Thursday, August 13, 2009

Woodstock Remembered On VH1



One of the most interesting rock docs on the Woodstock 40th Anniversary looks to be Woodstock: Then And Now airing on VH-1. Of course in the cinema is Taking Woodstock and on television, Lords of The Revolution (which is also on VH-1.) Also over on the History Channel Woodstock: Then And Now will air on Monday.

Saturday, August 8, 2009

Press Release: Archeologists Discover Lost Civilization Of Woodstock People

A startling and important archaeological discovery was recently made in the area of our planet once known as California, when a cache of artifacts dating from the 1960s was unearthed, relatively intact, during the building of the transglobal tunnel. The best scholars from a score of disciplines --including archaeology, history, languages and anthropology -- have studied and interpreted these artifacts and have mounted an exhibition that will open at the Metroplex Museum of Art next year. Never has so great a body of information been available about a time and culture of which we have previously known so little.

The artifacts were uncovered by a construction crew in the ruins of a postindustrial town known as Berkeley ("zip code" coordinate 94704). The primary dig site comprised an area approximately 105 yards long by 44 yards wide. Additional objects were discovered as much as one quarter of a mile away, in an area believed to have been the location of the University of California at Berkeley. Unfortunately, practically nothing of the great institution remains, but its grandeur is legendary. The campus alone was the size of a small city, with its classrooms, laboratories, stadia and great public squares, all of which played an essential role on the dramatic events of the time

Woodstock 40 Years After



Jon Parles does a major retrospective of the music and culture of the Woodstock Festival.