Both presidents were vilified by those out of power, fueling the rise of manic countercultures. Lee Siegel on what Glenn Beck's angry army has in common with hippies.

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The Danish government, which has basically ignored the existence of Christiania since 1971, has now ruled that the residents have no right to live on the former naval base. Residents have turned to the courts for redress.

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Barack Obama has been hailed as a transformational figure in large part for what he isn't: a baby boomer. Born in August 1961, Obama was a child during the upheavals of the 1960s.

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Chucking cobblestones is nowhere near as clever as writing Me and Bobby McGee. Busted flat in Baton Rouge, heading for the trains - riding the rail cars across the immensity of America has always represented freedom.

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Piers Moore Ede tells us why America's premier counter-culture event is far more than just a naked camping fest.

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The NYT reports: Alton Kelley, whose psychedelic concert posters for artists like the Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, and Big Brother and the Holding Company helped define the visual style of the 1960s counterculture, died on Sunday at his home in Petaluma, Calif. He was 67. ***

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The Iron Cage and the Future of Americans

In his article, The Iron Cage And Its Alternatives In Twentieth-Century American Thought, Jackson Lears traces the progression of American thought from the beginning of the twentieth-century to its end.

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Writer, film maker, musician and culture terrorist Joe Ambrose has a penchant for digging around the cultural margins and teasing out of the shadows relevant irreverance, countercultural phenomena, outside and (often) explosive art of pivotal significance.

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Reporting from China: Shanghai, China's Future, and Counterculture

"Bustling" would be a gross disservice to just how quickly Shanghai moves. Businessmen, barhoppers, street salesmen, tourists, children, parents, students. They move fast, in a city that is only accelerating.

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For lunch in her modest apartment, Madeline Nelson tossed a salad made with shaved carrots and lettuce she dug out of a Whole Foods dumpster. She flavored the dressing with miso powder she found in a trash bag on a curb in Chinatown.

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The British graffiti artist Banksy likes pizza, though his preference in toppings cannot be definitively ascertained. He has a gold tooth. He has a silver tooth. He has a silver earring. He's an anarchist environmentalist who travels by chauffeured S.U.V.

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Their hair, once a symbol of youthful rebellion, is mostly gray. Bodies that writhed with wild abandon as a guru invited them to "Tune in ... turn on ... drop out" now sport stiff knees and age spots.

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It's been 16 months since the ashes of manic journalist Hunter S Thompson were hurled through the Aspen sky. Shot forth from a giant fist-shaped cannon, to be exact, which is exactly how the Good Doctor, never boring-ordinary in life — nor on paper — so wished.

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Yoga is the Survivor of the culture wars: unbloodied, unmuddied, unbothered by the media's slings and arrows, its leotard still as pristine as its reputation.

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The cliche was that Robert Altman was a maverick, swimming upstream against Hollywood's usual way of doing business. And the filmmaker was happy to live up to that image, inasmuch as he cared at all about public perception, industry reputation -- anything other than the movies.

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Woodstock. The Beatles. Man on the moon. Vietnam. Martin Luther King Jr. John F Kennedy. Robert F Kennedy. This is the '60s and the music festival that capped it, Woodstock.

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Back in the day, when people were still asking me to explain "Mondo 2000," I used to tell them that we were doing this psychedelic counterculture magazine called "High Frontiers" in the mid-1980s and we were shocked — just shocked — when we were befriended by the Sili …

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On May 31, 1977, at the Greensboro Coliseum in North Carolina, I saw Led Zeppelin in concert—I'm pretty sure. The particulars of that night are hazy, seeing as how I had ingested hundreds of micrograms of paisley quintessence.

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A famed and well-loved literary figure strolls streets and alleys of North Beach in San Francisco. Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 87, has pale blue eyes accented by a fringe of white hair. His tall, slender form is held erect with gentle, patrician dignity.

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For thirty years, the word 'hippie' has evoked derision and bad jokes. Punk rockers cynically conflated hippies with coke-snorting record executives or mindless flower children.

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Leonard Schrader, who adapted the Argentine novel Kiss of the Spider Woman into an Academy Award-nominated film and co-wrote the critically praised Mishima, has died. He was 62.

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Ethnoscapes: Identities and Imagined Worlds

Áine's Perspective : The Infinite Player is Open to Change. Einstein said this about the mysterious:

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Even the beginning guitarist can easily learn to play the Eagles' song "Hotel California." The song structure is built upon seven simple chords, some of which have the same or nearly identical finger settings. The way in which these chords combine, though, is rather complex.

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In speed, scope and sheer surprise, the growth of Berners-Lee's baby has exceeded the dreams of even the most visionary thinkers of the years Before Web.

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