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Howl-oween Pet Costume Party Full of Canine Celebrities

Wendy Diamond | Posted 10.29.2009 | Living


Wendy Diamond

Everyone from Scooby Doo to Princess Fiona to Elvis had a tail-wagging good time at Animal Fair's 9th Annual Howloween Costume Party, which benefited the Humane Society of New York.

HuffPost Reviews: Twilight's New Moon, Kerouac's Big Sur, Cohen's Isle Of Wight, and more including This Week's New Albums

Mike Ragogna | Posted 10.20.2009 | Entertainment


Mike Ragogna

Leading off with Death Cab For Cutie's infectious "Meet Me On The Equinox," New Moonmay be after your traditional teen market's pop dollars, but they're also attempting to tap into 20-something angst.

Wrapping-Up Woodstock: A Film Festival with Character

Stewart Nusbaumer | Posted 10.16.2009 | New York


Stewart Nusbaumer

There is more to this frenzy of film festival expansion than free booze and filmmakers' desperation for recognition and distribution and filmgoers craving films not dumbed down.

Kicking Off Woodstock Film Fest

Stewart Nusbaumer | Posted 10.01.2009 | New York


Stewart Nusbaumer

Today in that village in upstate New York, in Woodstock and several neighboring towns, the Woodstock Film Festival will have 150 films, features, documentaries and shorts with animation.

Launching Woodstock -- the Film Festival!

Stewart Nusbaumer | Posted 10.01.2009 | New York


Stewart Nusbaumer

The Woodstock Film Festival will soon be host to Lucy Liu, Woody Harrelson and a host of 150 films, shorts, animations and panels.

Mafia Sons Play For Reel Cash

Jerry Capeci | Posted 10.22.2009 | New York


Jerry Capeci

Mob stories continue to be such a hit with movie audiences that you can't blame Mafia sons -- whose dads did the crimes and the time -- from trying to cash in.

Obama Swiftboats Van Jones

Linda Milazzo | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics


Linda Milazzo

Van Jones' resignation isn't a testament to the frenetic dry-drunk tirades of a delusional Fox employee. It is due to the Obama administration's failure to rightfully and necessarily defend a valuable member of its team.

What a Long, Strange, Thoroughly Obnoxious Trip It's Been 2: Battle Lines

Chez Pazienza | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics


Chez Pazienza

The 60s kind of activism doesn't really work anymore -- mostly because the political power structure in this country doesn't fear the individual anymore. It fears numbers.

The Great Divide: 90 Miles North

Tina Traster | Posted 10.18.2009 | Living


Tina Traster

I saw myself gazing in the mirror, trying on Woodstock, and liking it.

I Used to Be a Fatalist! Perhaps I Have a Choice?

Lisa Guest | Posted 10.17.2009 | Living


Lisa Guest

I'm beginning to see the error in my ways and how a dark overview has robbed my life of much joy and possible adventure.

What a Long, Strange, Thoroughly Obnoxious Trip It's Been

Chez Pazienza | Posted 10.17.2009 | Style


Chez Pazienza

Never in the history of this country has there been a generation that's cast a longer shadow without really having done anything to earn it than the children of the 60s.

The Road to Woodstock

Jackie K. Cooper | Posted 09.29.2009 | Entertainment


Jackie K. Cooper

In her new film Taking Woodstock, Ang Lee does nothing to capture the joy and excitement leading up to the event.

Movie Review: Taking Woodstock

Marshall Fine | Posted 09.26.2009 | Entertainment


Marshall Fine

Ang Lee's Taking Woodstock is as unlikely and enjoyable a memento of that long-gone moment in the age of Aquarius as we're likely to find in this 40th anniversary year of the epochal rock festival.

Twitter is Sacred

Lee Schneider | Posted 09.24.2009 | Media


Lee Schneider

In his blog, Dinan makes the case that Twitter is propagating new ideas at light speed, helping to create a new form of intimacy.

An Interview With Janis Ian Plus This Week's New Albums

Mike Ragogna | Posted 09.23.2009 | Entertainment

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Mike Ragogna

Janis Ian is one of the Woodstock era's unsung musical heroes who, just two years prior to the Bethel Bash, shocked our nation with her controversial single "Society's Child."

Woodstock Wisdom

James S. Gordon | Posted 09.20.2009 | Living


James S. Gordon

I hadn't planned on going, but then another doctor as young as I was then called me up, desperate for help. That's how I found myself on a plane to Bethel, N.Y. with Joan Baez.

Tom DeLay and the Woodstock Nation

Michael Winship | Posted 09.20.2009 | Entertainment


Michael Winship

It's wistful to reflect on a Woodstock Nation that never really materialized, its moment of rhythm and harmony trumped by the heavy-footed dance stylings of men like Tom DeLay.

Dissent Commodified

Thomas Frank | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics


Thomas Frank

As we remember those poignant early days when Boomers took on the establishment, let us also remember that any establishment is lucky to have an opposition like this one.

Woodstock from Someone Who Wasn't There

Ken Levine | Posted 09.18.2009 | Entertainment


Ken Levine

This is the 40th anniversary of Woodstock. 500,000 long-haired stoned members of my generation attended this three-day open air music festival. I was not one of them. While half a million rain soaked, bathroom deprived hippies grooved on three days of love and understanding, I was in LA bombarded by news updates on the Charles Manson murders.

Wrong Turn at Paradise: Woodstock at 40

James Block | Posted 09.18.2009 | Entertainment


James Block

The lump in the collective throat on this anniversary is commentary on what we chose instead.

Woodstock: The Minister, God and Me

Janice Taylor | Posted 09.17.2009 | Living


Janice Taylor

A young hippie-dippy minister, God bless him, and his wife move to town in the same time-vortex as we do. And he is Hell-bent on getting to Woodstock.

Moonshot, Columbus, Now Woodstock a Myth Too? Oh No!

Tim Berry | Posted 09.17.2009 | Media


Tim Berry

I'm all grown up now, I get marketing, my company depends on it like the rest of small business, but jeez, marketing at Woodstock? That's Woodstock's legacy?

Meatless Monday: Woodstock Eating

Ellen Kanner | Posted 09.17.2009 | Green


Ellen Kanner

We are stardust We are golden We are billion year-old carbon And we've got to get ourselves back to the garden Woodstock, Joni Mitchell What sounded...

Sex, Drugs, Rock 'N Roll in Redneck Country

Ethel Grodzins Romm | Posted 09.15.2009 | New York


Ethel Grodzins Romm

He introduced his girlfriend as "my old lady." She was maybe 17. They were both stripped to the waist, lying in a zipped-open sleeping bag, like hundreds, thousands, of couples around them.

40 Years After Woodstock: An Extraordinarily Different America

Brent Green | Posted 09.15.2009 | Entertainment


Brent Green

Woodstock means little until you place it in larger context of a society unraveling around the newest generation of young adults, a dominant and dominating cohort of malcontents.