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I'm With Stupid: Slayer Fans vs. the Westboro Baptist Church

Todd Hartley | Posted 05.15.2013 | Comedy
Read More: Wbc, Heavy Metal, Necrotizing Fasciitis, Jeff Hanneman, Classic Rock, Westboro Baptist Church, Grateful Dead, Flesh-Eating Disease, Slayer, Hippy Chicks, Bon Jovi, Kansas, Comedy News
Todd Hartley

I hope they come with their pickets and messages of hate and encounter a massive horde of Slayer fans when they get there. And then, when the counterprotest begins, I hope the cops turn a blind eye and let the Slayer fans do what they will.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Beauty, Gets a Bookplate in the New Yorker, 1925

Anne Margaret Daniel | Posted 05.01.2013 | Books
Read More: Grateful Dead, The New Yorker, Jazz Age, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Stanley "Mouse" Miller, Books News
Anne Margaret Daniel

The idea of being beautiful and damned is one readers have always associated with F. Scott Fitzgerald. The New Yorker picked up on this theme in an illustration that largely went unnoticed -- but not by Fitzgerald himself.

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How the Grateful Dead Got Started

Dr. R. Keith Sawyer | Posted 04.22.2013 | Arts
Read More: Janis Joplin, Zig Zag, Ken Kesey, Jerry Garcia, Grateful Dead, Ron Pigpen McKernan, Jorma Kaukonan, Arts News
Dr. R. Keith Sawyer

This is how all great creativity happens -- a wandering path, surprising and unpredictable. As a Grateful Dead song puts it, "What a long, strange trip it's been." You can't tell where it's going to end, but you have to trust in the process, and stay open to the surprising ideas along the way.

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Rock Music's Ode To LSD

The Huffington Post | Matthew Jacobs | Posted 04.16.2013 | Entertainment
Read More: LSD 70 Years, Acid Rock, Acid, Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds, Grateful Dead, The Doors, Lsd, Purple Haze, The Beatles, Video, LSD Lyrics, Albert Hoffman, Rock Music Acid, Rock Music LSD, Psychedelic Rock, Lsd Inventor, Jimi Hendrix, The Byrds, Entertainment News

Seventy years ago, an unsuspecting Albert Hoffman discovered a chemical substance that would alter the face of rock music and drug culture forever. Wh...

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Dig This: Ephemeral Art From an Ephemeral Revolution

Steve Heilig | Posted 03.28.2013 | San Francisco
Read More: Owlsey Stanley, Naomi Wolf, The Diggers, Richard Brautigan, The Haight-Ashbury, Peter Coyote, Lew Welch, Grateful Dead, Rhoney Stanley, San Francisco News
Steve Heilig

Back in the murky pre-history of San Francisco's fabled Haight-Ashbury, even before the fabled "Summer of Love," were the Diggers.

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The Real Clive Davis: Dishing the Skinny with Don Silver, the Man Behind the Man

David Henry Sterry | Posted 04.27.2013 | Books
Read More: Aretha Franklin, Vinyl, David Henry Sterry, Don Silver, Vinyl Records, Coming-of-Age, Grateful Dead, Kelly Clarkson, Clive Davis, Music, Arista, Books News
David Henry Sterry

Now that Kelly Clarkson has called Clive Davis a liar and a bully, and revealed that she felt violated by his account of their relationship in his autobiography The Soundtrack of My Life, I thought it would be interesting to get the perspective of a man who worked under Clive.

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PHOTOS: Six Feet Under With Jewish Deadheads

Josh Fleet | Posted 12.04.2012 | Religion
Read More: Music-and-Religion, The Grateful Dead, Mickey Hart, Jewish Folklore, Grateful Dead Photos, Judaism, Grateful Dead and Jews, Jewish Folktales, Grateful Dead, Jewish Music, Jews and the Grateful Dead, Religion News

Every version of the tale is different, but certain elements persist: A wanderer encounters somebody disrespecting a corpse that, in life, had not pai...

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Grateful Dead Teams Up With Dogfish Head On New Beer

The Huffington Post | Rachel Tepper | Posted 10.17.2012 | Home
Read More: Grateful Dead Dogfish Head, Video, American Beauty Dogfish Head, Grateful Dead Beer, Beer, Grateful Dead, Dogfish Head, American Beauty, American Beauty Grateful Dead, Home News

Finally, a beer for deadheads. Legendary rock band Grateful Dead is partnering with Dogfish Head Craft Brewery to create a custom brew they've dubbed ...

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Lithuanian Homesick Blues

Terry Lyons | Posted 12.09.2012 | Sports
Read More: Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan, Nba, Lithuania, Nba Commissioner David Stern, Chris Mullin, Grateful Dead, Bill Walton, Other Dream Team, The Other Dream Team Review, Sports News
Terry Lyons

To those, like me, who were in attendance in Barcelona during the 1992 Olympics, the bronze medalists, a.k.a. "The Other Dream Team," stole the show.

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Mickey Hart's Brain on Drums -- Interview at AARP in New Orleans

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 11.23.2012 | Entertainment
Read More: New Orleans, Grateful Dead, Aarp, New Orleans Musicians, Mickey Hart, Namm, Gazzaley Lab, Celebrity, Music, Entertainment News
Karen Dalton-Beninato

By the time Mickey Hart finished his AARP convention appearance in New Orleans yesterday, we had quite literally seen his brain on drums as his brain waves were projected onto a screen by neurologist Dr. Adam Gazzaley through the magic of electrodes and computer modeling.

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Warrant Out For Former Grateful Dead Drummer

AP | Posted 09.14.2012 | Celebrity
Read More: Mickey Hart Warrant, Grateful Dead Drummer, Video, Mickey Hart, Mickey Hart Arrest, Mickey Hart Warrant Arrest, Mickey Hart Arrested, Mickey Hart Grateful Dead, Grateful Dead, Mickey Hart Assault, Celebrity News

HARRODSBURG, Ky. -- Police in Kentucky have a warrant for the arrest of former Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart stemming from an alleged assault afte...

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Jerry Garcia Is Still Making the Fans Move

Jamie Soja | Posted 08.16.2012 | San Francisco
Read More: Grateful Dead, The Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia, Jerry Garcia's 70th Birthday, Move Me Brightly, San Francisco News
Jamie Soja

Seventeen years after the death of Jerry Garcia, the Grateful Dead's music is still going strong. This could not be more evident than on the night of August 3rd celebrating Jerry Garcia's 70th birthday with the event "Move me Brightly."

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Andy Campbell

We Found Jerry Garcia In A Horseradish Jar, Man

HuffingtonPost.com | Andy Campbell | Posted 08.13.2012 | Weird News
Read More: Grateful Dead, Horseradish, Jerry Garcia, Jerry Garcia Horseradish Jar, Tom Haupert, Weird News News

How high are you right now? Good, because Florida man Tom Haupert wants to show you his horseradish jar, and it's got the spitting image of the lat...

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Electronic Dance Music and Jam Bands Tap the Same Fan Vibe

David Meerman Scott | Posted 09.26.2012 | Entertainment
Read More: Electronic Dance Music, Grateful Dead, Music Festivals, Mickey Hart, Music, sts9, Gathering of the Vibes, Entertainment News
David Meerman Scott

The music pumps and pulses while tens of thousands of fans all tune into the vibe, dancing, becoming one organism where the line between artist and audience blurs.

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The Band and the Bandstand (Part 2)

Doug Bradley | Posted 07.01.2012 | Home
Read More: American Bandstand, Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan, The Band, Levon Helm, Levon Helm Dead, Dick Clark Dead, Levon Helm the Band, Home News
Doug Bradley

My obsession with Dylan and the Band was rewarded when they launched a concert tour in the winter of 1974, Dylan's first tour in eight years! Ticket prices were steep -- we paid $9.50 apiece.

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Origins of 4/20 as a Day of Celebration & Protests

Marc Emery | Posted 06.20.2012 | Green
Read More: 4/20, Cannabis, 4/20 History, Pot, Marijuana, 420, Weed, Vancouver 4/20, Vancouver, Weed Day, Grateful Dead, National Weed Day, Green News
Marc Emery

Over the years pot vendors selling joints, bags of pot, pot cookies, pot brownies, and various cannabis consumables became a prominent aspect of the festivities. Never in the history of the 4/20 celebration have police interfered with selling or consumption of cannabis.

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Dipping the Pacifier in Wine, and Other 1970s-Inspired Parenting Tricks

Davis Schneiderman | Posted 06.06.2012 | Comedy
Read More: Age of Aquarius, Grateful Dead, Benadryl, Jewish Circumcision, Baby Advice, Parenting Tips, Wine Pacifier, Parenting Advice, Comedy News
Davis Schneiderman

My mother claims I sucked down several wine-dipped pacifiers at my circumcision, and she continued the practice for a year in an attempt to abate my near-constant wailing. That's right, you read correctly, I was a baby wino.

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Post-Grateful Dead Player Scores Medical Hit

Reuters | Posted 02.22.2012 | Small Business
Read More: Medical Startup, Grateful Dead Small Business, Grateful Dead, Small Business News and Trends, Small Business, Music, Medical Small Business, Small Business News

(By Deborah L. Cohen - Reuters) - For Jeff Chimenti, a rock keyboardist who plays with offshoots of the Grateful Dead, it has been anything but a "lon...

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Who Would Be a Climate Skeptic?

Christina Robert | Posted 04.17.2012 | Green
Read More: Religion, Microsoft, Fossil Fuels, Climate Change, Grateful Dead, Science, Climate Change Denial, Green Living, Republicans, Heartland Institute, Libertarians, Green News
Christina Robert

Back in the days when going to college meant listening to the Grateful Dead, I once had to drive a car with a bumper sticker on the back that read, ...

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Business Is Booming For The Grateful Dead

www.rollingstone.com | Posted 01.20.2012 | Fifty
Read More: The Epic Tour, Bill Kreutzmann, The Grateful Dead, Sales, Mickey Hart, Profits, Jerry Garcia, Grateful Dead, Grateful-Dead-Game, Business, Music, Ron Pigpen McKernan, Phil Lesh, Fifty News

Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart admits his band has always been wary of plastering its name or likeness onto products. "People would bring us sugges...

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Open Letter to Mark Wahlberg, From One Dad to Another

Davis Schneiderman | Posted 03.20.2012 | Comedy
Read More: C+C Music Factory, I Heart Huckabees, Milli Vanilli, Drain, Donnie Wahlberg, 9/11, Mark Wahlberg, Led Zeppelin, Grateful Dead, Men's Journal, Harvard, New Kids on the Block, Date Night, Three Kings, Comedy News
Davis Schneiderman

Why apologize, Mark, for who we are and what the world has made of us? We are both proud parents, and we'll do what we must do to protect our children and our country.

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Up Close With Carolyn Wonderland and the Making of Peace Meal

Stephanie Keller | Posted 03.13.2012 | Entertainment
Read More: Grateful Dead, Whitney Brown, Carolyn Wonderland, Music, Peace Meal, Vince Welnick, Texas Music, Entertainment News
Stephanie Keller

It's been a big year for Carolyn Wonderland, the Texas-born songstress known for her incredibly soulful Blues/Rock music and frequent comparisons to Janis Joplin and Stevie Ray Vaughn.

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Jerry Garcia Documentary Planned

www.rollingstone.com | Posted 01.07.2012 | Fifty
Read More: Rolling Stone, Grateful Dead, Documentary, The Grateful Dead, Music, Malcolm Leo, Jerry Garcia, Fifty News

The late Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia will be the subject of a forthcoming feature-length documentary. Filmmaker Malcolm Leo, who has previous...

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The Rhinestone Rembrandt

Radley Balko | Posted 02.15.2012 | Home
Read More: Nudie Cohn, Nashville, Gram Parsons, Kid Rock, Design, Grateful Dead, Fashion, Music, Nashville-Byline, Rolling Stones, Home News
Radley Balko

There may be no one alive who has crossed paths with more bold names than Manuel Cuevas. The Nashville designer, known for his exquisite embroidery and use of rhinestones and sequins, has dressed five American presidents.

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7 Business Lessons from The Grateful Dead

Barry Barnes | Posted 01.03.2012 | Books
Read More: Business Tips, Slidepollajax, 1970s Music, Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia, Corporate America, Books News
Barry Barnes

Without intending to, the band ended up pioneering ideas and practices that have subsequently been embraced by corporate America.

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