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Andrew Weil, Ram Dass And The Harvard Psychedelic Club

Shelf Awareness | Posted 12.14.2009 | Books

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Aldous Huxley was a major inspiration for the four men Don Lattin profiles in this lively retelling of the start of America's romance with hallucinoge...

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Sex, Drugs, Rock 'N Roll in Redneck Country

Ethel Grodzins Romm | Posted 09.15.2009 | New York

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Ethel Grodzins Romm

He introduced his girlfriend as "my old lady." She was maybe 17. They were both stripped to the waist, lying in a zipped-open sleeping bag, like hundreds, thousands, of couples around them.

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Fame and Frame: A Collection of Stories and Photos of my Career

Pat York | Posted 03.21.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Andy Warhol, Photography, Timothy Leary, Photographers, Pat York, Photography Book, Books, Tennessee Williams, Leonard Bernstein, Fame and Frame, Glamour Magazine, Jack Nicholson, Celebrities, Robert F. Kennedy, Entertainment News
Pat York

This book is a partial visual diary of my life since becoming a photographer in the middle 60's. (The 90's is the only decade not represented. Principally, during that era, I concentrated on working with nudes and anatomy).

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Interview with an Investigative Satirist

Paul Krassner | Posted 03.16.2009 | Media

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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Toward 2012

Daniel Pinchbeck | Posted 02.15.2009 | Style

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Daniel Pinchbeck

What might our society gain from the legitimate use and study of psychedelics if their benefits, as well as risks, were well understood and articulated?

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The Most Savage Shock Jock of Them All

Rory O'Connor | Posted 05.31.2008 | Media

Read More: Aclu, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, The Savage Nation, Rush Limbaugh, Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, Homosexuality, Talk Radio, Sean Hannity, San Fran Sicko, Glaad, Homophobia, RockStar Energy Drink, Michael Savage, Bill O'Reilly, Media News
Rory O'Connor

Dig deeper, and the question of who Michael Savage is becomes more complicated. "Savage" isn't his real name; it seems to speak to his heightened sense of masculinity, aggression, and antipathy toward minorities.

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