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From More San Fran60s: The Beatles' Last Concert

M.W. Jacobs | Posted 05.15.2013 | San Francisco
Read More: San Francisco 60s, Beatles, The 60s, San Francisco, San Francisco Hippies, Hippies, Sixties, Haight Ashbury 1960s, San Francisco News
M.W. Jacobs

There was rock 'n roll and there was the Beatles. Their last concert anywhere, ever, was in San Francisco on August 29, 1966, and later it was hard not to see some connection with the counter culture that would be bursting onto the world from the same location in only six months.

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This Is How We Do 60 in LA

Annie Stein | Posted 03.27.2013 | Fifty
Read More: 60s, 60th Birthday Party Women La, Turning 60, Birthday Party, 60 Years Old, 60th Birthday, Hosting a Birthday Party, Women 60, Birthday Party Host, Sixties, Fifty News
Annie Stein

I feel so much richer, know so much more and feel connected to several, if not many, more women today than I did before last week when my friend Sam turned 60.

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From San Fran '60s -- Haight-Ashbury Chicks

M.W. Jacobs | Posted 01.29.2013 | San Francisco
Read More: Janis Joplin, Dick Cavette, San Francisco Hippies, Sixties, Hippies, San Francisco 60s, Janis Joplin San Francisco, The 60s, Haight Ashbury 1960s, San Francisco News
M.W. Jacobs

When I stood outside the door of Francine's Waller Street pad that night in June 1966, I was desperate and anxious.

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Neon Ghosts (PHOTOS)

Hans Proppe | Posted 10.16.2012 | Arts
Read More: Slidefreestyle, Fifties, Ghosts, Sixties, Signage, Neon, Vintage, Advertising, Architecture, Exposure, Neon Sign Photos, Arts News
Hans Proppe

The golden age of neon, the '50s and '60s produced an art form unique to its function. Like the cars of the period, they were voluptuous, playful, elegant, excessive. 2012-08-16-neonsigns.jpg

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Helen Gurley Brown: The So-Called Mouseburger Who Was Anything But

Anna David | Posted 10.14.2012 | Women
Read More: Helen Gurley Brown Dead, Cosmopolitan, Helen Gurley Brown, Life Advice, Female Role Model, Cosmo, Falling for Me, Relationship Advice, Anna David, Sixties, Women and Work, Mouseburger, Women News
Anna David

I spent years obsessing over all things Helen Gurley Brown when I was researching and writing my book about trying everything she recommends in Sex and the Single Girl.

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69-70 -- 7 poems

Ruth Neubauer | Posted 05.13.2013 | Fifty
Read More: Aging, Poems, Jewish, Sixties, Healthy Living Spirit, Mothers, Fathers, Parents, Death, Fifty News
Ruth Neubauer

I know I am older now. I can feel it in my face. I want to look young to you. Always.

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What Woodward and Bernstein Got Wrong About Watergate

Will Bunch | Posted 08.18.2012 | Media
Read More: Indignados, Hunter S. Thompson, Bob Woodward, All the President's Men, Deep Throat, Watergate, Carl Bernstein, Richard Nixon, National Security State, Ronald Reagan, Sixties, Seventies, Media News
Will Bunch

The real crimes of the last 40 years didn't fit into the box that Woodward and Bernstein and the Watergate scandal helped to create. In the end, the real exceptionalism of Richard Nixon was merely that he was dumb enough to get caught. The rest of them all got away with it.

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What Is The Meaning Of Art? A Master Of Arte Povera Gives The Answer

Simona Lodi | Posted 07.15.2012 | Arts
Read More: Piero Gilardi, Social and Artistic Forms of Representation., Internet Freedom, Tech-Art, Cybernetics, Castle of Rivoli, Italy, Arte Povera, Open-Source, Freedom of Speech, Turin, Politics, Activism, Networks, Aesthetics, Contemporary Art, Horizontal Democracy, Sixties, Participation, Performance, Arts News
Simona Lodi

Piero Gilardi anticipated later movements, in seeing the aesthetic value of shared space and collaboration -- a value underpinning the open-source, Internet-based nature of tech-art today.

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What I Know About Beauty Now That I'm In My 60s

Bonnie McFarland | Posted 05.28.2012 | Women
Read More: Women and Aging, 60s, Women-Authentic-Beauty, Aging Gracefully, Authentic Beauty, Body Image, What I Know About Beauty, Sixties, Enjoying Your Sixties, Beauty and Aging, Women News
Bonnie McFarland

Some say we get the face we deserve as we age, but I think it's more we get the face of the life we've lived.

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Just Do It Because I Say So

Elizabeth Boleman-Herring | Posted 03.11.2012 | Healthy Living
Read More: Iyengar-Yoga, Yoga, Panic Attacks, Bks-Iyengar, Poetry, Hinduism, Asana, Authority-Figure-Hubris, Middle Age, Francis W. Parker School, Fifties, Performance Anxiety, Patanjali, Sixties, Anxiety, Chicago Grammar Schools, Mindfulness, Healthy Living News
Elizabeth Boleman-Herring

I was 12 years old, and there was no way one could "get out of" the eighth grade at the Francis W. Parker School of Chicago without memorizing and reciting the poem. Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Kubla Khan: or, A Vision in a Dream: A Fragment," to be precise.

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'Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky: Revisiting the Monterey International Pop Festival Through A Perfect Haze

Holly Cara Price | Posted 02.19.2012 | Books
Read More: Bob Weir, Rock Festivals, Santa Monica Press, Kenneth Kubernik, Monterey International Pop Festival, Alex Gibney, Lou Adler, Zeitgeist, Magic Trip, Roger Daltrey, New Books, Ravi Shankar, Al Kooper, Pop Culture, D.A. Pennebaker, Otis Redding, Pete Townshend, Big Brother & the Holding Company, The Who, Woodstock, Altamont, Booker T. Jones, Harvey Kubernik, Books News, Book Publishing, Alison Ellwood, Ken Kesey, Simon & Garfunkel, Hippies, Music News, Counterculture, Steve Cropper, 1967, Sixties, Monterey Pop, Merry Pranksters, Jimi Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane, Books News
Holly Cara Price

The Monterey International Pop Festival took place at such a guileless time that the promoters used the word "pop" in its title. Not long after this would have been unthinkable, after the lines were drawn between "pop" music and rock and roll.

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Steve Jobs' Google of the 60s: Whole Earth Catalog Revisited (VIDEO)

Kirsten Dirksen | Posted 01.04.2012 | Green
Read More: Self Sufficiency, Book Publishing, Shelter Publishing, Owner Built House, Back to the Land, Backyard Garden, Domes, Homegrown Food, Lloyd Kahn, Hippies, Dome Building, Backyard Chickens, Grow Your Own, Steve Jobs, Whole Earth Catalog, DIY Home Building, Diy Home, Stewart Brand, California, Green News, Counterculture, Bolinas, Seventies, Sixties, Green News
Kirsten Dirksen

In this video, Shelter editor Lloyd Kahn shows us a rare first issue of the Whole Earth Catalog, takes us for a tour of his homestead and gives us a sneak peek of his upcoming book Tiny Homes: Simple Shelter.

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Pan Am Days: A Near Miss At JFK

Carole Mallory | Posted 12.29.2011 | Travel
Read More: Sixties, Stewardesses, Carole Mallory, Jfk, Travel Blogs, Pilots, Pan Am, Twa, New York Airports, Travel News
Carole Mallory

I was feeling safe and secure beneath the navigator's seat belt when I saw the nose of a gigantic jet coming straight at us.

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Lincoln Center Out of Doors Presents She's Got the Power! A Girl Group Extravaganza

Holly Cara Price | Posted 09.27.2011 | New York
Read More: Baby Washington, Jeremy Chatzky, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Free, Ronnie Spector, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, The Chantels, Ellie Greenwich, The Delrons, Beverly Warren, Rock and Roll Music, Music News, Lesley Gore, The Crystals, New York City, La La Brooks, David Rubenstein Atrium, The Angels, The Exciters, New York Summer, Beatles, Damrosch Park Bandshell, Nyc Concerts, Arlene Smith, Ponderosa Stomp Foundation, Girl Groups, Sixties, Ronettes, Toni WIne, New York News
Holly Cara Price

This Saturday July 30, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in association with the Ponderosa Stomp Foundation presents a day of events intended to celebrate the girl group sounds of the 1960s.

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Fitz & the Tantrums: "Antidote to Autotune"

Jon Chattman | Posted 09.10.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Michael Fitzpatrick, Hamptons, Fitz and the Tantrums, Best Coast, Music to Know Festival, Motown, Dapkings, Sixties, Moneygrabber, Entertainment News
Jon Chattman

Fitz & the Tantrums are a six-piece band out of California and a wonderful throwback to the great '60s soul sound.

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Left Banke at Joe's Pub: Utterly Transcendent

Holly Cara Price | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Joe?S Pub, Shadows Breaking Over My Head, Sing Little Bird Sing, Hit Records, Lazy Day, Mike Fornatale, Michael Brown, Paul Alves, Garage Rock, Rick Reil, Mickey Finn, Sixties, Jenn DeVore, Baroque-Pop, Sundazed Records, Walk Away Renee, She May Call You Up Tonight, Joe McGinty, Eleanor Norton, Steve Martin-Caro, Barterers and Their Wives, Psychedelic, Susan Aquila, Pretty Ballerina, Tom Finn, Dark Is the Bark, Music News, Charly Cazalet, Tom Feher, Entertainment News, George Cameron, Left Banke, Rock and Roll, Entertainment News
Holly Cara Price

The last time the Left Banke stepped onto a stage to perform together as a band was 1969, so to say those in the audience at Joe's Pub last weekend we...

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The Inauguration of the Young Sixties

Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Mad Men, John F. Kennedy, 1960s, John F. Kennedy Inaugural Address, Sixties, Four Freedoms, Barack Obama, Young Sixties, Politics News
Robert S. McElvaine

Oh, Freedom! "Freedom" was in the air -- the frigid air -- on that sunny early afternoon a half century ago today when John F. Kennedy uttered his mos...

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Feminist (R)evolution in Brooklyn: Reclaiming Women for Pop

Lisa Paul Streitfeld | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Read More: Brooklyn Museum, Kate Millett, Judy Chicago, Pop Art, Linda Nochlin, Gloria Steinem, Eroticism, Feminism, Elizabeth Sackler, Kalliopi Minioudaki, Jean Paul Belmondo, Emma Bee Bernstein, Sixties, Yayoi Kusama, The Dinner Party, Francesca Woodman, Pauline Boty, Marisol, Elizabetth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Carolee Schneeman, Niki De Saint Phalle, Mad Men, Tracey Emin, Sid Sachs, Jann Haworth, Rosalyn Drexler, Arts News
Lisa Paul Streitfeld

Niki de Saint Phalle's Black Rosy is an iconic work representing the shadow of Eros that would be repressed by feminist criticism in the years to com...

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Con Games: Mad Men, C'est Moi

Michael Conniff | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Sixties, Television, 1960s, Jon Hamm, Mad Men, Vietnam, Counter Culture, Entertainment News
Michael Conniff

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

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Iowa's Hairapalooza!: A Conversation With Director Randy West, Choreographer Adam Cates, And The Cast Of Hair

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Ryan Gaffney, Stephen Sondheim, Charlie Brown, Rogers and Hammerstein, Beauty and the Beast, Adam Cates, Sixties, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

While no one was looking, Fairfield, Iowa has become a mecca for musicians and artists. And of all the productions in this creative community, none has affected its population as intensely as this new exploration of Hair.

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Readers Remember The 1960s: "Change, Both Good And Bad"

Huffington Post | Mallika Rao | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: 1960s, Change, War, Bob Hope, Obama, Vietnam, Sixties, Rebellion, Reader Reactions, New Radicals, Eyes and Ears, Politics News

HuffPost readers share their memories of the 1960s, a turbulent decade.

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inherent Vice

Gershon Hepner | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Attorneys, Michiko Kakutani, Thomas Pynchon, Poetry, Inherent Vice, Sixties, New York Times Book Review, Entertainment News
Gershon Hepner

"Inherent Vice not only reminds us how rooted Mr. Pynchon's authorial vision is in the '60s and '70s," writes Kakutani, "but it also demystifies his work, underscoring the similarities that his narratives share."

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Culture Zohn: A Post About P.O.S.T. (Post-Obama Stress Disorder)

Patricia Zohn | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Obama, Republicans, Sixties, Democrats, Revolution, Election, Politics News
Patricia Zohn

Even the Republicans I know are a bit forlorn: after spending the last year sending me funny cartoons and digs at the Dems, they have taken to complaining about Henry Paulson.

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Don't Bogart That Script, My Friend

Michael Jones | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago
Read More: Joint, Movies, Michaelangelo, Marijuana, Seth Rogen, Judd Apatow, Pot, The Sixties, Pineapple Express, Sixties, James Franco, Stoner Movies, Pothead Movies, Pot Movies, Chicago Gyros, Seth Rogen Stoner, Joint Rolling, Gyros, Weed Movies, Pineapple Express Movie Review, Chicago News
Michael Jones

There is a proud history of extremely funny stoner movies in these United States. Ambling, discordant, self indulgent, silly, and freaking funny.

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