Articles related to "Counterculture"

As the tumultuous, youth-driven Counterculture movement neared its height in 1970, American moviegoers flocked to see an old-fashioned romance called Love Story. Why?

"Know Your Mushrooms" is a cult fave in Canada, but Ron Mann's wistful, endearing documentary on mind altering flora just got a big international boost.

Tom Robbins, the masterfully witty author of numerous novels that are part of the counterculture canon has written a children's book. And it's a lot of fun.

Hey Good Lookin' is not for the faint of heart, it features foul language, racial stereotypes, sex, drugs, and violence - all set in a dark urban context.

Five Easy Pieces helped mark a sea change in the content, tone and direction of American movies in the transitional, counterculture years of the late 1960s and early 70s.

The birth of Red Power led to the creation of one of the most controversial Native American activist organizations--the American Indian Movement.

In 1969, a group of investors sponsored the Woodstock Festival and Concert. Woodstock was a music festival outside of Woodstock, NY, billed as "An Aquarian Exposition."

From Nazi office to nightclub, the Arthouse Tacheles building in Berlin's Mitte district has had a colourful past, reflecting the many changes in this once divided city.

Some of punks most influential bands with a bit of a new twist, these songs are perfect selections for bass players who are just starting out.

The Grateful Dead's reputation as a leading psychedelic rock band remains unchallenged. San Francisco's best-loved people's band gave us a huge legacy of great rock music

These letters span five years, from 1965 to 1970 -- the years leading up to Bukowski's fame -- and showcase him as the poem he claims he is.

Ralph Bakshi's animated epic tells the story of four generations of a musical family and how their struggles parallel American history in the 20th century.

The premiere psychedelic band of the 1960s, Jefferson Airplane persevered against changing musical trends and constantly shifting personnel.

In the 1960s Paul Krassner dropped acid with Tim Leary, conspired with Abbie Hoffman and thumbed his nose at J. Edgar Hoover ... and is still alive to tell about it.

How does war impact basic stylistic guidelines? How did WWII impact fashion design?

Told through the eyes of the working class, criminals, French artists, poets, street people and sex trader workers, this book of Paris history is intriguing.

One of the great cult films of the 1970s, Harold and Maude blends an outrageous conceit with a biting anti-establishment satire, tender sweetness and irreverent humor.

Dennis Hopper's first lead film role comes in this quirky, supernatural mermaid tale, one which expertly blurs the line between the mundane and the surreal.

Metal is one of the most popular genres of modern music - being split into so many specific subgenres as to astound the casual fan and hardcore metalhead alike!

Hemp seeds are one of the most nutritionally complete foods - rich in omega 3 and 6 essential fats, GLA, amino acids, antioxidants, minerals and more.

Some companies do action sports product placement. Others were there from the beginning, helping to define the culture & support the sports (and place their products!)

Critical darling Ang Lee returns to vintage America with the mellow tale of Elliot Tiber and his seemingly destined involvement in the original 1969 Woodstock Festival.

A few tunes about sailing and the sea. Not a top ten list, but some great standards among many favorites of sailors.

BRAVO! features classic Johnny Cash Christmas specials and an intimate Freddie Mercury documentary

Found poetry offers some of the most unusual and insightful source material for a relatively obscure tool in the poetic arsenal.

There were a number of aspects to the Beat vision, and religion and spirituality were a main part of it.

Marcus Yallow - aka W1n5t0n or M1k3y - becomes a teenage victim of his government's War on Terror after a terrorist attack on San Francisco in this fine YA novel from Tor

As a film setting Los Angeles has proven able to fulfill a variety of disparate tasks.

Few B-movies are as admired for their pacing and prescience as 1949's Gun Crazy, which equated guns with sex and directly inspired a classic American film 18 years later.

Five Leaves Left is Nick Drake's first album. He released three in total before his death in 1974.

Most people can be easily tempted into dismissing films about demons and the anti-Christ as mindless horror films even though some have something to say.

The 'Summer of Love' refers to a few months in 1967, focused on San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district, when new styles of music, art, and literature changed the world.

By the mid-70s, the devil had gone political and suburban, depicted through a cynical post-Watergate prism.

As a figure who helped bring about the Super Bowl, the AFL-NFL merger, and today's football culture, Lamar Hunt was one of a kind.

The release of WKRP in Cincinnati on DVD will take viewers back to a time when radio played a more pivotal role in popular culture and the music industry.

Levon Helm of The Band returns to the spotlight with his new album Electric Dirt, an earthy blend of rock, country, blues and soul sure to please any Band fan.

Although public broadcasting was given federal funding and the official green light for freedom of expression in 1967, today its programmers fear cuts and censorship.

There is much fun to be had watching The Invaders on DVD (CBS/ Paramount) over forty years after it first aired on U.S television.

"We Built This City" hit the airwaves in 1985, signaling the second rebirth of '60s counterculture icons.

Wallace Wood drew a series of risqué cartoons starting in the late 1960s. From the cheesecake of Sally Forth to racy Disney-style fairy tales, all had humor and parody.

Robert Heinlein often criticized modern society. In The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, he uses a lunar revolt to implicate 20th century social structure.

After World War II, Americans began reproducing at an alarming rate, leaving 70-million teens for the 1960s. In his "A & P," John Updike looks at their significance.

Under a new name, remnants of Jefferson Airplane achieved greater commercial success in the 1970s.

Attorney Dr. Gonzo and Doctor of Journalism Raoul Duke set off across the Nevada desert in a drug fueled journalistic mission: to cover the Mint 400 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Tom Lehrer's wry musical and political humor is well documented. This former Harvard professor remains a reluctant but undeniable part of '50s and '60s music lore.