Composer David Amram, now 90, has worked with some of the jazz greats, including Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, Monk, Gillespie and Mingus but his connection with ...
Musician and writer John Kruth met with Allen Ginsberg two months before the great poet’s death. He was there ostensibly to talk about Rahsaan Roland Kirk while...
Poet, publisher, provocateur and people-connector, Charley Plymell is, like fellow Midwesterner Ed Sanders, a floater among contingents of kindred spirits, from...
Countercultural anthropologist and founding member of Blue Cheer, V. Vale has documented the 1970s San Francisco punk scene and explored the subcultures of indu...
John Allen Cassady, now 67, reflects on growing up with the king of the counterculture, the inspiration for Dean Moriarty in On the Road, the driver of Kesey’...
Jello Biafra, David Amram, Heather Dalton, Nancy Weil and many others converged on Denver to honor the city's self-proclaimed "unnatural son," Neal Cassady, the...
His father, Wallace Berman, was one of the best-known artists in America, featured on the cover of the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Tosh had ...
Kerouac, Ferlinghetti, Patchen, Kandel, Waldman, Nordine and Young could have been a Supergroup
In 1948, Allen Ginsberg had what he called an “auditory halluci...
The Ballad of the Skeletons and the
2016 Republican Debates
by Todd McGovern
Having had a week to recover from the first of many debates between the Republ...
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