Ken Kesey

Back Story: Artists transform Winnebago into man cave

2013-01-03 16:05:41

On a blustery Saturday a few days before Christmas, the thirsty and the simply curious took a break from their last-minute shopping and headed to the Union Brewing Co. in Woodberry. There they took in a whimsical man cave on wheels that has been...

An interview with Amandeep Sandhu

2012-01-22 00:00:00

When local author Rosalia Scalia visited India, she was able to sit down with Amandeep Sandhu, author of "Sepia Leaves." She was kind enough to recount her meeting for Read Street. We'll break her missive into a parts, starting with her description of the...

'The Voice' recap: Episode 2

2012-02-06 20:12:00

Phew! Two hours of “The Voice” is a lot to process. The NBC show was heavy on the tug-at-your-heartstrings contestant backstories tonight, which can make for some intense emotional weight-lifting. But we all survived, and slowly but surely,...

New owners ready to take over Ivy Bookshop

2011-12-27 00:00:00

Don't call the Ivy Bookshop's new owners New Yorkers. Sure, Ed Berlin and his wife Ann have lived in the orbit of Manhattan for more than three decades, working in corporate careers. But they insist they love Baltimore — Ed was raised in Forest...

Trouble at Perkins

2011-10-26 14:26:00

It may be some time before we know the exact circumstances surrounding the killing last week of a patient at Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center in Jessup. What we do know is that this was the second such tragedy to occur there in little over a year, and...

Moonlight Players stage classic 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'

2013-03-15 00:00:00

CLERMONT — Good doesn't triumph over evil in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," but people who see the play will go home full of hope. The Moonlight Players will open Dale Wasserman's 1964 adaption of Ken Kesey's 1962 novel at 8 p.m. Friday, March...

UPJ theater presenting '...Cuckoo's Nest'

2013-02-13 12:27:00

The University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown Theatre Department will present “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest” beginning Feb. 21. The 1962 novel written by Ken Kesey was adapted into a successful film nearly a decade later. Pitt-Johnstown...

Sterling Lord shares insight, memories

2013-02-01 07:05:00

Without Sterling Lord, there would be no Jack Kerouac — not Kerouac as we know him, anyway, the writer who introduced the Beat Generation. Lord was a former magazine editor and fledgling literary agent working in a basement apartment in New York...

Review: 'On the Road' is achingly romantic

2012-12-20 12:01:00

There are as many visions of "On the Road," novelist Jack Kerouac's vivid anthem to the romance of youthful freedom and the getting of experience as there are readers. It's a book so influential yet so personal that each succeeding generation since its...

Unwinding in the water and the forest on the Oregon coast

2012-08-26 00:00:00

FLORENCE, Ore. — My mind drifts back to Ken Kesey's 1964 novel, "Sometimes a Great Notion," as my friend Rob and I drive west from Eugene to the Oregon coast along scenic Highway 126. The curling two-lane road sweeps through views of the Cascade...

Kristen Stewart in 'On the Road': 'I just want ... a baby' [video]

2012-05-23 16:38:53

Psychedelic Spring: A new Grateful Dead documentary gives Deadheads a reason to tune in and turn on

2012-04-13 11:39:00

Every spring, I listen to the Grateful Dead with fresh ears, not to the exclusion of everything else, but close to it. (I'm not alone in this. How many people in the Northeast associate the Dead's music with thaw, both literal and spiritual?) Despite...

'First Party At Ken Kesey's With Hell's Angels'

2012-04-20 04:14:00

Ken Kesey Rock and Bowl Philadelphia

2011-12-12 12:53:33

's notorious Acid Tests -- rollicking parties featuring all manner of psychedelic substances, strobe lights and music.

2011-12-05 13:59:57