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Excerpts From San Fran '60s -- Sawhorse Over a Water Department Hole

M.W. Jacobs | Posted 01.01.2013 | San Francisco
M.W. Jacobs

Through much of that summer of '67, the Summer of Love, Tim was the very first Haight-Ashbury "hippie" many tourists saw.

An Excerpt from San Fran '60s

M.W. Jacobs | Posted 09.17.2012 | San Francisco
M.W. Jacobs

We were in my cramped, dingy bedroom in the Mission District flat I shared with three other San Francisco State students in that spring of 1967. "What's that?" I asked of tablets in a baggie she held up to me. "Acid," Ruth replied.

Robert Crumb's Comic Nightmare

Posted 07.03.2012 | Arts

Robert Crumb's adult cartoons give a similar feeling to being insulted by a kindergardener. The kid is presumptuous, offensive and totally out of line...

'Bent' Star Gets New Show

Posted 04.05.2012 | TV

"Bent" star David Walton has a new gig. According to EW, Walton will star in Greg Berlanti's untitled comedy CBS pilot. He replaces the previously cas...

'FNL' Alum Books New Pilot & More Casting Scoop

Posted 03.10.2012 | TV

Another "Friday Night Lights" alum has booked their return to TV. The Hollywood Reporter has the scoop on Zach Gilford's new gig, reporting that he's ...

Margo Martindale Gets Two New Gigs

Posted 02.29.2012 | TV

Mago Martindale has joined not one, but two new pilots. And does that mean "A Gifted Man" is facing cancellation? Martindale, an Emmy winner for he...

Look Who's Playing TV's Latest President

Posted 02.25.2012 | TV

Cue "Hail to the Chief" because TV has found its president. Bill Pullman, who famously took on the role of head of state in the 1996 blockbuster "I...

Behind Enemy Lines

Todd Burbo | Posted 06.08.2011 | Chicago
Todd Burbo

Not long ago, America's specialty coffee roasters were as much friends as competitors. Now they're getting down to business.

Con Games: Mad Men, C'est Moi

Michael Conniff | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Michael Conniff

In the twin worlds of Mad Men and my family, life was a roundtrip ticket that never got punched.

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

Stephen Mo Hanan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Style
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.

The Irony of Irony

Ben Fractenberg | Posted 05.25.2011 | Style
Ben Fractenberg

Can I subvert corporate capitalism with my clothing choices and sardonic detachment? Probably not. Can I register people to vote by sincerely telling them why I think it is important? Most definitely.