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Troublemakers review: There’s conceptual art in them thar hills

Edit The Irish Times 12 May 2016
Shots of Stonehenge suggest there is nothing new about what is alternately described as Land Art, Dirt Art or Earth Art. Artist Carl Andre concurs. “Earthworks are an older tradition than oil painting, going back 3,000 years” ... Yet James Crump’s compelling chronicle begins, as did so many other movements, in the countercultural currents of anti-Vietnam War sentiment ... And canyons. And deserts ... Our Kind of Traitor review ... ....

A Short History of Too-Short Skirts

Edit The Atlantic 12 May 2016
Aniya Wolf wanted to look like her best self at her prom, but herself nonetheless. And for her, that meant wearing a dark suit and bow tie. Wolf wore pants every day in the halls of Bishop McDevitt High School in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania ... It was literally a dress code. Girls could not wear pants to the event ... People largely adhered to these sartorial rules, in Przybyszewski’s telling, until the counterculture revolution of the 1960s....

Barbican Film: July / August 2016 highlights (Barbican Centre)

Edit Public Technologies 12 May 2016
(Source. Barbican Centre) Barbican Cinema, Barbican Centre. Jul/Aug 2016 highlights barbican.org.uk/film ... With a flourishing of interest in the charismatic high priest of 60s counterculture, the so-called 'acid Marxist' RD Laing, here's a rare chance to see this documentary feature filmed inside his alternative therapeutic community, and a designated a 'safe haven' for mental health patients, Kingsley Hall in London's Bromley-by-Bow ... £7....

How Elvis and Nixon Made Photographic History

Edit Voa News 11 May 2016
It is undeniably one of the most famous images of the 20th century. Elvis Presley, “the King of Rock 'n' Roll,” shaking the hand of President Richard Nixon in the Oval Office of the White House. Looking at the decked-out-in-gold rock star next to the conservative U.S. president makes us wonder ... president ... Johnson explains that in the ‘70s, the wildly popular Presley was no longer part of the counterculture he represented in the ‘50s ... ... ....

Celebrity birthdays for the week of May 15-21

Edit The Indiana Times 10 May 2016
May 15. Actress-singer Anna Maria Alberghetti is 80. Counterculture icon Wavy Gravy is 80. Singer Trini Lopez is 79. Singer Lenny Welch is 78. Actress-singer Lainie Kazan is 74. Country singer K.T. Oslin is 74. Musician Brian Eno is 68 ... ....

Barney Hoskyns salutes one-time home of rock 'n' roll

Edit Canada Dot Com 10 May 2016
To give it its full title, Small Town Talk. Bob Dylan, The Band, Van Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix & Friends in the Wild Years of Woodstock is a book that eloquently serves as both tribute and eulogy to what once was called the counterculture ... ....

Wavy Gravy on Turning 80: 'In 20 years, I’ll be 100'

Edit Rollingstone 10 May 2016
Wavy Gravy will forever be associated with Woodstock, but from the moment you start talking with the clown prince of the counterculture, the former Hugh Romney makes it clear he isn't a relic from the '60s ... "A sexy God weeps/Soft wet tears fall on St ... Acid Tests Turn 50 ... Given all this activity, it felt high time to catch up with Wavy, a one-man tour of American counterculture over the last five decades ... No ... No ... ....

Cult heroes: Danny Fields – the 60s and 70s scenester who made punk happen

Edit The Guardian 10 May 2016
The former Doors publicist and Warhol Factory member who got the Stooges a record deal and managed the Ramones was there during the most epochal moments of rock history. You can blame him for the Bay City Rollers, too ... American pop fans had an especially hard lot ... Related ... It helped, naturally, that he came of age when music was undergoing seismic changes, and lived in the city where much of the countercultural spadework was being done ... ....

'The Limousine Liberal'

Edit Alternet 10 May 2016
It is impossible to understand the perseverance and passion of right-wing populist politics in America without coming to grips with this metaphor. The following is an excerpt from the new book Limousine Liberal by Steve Fraser (Basic Books, 2016). ... She’s an odd choice in some ways ... She went off to Wellesley College and there encountered the civil rights movement, antiwar outrage, and the iconoclasm of the counterculture ... . ... “Money. Power....

The foul reign of the biological clock

Edit The Guardian 10 May 2016
It seems like the concept of the biological clock has been with us forever. In fact, the metaphor was invented in the late 1970s ... by Moira Weigel ... “The ancient Pleistocene call of the moon, of salt in the blood, and genetic encoding buried deep in the chromosomes back there beneath the layers of culture – and counterculture – are making successful businesswomen, professionals and even the mothers of grown children stop and reconsider.”....

Travel: San Francisco, the US’s counter-culture capital

Edit Scotsman 09 May 2016
Embrace your inner rebel with a trip to San Francisco, writes James Rampton. The words of the prophets are written on the wall at the famously anti-establishment City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco ... It is still the counterculture capital of the world ... On our first day, for example, we explore the area where the counterculture revolution began. Haight-Ashbury ... More than half a century on, its countercultural ethos remains infectious ... ....

Remarks by the President at Howard University Commencement Ceremony (President of the United States)

Edit Public Technologies 09 May 2016
(Source. President of the United States). Howard University. Washington, D.C. 11.47 A.M. EDT. THE PRESIDENT. Thank you! Hello, Howard! (Applause.) H-U!. AUDIENCE. You know!. THE PRESIDENT. H-U!. AUDIENCE. You know!. THE PRESIDENT. (Laughter.) Thank you so much, everybody. Please, please, have a seat. Oh, I feel important now. Got a degree from Howard ... (Laughter.). AUDIENCE MEMBER ... (Applause.) ... (Laughter.) Rap and hip hop were counterculture, underground....

Read President Obama’s Commencement Address to Howard University

Edit Time Magazine 09 May 2016
President Obama called on graduates of a historically black college in Washington, D.C., to pay it forward in a commencement address Saturday. Speaking at Howard University, Obama reflected on his status as the first African-American president, noting that the college’s mission was to “ensure those firsts were not the last.” ... OBAMA ... AUDIENCE. You know! OBAMA ... (Laughter.) Rap and hip hop were counterculture, underground ... ....
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