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Houston : Walter Cronkite’s Map
Now it’s Dan’s By Dan Earhart / The Rag Blog / July 20, 2009 Here is my work space. The map has no roads. I look at it every day. It used to hang in the KTRH newsroom in Houston … Continue reading
‘Magic’ Poet, ‘Weed Ambassador’ Simon Vinkenoog Dead at 80
Poet Simon Vinkenoog, a Sixties icon. With the death of Simon Vinkenoog Amsterdam loses one more of its iconic ambassadors of the ‘Swinging Sixties’… when the Dutch capital gained its reputation as a drugs-friendly Magic Centre… By Rob Kievit / … Continue reading
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Tagged Amsterdam, Deaths, Drugs, Marijuana, Poets, Psychedelics, Sixties
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Robert McNamara : Expanding the Imperial Mission
LBJ and Robert McNamara. Photo from Dr. X’s Vintage Photos.The hallmark of the McNamara era: Modernization, scientific management, mutually assured destruction The most critical contribution to U.S. imperialism… for which McNamara was a leading advocate, was to foster the belief … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Anti-Communism, Capitalism, Deaths, Imperialism, JFK, LBJ, Robert McNamara, Sixties, Vietnam
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Juan Cole : Michael Jackson, Islam and the Middle East
Michael Jackson. Photo from Getty Images. Michael Jackson was deeply hurt and humiliated by the experience [of his 2005 trial], and his withdrawal to Bahrain and search for a different tradition of spirituality may well have come out of that … Continue reading
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Tagged Deaths, Islam, Michael Jackson, Middle East, Musicians, Popular Culture, Popular Music
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Tina Marsh : Requiem for a Jazz Angel
Photo by Michael Fuentes.Vissi d’arte:Requiem for Tina Marsh, golden-voiced jazz angel and fearless explorer of far-flung musical frontiers Tina Marsh lived for art, and on Tuesday, June 16, she died for art in her South Austin home surrounded by family … Continue reading
Remembering Activist and AIDS Hero Dr. Alan Berkman
It was to gain Dr. Alan Berkman’s release from prison, so he could receive treatment for his cancer, that Marilyn Buck, Susan Rosenberg, and Laura Whitethorn finally pled guilty to the “conspiracy” charge that netted former Ragstaffer Buck her 80-year … Continue reading
Franklin Rosemont, Surrealist Author, Artist and Activist, 1943-2009
Franklin Rosemont at Movement for a Democratic Society (MDS) National Convergence in Chicago, November 9-11, 2007. Photo by Thomas Good / Next Left Notes.Franklin Rosemont, surrealist revolutionary, died Sunday, April 12, at the age of 65. Franklin, 65, came from … Continue reading
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Tagged Authors, Deaths, IWW, MDS, SDS, Sixties, Social Activism, Surrealism, The Left
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The Passing of John Updike : Baseball, Misogynism and Literary Brilliance
Called ‘kaleidoscopically gifted’ and ‘an American Balzac,’ John Updike died Tuesday, Jan. 27, of lung cancer at the age of 76. Many have tagged him the most important literary figure of our time. By Thorne Dreyer / The Rag Blog … Continue reading
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Tagged Authors, Baseball, Deaths, John Updike, Literature, People, Writers
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Frank Cieciorka’s Self-Inscribed Eulogy
Frank CieciorkaIn Memoriam: Frank CieciorkaBy Bruce Anderson / December 3, 2008 Frank Cieciorka died [at the end of November 2008] at his home in Alderpoint, Southern Humboldt County. A modest, soft-spoken man whose passing will sadden everyone who knew him, … Continue reading
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Tagged Alternative Media, Art, Artists, Black Power, Civil Rights Movement, Deaths, SNCC, Underground Press
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Death : ‘William Zanzinger Killed Poor Hattie Carroll’
William D. Zantzinger was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to six months in 1963 in the death of Hattie Carroll. [Dylan dropped the “t” in “Zantzinger.”] Photo from Baltimore Sun via NYT.W. D. Zantzinger, subject of Dylan song, dies at … Continue reading
Harold Pinter and Eartha Kitt : Artists and Rebels
Both lived long, productive, exciting lives and went out celebrated by their peers and countless fans; none of us could reasonably ask for more than they wrung out of life. By Chris Thompson / December 26, 2008 See ‘Remembering Nobel … Continue reading
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Tagged Artists, Deaths, Iraq War, People, Playwrights, Theater, Vietnam, Writers
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Odetta : Bid Farewell to Another Legend
Odetta at Radio City Music Hall in New York for a “Salute to the Blues” Benefit concert in 2003Odetta, Voice of Civil Rights Era, Dies at 77. Photo by Nancy Siesel / NYT.‘Her voice plunged deep and soared high, and … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Civil Rights Movement, Deaths, Folk Music, Musicians, Peace Movement, People, Political Activists, Sixties
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