The Sixties

MIB3 = A Lot of Old but Very Little New

Jackie K. Cooper | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: The Sixties, Josh Brolin, Will Smith, Time Travel, Aliens, Sunglasses, Tommy Lee Jones, Men in Black 3, Men in Black, Entertainment News
Jackie K. Cooper

Perhaps the makers of Men in Black thought it had been long enough to pull out some of the same special effects and characters and sell them as new. It hasn't.

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Barney Rosset U.

William O'Rourke | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Barnet Rosset, Jorge Luis Borges, The Paperback Revolution, Ficciones, James Laughlin, The Sixties, The Golden Bowl, Anthony Kerrigan, Lady Chatterley's Lover, Grove Press, New Directions, Book Publishing, Books News
William O'Rourke

Upon his recent death, I realized I had matriculated in the Barney Rosset School of Literature. Publishers played a unique role for the '60s. They set the curriculum for a generation of curious and avaricious readers such as myself.

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The Biggest Deja Vu Moments Of 2011

The Huffington Post | Amy Lee | Posted 12.30.2011

Read More: 60s, 1960s, Britney Spears, Nirvana, Beavis and Butthead, Nirvana Nevermind, Tupac Shakur, Marilyn Monroe, The Beatles, Pop Up Video, Deja Vu 2011, Slidepollajax, Royal Wedding, The Muppets, Newt Gingrich, Muppets, My Week With Marilyn, Tupac Murder, Best of 2011, Tupac, All That, 1990s, The Sixties, Nirvana Nevermind 20th Anniversary, The Nineties, Pete and Pete, Clarissa Explains It All, The 90s, 90s, Ows, Royal Wedding 2011, Nickelodeon, Culture News

The past has never been as easy to cut and paste as it was in 2011. Two decades ruled this inaugural aught -- the 1990s and the 1960s. The 90s -- ...

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How the Movies Saved My Life

Tom Engelhardt | Posted 01.17.2012

Read More: The Sixties, Plaza Hotel, 1950s Nyc, Hiroshima, Growing Up in the 50s, Fifties, Mccarthyism, World War II, John Wayne, Culture News
Tom Engelhardt

I now write about our American wars without ever having visited a war zone. There, in the '50s and early '60s, I advanced with the marines and the Russians, bombed Tokyo but also experienced (however briefly) Hiroshima after it was atomized.

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Zen and the Art of Occupy Wall Street

Richard Schiffman | Posted 01.12.2012

Read More: Bloomberg, Social Media, The Sixties, Media, Zen, Occupy Wall Street, Liberty Square, Zuccotti Park Camp, New York News
Richard Schiffman

The mood has changed in the OWS encampment from early euphoria to one of hunkering down for the long siege. It is getting cold, people are falling sick, squabbling over space, stuff is being stolen, nerves are fraying.

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A Reunion And A Flirtation In Sixties Hong Kong

Carole Mallory | Posted 01.07.2012

Read More: The Sixties, Asia Travel, Hong Travel, Asia, Carole Mallory, Airlines, Hong Kong, China Travel, Pan Am, Travel Blogs, China, ABC Pan Am, Travel News
Carole Mallory

Hong Kong was a series of peaks and valleys. It had dramatically tall buildings juxtaposed against narrow streets. The harbor of Kowloon was just on the other side of the island and we went there for lunch on a sampan with Harry.

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The Movement Next Time

Bill Zimmerman | Posted 12.20.2011

Read More: Civil Rights Movement, Vietnam, The Sixties, Martin Luther King Jr, Vietnam Protests, Activism, Student-Sit-Ins, Occupy Wall Street, Huff/Post50 News
Bill Zimmerman

We veterans of the Sixties have become encrusted with doubt. I'm putting mine aside and going to Wall Street. This kernel of activism might spawn a powerful populist movement, and if it does, I want to help it along.

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Sixties Redux at Occupy Wall Street

Alan Singer | Posted 12.13.2011

Read More: Taxes, The Sixties, Wealthy, Nypd, MoveOn.Org, Wall Street, Occupy Wall Street, Democracy, Working Families, Media, Liberty Park, New York News
Alan Singer

I think the best thing that can come out of Occupy Wall Street is that a new generation, like the generation of the sixties, will learn to organize people.

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Confessions Of A Pan Am Stewardess

Carole Mallory | Posted 11.25.2011

Read More: Pan Am, Pan American World Airways, Stewardesses, The Sixties, Pan Am Stewardesses, Airlines, Travel Blogs, Travel News
Carole Mallory

My handbag was a pharmacy when it wasn't a bar stocked with mini liquor bottles pinched from the plane.

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Ken Kesey Rides Again In Magic Trip

Cynthia Ellis | Posted 10.06.2011

Read More: Oscar, Duke, Alan Ginsberg, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Day After Superman Died, David Kahne, Tie Dye, Angelina Jolie, Alex Gibney, The World's Fair, Cold War, Easy Rider, Lsd, Allen Ginsberg, Twist and Shout, Ravi Coltrane, On the Road, The Beatles, Archival Verite, Emmy, Stanley Tucci, John Coltrane, Larry McMurtry, Thomas Wolfe, Love Potion Number 9, Howl, Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo?S Nest, Jerry Garcia, JFK Assassination, Jack Kerouac, Allison Ellwood, The Merry Pranksters, Hair, Greensleeves, Mad Men, Timothy Leary, The Sixties, Ellington, Neal Cassady, Post 9/11, Entertainment News
Cynthia Ellis

Directors Alex Gibney and Allison Ellwood have resurrected, cinematically, the pivotal moment when our country went from Mad Men to HAIR.

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PHOTOS: 7 Most Overrated Things About The Sixties

Mark Juddery | Posted 09.19.2011

Read More: Andy Warhol, The Sixties, Overrated Things, Slidepollajax, Woodstock, Bob Dylan, Lsd, Star Trek, Books News
Mark Juddery

The sixties were the decade of change, the decade of cool, the decade of excitement... and the decade of hype.

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Bob Dylan's Asia Tour: Has Freedom Lost Its Voice?

John W. Whitehead | Posted 06.11.2011

Read More: The Sixties, Anti-War Movement, Human Rights Watch, Aarp, Vietnam, Cameron Crowe, Bob Dylan, Asia, China, Nat Hentoff, Entertainment News
John W. Whitehead

The news that Bob Dylan would embark on a concert tour of Asia had many waiting to see what, if anything, he would say to audiences long oppressed by their governments. So far, the so-called voice of freedom has remained mute.

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Is Norton Simon Show A Big Lie?

Mat Gleason | Posted 06.09.2011

Read More: 1960s, The Sixties, Art, Self Immolation, Norton Simon Museum, Museums, Abstract Painting, Pasadena, Carol Togneri, Frank Stella, Gloria Williams, Elsworth Kelly, Helen Frankenthaler, Arts News
Mat Gleason

The Norton Simon Museum has the best collection of art in Southern California. This is the last museum that should ever have to acquire modern and con...

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The (Untelevised) Revolution Next Door

James Block | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cooperatives, Cultural Revolution, The Sixties, Social Change, Local Politics, Neighborhoods, A Peaceful Revolution, Politics News
James Block

I caught a glimpse of the future last weekend in the Riverwest neighborhood of Milwaukee. For those of you who haven't spent time there yet, it would ...

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'You Say You Want a Revolution'

Alan Singer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Beatles, History, Bob Marley, The Sixties, John Lennon, Egypt Revolution, Revolution, Lesson Plans, Teaching, Bob Dylan, Tunisia Revolution, Education News
Alan Singer

Not all revolutionaries and revolutions are remembered with the fondness of Byron and Guevara.

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"Rain" On Their Parade: Why the NY Times review of "Rain: A Tribute to the Beatles On Broadway" is All Wet

James Rotondi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pop Music, The Beatles, Baby Boomers, The Sixties, Musical Theater, Broadway, Pop Culture, New York, Classic Rock, Abbey Road, George Harrison, Paul McCartney, Songwriting, British, Liverpool, Tribute Bands, John Lennon, Ringo Starr, Rock and Roll, The New York Times, Beatles, New York News
James Rotondi

In his hugely condescending review of the newly opened show, Rain: A Tribute to the Beatles on Broadway, ("Another Long and Winding Detour," Oct. 26, ...

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Capturing an Era In The Age of Music Photography

Ethan Russell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Rolling Stones, Beatles, The Who, American History, Music, Photography, Popular Culture, Ethan Russell, The Sixties, Arts News
Ethan Russell

Above: 1. The Beatles by Ethan Russell © Apple Records 2. The Who © Ethan Russell. Jerry Lee Lewis © Ethan Russell. "Please allow me to intro...

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Mad Men Season 4, Ep 4: The Rejected

Janet Turley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mad Men, Drew Peterson, The Sixties, Don Draper, Peggy Olsen, The 60s, Pete Campbell, Mad Men Season 4, Entertainment News
Janet Turley

Peggy steps out of her day job and into the beatnik nightlife, entering a world divorced from her pragmatism, where she doesn't have to fake virginity to win a man's attention.

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Con Games: A Primer on Patriotism for the Right

Michael Conniff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Religious Right, The Sixties, Patriotism, Fourth of July, Liberals, Feminism, Liberalism, Evangelicals, Denver News
Michael Conniff

Here's a shout-out to you true Americans on the birthday of our country, but it comes with a smack upside the head to your national nativist narrative.

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Slackers At Midlife In 'The Ask'

The New York Times | AO Scott | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Sixties, Baby Boomers, Milo, World War II, Generation X, Midlife Crisis, Greatest Generation, Guys, Slackers, The Ask, Gen X, Books News

"We were stuck between meanings. Or we were the last dribbles of something. The fall of the Soviet Union, this was, the death of analog. The beginning...

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Breathe in, breathe out

David Horton | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Religion, Co2, Gaia, Global Warming, Women's Rights, Racism, Earth, The Sixties, Green News
David Horton

People have suggested oxygen starvation before, but the new study brings our old friend CO2 into the equation. High CO2 causes the bright lights and other hallucinations in patients suffering heart attacks.

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Idealism, Conscience And The Spiritual Left

William Horden | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Inner Being, Political Left, Anti-Authoritarianism, The Sixties, Spiritual Left, Personal Transformation, Social Change, Conscience, Political Activism, Political Right, Religious Right, Idealism, Trancendentalists, Real-World Solutions, Religion, Spirituality, Healthy Living News
William Horden

Rooted deep in the grain of American culture, the Spirtual Left has long acted as the progressive conscience of the nation, championing from the beginning causes like abolition and women's rights.

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Greece and the Global Sixties

Tom Hayden | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 1960s, The Sixties, Vietnam, The Baader Meinhoff Complex, Sncc, Greece Riots, Greece, World News
Tom Hayden

It's important to write Greece into the history of the Sixties, and all the countries of the global South who have been neglected due to the media's preference to obsess over music, marijuana, long hair, lost bras, and the end of innocence.

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Share Your Sixties Memories

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Women's Rights, Environmental Protection Agency, 1960s, The Sixties, Baby Boomers, Gay Rights, Consumer Movement, Voting Rights Act, Great Recession, Environmental Movement, Woodstock, Women's Movement, Consumer Rights, Civil Rights, Politics News

The decade of Civil Rights, the women's movement, the environmental movement, and JFK turns 50 this year. That same decade was also the era of Woodsto...

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The Sixties Turn 50

Mark Green | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Women's Rights, Baby Boomers, The Sixties, Voting Rights Act, Civil Rights, Environmental Protection Agency, 1960s, Consumer Movement, Gay Rights, Women's Movement, Woodstock, Great Recession, Environmental Movement, Consumer Rights, Politics News
Mark Green

Having reprised the past, miserable decade -- bracketed by 9/11 and The Great Recession -- let us also take note of the 50th anniversary last week of the start of probably the most prophetic and influential decade in memory. Yes, The Sixties.

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