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‘The Man Will Burn’ Wonders Whether Burning Man Has Lost Its Roots

August 20, 2026 Robert Dean 0 Comments art festival, Baker Beach, Black Rock City, Burning Man, Burning Man Project, counterculture, documentary, festival culture, HBO, HBO Max, Jehane Noujaim, Kimbal Musk, Marian Goodell, Nevada, San Francisco, Television Review, The Man Will Burn, Tribeca Festival, Vikram Gandhi

The iconic desert festival grows up, can it survive a decade of mainstream wealth?

Happy 100th, Allen Ginsberg!

June 3, 2026June 3, 2026 Michael Washburn 0 Comments 1960s America, Allen Ginsberg, American literature, American poetry, Beat Generation, Beat poets, book criticism, Columbia University, counterculture, cultural history, Firing Line, Franz Kafka, Howl, Howl and Other Poems, individual freedom, Jack Kerouac, literary culture, literary history, LSD and creativity, Marilyn Monroe centennial, modern poetry, National Review, poetry books, poetry criticism, San Francisco Renaissance, The Essential Ginsberg, William Blake, William F Buckley Jr, William S. Burroughs, William Wordsworth

One of the best minds of his generation, not quite sidelined by madness

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Sponge

May 5, 2026May 13, 2026 Jim Allen 0 Comments 1960s music scene, Andy Warhol, ascap deems taylor award, big joe turner, brian cullman, british folk, classic rock, counterculture, cultural criticism, danny fields, doc pomus, dr john, edie sedgwick, folk music, Greenwich Village, holy modal rounders, how to prepare for the past, Jim Morrison, jimi zhivago, john martyn, Leonard Cohen, lester bangs, lilian roxon, literary memoirs, literary nonfiction, lucinda williams, mark knopfler, memoir review, music biography, music journalism, music memoir, music writers, new york music scene, nick drake, nico, Paul Bowles, peter stampfel, poetic prose, rock and roll history, rock criticism, Sam Shepard, sandy denny, tangier, ze books

‘How to Prepare for the Past’ reflects on lessons learned from rock stars and literary legends

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‘Power to the People’: John Lennon & Yoko Ono’s NYC Rent Party on the Big Screen

April 24, 2026April 27, 2026 Jim Allen 2 Comments 1970s music, Allen Ginsberg, anti war music, archival film, audience participation, avant-garde music, benefit concerts, Come Together song, concert documentary, concert films, counterculture, culture criticism, David Peel, Elephants Memory, experimental music, film criticism, Geraldo Rivera, Give Peace a Chance, glam rock, hippie era, Imagine song, Instant Karma song, John Lennon, live albums, live performance, Madison Square Garden, Melanie, Music Documentary, music performance review, New York City Music, One to One concert, Phil Spector, Plastic Ono Band, political music, post Beatles era, Power to the People, primal scream therapy, punk precursors, restored footage, Roberta Flack, rock history, Sean Lennon, Sha Na Na, Simon Hilton, Stevie Wonder, The Beatles, Vietnam War protest, Willowbrook State School, Yoko Ono, Yoko Ono art

Expanded footage of a historic benefit show is manna for Beatlemaniacs

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16 New Books To Read in November

November 1, 2026November 4, 2026 Art McPhail 0

From Gary Shteyngart’s pursuit of pleasure to Rachel Maddow’s reckoning with American justice, November brings literary ambition, political urgency and some gloriously strange fiction.

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Norm Was a Vibe

October 31, 2026November 4, 2026 Rob Kutner 1

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Paweł Pawlikowski Drives Us Through a Decimated ‘Fatherland’

October 24, 2026October 28, 2026 Stephen Garrett 0

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But ‘Who is Martin Mull?’

October 21, 2026October 26, 2026 Samuel Porteous 0

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