Big Sur's hazy forecast: Fall is the best time to visit
ABC News
Tucked into a steep redwood hollow and cobbled from local lumber by a Norwegian immigrant in the 1930s, Deetjen's Big Sur Inn has welcomed coastal wayfarers from Jack Kerouac to Robert Redford on its own, take-it-or-leave-it terms: No phone...
Hitchhiking is not what it used to be
Lake County Record Bee
It certainly rekindles memories of Jack Kerouac's "On the Road," a book that inspired that generation to thumb the way to self-discovery. In an overall sense, I've had fabulous experiences getting to know strangers from varied backgrounds a...
House defeats $700B financial markets bailout
Natchez Democrat
Surely, the republican president with republican control of the house and senate for the major part of the past 8 years could have taken whatever was wrong (all those things that Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Jack Kennedy, Lyndon Johnso...
School of Life offers British a road map to 'happiness'
International Herald Tribune
The other day, apropos of the Esalen Institute in California, and the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics in Colorado, he said the School of Life, by contrast, existed "in a postideological vacuum, in the wake of the thing that Marga...
Events listings are compiled by Duncan Scott Davidson.
San Francisco Guardian
Help celebrate its 60th with readings of works by former patrons Allen Ginsberg, Richard Brautigan, Michael McClure, and of course, Jack Kerouac. THURSDAY (2nd) MATCHA: Japanese Tattoo Asian Art Museum, 200 Larkin, SF; (415) 581-3500. 5:30-...
Sandeep Soman
Columbia Spectator
Jazz, poetry, and pure nostalgia came together at the newly renovated Havana Central at the West End Friday night for the third annual Howl celebration of storied Columbia Beat writers Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac.
America's top spots to achieve wellness
MSNBC
On the craggy cliffs of Big Sur, the weird and wonderful world of Esalen Institute was born, and, along with it, the human potential movement. Aldous Huxley, Joseph Campbell, Hunter S. Thompson, Timothy Leary and Jack Kerouac are just a few...
Review of the Solvang Jazz Festival
Santa Barbara Independent
These guys tore the roof off the place in true cutting-session fashion, trading fours like nobodyâÂÂs business and generally having a great time with it. Had the young Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady (the heroes of On the Road and huge fan...
Gillian Reagan
New York Observer
Hooray! Apple has lifted their gag on iPhone apps developers! We told you that the company's mysterious non-disclosure agreement was frustrating third-party developers of cool applications for the gadget, banning them from discussing the fi...
King of the YADS
Time
Gregory Corso (Fried Shoes) and Jack Kerouac (On the Road). And the best to be said for these three is that each might have done something worth reading if he had not been lured by the sirens of faucet composition and second-growth Dada. Th...
