered how Mad Men's writers and producers would handle one of the most critical and shattering events in American history, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

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Mad Men: "The Gypsy and the Hobo" -- HuffPost Review

William Bradley | Posted 10.27.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Mad Men, Betty Draper, 1960s, Casablanca, Jon Hamm, January Jones, The Misfits, Matthew Weiner, Don Draper, Oliver!, Thanksgiving, Entertainment News

"The Gypsy and the Hobo" has significantly stepped up the pace of this season of Mad Men. And it contains the big confrontation we've all been waiting for from the beginning.

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Remembering Soupy Sales

Marshall Fine | Posted 10.24.2009 | Media

Read More: Soupy Sales Appreciation, Rocky & Bullwinkle, Mad Magazine, 1960s, Soupy Sales, Media News

I'm not ashamed to say that Soupy Sales was a formative influence on my sense of humor as a preteen and adolescent, along with Rocky & Bullwinkle and the early Mad.

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Mad Men: "The Color Blue" -- HuffPost Review

William Bradley | Posted 10.19.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: 1960s, Jon Hamm, Flash Forward, Prison Break, Richard Harris, Jared Harris, New York, Elisabeth Moss, London, Roger Sterling, Lane Pryce, Matthew Weiner, Peyton List, Betty Draper, Don Draper, Marshall Allman, John Slattery, January Jones. Peggy Olsen, Mad Men, Advertising Business, "The Group, Bob Dylan, Mary Mccarthy, " Abigail Spencer, The Singing Nun, Suzanne Farrell, Entertainment News

Last night's "The Color Blue" was a cracking good episode that, after last week's rushed and rather arbitrary plot developments, returned Mad Men to its strongest ground.

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Mad Men: "Wee Small Hours" -- HuffPost Review

William Bradley | Posted 10.12.2009 | Entertainment

Listening to Martin Luther King on the murder of four girls in a Birmingham church, Betty opines that maybe this civil rights thing is premature. But Betty should know that a dream deferred can dry up like a raisin in sun.

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Judy Collins: Singing for the Privileged Few

James Gavin | Posted 10.06.2009 | New York

Read More: 1960s, Susan Boyle, Cafe Carlyle, Bob Dylan, Judy Collins, Folk Music, Barbra Streisand, Judy-Collins-Cafe-Carlyle, Leonard Cohen, New York News

As I watched the transfixed faces of Judy's Carlyle fans, I had to wonder: What long and winding road took them here? Did they ever roll around in the mud at Woodstock? Take LSD?

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Woodstock Film Fest -- William Kunstler

Stewart Nusbaumer | Posted 10.06.2009 | New York

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

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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Mad Men: "Seven Twenty Three" -- HuffPost Review

William Bradley | Posted 09.28.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: 1960s, Military Draft, Liberal Republicans, Nelson Rockefeller, Robert Morse, Jon Hamm, New York, Elisabeth Moss, Andy Warhol, Roger Sterling, Matthew Weiner, Betty Draper, Advertising, Don Draper, January Jones, John Slattery, Rockefeller Republicans, John F. Kenendy, Bert Cooper, Mad Men, Peggy Olsen, Environmentalism, David Ogilvy, Conrad Hilton, Mad Men Episode Recap, Mad Men Recap, Mad Men Season Three, Entertainment News

What "Seven Twenty Three" is is Don Draper's Waterloo. Or I should say, Dick Whitman's Waterloo. That's the day in 1963 on which Don Draper/Dick Whitman gets lassoed.

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Mad Men's Emmy Triumph Comes As "Guy Walks Into An Advertising Agency" -- HuffPost Review

William Bradley | Posted 09.21.2009 | Entertainment

Last night's repeat win at the Emmy Awards further enshrined Mad Men as television's best series on a night when it aired a consequential new episode.

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Mad Men: "The Fog" -- HuffPost Review

William Bradley | Posted 09.15.2009 | Entertainment

Five major plot developments in this episode -- named for the culmination of Betty Draper's pregnancy -- drive the action forward as we enter the middle of the season.

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Leo

Margarita Alarcon | Posted 11.11.2009 | New York

Read More: Latinos, Manhattan, 1960s, Civil Rights Movement, Memorials, Leo Orris, Cuban Missile Crisis, New York City, Obituaries, Havana, Cuba, New York News

For years Dr. Leo Orris and his family would be our sanctuary, our conversations, our endless nights of discussions where themes would range from the history of SDS and SNICC to how to end the Vietnam War.

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When Will GOP Leaders Denounce the Pyromaniacs?

Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: 1960s, Faux News, Rightwing Extremists, Lady Bird Johnson, Fox News, Kennedy Assassination, Glenn Beck, Lyndon Johnson, Barry Goldwater, Republican Party, Barack Obama, John Birch Society, Obama Assassination Threat, Extremism, Politics News

The parallels between the hate speech of the early 1960s and today are numerous and disturbing. But there are also important differences. So, where does the Republican leadership stand on playing with matches?

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Baby Boomers and Hippies Were Not the Same

Paul Krassner | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics

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

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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Meet My Mom

Meredith Lopez | Posted 09.26.2009 | Living

Read More: 1960s, Baby Boomers, Working Mothers, Birthdays, Civil Rights, Computers, Equal Pay, Grandmothers, Era, Television, Internet, Gay Rights, 60th Birthday, Feminists, Cell Phones, Technology, Living News

My mom speaks out about turning 60.

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Woodstock Wisdom

James S. Gordon | Posted 09.20.2009 | Living

I hadn't planned on going, but then another doctor as young as I was then called me up, desperate for help. That's how I found myself on a plane to Bethel, N.Y. with Joan Baez.

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Nixonland: Murder in the Cathedral

Peter Schwartz | Posted 09.19.2009 | Books

Read More: Richard Nixon, 1960s, History, Publishing, Republicans, American History, Democrats, George Mcgovern, Books News

Nixonland reads like nothing more than an undergraduate thesis. It is sprawling, poorly written, and ham-handed analytically.

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Woodstock: The Minister, God and Me

Janice Taylor | Posted 09.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Split-Level Home, Home and Garden, Woodstock, United States, Living Room, 1960s, 1969, Living News

A young hippie-dippy minister, God bless him, and his wife move to town in the same time-vortex as we do. And he is Hell-bent on getting to Woodstock.

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Mad Men Returns: The '60s Advertising Drama Is A Time Tunnel To the Present

William Bradley | Posted 09.14.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Christina Hendricks, Pete Campbell, Joan Holloway, Jon Hamm, Robert Morse, Camelot, Elizabeth Moss, Bryan Batt, Sal Romano, Roger Sterling, James Bond, Matthew Weiner, Betty Draper, John F. Kennedy, Don Draper, January Jones, John Slattery, David Chase, Bert Cooper, Mad Men, Peggy Olsen, Vincent Kartheiser, The Sopranos, British Invasion, Sean Connery, Richard Nixon, 1960s, Madison Avenue, New York, Advertising, Entertainment News

There are a number of ways to view Mad Men. For my own part, I can take it as a period piece, a sort of time capsule of the early '60s, at once relatively close yet far enough away to be intriguing for its unfamiliarity.

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Woodstock 40 Years Later: Legacy Still Present At Today's Music Festivals

AP | JAKE COYLE | Posted 09.14.2009 | New York

Read More: Woodstock, Woodstock Legacy, Music Festival, Music Festivals, 1960s, 1969, Woodstock Music and Arts Festival, Woodstock New York, Woodstock Music, Woodstock Music Festival, Hippies, Woodstock Anniversary, New York News

NEW YORK — Today's robust festival culture owes much to Woodstock – lessons from both its incredible success and its logistical nightmares...

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Woodstock's 40th Anniversary

Pete Fornatale | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: 1960s, Woodstock, 1969, Music, Entertainment, Pete Fornatale, Radio, David Crosby, Roger Daltrey, Anniversary, Joan Baez, Woodstock Museum, Politics News

Woodstock was, without question, the high-water mark of the '60s youth revolution -- musically, politically, and socially.

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Why Can't the Boomers Just Shut Up About Woodstock?

Nathan Hegedus | Posted 09.12.2009 | Living

Read More: 1960s, Bill Clinton, Barry Lewis, Civil Rights Movement, Baby Boomers, Ronald Reagan, Andrew Sullivan, George W. Bush, Led Zeppelin, Generation X, Iraq, Cadillac, Wall Street Journal, Woodstock Museum, Janis Joplin, Gay Rights, Times Herald-Record, The Atlantic, Jimmy Carter, Woodstock, Exurbs, Jimi Hendrix, Bethel, Women's Liberation, Milennials, Taking Woodstock, Living News

Unless you were backing up Janis Joplin in a secret jam session, or at least at, you know, actually at Woodstock, please, shut up.

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Mad Men Style: The Best of the Sixties

Stephen Drucker | Posted 09.10.2009 | Style

Read More: Mad Men, 1960s, Style, Advertising, Stephen Drucker, January Jones, Home Decor, Jon Hamm, House Beautiful, January-Jones-Mad-Men, Mad Men Style, Advertising Age, Mad Men Fashion, Mad Men Season Three, Advertising-Industry, Style News

To get me through the final countdown, I've been looking through old issues of House Beautiful and found some real Mad Men style from the sixties.

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The Woodstock Consensus

Rex Weiner | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: 1960s, Civil Rights Movement, The Sixties, Sixties Culture, Activists, Woodstock, Woodstock Consensus, Civil Rights, Politics News

Forty years after the summer of '69, isn't it time we face the truth that the ideals of the Woodstock Generation -- ideals once widely mocked and officially repressed -- have pretty much won the day?

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The Who vs Abbie Hoffman: Celebrating Woodstock's 40th Anniversary

Pete Fornatale | Posted 09.03.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Pete Townshend, The Sixties, The Who, 1960's, Country Joe McDonald, Woodstock, Entertainment News, Music, Book, Peace, Pete Fornatale, Abbie Hoffman, Entertainment News

What happened next provided one of the true Roshomon moments of Woodstock. Actually, that's not strictly speaking true. There were only two versions of what happened next: Hoffman's and everybody else's.

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