Eccentric Satan is frank about wild years Oct 21, 2009
Later, he fell under the spell of Charles Bukowski and the Beat generation, and took to hanging out amid the flotsam of downtown LA. He was fascinated, he said, by ''the great American loneliness'', which stretched from coast to coast and was as elusive and mysterious as ground fog. Yeah, that all came from Bukowski and Kerouac,'' he recalls. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Monkey drumming suggests origin of music Oct 17, 2009
"What is common between such sounds is that they are produced by repeated movements of the limbs so as to produce a structured sound made up of a series of periodic repeats, or beats. Humans use very complicated beat patterns by drumming, often in conjunction with musical rhythms. It is well known that such percussive beat generation is ubiquitous across human cultures, even used by tribal cultures.". Click for related content. (MSNBC -- Environment)
Jack Kerouac's Good Blonde and Othe... Oct 8, 2009
Beat Generation Author's Collection of Essays & Articles ... Good Blonde and Others (1993) is a posthumously-published collection of writings containing a wide variety of stories, essays, magazine articles, poetry and even introductions the Beat Generation author wrote for others books ... As with other Kerouac collections like , Good Blonde and Others should not be considered a cohesive text, and while it may not be the best introduction to the writings of the Beat Generation author, it is a... (Suite101.com)
Tant: We lost a songbird with passing of Mary Travers Sep 26, 2009
Beatnik poets like Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti were breaking new ground in verse while Beat Generation novelist Jack Kerouac took his readers "On the Road" across America's emerging counterculture. Bohemian meccas like New York and San Francisco were fertile ground for such iconoclastic comedians as Lenny Bruce and Mort Sahl, who skewered the sham and hypocrisy of American whitebread culture. (Athens Banner-Herald)
Wellesley People: Sept. 24 Sep 25, 2009
One deals with the passing of the Beat Generation luminary Lucien Carr and another describes a chance meeting with novelist John Updike in an ophthalmologist office in Boston. Other columns deal with frogs, baseball, stress, teeth whitening, car repairs and Dixie Chicks. (Wellesley Townsman, MA)
The Original Beat Writers Sep 2, 2009
The Cultural Movement That Came to be known as the Beat Generation ... Kerouac coined the term Beat Generation in 1948 during a conversation with fellow novelist John Clellon Holmes ... Experimental Novelist and Godfather of the Beat Generation. (Suite101.com)
George Hamilton puts his life out in the open Aug 25, 2009
And all the sudden I'm seeing Marlon Brandos, and Monty Clifts, and then a whole generation of soft young men, the Beat Generation or whatever. I couldn't relate to them then. (CNN)
Woodstock: More of a curiosity than a benchmark in 2009? Aug 17, 2009
Oct. 25: Country Joe McDonald will be among 100-plus Bay Area musicians, beat generation poets, free-speech activists and green movement vendors celebrating Woodstock's 40th with a free West Fest concert in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park (). By Jerry Shriver, USA TODAY BETHEL, N.Y. Folk singer Tim Hardin stood before the gathering multitudes at Woodstock on Aug. 15, 1969, and asked in his opening song, "How can we hang on to a dream?". (USA Today -- Life)
Kerouac's unintended legacy? A legal limbo Aug 16, 2009
Publication of the book, along with Allen Ginsberg's release of his poem "Howl" at a Fillmore Street performance gallery, marked the beginning of the Beat generation and turned San Francisco into the Beat capital ... Brenda Knight, author of a book about women of the Beat generation, met Jan Kerouac in 1995. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Daily TV listings Aug 11, 2009
The Source: The Story of the Beats/Beat Generation 6 p.m. (OVAT). A chronicle of the Beat generation. (Boston Globe)
Generations groove to Hippiefest Aug 8, 2009
They are said to have grown out of the Beat Generation or "beatniks" of the 1950s. THE POLITICS: Labeled a counterculture, hippies rejected the political mainstream and had a strong distrust toward middle-class values and authority. (Daytona Beach News Journal)
Allen Ginsberg Life and Poetry Aug 4, 2009
American Poet of the Beat Generation and Famous for Poem Howl ... Ginsberg was a major writer of the Beat generation, New American poets, and postmodernism ... The Beat generation of writers is a movement which revolutionized American literature in the late 1950s and early 1960s. (Suite101.com)
Holiday magazine: A majestic trip to 1961 S.F. Aug 2, 2009
Within very few years, Tynan's prescience would be proved with the enshrinement of the Beat generation and the rise of the Free Speech Movement and the hippies. Author and historian Stephan Birmingham similarly traces the course of San Francisco's high society. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Opinion)
Fla. Judge Rules Will on Kerouac's Estate Is Fake Jul 29, 2009
-- A lengthy dispute over the estate of Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac has ended with a Florida judge ruling that his mother's will was fraudulent. Gabrielle Kerouac left all of her son's assets to his third wife, Stella Sampas Kerouac, when she died in 1973. (Newsmax)
Kerouac will ruling Jul 29, 2009
There are new questions about the estate of Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac after a Florida judge ruled that his mother s will was fraudulent. Gabrielle Kerouac left all of her son s assets to his third wife, Stella Sampas Kerouac, when she died in 1973. (Boston Globe)
'Freeing Tibet' Jul 20, 2009
And then the authors paint the implausible but historically precisely accurate picture of the CIA's protective role being passed on to Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and others of the counterculture Beat Generation as they discover Tibetan Buddhism, meet the Dalai Lama and start an international religious/cultural/celebrity-driven campaign to protect -- through publicity -- both the Dalai Lama and the entire struggle for freeing Tibet, which continues today through the efforts of celebrities such... (Human Events Online)
The sijo poetry form captures a Harvard professor’s imagination Jun 30, 2009
Jack Kerouac, who became an icon of the Beat Generation, wrote haiku. Now, McCann posits, Korea s time has come. (Boston Globe)
* Digging into the City by the Bay Jun 18, 2009
The independent bookseller was founded by poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti in 1953 and had a pivotal role in the growth of the Beat Generation, the members of which treated City Lights as their unofficial headquarters. The store was cast into the national spotlight in 1957 after Ferlinghetti was arrested on obscenity charges for publishing Allen Ginsbergs Howl (Ferlinghetti was later acquitted). (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
Bookies play their favorites at Cases annual book sale (42) May 25, 2009
Among the highlights of this year s sale are a nearly complete collection of Walt Kelly s early POGO cartoons; WW II photojournalism collections; a wealth of Beat Generation books; museum-quality art books; and avant-garde photography. But the biggest find is a copy of Israel, a Personal History, written by David Ben-Gurion, Israel s first prime minister. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
Mighty morphing Rangers May 18, 2009
Weekend Buzz: Rangers' rotation backing up potent offense - CBS News. Weekend Buzz: Rangers' rotation backing up potent offense. (CBS News)
The lure of the open road May 17, 2009
It's one of the foundation texts of the Beat Generation and there is no other book that gets so close to the heart of the American trinity of car, freedom and the open road. "On The Road" contains possibly the single best road sentence ever, a sad Tocquevillian utterance that gets to the heart of the essential restlessness of the American spirit. (Bismarck Tribune, ND)
Top Bay artists often underappreciated in life May 5, 2009
But not even he could foresee that his work would one day look like a bridge between the Beat generation and postmodernism. Conner's collages and prints look back to classics of Surrealism. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Announced Today 40th Anniversary of Woodstock Free Concert in Golden Gate Park San Francisco, October 25, 2009 Apr 16, 2009
The Woodstock 40th will begin with a blessing by the American Indigenous People and several Beat Generation poets. There will be many speakers from the Peace Movement, the Free Speech Movement and the Anti-War Movement along with many of the acts who originally performed at Woodstock (to be announced). (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
The Beats: A Graphic History (2009) Apr 12, 2009
The new graphic novel chronicling the Beat Generation is unique, but written with a strong slant that may upset many fans of the Beats ... The fact of the matter is, though, that far less than being short of definitive, any fan or follower of the Beat Generation will see that The Beats: A Graphic History is highly selective in what history it chooses to tell ... It is disappointing that more thought and research were not put into the women of the Beat Generation, since they did a lot to shape... (Suite101.com)
St. Louis on a budget - From the Arch to the zoo, there’s plenty to do without spending a bundle Apr 1, 2009
Clark is buried at Bellefontaine Cemetery, along with Beat Generation author William Burroughs; brewery magnate Adolphus Busch and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Sara Teasdale, among others. THE WEIRD. (Missoulian, MT)
Beer, Baseball and Botanicals for a Bargain in St.... Mar 26, 2009
Clark is buried at Bellefontaine Cemetery, along with Beat Generation author William Burroughs; brewery magnate Adolphus Busch and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Sara Teasdale, among others. THE WEIRD: The City Museum, housed in the 600,000 square-foot former International Shoe Company factory, is an eclectic mix of mosaics, sculpted caves to explore, slides to barrel down, even a massive outdoor playground where kids climb through tunnels, towers, suspended airplanes and a fire engine. (Fox News)
Seattle P-I began in citys early days Mar 17, 2009
Other notable P-I staffers include Beat Generation writer Darrell Bob Houston and word-playing novelist Tom Robbins. Another P-I alum who achieved acclaim was Frank Herbert, who in the 1960s wrote the classic science-fiction novel Dune. (Puget Sound Business Journal, WA)
Exploring our love of the bean from the grounds up Mar 13, 2009
Beat Generation icons Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac did their coffee and cigarette thing here, and Francis Ford Coppola wrote much of the screenplay for "The Godfather" on one of the round tables. Amid it all, founder Giovanni Giotta's family and friends still perform what they call "an Italian-flavored version of the Lawrence Welk show" about once a month on Saturdays (see Web site for a schedule). (San Francisco Chronicle)
Specter of addiction haunts Mar 11, 2009
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North Beach exemplifies S.F.'s dreams, history Mar 2, 2009
At the high noontide of the Beat Generation, men and women in black drifted up and down the streets and into the coffeehouses, drinking, smoking, reading poetry, arguing. Jimmie Schein grew up in Pennsylvania, saw no future in it, and at the age of 17 was playing harmonica in a band at the Saloon on Grant. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Save money, book ahead Feb 13, 2009
The 19-year-old University of Sydney student made a beeline for Shakespeare and Company, the iconic Left Bank bookstore that famously served as a base for beat generation writers such as Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs ... Byron stayed at the bookstore on and off for two weeks, sustained on a diet that would make those beat generation writers proud - namely, bread, cheese and wine. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Q&A With Meghan Corso Feb 10, 2009
MC: "I would invite Marc Jacobs, Gregory Corso and, of course Annie Leibovitz. Since it would be my dinner party, I would have to have a musical guest and it would be either Daft Punk or George Harrison. Corso is my third removed cousin one of the original members of the Beat Generation.". CalBears. (Calbears.com)
