Stuff your musical stockings
Chicago Sun-Times
If you’re not among them, let me offer a helpful synopsis: There was a lot of mud, countless naked and stoned hippies, a few great performances (the Who, Jimi Hendrix, Santana) and a whole lot of dreadful junk, including Richie Havens, Arlo...
Marijuana Sales Drive Northern California Economy
NPR News
Decades after back-to-the-land hippies first moved to rural Humboldt County in Northern California, it remains a mecca for marijuana. At the plaza in downtown Arcata, there are still wandering, tie-dyed souls playing guitar and bartering fo...
Previewing a Big Weekend for College Football
Bleacherreport.com
It's Week 14 of the college football season, and it seems that it was only yesterday that we were talking about "heatwaves ... The winner goes to the Rose Bowl? Check. Prediction: Quack! Quack! Duck beats Beaver, and Phil Knight's hippies a...
That Fuddy-Duddy Guy Really Put the Bomp Ba Bomp in His Variety Show
New York Times
Trying to siphon off old hippies’ money is one thing; trying to steal their decade out from under them ought to land you in the same cell as whoever designed those hideous garments the Mamas and the Papas are wearing.
The Slits, The Go-Going-Gone Girls, Sassy!!!
San Francisco Weekly
I also think we wanted to show a connection to the Earth without being hippies or into organized religion. So we thought, 'Let's go back to being tribal women.' We wanted to bring that feeling in both our style and sound." They did just tha...
The Willies
American Reporter
... in true Republican fashion, waving away his effort to read his poetry - as he'd been invited to do - and instead playing on his unthought Republicanism to manhandle the hated hippies. Kerouac didn't truly cooperate, even though he had l...
Jingle bell mocked
Maryland Community Newspapers Online
Accompanied on keyboard by Alison Shafer, actors don red shirts and take on various personas — from Richard Simmons to hippies to hobos — bringing a humorous look at many holiday songs. A few traditional pieces have been spared, being sung ...
Does “Planet 51” Really Exist?
US News and World Report
Throughout, local hippies march in protest to the military action: "We're upset! We really are!" Indeed, the world view on Planet 51—to say nothing of its cosmology—is safe, predictable and narrow. The universe is 500 miles long and contain...
Mark Vann Foundation Benefit Show turns 7
Boulder Clarion
Here’s these crazy hippies from Boulder playing this psychedelic Americana mishmash. It’s amazing what it all sparked. And it’s cool; they’re celebrating their 20-year anniversary this year. So I hope this event, at that level, gets ...
Christiania: Copenhagen's Embattled Hippie Commune
Seattle Post Intelligencer
A generation later, this "free city" still stands ' an ultra-human communal mishmash of idealists, hippies, potheads, non-materialists, and happy children (600 adults, 200 kids, 200 cats, 200 dogs, 17 horses, and a couple of parrots).
Interest stirred by commercial-grade composting
Philadelphia Inquirer
Once deemed the backyard bastion of latter-day hippies, food-waste composting has supersized into an industry. One concern is that, since the industry is still in its infancy, facilities are few and far between. Food waste sometimes has to ...
Exploring Christiania
Seattle Post Intelligencer
A few "luxury hippies" have oil heat, but most use wood or gas. The community has one mailing address. A phone chain provides a system of communal security because, as people there report, they've had bad experiences calling the police.
2000 hippies converge on West Coast
Stuff
About 2000 members of the worldwide transient "Rainbow Family" started arriving in Bruce Bay on the West Coast today for a six-week-long gathering. The first Rainbow gathering – described on its website as an "organic outgrowth" of the hipp...
Suicide Prevention Rant
DAILY KOS
Let us old hippies have our fun. We will be dead in 30 or 40 years. Then you will not need to tolerate us any longer. You may say I am putting up a straw man, the straw man being anyone who would rather we kill ourselves than find a girlfri...
