1969
Melancholy Portraits From a Summer of Love in Decline
Elaine Mayes’ photos capture the fleeting hope of San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury neighbourhood, as the optimism of the 1960s was sliding downhill.
The First Days of Woodstock
Photographer Baron Wolman documented the hippie love fest for Rolling Stone magazine.
Watch the Largest Rocket Explosion in History
“Today...I saw without exaggeration the end of the world, and not in a nightmare but while fully awake and standing right next to it.”
An Exclusive First Look Inside Emma Cline's 'The Girls'
Read an excerpt from Cline's mesmerizing debut novel about about teenage girls in a free love commune cult in 1969.
Cass McCombs Revisits 60s San Francisco in the Video for "I Cannot Lie"
The video features footage from the 2005 documentary 'Following Sean.'
Revisiting 'Putney Swope' with Robert Downey Sr.
The 1969 film helped launch the creative ambitions of Louis CK and Paul Thomas Anderson. We talked to Downey, now 78, about whether or not it's his best film, and whether anyone really "gets" it.
The Time John Waters’s Girls Escaped a Kidnapping
In this excerpt of Edgewise: A Picture of Cookie Mueller, two men abduct three actresses who have starred in several of John Waters's classic movies.
Mourning the Moon Men: A Memorandum
The Presidential PR of things in the case of an Apollo XI failure.