Johnny Colon Does the Boogaloo
In the 1960s and ‘70s, Latin boogaloo arose from the jazz, soul and R&B traditions around New York. Spanish Harlem native Johnny Colon was part of the boogaloo wave and helped define the iconic...
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Revisiting A '70s Teen 'Dream'
While writing an album's worth of songs is no small task, recording those songs has never been easier, thanks, in part, to digital technology and the distribution potential of the Internet. But in the...
View ArticleThe People Behind The Music Of 'Free To Be...'
All this week, we'’ve been talking about the influential children’s album Free To Be… You And Me, which turns 40 years old this month. We've spoken with a cultural historian, the producer of the...
View ArticleShuggie Otis Spreads His 'Wings,' 40 Years Later
Most listeners know Shuggie Otis from his song, “Strawberry Letter 23,” which went on to be one of the big hits of 1977 in a version by the Brothers Johnson. But musicians always knew there was more to...
View ArticleSex, Drugs, And Rock And Roll, 'In The Limo'
The 1960’s established rock and roll as a movement of peace, love, and community. In the 1970s, it became sex, drugs, and rock and roll. According to writer Michael Walker, 1973 was a watershed moment...
View ArticleSylvester: The Other Queen Of Disco
Donna Summer is known by many as the "queen of disco," and was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame last year. But as Anthony Wayne, the lead actor and director of a new play, Mighty Real: A...
View ArticleFlipside
In 1973 a TV show called Flipside lasted for just one season on CBS and then slipped into obscurity. Andrew Marks's father produced Flipside, and Roseanne Shelnut was its associate producer. They talk...
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Striking Vintage EPA Photos Show Troubling Proximity of People and Pollution...
"Chemical plants on shore are considered prime source of pollution." (Marc St. Gil, Lake Charles, Louisiana, June 1972. National Archives, EPA Documerica Project)These photos are beautiful. They're...
View ArticleRobert Indiana's Complicated LOVE Affair
On this week's Weekend Edition, Robert Indiana called his iconic LOVE image 'a terrible mistake', but in 1971 he seemed much more optimistic about the work's influence on his career. Listen to Indiana...
View ArticleSelected Shorts: Celebrating Hunter S. Thompson
Guest host Stephen Colbert celebrates a classic by gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Hunter S. Thompson was the original bad boy of journalism, creating in the 1960s...
View ArticleMayor Versus Nature, Take Two
A rookie mayor takes office. A few days later, crazy winter weather hits and keeps on hitting. Sound familiar?In his State of the City address earlier this month, Mayor Bill de Blasio said his...
View ArticleA Walking Tour of Don Draper's New York
Don Draper probably isn't hustling into the 1970s, but rumor has it this season's Mad Men might end at the dawn of that tumultuous decade. What did New York actually look and sound like at the time? We...
View ArticleHappy Earth Day - Now Move Your Car
Mayor John V. Lindsay implores New Yorkers to be more tidy on the first Earth Day, April 22, 1970.In a wide-ranging speech, the mayor ties the city's quality of life issues to the greater concerns of...
View ArticleAll the Serious Artists Have Moved to the East Village
This is the third and final installment of Pan Am's audio walking tour of New York City. The clip features areas of the Lower East Side, Greenwich Village, and Washington Square Park, and much like...
View ArticleFear and Loathing with Hunter S. Thompson
Guest host Stephen Colbert celebrates a classic by Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Thompson was the original bad boy of journalism, creating in the 1960s an entirely new style of...
View ArticleFear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Chapter 10
This reading by Michael Imperioli from Chapter 10 of Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is part of the SELECTED SHORTS program “Bad Boy: Celebrating Hunter S. Thompson” hosted by...
View ArticleFear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Chapter 3
This reading by Anthony Rapp from Chapter 3 of Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is part of the SELECTED SHORTS program “Bad Boy: Celebrating Hunter S. Thompson” hosted by Stephen...
View ArticleFear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Chapter 1
This reading by Alec Baldwin from Chapter 1 of Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is part of the SELECTED SHORTS program “Bad Boy: Celebrating Hunter S. Thompson” hosted by Stephen...
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Channelling Memories: Opera in 1970s Paris and London
ABOARD EUROSTAR TRAIN #9018—I am writing this dispatch aboard a sleek quiet train speeding through the English countryside toward the Channel (or, as the French call it, La Manche—The Sleeve). As a...
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