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Howl-oween Pet Costume Party Full of Canine Celebrities

Wendy Diamond | Posted 10.29.2009 | Living

Read More: Lucky Diamond, Marie Antoinette, Humane Society, Mary of Rescue Ink, Jane Pontarelli, Balloon Boy, Caroline Lieberman, Mariah Carey, Eli the Chihuahua, Stormi Bree Henley, Snoopy, The Real Housewives of New York City, Grace Foster, Woodstock, Howloween Costume Party, The Pope, Lauren Sivan, Scooby Doo, Ira Churnick, Spanx, Skeery Jones, Stephanie Churnick, Wendy Diamond, Maharajah Mumbai, Princess Fiona, Elvis Presley, Rick Leventhal, Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger III, z100, Ramona Singer, Rescue Ink, Courtney Friel, Animal Fair Magazine, Ainsley Earhardt, Costumes, Elvis, Celebrities, Pet, Kleinfeld's, Living News
Wendy Diamond

Everyone from Scooby Doo to Princess Fiona to Elvis had a tail-wagging good time at Animal Fair's 9th Annual Howloween Costume Party, which benefited the Humane Society of New York.

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HuffPost Reviews: Twilight's New Moon, Kerouac's Big Sur, Cohen's Isle Of Wight, and more including This Week's New Albums

Mike Ragogna | Posted 10.20.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Michael Jackson, Jason Mraz, The Jacksons, Son Volt, Lawrence Ferenghetti, Joan Baez, Miles Davis, Flight of the Conchords, John Mayer, Jay Farrar, Judy Collins, The Killers, Woodstock, Thom Yorke, David Bowie, The Jackson 5, Curt Worden, Sam Shepard, Jack Kerouac, Twilight, Kris Kristofferson, Big Sur, Patti Smith, The Twilight Sage: New Moon, Radiohead, Tom Waits, Benjamin Gibbard, The Doors, Kings of Convenience, Leonard Cohen, Death Cab for Cutie, Robert Francis, Murray Lerner, The Band, Bruce Springsteen, New Moon, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

Leading off with Death Cab For Cutie's infectious "Meet Me On The Equinox," New Moonmay be after your traditional teen market's pop dollars, but they're also attempting to tap into 20-something angst.

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Wrapping-Up Woodstock: A Film Festival with Character

Stewart Nusbaumer | Posted 10.16.2009 | New York

Read More: Documentary, Woodstock, Independent Film, Woodstock Now and Then, Woodstock Anniversary, Woodstock Film Festival, Ralph Whitehead, Giancarlo Esposito, Byrdcliffe Arts Colony, Michael Lang, New York News
Stewart Nusbaumer

There is more to this frenzy of film festival expansion than free booze and filmmakers' desperation for recognition and distribution and filmgoers craving films not dumbed down.

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Kicking Off Woodstock Film Fest

Stewart Nusbaumer | Posted 12.01.2009 | New York

Read More: Woodstock, Woodstock Now and Then, Woodstock Music and Arts Festival, Woodstock Anniversary, Woodstock Film Festival, Michael Lang, New York News
Stewart Nusbaumer

Today in that village in upstate New York, in Woodstock and several neighboring towns, the Woodstock Film Festival will have 150 films, features, documentaries and shorts with animation.

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Launching Woodstock -- the Film Festival!

Stewart Nusbaumer | Posted 11.24.2009 | New York

Read More: Documentary, Woodstock, Catskills, Film, Woodstock Film Festival, Lucy Liu, Animation, Richard Kroehling, New York News
Stewart Nusbaumer

The Woodstock Film Festival will soon be host to Lucy Liu, Woody Harrelson and a host of 150 films, shorts, animations and panels.

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Mafia Sons Play For Reel Cash

Jerry Capeci | Posted 10.22.2009 | New York

Read More: Denzel Washington, Caesar Gurino, "Goodfellas, 1969, Anthony Trentacosta, The Sopranos, "Just Like Joe, Woodstock, " Paul Sorvino, Paul Vario, John Gotti, " Vietnam War, Tony Pep, " "Godfather, Joe Namath, Fred Carpenter, New York News
Jerry Capeci

Mob stories continue to be such a hit with movie audiences that you can't blame Mafia sons -- whose dads did the crimes and the time -- from trying to cash in.

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Obama Swiftboats Van Jones

Linda Milazzo | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Contractors, Fox News, Humanitarian, Green Jobs, Darfur, War, Drug Companies, Progressives, Private Insurers, Swiftboat, Drones, Van Jones, Barack Obama, Obama Administration, Civilians, Howard Dean, Samantha Power, Mercenaries, Chris Wallace, Vietnam, Tim Geithner, Woodstock, Genocide, Afghanistan, Ryan Grim, Glenn Beck, Hillary Clinton, Treasury Secretary, Healthcare, Taking Woodstock, Countdown, Keith Olbermann, Msnbc, Politics News
Linda Milazzo

Van Jones' resignation isn't a testament to the frenetic dry-drunk tirades of a delusional Fox employee. It is due to the Obama administration's failure to rightfully and necessarily defend a valuable member of its team.

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What a Long, Strange, Thoroughly Obnoxious Trip It's Been 2: Battle Lines

Chez Pazienza | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Vietnam War Protests, Vietnam, Baby Boomers, Woodstock, Politics News
Chez Pazienza

The 60s kind of activism doesn't really work anymore -- mostly because the political power structure in this country doesn't fear the individual anymore. It fears numbers.

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The Great Divide: 90 Miles North

Tina Traster | Posted 10.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Manhattan, Catskill Mountains, Woodstock, Tie-Dye, Suburbia, Country Life, Living News
Tina Traster

I saw myself gazing in the mirror, trying on Woodstock, and liking it.

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I Used to Be a Fatalist! Perhaps I Have a Choice?

Lisa Guest | Posted 10.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Conspiracy Theories, Bull Market, Edward Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Three Days of the Condor, Woodstock, Economy, Kennedy, Bear Market, Stock Market, Fatalism, Self-Improvement, Nixon, Choice, Living News
Lisa Guest

I'm beginning to see the error in my ways and how a dark overview has robbed my life of much joy and possible adventure.

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What a Long, Strange, Thoroughly Obnoxious Trip It's Been

Chez Pazienza | Posted 10.17.2009 | Style

Read More: Baby Boomers, Edward Kennedy, Woodstock, Hippies, Woodstock Anniversary, Taking Woodstock, Style News
Chez Pazienza

Never in the history of this country has there been a generation that's cast a longer shadow without really having done anything to earn it than the children of the 60s.

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The Road to Woodstock

Jackie K. Cooper | Posted 09.29.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Catskills, Free Love, Concerts, Hippies, Woodstock, Entertainment News
Jackie K. Cooper

In her new film Taking Woodstock, Ang Lee does nothing to capture the joy and excitement leading up to the event.

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Movie Review: Taking Woodstock

Marshall Fine | Posted 09.26.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Ang Lee, Marshall Fine Movie Review, Taking Woodstock Movie Review, Woodstock, Demetri Martin, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

Ang Lee's Taking Woodstock is as unlikely and enjoyable a memento of that long-gone moment in the age of Aquarius as we're likely to find in this 40th anniversary year of the epochal rock festival.

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Twitter is Sacred

Lee Schneider | Posted 09.24.2009 | Media

Read More: Twitter, Soul of Money, Woodstock, Woodstock Anniversary, Facebook, Lynne Twist, Docucinema, Media News
Lee Schneider

In his blog, Dinan makes the case that Twitter is propagating new ideas at light speed, helping to create a new form of intimacy.

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An Interview With Janis Ian Plus This Week's New Albums

Mike Ragogna | Posted 09.23.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Michael Jackson, Inner Circle, The O'Jays, Imogen Heap, The Adventures, Janis Ian, Cate Bros., Rubicon, Daryl Hall & John Oates, The Beach Boys, Woody Guthrie, Eric Burdon, REO Speedwagon, Otis Redding, Now That's What I Call Country, Matt Hires, Mark Schultz, Jack Ingram, Smile Empty Soul, Roy Hargrove, Billy Ocean, Cheap Trick, Rory Gallagher, David Guetta, Stefon Harris & Blackout, Michael Bolton, Queen Latifah, Matisyahu, Robert Glasper, The Roy Hargrove Big Band, Cass Elliot, Neil Diamond, The Casualties, Roberta Gambarini, Patton Oswalt, George Benson, Elvis Presley, Phil Stacey, Tim Buckley, Delores O'Rioran, Carmen Appice, The Mamas & the Papas, Al Jarreau, The Old Grey Whistle Test, Entertainment News, Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble, The Dukes, Paul Revere & the Raiders, 16 Horsepower, Collective Soul, Fun., Alan O'Day, Pilot, Now That's What I Call Music, Kitty Daisy & Lewis, Roy Orbison, The Bloody Beetroots, Felix Da Housecat, Teddy Pendergrass, The Subdudes, James Carter, Adam Ant, Colbie Caillat, Arctic Monkeys, Jeff Golub, Jackie DeShannon, Island Records, Fame, Woodstock, Sounds of Blackness, Yo Gabba Gabba!, Smokie Norful, Irma Thomas, Mew, Tanya Stephens, Brian Bromberg, Willie Nelson, Jack Wagner, The New City Ramblers, Mott the Hoople, Love and Theft, New Releases, Deryl Dodd, Cross Country, Radiohead, Bob Dylan, Nat King Cole, Kenny G, Jet, Niti Sawhney, Vander Graaf Generator, Sally Shapiro, John Denver, Jason Aldeean, Smokey Robinson, Taking Woodstock, Vandaveer, Najee, Selah, Needtobreathe, Latoya, Strawbs, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, The Advocate, Lgbt, Sony Legacy, Verve Records, Roberta Flack, Leonard Bernstein, Grammy, Ang Lee, Atlantic Records, Jerry Wexler, Gramma Awards, Saturday Night Live, Wbai, Wnew, Miami Vice, Dar Williams, Birthers, Fox News, Cher, Teabaggers, Joan Baez, Glen Campbell, Mel Torme, Death Panel, Nina Simone, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

Janis Ian is one of the Woodstock era's unsung musical heroes who, just two years prior to the Bethel Bash, shocked our nation with her controversial single "Society's Child."

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Woodstock Wisdom

James S. Gordon | Posted 09.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Support, Music Festivals, 1960s, Woodstock Music and Arts Festival, Complementary Medicine, Music Festival, Selfcare, Woodstock Music Festival, Woodstock Legacy, Self-Help, Self-Care, Cam, 1969, Woodstock Music, Woodstock, Woodstock New York, Woodstock Anniversary, Hippies, New York News, Living News
James S. Gordon

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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Tom DeLay and the Woodstock Nation

Michael Winship | Posted 09.20.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Ang Lee, Politics, Jack Abramoff, Woodstock Now and Then, James Schamus, Woodstock, Tom Delay, Dancing With the Stars, Barbara Kopple, Woodstock Anniversary, Taking Woodstock, Entertainment News
Michael Winship

It's wistful to reflect on a Woodstock Nation that never really materialized, its moment of rhythm and harmony trumped by the heavy-footed dance stylings of men like Tom DeLay.

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Dissent Commodified

Thomas Frank | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Enron, Woodstock, Baby Boomers, General Motors, Chrysler, Politics News
Thomas Frank

As we remember those poignant early days when Boomers took on the establishment, let us also remember that any establishment is lucky to have an opposition like this one.

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Woodstock from Someone Who Wasn't There

Ken Levine | Posted 09.18.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Joe Cocker, Woodstock Movie, Crosby Stills and Nash, Woodstock, Jefferson Airplane, Woodstock Anniversary, Grace Slick, Entertainment News
Ken Levine

This is the 40th anniversary of Woodstock. 500,000 long-haired stoned members of my generation attended this three-day open air music festival. I was not one of them. While half a million rain soaked, bathroom deprived hippies grooved on three days of love and understanding, I was in LA bombarded by news updates on the Charles Manson murders.

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Wrong Turn at Paradise: Woodstock at 40

James Block | Posted 09.18.2009 | Entertainment

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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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
Janice Taylor

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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Moonshot, Columbus, Now Woodstock a Myth Too? Oh No!

Tim Berry | Posted 09.17.2009 | Media

Read More: Woodstock, Wall Street Journal, Woodstock Anniversary, Media News
Tim Berry

I'm all grown up now, I get marketing, my company depends on it like the rest of small business, but jeez, marketing at Woodstock? That's Woodstock's legacy?

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Meatless Monday: Woodstock Eating

Ellen Kanner | Posted 09.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Carbon, Stardust, Obesity, Woodstock, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Gazpacho, Recipes, Meatless Monday, Food, Green News
Ellen Kanner

We are stardust We are golden We are billion year-old carbon And we've got to get ourselves back to the garden Woodstock, Joni Mitchell What sounded...

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Sex, Drugs, Rock 'N Roll in Redneck Country

Ethel Grodzins Romm | Posted 09.15.2009 | New York

Read More: President Nixon, Joan Baez Woodstock, Marijuana, Vietnam War, Acid, Woodstock, Catskill Mountains, Politics of Ecstasy, Pot, Hippies, Timothy Leary, Lsd, Woodstock Anniversary, Joan Baez, New York, Music Festival, Sex Drugs and Rock and Roll, American Music Festivals, New York News
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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40 Years After Woodstock: An Extraordinarily Different America

Brent Green | Posted 09.15.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Vietnam War Protests, Richard Nixon, Vietnam War, Sharon Tate, Charles Manson, Woodstock 40th Anniversary, Woodstock, Lyndon Johnson, Harvard, Lsd, Entertainment News
Brent Green

Woodstock means little until you place it in larger context of a society unraveling around the newest generation of young adults, a dominant and dominating cohort of malcontents.

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