Tag Archives: LSD

Woodstock’s Contradictions, 50 Years Later

Posted on August 10, 2019 by

Overwhelmed and underprepared, the promoters declared that Woodstock was a free festival and welcomed the hordes that they couldn’t have turned back anyway. “Fifty years later, I still have what’s left of a pair of three-day tickets to the 1969 … Continue reading →

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Born in the Summer of Love: The Haight Ashbury Free Clinic Transformed Drug Addiction Treatment

Posted on August 7, 2019 by

The influx of hippies to San Francisco in 1967 during the Summer of Love created a surge in health care needs, including many suffering from sexually transmitted diseases, pneumonia, food poisoning, and bad drug experiences. “As a straight-laced zoology student … Continue reading →

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Smiley Smile – Beach Boys (1967)

Posted on July 19, 2019 by

“Smiley Smile is the 12th studio album by American rock band the Beach Boys, released on September 18, 1967. It reached number 9 on UK record charts, but sold poorly in the US, peaking at number 41—the band’s lowest chart … Continue reading →

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LSD Turns 75: What a Long, Strange Trip It’s Been

Posted on April 25, 2019 by

March 25, 1966: LIFE Magazine “It would be another 24 years until Jimi Hendrix would release ‘Are You Experienced,’ but Albert Hofmann became the first person in history who could conceivably answer in the affirmative to that when he discovered LSD’s … Continue reading →

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R. Crumb’s Portraits of Aline and Others

Posted on March 12, 2019 by

“Whatever one thinks of his subject matter, it’s difficult to deny R. Crumb’s prodigiousness with the pencil. He’s a master of crosshatching, and his illustrations and comics boil over with ideas, all sketched in his distinctive style: controlled yet frenzied, … Continue reading →

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Deserved Second Act for Paul Newman’s Sometimes a Great Notion – J. Hoberman

Posted on February 23, 2019 by

“One great thing about Paris: New prints of old movies from the ’70s, ’60s, and even the ’50s get extended runs in large theaters, apropos of nothing. A nice thing about New York: It sometimes happens here, too, as with … Continue reading →

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My Adventures With the Trip Doctors

Posted on February 5, 2019 by

“My first psilocybin journey began around an altar in the middle of a second-story loft in a suburb of a small city on the Eastern Seaboard. On this adventure I would have a guide, a therapist who, like an unknown … Continue reading →

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