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WATCH: John Lithgow On The 'Least Cool' Moment Of His Life

Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, The Columnist, Video, Tony Awards 2012, Woodstock, John Lithgow, Jimmy Fallon, Fifty News

John Lithgow, who just received his sixth Tony award nomination for his role in "The Columnist" tells Jimmy Fallon why growing up in the sixties reall...

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The Email That Changed My Life In My 40s

Georgia Middleman | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: The Beatles, Nashville, Kenny Loggins, Ringo Starr, Carole King, Abbey Road, Gary Burr, Georgia Middleman, Woodstock, Blue Sky Riders, Rock and Roll, Pure Prairie League, Reinvention, Fifty News
Georgia Middleman

What do you do when your dreams don't work out? You redefine those dreams. You reframe them. Make new ones. Some people say the best years are in the past. I would strongly beg to differ.

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Accidental Rock Star: How A Broken Leg Led Me To A Career In Rock And Roll

Gary Burr | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: The Beatles, Kenny Loggins, Gary Burr, Nashville, Georgia Middleman, Woodstock, Ringo Starr, Abbey Road, Carole King, Blue Sky Riders, Rock and Roll, Pure Prairie League, Fifty News
Gary Burr

In 1969 I went to Woodstock. The girls all around me were going crazy for the musicians on stage. If any of those players had come down off the stage and walked through the crowd they would have had girls clinging to them like dryer sheets on a pair of freshly dried socks. I wanted that.

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The Best of Rock 'n' Roll on Film

John Farr | Posted 05.12.2012

Read More: Roy Orbison, Rock Documentaries, Neil Young, Concert Films, Rock, Otis Redding, The Beatles, Woodstock, The Rolling Stones, Concerts, Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley, The Talking Heads, Monterey Pop Festival, Talking Heads, The Band, Rock and Roll, Stop Making Sense, Best Concert Movies, Entertainment News
John Farr

For social gatherings at home built around screening movies, outstanding rock documentaries and concert films are virtually guaranteed crowd pleasers, particularly if your home theater set-up includes a quality sound system.

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PHOTOS: A Rock-N-Roll Apocalypse

Posted 01.10.2012

Read More: Psychedelic Art, Daniel Richter, Regen Projects, Apocalyptic, Los Angeles Art, Woodstock, Contemporary Painting, Slidepollajax, Cormac McCarthy, Apocalypse Art, Arts News

It's 2012, and the apocalypse is on everyone's mind. But Daniel Richter's apocalyptic visions, like old-Western cinemascapes mixed with psychedelic 60...

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Sexagenarians, Drugs & Rock 'n' Roll: Post 50s Transform Retirement Communities

Orange Coast | Shawn Hubler | Posted 03.06.2012

Read More: Retirement Communities, Flower Children, Aging Hippies, Hippies, Retirement, Laguna Woods Village, Woodstock, Fifty News

Baby boomers are transforming Laguna Woods and other senior communities. Call them the Woodstuck Generation....

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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

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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So You Think You're A Baby Boomer? Think Again

Debra Ollivier | Posted 02.14.2012

Read More: Gen-Xers, Generation Jones, Gen Jones, Vietnam, Woodstock, John Kennedy, Optimism, Jonathan-Pontell, Obama, Baby Boomers, Civil Rights, Election, Fifty News
Debra Ollivier

If you were born between 1954 and 1965, you're not a Boomer. You're a Gen Joneser. You might be part of an engaged minority that's aware of (and very beholden to) this generational distinction. But more likely than not you're a Gen Joneser and don't know it. And that's partly because the very term Generation Jones didn't exist until relatively recently, when social commentator/historian Jonathan Pontell put it on the map.

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Jason Linkins

Here Are Some Thoughts I Had For America!: This Week In Pundit Pontifications

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.18.2011

Read More: Eat the Press, Penn State, Super Committee, Elevation Partners, Satire, Bob Costas, Jerry Sandusky Scandal, Media Criticism, Jerry Sandusky, Jerry Sandusky Penn State, Woodstock, Balloon Animals, Punditry, Barack Obama, Media News

["Here Are Some Thoughts I Had For America!" is a column that grinds up only the very finest American punditry and pontificating of the past week thro...

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Are You Trying Too Hard to Make Your Kids Think You're Cool?

John Blumenthal | Posted 01.09.2012

Read More: Hip Hop, Bunions, Paul McCartney, Led Zeppelin, Aarp, Woodstock, Flip Flops, Lady GaGa, Snoop Dogg, Being Cool, Mosh Pit, Rap Music, Awesome, Great Wall of China, Parents News
John Blumenthal

If you're a parent and you're over 50, your kids will not be duped into thinking you're cool if you imitate their clothing style, adopt their slang and embrace their culture.

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Memo to Occupy Protesters: Don't Make The Mistakes We Made in the 60s

Joan E. Dowlin | Posted 12.28.2011

Read More: Occupy Oakland, Lsd, Dr. Martin Luther King, Timothy Leary, Peace Movement, Military Industrial Complex, Occupy Philadelphia, Woodstock, Vietnam War, 9/11, Lbj, Occupy Wall Street, Defense Spending, Politics News
Joan E. Dowlin

Somehow the hippie movement lost its unity and credibility when it became about flower children making love and tripping out instead of what we can do together to end war and create social justice.

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Lessons From a '60s Protester

Ann Brenoff | Posted 12.11.2011

Read More: Woodstock, #Occupywallstreet, Occupy Wall Street Protesters, Protesters, Flower Power, Protest, Occupy Wall Street, Fifty News
Ann Brenoff

Speaking as a flower child of the '60s -- a proud member of the generation that danced at Woodstock and elevated protest marches to an art form -- I'd like to offer some advice to the Occupy Wall Streeters.

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Dying Large

Wendy Dennis | Posted 12.02.2011

Read More: Eulogies, Funerals, Shiva, Big Chill, Woodstock, Mourner's Kaddish, Ken Kesey, Jewish Funerals, Grateful Dead, Dylan, George Harrison, Fifty News
Wendy Dennis

We of the Woodstock generation have long been interested in pushing the limits of self-expression, and our desire to noisily overturn convention is unlikely to stop just because we're facing the big chill.

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Question Authority: The Boomers Are Coming and They Won't Play Dead

Bernard Starr | Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: Entitlements, Baby Boomers, Social Security, Ronald Reagan, Retirement, Pensions, Jobs, Dan Rostenkowski, Recession, Newsweek, Senior Citizens, Unemployment, Ageism, Woodstock, Vietnam, Means-Testing, Medicare, End of Life Care, Family Values, Dr. Spock, Sexual Revolution, Fifty News
Bernard Starr

Politicians beware -- the boomers are coming. Like drill sergeants you may bark your marching orders and expect unchallenged compliance. But this army will march to its own drum beat.

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Body Found On Metra Tracks Delays Service

Posted 11.13.2011

Read More: Train Delays, Metra, Union Pacific Northwest, Body, Metra Delays, Woodstock, Body Found, Death, Chicago News

Updated story Metra service was delayed following the discovery of a man's body on the railroad tracks near northwest suburban Woodstock early Tues...

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Culinary Woodstock At MAD Foodcamp

Kalle Bergman | Posted 10.30.2011

Read More: Festivals, Redzepi, Recipes, Mad, Food, Noma, Woodstock, Hippies, Camp, MAD Foodcamp, MAD Food Camp, Food News
Kalle Bergman

This past weekend saw the first annual MAD Foodcamp staged in the Danish capital of Copenhagen. A nerdy Woodstockish foodie festival and conference th...

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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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Surfing Sin City With Ashley Bickerton

Kisa Lala | Posted 09.10.2011

Read More: Other Criteria, Kisa Lala, New York, Indonesia, Nocturnes, Burning Man, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Lehmann Maupin, Woodstock, Bobby Fisher, Ashley Bickerton, Bali, Macao, Raffles, Humor, Porn, Neon, Photoshop, Damien Hirst, Nsfw, Arts News
Kisa Lala

Ashley Bickerton photographed at his studio in Bali by Bobby Fisher, 2011 Ashley Bickerton has darkened his timbre after carousing the neon-lit nigh...

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Never Has So Much Damage Been Done By So Few

Sister Mary Ann Walsh | Posted 08.02.2011

Read More: Sexual Abuse by Priests, John Jay, Woodstock, Catholic Church, Religion News
Sister Mary Ann Walsh

Sexual abuse of a child is an intolerable aberration for which there is no excuse. For those who somehow thought it was acceptable, education and prison time proved the answer.

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Allison Moorer HuffPo Interview: Awaiting John Henry Earle

Michael Bialas | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: No Depression, Crows, Levon Helm, Steve Earle, Cd, Lilith Fair, Greenwich Village, Bob Dylan, Justin Townes Earle, Country, Shelby Lynne, Emmylou Harris, R.S. Field, Woodstock, Album, Allison Moorer, Buddy Miller, Lucinda Williams, Entertainment News
Michael Bialas

Singer-songwriter Allison Moorer talks about her new album,Crows, the impending birth of her first child and the state of country music.

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Chatting and Chuckling With Wavy Gravy

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ken Kesey, Jerry Garcia, Ram Dass, Grateful Dead, Wavy Gravy, Bob Dylan, Ben & Jerry, Allen Ginsberg, Marshall Fine Interview, Woodstock, Patrick Henry, Saint Misbehavin': The Wavy Gravy Movie, Merry Pranksters, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

Wavy Gravy, bowed but unbroken, walks into a deli-café in New York's SoHo, holding a fish on a leash. He's making the rounds in Manhattan, doing interviews to publicize a documentary -- about his life.

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HuffPost Review: Saint Misbehavin': The Wavy Gravy Movie

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bonnie Raitt, Hugh Romney, Ken Kesey, Wavy Gravy, Greenwich Village, Bob Dylan, Marshall Fine Movie Review, Movies, Movie Reviews, Marshall Fine, Camp Winnarainbow, Hippie Commune, Woodstock, Hog Farm, Jackson Browne, Saint Misbehavin': The Wavy Gravy Movie, Merry Pranksters, Lenny Bruce, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

As characters go, it's hard to find anyone who has had both the Zelig-like ubiquity and, at the same time, the high profile of Hugh Romney, aka Wavy G...

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A Sad Anniversary: John Lennon's Assassination

Margie Goldsmith | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Alan Ginsberg, Canadian Rhadha Krishna Temple, Central Park, Canada, Paris, Tommy Smothers, Calvert Vaux, Bed-in 1969, Woodstock, Charles DeGaulle Resigning, Give Peace a Chance, The International Herald Tribune, Candlelit Vigil, Yoko Ono, Marihuana, March on Washington, Bob Dylan, Norman Mailer, Strawberry Fields, Petula Clark, Dick Gregory, Neil Armstrong, Timothy Leary, Fairmont the Queen Elizabeth Hotel. Montreal, Mont Royal Park, John Lennon, Frederick Law Olmstead, Biafra, Charles Manson, Chappaquiddick, Imagine, Paul MacCarthy, Marijuana, Travel News
Margie Goldsmith

I was recently in Montreal at Fairmont the Queen Elizabeth Hotel, where John and Yoko bedded down.

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Along for the Ride: Upstate New York

Andrea R. Vaucher | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Storm King, Robert Smithson, Jean-Georges, Mark Di Suvero, Calder, John Chamberlain, Beacon, The Arbor, High Falls, The Mark, Bed and Breakfast, Andy Warhol, Jean-Georges Vongerichten, Trips From NYC, Richard Serra, Woodstock, Robert Irwin, Upstate New York, Slidepollajax, Dia, Weekend Travel, Donald Judd, Travel News
Andrea R. Vaucher

This year, I headed upstate New York to see the Dia:Beacon and Storm King. I hung out with old friends, ate amazing food and saw the big art shows that traditionally open during this season.

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Levon Helm and Bruce Springsteen in Film

Stewart Nusbaumer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Woodstock, New Jersey, Darkness on the Edge of Town, The Band, Bruce Springsteen, Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, Ain't in It for My Health: A Film About Levon Helm, The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town, Levon Helm, Entertainment News
Stewart Nusbaumer

In rootless America, both Levon Helm and Bruce Springsteen found self-knowledge and personal strength after embracing very different communities -- Woodstock and small town New Jersey.

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