Perhaps one of the best-known songs of the decade of the 1960s is Buffalo Springfield’s “For What It’s Worth,” released as a 45 rpm single i...

In yesterday's blog, I said that nothing could appear a less promising topic than the movie career of Elvis Presley. Observing that movi...

Movies are so familiar to us that they are widely considered nothing more than “entertainment.” Naïvely, we assume that movies are easier t...

I heard the news this morning that comedian George Carlin died yesterday of heart failure at the age of 71. Although popularly associated wi...

Improbably, this morning’s Los Angeles Times contained an article on the resurgence of interest in spiritualist Manley Palmer Hall (1901-1...

Just as television in the 1960s helped popularize science fiction, by means of shows such as The Twilight Zone , The Outer Limits , and Star...

A couple of blog entries ago, I wrote on the waning of the Populuxe era and the early days of the psychedelic era, discovering the transiti...

The Los Angeles Times announced this afternoon that Oscar-winning visual effects artist Stan Winston died of multiple myeloma yesterday, Su...

In response to yesterday's blog on the Zombies' album Odessey & Oracle --one of the great albums of the 1960s--my friend Tim Luc...

Some months ago I embarked upon an ambitious, if somewhat self-indulgent project of listening to all the rock and R&B albums released d...

In my last blog entry I noted the fact that 1966 saw four LPs released bearing the word "psychedelic": Timothy Leary et al.'s ...

Yesterday's blog entry on late guitarist Jerry Cole prompted me to revisit the issue of the popularization of psychedelic music. I say p...