Woodstock Anniversary

Wrapping-Up Woodstock: A Film Festival with Character

Stewart Nusbaumer | Posted 05.25.2011

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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.

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Kicking Off Woodstock Film Fest

Stewart Nusbaumer | Posted 05.25.2011

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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.

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

Chez Pazienza | Posted 05.25.2011

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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.

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Twitter is Sacred

Lee Schneider | Posted 05.25.2011

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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.

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Are Boomers Really Unlucky, Moneywise?

Eric Schurenberg | Posted 05.25.2011

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Eric Schurenberg

More than you like to think, financial success is due to forces beyond your control, such as when in your life the financial cycles play out. All you can do is focus on what you can control.

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Woodstock Wisdom

James S. Gordon | Posted 11.17.2011

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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.

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Tom DeLay and the Woodstock Nation

Michael Winship | Posted 05.25.2011

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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.

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Woodstock from Someone Who Wasn't There

Ken Levine | Posted 05.25.2011

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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.

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Wrong Turn at Paradise: Woodstock at 40

James Block | Posted 05.25.2011

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James Block

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

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

Tim Berry | Posted 05.25.2011

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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?

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Sex, Drugs, Rock 'N Roll in Redneck Country

Ethel Grodzins Romm | Posted 05.25.2011

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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.

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On the 40th Anniversary of Woodstock

Paul Krassner | Posted 05.25.2011

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Paul Krassner

Four decades ago, along with 499,999 others on a countercultural pilgrimage, I headed to Woodstock. This was not merely a three-day outdoor concert. This was a Martian convention.

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Woodstock's Green Bands: Past and Present

Treehugger | Blythe Copeland | Posted 05.25.2011

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Woodstock may have been a one-of-a-kind concert, but the artists and bands that performed there didn't let their commitment to global, political, and ...

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Raw Vegan Woodstock Breakfast Menu

Angie Cordeiro | Posted 11.17.2011

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Angie Cordeiro

Ok, so I'm not a card-carying, raw vegan hippy, yet sometimes I wonder what life would have been like if for the last forty years I had been.

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Not in My Town: Remembering Woodstock

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jayne Lyn Stahl

As I look back, forty years later, the only thing I have less use for than petitions is regret, but I can say this: if I had it to do over again, I would have gone to that festival instead of sticking my nose up at it.

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Woodstock 40 Years Later: Legacy Still Present At Today's Music Festivals

AP | JAKE COYLE | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — Today's robust festival culture owes much to Woodstock – lessons from both its incredible success and its logistical nightmares...

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Don't Bum Me Out, Man, I'm Live-Blogging Woodstock

Jeff Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jeff Cohen

With today's technocopia, those who couldn't get to Woodstock would have followed the event song by song through Twitter, live blogs and video circulating across a million cell phones and computers.

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