Counterculture

Filed under: Arts and Culture, Learning, Stories, South America, Colombia, Video Living in the sewers isn't just for teenage mutant ninja turtles. In Colombia, there's a culture of sewer-dwellers. There's even a counterculture to this counterculture: people who are known as the "death squads" who routinely pour gasoline into the sewers and fire rounds in an effort to scare the sewer-dwellers off, or at least torment them. On top of this...  

Mitt Romney makes the required pilgrimage Saturday to the late Rev. Jerry Falwell's Liberty University, where "Hair and clothing styles related to a counterculture (as determined by the Student Affairs Deans' Review Committee) are not acceptable."...  

Ebo Taylor could be seen as the contrast to Fela Kuti, the father of Afrobeat Taylor, 76, could be considered as the luminous and spiritual contrast to Nigeria's Fela Kuti, the rebellious father of the Afrobeat revolution with whom he studied ...  

BERKELEY -- Counterculture icon Wavy Gravy will host a benefit concert on Tuesday to raise money for Camp Winnarainbow, a circus and performing arts camp for low-income children. The benefit is at 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Freight & Salvage Coffee ...  

Ponytails for men are unacceptable. This might hit a little too close ... eventually held Lauber down and cut what could be considered a “counterculture hairstyle” off. Lauber later returned to the school “with his shortened hair back to its natural ...  

William Hjorstberg captures the whole bohemian scene of 1960s San Francisco in his long-awaited biography of writer Richard Brautigan. Novelist Ben Fountain evokes the excesses of the Bush era in a novel set at a football game. This week also ...  

We Baby Boomers monitor "Mad Men" like hawks, trying to pick up what people, places and things shouldn't be part of the set. Well, it was no mistake to have Roger Sterling do acid last night. The counterculture mostly happened...  

"We are a hot, dusty and sleazy lot, but we're all we've got." The annual Oregon Country Fair, in Veneta, a small town about 20 miles west of Eugene, celebrates all things counterculture with outrageous costumes, local food vendors, musicians ...  

It’s February 17 and I’m standing in front of a full room at Gatsby Books in Long Beach, CA.  Once again, we’ve filled up the seats and people are standing in the back as I deliver my opening line, “If you told me several years, I’d be here talking about Jesus and ayahuasca, I would have laughed my ass off.”  But perhaps more incredible than tales of spiritual awakening is that here I am on the final night of my Electric Jesus West Coast book...  

Past the break, Fulton Ryder has curated a unique gallery of works including an early conceptual piece from Yoko Ono — inspired by John Cage’s Experimental Music Composition class at the New School for Social Research in New York, where Ono’s then ...  

This approach is named after St. Benedict of Nursia, the sixth-century founder of monasticism. Joseph Ratzinger, upon his election as pope in 2005, did not take the name Benedict by accident. But the implied parallel is false: Cloistered and ...  

AceShowbiz'Weeds' Season 8 Teaser Celebrates Cannabis CountercultureAceShowbizThe promo video wishes a 'happy 4/20', which refers to a day when people gather to celebrate and consume cannabis. It's still months away from the return date of "Weeds", but Showtime has debuted a teaser for the upcoming eighth season.and more »  

The earliest known inhabitants of the area lived during the late Pleistocene (Ice Age), and are linked to the Clovis culture around 9,200 BC (11,200 years old) based on evidence found throughout the area and documented at the much-studied Gault ...  

Bohemian Grove is a super-exclusive encampment/party for the most ... Well, this centerpiece has been infiltrated and filmed by Alex Jones of Infowars and twice by the BBC: While many conspiracy types have bought this claim as if this is some ...  

Where luxury falls short in my mind is that India is about self-made people. My father was a self-made man, and my grandfather, and they grew up earning their keep. That’s what India is about: working hard and going to the next level, going up in life.