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The Seventies

Best/Worst Brands: Breaking Good, Afros and Crowdfunding

Alona Elkayam | Posted 04.26.2013 | Style
Read More: E-Cigarette, Vaping, Boston Bombing, Marlboro Man, Jamaican Food, The Seventies, Kickstarter, Fulton-Ryder, Veronica Mars, Rocket-Hub, Zach Braff, Cigarettes, Reggae, Breaking Good, Afro, Miss Lilly, September 11 Anniversary, September 11th, Style News
Alona Elkayam

Whenever I see a really big afro in bustling NYC, I get the feeling it's winking at me, saying, "Remember me?" When an afro sighting is followed up by a throwback cigarette or e-cigarette advertisement on a bus shelter I don't smile, for a moment i get genuinely confused what era it is.

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Tribeca 2012 Diary: The Playroom Director Julia Dyer

Dan Persons | Posted 06.23.2012 | Home
Read More: 1970's, Suburbs, Video, Tribeca Film Festival, Playroom, The Seventies, Sex, John Hawkes, Jonathan McClendon, Julia Dyer, Olivia Harris, The Playroom Movie, Molly Parker, Home News
Dan Persons

Capturing a period when innocence was under assault on all fronts, director Julia Dyer (Late Bloomers), shooting from a script by her sister Gretchen, tells a tale old and young facing uncertain futures, not all of them with a suitable measure of grace.

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1970: The Year That Gave Us American Idol, Celebrity Rehab and the First School of Rock

David Browne | Posted 07.13.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: The Beatles, Seventies Culture, John Lennon the Beatles, Seventies Music, Classic Rock, The 70s, The Seventies, The '70s, Entertainment News
David Browne

Other than death and taxes, two things we can seemingly count on forever are albums of pre-rock standards and wobbly auditions on American Idol. For all that, we can thank Ringo Starr.

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That Seventies Show

Tory Burch | Posted 05.28.2011 | Style
Read More: Halston, Glamour, Style, The Seventies, Bianca Jagger, Jacqueline Kennedy, Slidepollajax, Fashion, Yves Saint Laurent, 1970s, Style News
Tory Burch

The Seventies are often referred to as the decade that taste forgot. This is unfair, and for anyone who really loves fashion, it's just not true. To designers, the decade is a goldmine of fashion inspiration.

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Pearls Over Shanghai Revives a Passionate Part of San Francisco History

Greg Archer | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Read More: Theater, Cockettes, San Francisco, The Seventies, Gay Rights, Pearls-Over-Shanghai, Gay, Gays, Gay Issues, Arts News
Greg Archer

There's nothing like a psychedelic "mock operetta" to boost your spirits during an economic downturn, especially one as rich, savage and delicious as Pearls Over Shanghai.

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Cinefantastique Horror, Fantasy & Science Fiction Podcast - v1n3: The Crazies

Dan Persons | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Tim Olyphant, Conspiracy Theories, Bioweapons, Paranoia, The Seventies, Horror Movies, Breck Eisner, Film, Science Fiction, Sci-Fi, Movies, Fantasy, George Romero, Cinefantastique Podcast, Cfq, Cinefantastique, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

Dan Persons, Steve Biodrowski, and Lawrence French are back with an in-depth discussion of The Crazies, the new horror-thriller about a small town cau...

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Requiem For The Zooted

Barry Michael Cooper | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: The-Seventies, Drugs, Harlem, New York City, Angel Dust, Crime, PCP, Cops, Healthy Living News
Barry Michael Cooper

I promised myself I would never smoke another $3 bag of angel dust again but that epiphany button was stuck on repeat. Now almost 30 years drug free, the past is but a muffled procession of memories.

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Senator Sam's Challenge to Presidential Power

Julian E. Zelizer and Bruce Schulman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Bush Executive Privilege, Watergate, Cia, Richard Nixon, The Seventies, George W. Bush, Congressional Oversight, Fbi, Nostalgia, Executive Power, Politics News
Julian E. Zelizer and Bruce Schulman

We seem to be back to the summer of 1973, although in some respects Bush's extension of executive power has been much more dramatic than anything in that period.

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