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The Beat Generation, Bob McFadden and Dor (1960) ... From the lost generation to the beat generation was not too big a step: a term coined by the junkie hustler Herbert Huncke, 'I'm beat' meant 'beaten ... The beat generation became national news after Jack Kerouac's On the Road (1957). (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
An insider's look at San Francisco Jun 17, 2007
Mario's Bohemian Cigar Store Cafe: Frothy cappuccino and legendary focaccia sandwiches served in a wedge of a cafe in North Beach, the Italian neighborhood that was home to the 1950s Beat Generation. Inexpensive. (Chicago Tribune)
The long and winding 'Road' Jun 15, 2007
Rejected at first, an edited version of "On the Road" came out in 1957, a seminal work of the Beat generation. Kerouac became famous -- and tortured, unable to live up to the spirited ideals embodied in his book. (Boston Globe -- Living)
Room for enlightenment Jun 10, 2007
The copy doesn't mention that the small room with a single window just off the kitchen was the birthplace of Jack Kerouac, whose 1957 novel, "On The Road," defined what came to be known as "the Beat generation.". The ad makes no allusion to the fact that Lowell is celebrating its native son this year on the 50th anniversary of the publication of "On The Road," the tale of an alcohol-fueled, coast-to-coast odyssey down the highways and back roads of America in search of "enlightenment," or maybe... (Boston Globe)
Thursday Back in time 05-31-2007 Jun 1, 2007
That was the lead of a story about the beat generation and police clashing in a New York park. The Plainview Board of Education voted to limit instruction in drivers education during the summer school of 1967 to students who will have attained their 15th birthday on or before July 15. (Plainview Daily Herald, TX)
WI-FI ON THE WESTSIDE:Connecting While On The Go At Your Hotspot’ Office By Jan Marlyn Reesman May 27, 2007
And in San Francisco, writers and poets of the Beat Generation, such as Jack Kerouac and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, wrote in the cafes of North Beach. Paying for office space and Internet access by buying coffee and muffins not bad. (Brentwood Media Group, CA)
Technology bringing poetry back to the forefront of literature May 27, 2007
And after decades of derision, it's making an impressive comeback. From classic sonnets to bawdy limericks, poetry has always had a place in literary society and popular culture. (Conroe Courier, TX)
SUMMER OF LOVE 40 YEARS LATER Goodbye innocence, hello hippies! May 22, 2007
SUMMER OF LOVE 40 YEARS LATER / Goodbye innocence, hello hippies. The party starts as rock 'n' roll ethos, LSD inspire beatniks and beckon an influx of free spirits to San Francisco. (San Francisco Chronicle)
A FUNK QUEEN STEPS OUT OF THE SHADOWS May 19, 2007
" Born Betty Mabry in Durham, N.C., Davis was the first child of an Army serviceman and a homemaker. In a rare phone interview from her home outside Pittsburgh -- she hasn't done face-to-face interviews in decades -- she says that she was shaped indelibly by her grandmother's and mother's record collections, which featured bluesmen like Muddy Waters, B.B. King and John Lee Hooker. "No jazz," she says. She invented her own songs, humming out parts to different instruments as if she were already... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Beavers to immortalize a Bob L. Head May 18, 2007
The Lowell Spinners once offered fans a bobblehead of Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac, a Lowell native. Fan voting for the best Bob L. Head opened Wednesday on the Beavers' Web site, www. (KGW Northwest NewsChannel 8, OR -- Sports)
Lost horizons May 5, 2007
He devoured the rebels of the Beat generation, and began to write at 15. "Writing is incredibly important to me as a way of handling the world, understanding how it works.". (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Post-'80 generation active Apr 29, 2007
BEIJING, April 29 -- "Some people criticize young people born in the 1980s as a beat generation, but I don't think so. Many people think that people of this generation only take pop stars, like Andy Lao or Jay Chow as their idols. Yet a recent survey shows that many college students born in the 1980s are heavily influenced by late Premier Zhou Enlai and nearly 60% of students regard "serving the public" as their highest personal pursuit.". The statement was made by Wang Minzhong, deputy Party... (Xinhuanet, China)
The Beats' 'Road' stops in Lowell Apr 26, 2007
The original draft of "On the Road," that bible of the Beat Generation, will be displayed in Lowell this summer. Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay, who bought the manuscript a few years back for $2. (Boston Globe)
Poetry well-recieved Apr 17, 2007
"When times are really dark, like these, poetry surfaces," Young said, pointing to Dylan Thomas, Langston Hughes and the beat generation poets who came out of the 1950s, along music, drama, painting and dance. "These are the true treasures of any society. We're not remembered for our armies and navies.". (Daily Triplicate)
Beat generation tools and words inspire teacher Apr 15, 2007
Professor Debra Larson, 53, is teaching Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac on the 50th anniversary of the publication of his classic book "On The Road." ... "According to the Wikipedia Web site, the novel of thinly-disguised reality, is considered a defining work of the postwar Beat Generation.It was inspired by jazz, poetry and drugs, and Kerouac hammered it out in a blazing three weeks at the Manhattan apartment of his second wife, Joan Haverty, "on one long scroll of teletype paper, with no... (The Trentonian, NJ)
The sacking of Don Imus: The rise (and fall) of the shock jock Apr 14, 2007
His nationally syndicated radio show The Savage Nation reaches more than 8 million listeners in the US. Born into a Bronx-based Russian-Jewish family, Savage wasn't always a raging conservative, and was once friends with Beat generation icons such as Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Nowadays he is less fond of them. (Independent)
Click for Full Story Apr 5, 2007
Ten years ago: Allen Ginsberg, the counterculture guru who'd shattered conventions as poet laureate of the Beat Generation, died in New York City at age 70. Five years ago: US mediator Anthony Zinni met with Yasser Arafat at the Palestinian leader's besieged West Bank headquarters on the bloodiest day of fighting since the beginning of Israel's week-old military offensive. (KWTX.com, TX)
Rewind: Major-Studio Flicks That Belong In The Grind House Apr 3, 2007
"The Beat Generation" (1959) MGM released this noirish cops vs. rapist tale set amid the seedy beatnik culture of the late '50s, but it's about as hip (or hep) as your drunk uncle doing karaoke to Billy Joel. Despite the presence of the va-va-voomy Mamie Van Doren, a poetry-spouting Vampira and Louis Armstrong (who, while undeniably cool, was never really a part of the bop scene), the movie can't hide its distaste for "these kids today" and is remarkably bleak. (VHI.com -- Music News)
- Why Karen Dalton is the best singer you've never heard of Mar 23, 2007
"Dalton's unhappiness was partly personal - the failure of her marriage and her later estrangement from her children hurt her considerably, according to Lacy. But it was also part of a wider cultural despondency. "She was of the old beat generation that felt you had to be burning the candle both ends and dying of hunger to call yourself an artist," says Lacy. "I've always called them canaries in the coalmine, because they were in some ways hypersensitive to what was going on in the world. They... (Guardian Unlimited)
Where neo-nomads' ideas percolate Mar 11, 2007 Equally black and white Mar 1, 2007 Big (Pull)man on campus: AU gets inside look at movie star's career, life Feb 25, 2007 That which makes us clever, make us mad Feb 10, 2007 On the road, Jack Kerouac had Lowell on his mind Jan 31, 2007 Biography paints Ginsberg more as social catalyst than poet Jan 22, 2007 ... with flowers in your gray hair Jan 15, 2007 Cleaning up act by bathing more Jan 9, 2007 'On the Road' manuscript on display at Denver Public Library Jan 8, 2007 'On the Road' Celebrates 50 Years in 2007 Jan 7, 2007 Businessman and broker. But at heart, a painter. Jan 5, 2007 'Howl' sparked passion, still does Jan 4, 2007 Sienna Miller, sister start own fashion line Jan 2, 2007
" Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote some of their best work in Parisian cafes. And in San Francisco, writers and poets of the Beat generation, such as Jack Kerouac and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, wrote in the cafes of North Beach. Caffe Trieste was among the most popular North Beach hangouts. "To have a cappuccino, you come to North Beach, to Caffe Trieste," says Giovanni "Papa Gianni" Giotta, the founder. Now Caffe Trieste has joined the ranks of Wi-Fi cafes. It would figure that the... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Technology)
Kerouac's last ADVENTURE in 'Big Sur' is inadvertently sad Mar 8, 2007
Kerouac inspired people to hitchhike and become the "Beat Generation" with his autobiographical novel "On the Road." Continuing what began in "On the Road" was Kerouac's last novel, "Big Sur.". "Big Sur" deals with Kerouac's alter ego, Jack Dulouz, and the friends he has accumulated throughout his adventures, who are chronicled in previous books. (Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star, VA)
Different and fun also would describe Ellen Bayne's "A Cat Named Eekwahnox," a black-and-white mixed-media creation that's complete with whiskers and what appear to be Beat Generation sunglasses. Bayne often depicts cats: "It's fun. ... People relate to it so much." She found the show's theme broad enough that she entered a second mixed-media piece called "Cycles" that used strictly recycled materials. (Fresno Bee -- Lifestyle)
One of Pullman's successes in theater was when he played an architect in he Goat, written by Beat generation playwright Edward Albee. t's the story of a man with a secret that he is in love with a goat, and it's a tragedy, he said. (Hornell Evening Tribune, NY)
One of the most devastating types of mental illness could be a by-product of the evolution of human beings uniquely sophisticated intelligence, a new genetic study has suggested. Scientists have discovered that a common version of a particular gene appears both to enhance a key thinking circuit in the brain, and to be linked to a raised risk of schizophrenia. (Times Online)
Nearly 40 years after his death, Kerouac -- a Beat Generation icon who wrote more than 20 works of prose and poetry -- is omnipresent in his hometown. Landmarks from the author's life still exist: his birthplace at 9 Lupine Road in the city's Centralville section; Pollard Memorial Library (formerly Lowell Public Library), where he combed the shelves; the Lowell Sun, where he was briefly a sports reporter; Nicky's Bar at 112 Gorham St. (now a restaurant), one of his frequent haunts; and his grave... (Boston Globe)
"The entire Beat Generation phenomenon could be seen as a group of writers who had little in common stylistically, but who were united by their friendship with Allen Ginsberg," writes Morgan, and he repeatedly reminds us that Ginsberg acted as literary agent for his friends, worried about how Kerouac's works would be published, and lent money to and cooked meals for acquaintances. This focus leads Morgan to miss not only Ginsberg's poetry, but also his charm. (Boston Globe)
It was a gathering of the tribes, the passing of the baton from the Beat Generation to the hippies. It was the winter before the Summer of Love. (San Francisco Chronicle)
There was the Beat Generation of the 1950s, the hippie movement of the '60s, disco in the '70s and grunge in the '90s. Now, with at least three of those trends, hygiene was not a priority for anyone, male or female. (Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star, VA)
"When you see the scroll, you can imagine you're in the room with Jack Kerouac all those years ago, when he sat down and wrote this whole thing in three weeks," said Amram, who composed music for the film "Pull My Daisy," which was based on Kerouac's play, "The Beat Generation." ... "I think one of the great things about the tour is that it will take Kerouac out of the beat generation forever," said Amram. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Kerouac was a charter member of the Beat Generation and his novel, On the Road, is widely regarded as its bible ... -- Manuscript is typed single-spaced and entirely without paragraphs; includes occasional cross-outs, scattered but fairly numerous penciled deletions and word changes, in some cases substituting fictional names for the real names of himself and his companions and friends (Kerouac, Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs) -- Has been described as the defining novel of... (Primezone Releases)
He had the good fortune to grow up during the 1950s during the flowering of the Beat Generation, when jazz clubs flourished in the city. As a young man, he remembers a period of time when he and his friends would go to Vesuvio's every night to drink wine and talk into the wee hours. (San Francisco Chronicle)
There, a brother and sister recount a trip to a Ginsberg reading, an Alaska poet posts an homage to "Howl" and Cheezem describes his first encounter with the beat of the poem that helped launch the Beat generation ... Allen Ginsberg was born in 1926 in Newark, N.J. He received a bachelor's degree from Columbia University, where he met many other leading lights of the "Beat Generation." He was openly gay when gays lived primarily in the closet. (Anchorage Daily News)
"We wanted to create that London world that feels inaccessible," Miller told Vogue, explaining her inspirations, which range from the poetry of the Beat generation, to Patti Smith, to the dark and brooding London of Dickens. The hangtags will be decorated with illustrations by David Cooper of Sienna Miller in looks from the line, while love poems will be tucked into jean pockets, the report said. (China Daily)
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