Two South Carolina men seek forgiveness for Racism

'The times they are a changing',  is more then a Bob Dylan Lyric in Rock Hill South Carolina. After four decades,  two men  who were caught up in the racist south  asked forgiveness of the...

Warning! Tofu May Harm Your Memory

Vegetarians beware. Those that eat lots of any kind of specific food might be in danger of too much or too little of one chemical or another. After all in the end that's all that food is - a combination of...

Mellow Yellow University

"Sixties pop star Donovan is working on a plan to open a university in Scotland which will concentrate on transcendental meditation.The 'Mellow Yellow' singer says guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi told him to build the...

Sixties legend heads for Halifax

Pony tailed P.J. Proby made some great rock and roll in the 60's. Now in his 69th year. Famous for his skin-tight trousers splitting and his backing band The Yardbirds, who would later become Led Zeppelin....

JIM MORRISON OF "THE DOORS" IS ALIVE AND WELL AND LIVING IN FLORIDA

by WILLIAM ROTHSTEIN Few artists personify their generation as iconically as does Jim Morrison of the 1960’s phenom band, THE DOORS. And with each passing year since untimely death in 1971 at the age of 27,...

More Nostalgia...Looking back at 1967 'Monterey Pop Festival'

This 60's Icon now has its Official Web Site. On this 40th anniversary of the 'Summer of Love' a Special Screening of the Movie with Michelle Phillips and Lou Adler takes place tonight at the IFC Center in New York.Rest of story...Serge the Concierge

'Sergeant Pepper' 40th Anniversary, tomorrow, June 1st

Is it only relevant to boomers like me or also to younger music fans? For those over 50 it also reminds them of the era when it came out and that time flies! WNYC Radio today and the BBC (Radio 2) on...

Sixties singer facing jail term

" Sixties singer facing jail term Wayne Fontana The singer was told off for his 'fancy dress' Sixties pop star Wayne Fontana has been remanded in custody after admitting setting fire to a debt collector's car. The...

Number of drug-addicted seniors to surge as boomers retire

"Mavis Becker was a little early to the psychedelic Sixties. In the mid-Fifties, at the tender age of 14, she started smoking pot. Within a decade, most of her friends were taking Timothy Leary's advice to turn on, tune in and toke up. Not much has changed since. Ms. Becker...

Cake for Peace, a piece of cake thanks to Studio Job

Add a new centerpiece to your collection with this 'Cake of Peace'. Make a statement in style!

Greening Toronto's Concrete Slabs

It's architects vs. global warming in Toronto.  Next obstacle is inspiring the political will:"Over a thousand of them were built in the sixties and seventies: monstrous twenty-five storey slab apartment...

Hunters and Collectors: Got big Money, Get Jimi, The Doors and Pink Floyd in ...

2000 posters no less of the psychedelic era, early English beat scene and the punk years assembled by Peter Golding...Wow!

Rochdale Deja Vu

Politicians demand compensation for tenants in grow-op high-rise This reminds me of the infamous Rochdale housing complex in Toronto. Home to hippies and pot. The origin of the counter culture in TO in the and seventies.

Soul of a City

"Today marks the anniversary of Katrina's destruction of the Blues City; New Orleans. In tribute to that great city I am listening to Eric Burdon's Soul of A Man,released in January of this year, it is an aural tribute to the blues of New Orleans where it was recorded."

Paul Goodman

"Before Theodore Rozak defined the counter culture as the social movement of the Sixties and identified it with the libertarian philosophy of self regulation, self development, there was Paul Goodman."

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