Five NYC Literary Haunts - Fodor's Five
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00:07:49 1.3 Political representation
00:08:19 2 History
00:08:28 2.1 Early years
00:14:03 2.2 Reputation as urban bohemia
00:23:15 2.3 Postwar
00:31:09 2.4 Preservation
00:34:10 2.4.1 Rezoned areas
00:39:31 2.4.2 NYU dispute
00:41:38 3 Demographics
00:45:56 4 Points of interest
00:50:39 5 Police and crime
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00:55:57 8 Post offices and ZIP codes
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01:03:02 12 In popular culture
01:03:12 12.1 Comics
01:04:31 12.2 Film
01:08:06 12.3 Games
01:08:25 12.4 Literature
01:10:16 12.5 Music
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01:14:54 13 See also
01:15:41 14 Notes and references
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Greenwich Village ( GREN-itch, GRIN-, -ij) often referred to by locals as simply the Village, is a neighborhood on the west side of Manhattan, New York City, within Lower Manhattan. Broadly, Greenwich Village is bounded by 14th Street to the north, Broadway to the east, Houston Street to the south, and the Hudson River to the west. Greenwich Village also contains several subsections, including the West Village west of Seventh Avenue and the Meatpacking District in the northwest corner of Greenwich Village.
In the 20th century, Greenwich Village was known as an artists' haven, the Bohemian capital, the cradle of the modern LGBT movement, and the East Coast birthplace of both the Beat and '60s counterculture movements. Groenwijck, one of the Dutch names for the village (meaning Green District), was Anglicized to Greenwich. Greenwich Village contains Washington Square Park, as well as two of New York's private colleges, New York University (NYU) and the New School.Greenwich Village is part of Manhattan Community District 2, and is patrolled by the 6th Precinct of the New York City Police Department. Greenwich Village has undergone extensive gentrification and commercialization; the four ZIP codes that constitute the Village – 10011, 10012, 10003, and 10014 – were all ranked among the ten most expensive in the United States by median housing price in 2014, according to Forbes, with residential property sale prices in the West Village neighborhood typically exceeding US$2,100 per square foot ($23,000/m2) in 2017.
Recalling Gay NYC Life in the 1960s. (by Gilbert Parker)
Retired literary agent Gilbert Parker remembers his life in NYC in the 1960s, from a hilarious hook-up gone bad, a phone conversation with Tennessee Williams, and when he decided to leave it all behind.
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Bicentennial Symposium: Poetry & the American People
As part of the celebration of the Library of Congress Bicentennial in 2000, it sponsored the symposium Poetry and the American People: Reading, Voice and Publication in the 19th and 20th Centuries featuring a number of distinguished speakers followed by an evening reading by Robert Pinsky (U.S. Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry from 1997-2000) and W.S. Merwin (U.S. Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry from 2010-2011 and special Bicentennial Consultant from 1999-2000). In addition to Pinksy and Merwin, featured speakers included Rita Dove (U.S. Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry from 1993-95), Louise Glück (U.S. Poet Laureate from 2003-04), and Witter Bynner Fellows for 2000--Naomi Shihab Nye and Joshua Weiner.
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Tony Bennett
Anthony Dominick Tony Benedetto (born August 3, 1926), known as Tony Bennett, is an American singer of popular music, standards, show tunes, and jazz. Bennett is also an accomplished painter, having created works—under the name Anthony Benedetto—that are on permanent public display in several institutions. He is the founder of the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts in New York City.
Raised in New York City, Bennett began singing at an early age. He fought in the final stages of World War II as an infantryman with the U.S. Army in the European Theatre. Afterwards, he developed his singing technique, signed with Columbia Records, and had his first number-one popular song with Because of You in 1951. Several top hits such as Rags to Riches followed in the early 1950s. Bennett then further refined his approach to encompass jazz singing. He reached an artistic peak in the late 1950s with albums such as The Beat of My Heart and Basie Swings, Bennett Sings. In 1962, Bennett recorded his signature song, I Left My Heart in San Francisco. His career and his personal life then suffered an extended downturn during the height of the rock music era.
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Bibliodiscotheque Symposium
Explore the history of disco music, dance and culture in this afternoon symposium presented in association with Brightest Young Things, The Recording Academy, Capital Pride and the District of Columbia Library Association.
Introduction and The Craft of Making Disco Balls (00:20): Carla Hayden, Rhona Wolfe Friedman, Toni Grady Lehring, Yolanda Ayers Baker, Robert Newlen
Two Perspectives on Beyoncé's African Dance References (24:34): Martin Scherzinger
Disco: The Bill Bernstein Photographs (54:24)
Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture (01:28:05): Alice Echols
Panel Discussion, Q&A (01:58:04) Martin Scherzinger, Bill Bernstein, Alice Echols, Nick Brown
Interview: I Will Survive (02:53:16): Gloria Gaynor, Robin Roberts
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Roosevelt Island
Roosevelt Island is a narrow island in New York City's East River. It lies between Manhattan Island to its west and the borough of Queens on Long Island to its east, and is part of the borough of Manhattan. Running from the equivalent of Manhattan Island's 46th to East 85th Streets, it is about 2 miles (3.2 km) long, with a maximum width of 800 feet (240 m), and a total area of 147 acres (0.59 km2). Together with Mill Rock, Roosevelt Island constitutes Manhattan's Census Tract 238, which has a land area of 0.279 sq mi (0.72 km2). and had a population of 9,520 in 2000 according to the US Census. The Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation estimated its population was about 12,000 in 2007.
The island was called Minnehanonck by the Lenape and Varkens Eylandt (Hog Island) by New Netherlanders, and during the colonial era and later as Blackwell 's Island. It was known as Welfare Island from 1921 to 1971. It was re-named Roosevelt Island in 1971 after Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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The beginnings of and motivations for Feminist art in the 1970s
Visiting Las Vegas and other Nearby Attractions: Rhyolite, Lake Mead, Hoover Dam and Valley of Fire
This is the complete video of my time in Nevada. I visit the Rhyolite ghost town, then mount Charleston with old friends. As I leave Las Vegas, I spend a night by Lake Mead and visit Hoover Dam and the Valley of Fire, among other things.
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The core of this book is a systematic treatment of the historic transformation of the West from monarchy to democracy.
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ch 22) The Unreported Resistance
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Chapter 22, The Unreported Resistance, covers several movements that happened during the Carter-Reagan-Bush years that were ignored by much of the mainstream media. Topics covered include the anti-nuclear movement, the Plowshares Movement, the Council for a Nuclear Weapons Freeze, the Physicians for Social Responsibility, George Kistiakowsky, The Fate of the Earth, Marian Wright Edelman, the Citizens' Clearinghouse for Hazardous Wastes, the Three Mile Island accident, the Winooski 44, Abbie Hoffman, Amy Carter, the Piedmont Peace Project, Anne Braden, César Chávez, the United Farm Workers, the Farm Labor Organizing Committee, Teatro Campesino, LGBT social movements, the Stonewall riots, Food Not Bombs, the anti-war movement during the Gulf War, David Barsamian, opposition to Columbus Day, Indigenous Thought, Rethinking Schools, and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.
Bob Dylan | Wikipedia audio article
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00:04:00 1 Life and career
00:04:09 1.1 1941–1959: Origins and musical beginnings
00:07:13 1.2 1960s
00:07:22 1.2.1 Relocation to New York and record deal
00:15:04 1.2.2 Protest and iAnother Side/i
00:18:36 1.2.3 Going electric
00:21:37 1.2.4 iHighway 61 Revisited/i and iBlonde on Blonde/i
00:27:05 1.2.5 Motorcycle accident and reclusion
00:31:30 1.3 1970s
00:33:51 1.3.1 Return to touring
00:41:11 1.3.2 Christian period
00:42:54 1.4 1980s
00:48:52 1.5 1990s
00:53:06 1.6 2000s
00:56:18 1.6.1 iModern Times/i
01:01:24 1.6.2 iTogether Through Life/i and iChristmas in the Heart/i
01:04:20 1.7 2010s
01:04:28 1.7.1 iTempest/i
01:12:38 1.7.2 iShadows in the Night/i, iFallen Angels/i and iTriplicate/i
01:24:44 2 Never Ending Tour
01:27:24 3 Visual art
01:31:16 4 Discography
01:31:25 5 Bibliography
01:31:49 6 Personal life
01:31:58 6.1 Romantic relationships
01:32:07 6.1.1 Suze Rotolo
01:32:59 6.1.2 Joan Baez
01:34:38 6.1.3 Sara Dylan
01:35:43 6.1.4 Carolyn Dennis
01:36:18 6.2 Home
01:36:36 6.3 Religious beliefs
01:40:43 7 Accolades
01:41:46 7.1 Nobel Prize in Literature
01:46:07 8 Legacy
01:54:43 8.1 Archives and tributes
01:56:15 9 See also
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Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman; May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, author, and visual artist who has been a major figure in popular culture for more than fifty years. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s, when songs such as Blowin' in the Wind (1963) and The Times They Are a-Changin' (1964) became anthems for the civil rights movement and anti-war movement. His lyrics during this period incorporated a wide range of political, social, philosophical, and literary influences, defied pop-music conventions and appealed to the burgeoning counterculture.
Following his self-titled debut album in 1962, which mainly comprised traditional folk songs, Dylan made his breakthrough as a songwriter with the release of The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan the following year. The album featured Blowin' in the Wind and the thematically complex A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall. For many of these songs, he adapted the tunes and phraseology of older folk songs. He went on to release the politically charged The Times They Are a-Changin' and the more lyrically abstract and introspective Another Side of Bob Dylan in 1964. In 1965 and 1966, Dylan encountered controversy when he adopted electrically amplified rock instrumentation, and in the space of 15 months recorded three of the most important and influential rock albums of the 1960s: Bringing It All Back Home (1965), Highway 61 Revisited (1965) and Blonde on Blonde (1966). The six-minute single Like a Rolling Stone (1965) has been described as challenging and transforming the artistic conventions of its time, for all time.In July 1966, Dylan withdrew from touring after being injured in a motorcycle accident. During this period, he recorded a large body of songs with members of the Band, who had previously backed him on tour. These recordings were released as the collaborative album The Basement Tapes in 1975. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Dylan explored country music and rural themes in John Wesley Harding (1967), Nashville Skyline (1969), and New Morning (1970). In 1975, he released Blood on the Tracks, which many saw as a return to form. In the late 1970s, he became a born-again Christian and released a series of albums of contemporary gospel music before returning to his more familiar rock-based idiom in the early 1980s. The major works of his later career include Time Out of Mind (1997), Love and Theft (2001), Modern Times (2006) and Tempest (2012). His most recent recordings have comprised versions of traditional American standards, especially songs recorded by Frank Sinatra ...
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne | Audio book with subtitles
Around the World in Eighty Days (version 2) Read by Mark F. Smith.
Jules VERNE , translated by UNKNOWN ( - )
Mysterious Phileas Fogg is a cool customer. A man of the most repetitious and punctual habit - with no apparent sense of adventure whatsoever - he gambles his considerable fortune that he can complete a journey around the world in just 80 days... immediately after a newspaper calculates the feat as just barely possible.
With his excitable French manservant in tow, Fogg undertakes the exercise immediately, with no preparations, trusting that his traveling funds will make up for delays along the way. But unbeknownst to him, British police are desperately seeking to arrest him for the theft of a huge sum by someone who resembles him, and they will track him around the world, if necessary, to apprehend him.
This is an adventure novel of the first water, with wholly unexpected perils, hair-breadth escapes, brilliant solutions to insoluble problems, and even a love story. And can this be? - That he returns to London just five minutes too late to win his wager and retain his fortune? (Summary by Mark F. Smith)
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11:34 | Chapter 2
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Hippie | Wikipedia audio article
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Hippie
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A hippie (sometimes spelled hippy) is a member of the counterculture of the 1960s, originally a youth movement that began in the United States during the mid-1960s and spread to other countries around the world. The word hippie came from hipster and used to describe beatniks who moved into New York City's Greenwich Village and San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district. The term hippie first found popularity in San Francisco with Herb Caen, who was a journalist for the San Francisco Chronicle.
The origins of the terms hip and hep are uncertain. By the 1940s, both had become part of African American jive slang and meant sophisticated; currently fashionable; fully up-to-date. The Beats adopted the term hip, and early hippies inherited the language and countercultural values of the Beat Generation. Hippies created their own communities, listened to psychedelic music, embraced the sexual revolution, and many used drugs such as marijuana, LSD, peyote and psilocybin mushrooms to explore altered states of consciousness.
In 1967, the Human Be-In in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, popularized hippie culture, leading to the Summer of Love on the West Coast of the United States, and the 1969 Woodstock Festival on the East Coast. Hippies in Mexico, known as jipitecas, formed La Onda and gathered at Avándaro, while in New Zealand, nomadic housetruckers practiced alternative lifestyles and promoted sustainable energy at Nambassa. In the United Kingdom in 1970, many gathered at the gigantic Isle of Wight Festival with a crowd of around 400,000 people. In later years, mobile peace convoys of New Age travelers made summer pilgrimages to free music festivals at Stonehenge and elsewhere. In Australia, hippies gathered at Nimbin for the 1973 Aquarius Festival and the annual Cannabis Law Reform Rally or MardiGrass. Piedra Roja Festival, a major hippie event in Chile, was held in 1970. Hippie and psychedelic culture influenced 1960s and early 1970s young culture in Iron Curtain countries in Eastern Europe (see Mánička).Hippie fashion and values had a major effect on culture, influencing popular music, television, film, literature, and the arts. Since the 1960s, mainstream society has assimilated many aspects of hippie culture. The religious and cultural diversity the hippies espoused has gained widespread acceptance, and Eastern philosophy and spiritual concepts have reached a larger audience.
Colorado Experience: LGBT
During Colorado’s Gold Rush days, newspaper headlines revealed passionate letters and secret elopements between same-sex couples. Nearly two centuries later, the city of Denver hosts one of the largest PrideFest in America, yet the state continues to struggle for equality.
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Welbon Whitmire - African Americans in Europe: London, Copenhagen, and Paris
African Americans have been traveling to and living in Europe since and before the end of slavery, right up to the present; perhaps most famously noted in the writing of James Baldwin. Join us for a discussion of some of the varied aspects of the long and wonderfully complex story.
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Counterculture of the 1960s | Wikipedia audio article
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00:03:07 1 Background
00:03:16 1.1 Post-war geopolitics
00:05:42 1.2 Social issues and calls to action
00:08:26 1.3 Emergent media
00:08:35 1.3.1 Television
00:09:37 1.3.2 New cinema
00:10:40 1.3.3 New radio
00:11:08 1.4 Changing lifestyles
00:13:58 1.4.1 Emergent middle-class drug culture
00:15:08 1.5 Law enforcement
00:16:41 1.6 Vietnam War
00:17:32 1.7 In Western Europe
00:20:05 1.8 In Eastern Europe
00:22:59 1.9 In Australia
00:23:53 1.10 In Latin America
00:26:36 2 Movements
00:26:45 2.1 Civil Rights Movement
00:27:24 2.2 Free Speech
00:28:13 2.3 New Left
00:33:24 2.4 Anti-war
00:34:45 2.5 Anti-nuclear
00:36:30 2.6 Feminism
00:37:49 2.7 Free school movement
00:37:59 2.8 Environmentalism
00:40:12 2.9 Producerist
00:41:17 2.10 Gay liberation
00:42:05 3 Culture and lifestyles
00:42:15 3.1 Hippies
00:46:03 3.2 Marijuana, LSD, and other recreational drugs
00:48:18 3.2.1 Psychedelic research and experimentation
00:52:06 3.2.2 Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters
00:54:15 3.2.3 Other psychedelics
00:54:57 3.3 Sexual revolution
00:55:50 3.4 Alternative media
00:56:35 3.5 Alternative disc sports (Frisbee)
00:57:26 3.6 Avant-garde art and anti-art
01:01:33 3.7 Music
01:14:45 3.8 Film
01:20:58 3.9 Technology
01:21:53 3.10 Religion, spirituality and the occult
01:27:17 4 Criticism and legacy
01:37:27 5 Key figures
01:38:43 6 See also
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The counterculture of the 1960s was an anti-establishment cultural phenomenon that developed throughout much of the Western world between the mid-1960s and the mid-1970s. The aggregate movement gained momentum as the Civil Rights Movement continued to grow, and would later become revolutionary with the expansion of the US government's extensive military intervention in Vietnam. As the 1960s progressed, widespread social tensions also developed concerning other issues, and tended to flow along generational lines regarding human sexuality, women's rights, traditional modes of authority, experimentation with psychoactive drugs, and differing interpretations of the American Dream. Many key movements related to these issues were born or advanced within the counterculture of the 1960s.As the era unfolded, new cultural forms and a dynamic subculture which celebrated experimentation, modern incarnations of Bohemianism, and the rise of the hippie and other alternative lifestyles, emerged. This embracing of creativity is particularly notable in the works of British Invasion bands such as the Beatles, and filmmakers whose works became far less restricted by censorship. In addition to the trendsetting Beatles, many other creative artists, authors, and thinkers, within and across many disciplines, helped define the counterculture movement.
Several factors distinguished the counterculture of the 1960s from the anti-authoritarian movements of previous eras. The post-World War II baby boom generated an unprecedented number of potentially disaffected young people as prospective participants in a rethinking of the direction of the United States and other democratic societies. Post-war affluence allowed many of the counterculture generation to move beyond a focus on the provision of the material necessities of life that had preoccupied their Depression-era parents. The era was also notable in that a significant portion of the array of behaviors and causes within the larger movement were quickly assimilated within mainstream society, particularly in the US, even though counterculture participants numbered in the clear minority within their respective national populations.The counterculture era essentially commenced in earnest with the assassination of John F. Kennedy in November 1963. It became absorbed into the popular culture with the termination of US ...
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