The Occupy movement would have loved Phil Ochs. And the feeling would probably have been mutual. One of the smartest, savviest and funniest of 1960s-era protest singers — no small group, that — Ochs was an uncompromising and perhaps fatally romantic champion of a slew of anti-war, pro-civil-rights, left-leaning movements. Read full article > >

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‘Phil Ochs: There but for Fortune” to debut on PBS

A.Aubrey Bodine made Baltimore look like a Hollywood gal. Not a knockout, not a star . But a handsome girl from back East with excellent bones and good breeding, dressed up with professional help. Bodine’s black-and-white photographs from the 1920s through the 1960s show a Baltimore of clean streets, nice monuments, dignified and often solitary workers, few children, beautiful skies. The skin is scrubbed and the pores closed, and the pictures have a light that, you tell yourself, you’ve seen only a couple of times. Read full article > >

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A lifetime of pictures by Baltimore’s A. Aubrey Bodine goes on sale

Can Clint Eastwood possibly be 81? The man striding youthfully into a Georgetown hotel room — just off a plane, still wearing his navy blue windbreaker and Nikes — defies chronological age. With the exception of the gray hair and one or two wrinkles, Eastwood still bears an uncanny resemblance to the rangy young cowboy who made men’s and women’s hearts go pitter-pat in “ Rawhide ” and those Sergio Leone Westerns in the 1960s. Read full article > >

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Clint Eastwood talks ’J. Edgar,’ politics and why he’s still working at 81

A stage musical based on the music of zany 1960s pop group The Monkees is to be launched, with its world premiere taking place in Manchester in March.

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English-speaking Catholics are bracing for the biggest changes to their Mass since the 1960s, a shift some leaders warn could cause “ritual whiplash.” The overhaul, which will become mandatory Nov. 27, is aimed at unifying the more than 1 billion Catholics worldwide with a translation that is as close as possible to the original Latin version. It allows for less independence and diversity of interpretation in a church that in recent decades has tried to retain more control over how Catholicism is defined. Read full article > >

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Catholics’ Mass liturgy changing; ‘ritual whiplash’ ahead?

When Alexandria-based designer Barbara Charles was starting out in California in the 1960s, she lived in a cheap apartment in Santa Monica above the twinkling lights of its gaudy pier. Right below her bedroom spun the carousel manned by Paul Newman in the classic heist-flick “The Sting.” It played “ The Yellow Rose of Texas ” late into the night while its horses rose and fell, tossing their carved manes. Read full article > >

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The wistful world of the Ephemera Society of America

When Alexandria-based designer Barbara Charles was starting out in California in the 1960s, she lived in a cheap apartment in Santa Monica above the twinkling lights of its gaudy pier. Right below her bedroom spun the carousel manned by Paul Newman in the classic heist-flick “The Sting.” It played “ The Yellow Rose of Texas ” late into the night while its horses rose and fell, tossing their carved manes. Read full article > >

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A rare revival of Edward Bond’s notorious 1960s play Saved still has the power to shock, says original 1960s cast member Tony Selby.

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The Canadian troupe Lemieux Pilon 4D Art is expert at integrating live performers with film figures. You remember Gene Kelly dancing with the animated mouse Tom from “Tom and Jerry”? They do that sort of thing on stage. It’s seamless and beguiling throughout much of “Norman,” the company’s heartfelt tribute to filmmaker Norman McLaren (which wraps up a three-night stand at the Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theater Saturday night). Never heard of McLaren? Apparently his short films, many of them abstract and whimsical — shapes and squiggles moving in synch with lively music — were staples on Canadian TV in the 1950s and 1960s. Read full article > >

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Lemieux Pilon 4D Art pays tribute to filmmaker Norman McLaren at Kennedy Center

I came from an interracial family, which was not well received in Kansas in the mid- to late-1960s. My mother, stepfather and I ended up in Washington state because of racial issues and a custody battle we were losing. It was through that experience that I began to have a real passion and commitment to people of all races and cultures. The next 40 years became a real journey of engaging in issues, industries and organizations that are committed to global change. Read full article > >

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Jamming an ambitious new art festival into the Skyline Hotel , an outpost of mid-century modern cool in Southwest D.C., was never going to be easy. Designed by the Miami architect Morris Lapidus in the early 1960s, the Skyline has small rooms, low ceilings, narrow hallways and conference space better scaled to a philately convention or mahjong tournament than a major art fair. But it has buzz and it’s owned by the Rubell family , who have emerged as major players in the Washington contemporary art scene. Read full article > >

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(E)merge art fair adapts site’s form and function

During his first week at Virginia Tech, Frank Shushok Jr. toured a 1960s-era residence hall that was being renovated as a resortlike facility, complete with movie theater, gym, gaming room and a salon with affordable spray-tanning. He was shocked. “I am operating under a completely different mental model of what residence halls are supposed to be,” said Shushok, the associate vice president for student affairs who is entering his third year at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. A residence hall should be “a place where students live so they can learn.” Read full article > >

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Virginia Tech dorm becomes a learning experience

In the 1960s, as the Civil Rights Movement grew and as the civil rights workers moved from community to community, a strong body of music grew also. A number of songs were directly linked to the freedom songs, born in slavery, and kept alive through the informal oral traditions and the melodies of the southern black churches. Some were updated for the fight against segregation. Others responded to a tragedy in a community, and were written out of anger or love for a person on the civil rights battlefield. As the dedication of the memorial to Rev. Martin L. King approaches, Arts Post reviews music from the period. Read full article > >

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Music of the Movement: Bernice Johnson Reagon and “Will the Circle Be Unbroken”

Erie County Clerk Kathy Hochul won a House special election in western New York on Tuesday night, a Democratic triumph in a conservative district that many regarded a referendum on House Republicans’ efforts to reform Medicare. With 90 percent of precincts reporting, Hochul had 48 percent of the vote. State Assemblywoman Jane Corwin (R) had 42 percent, with independent candidate Jack Davis running a distant third with 9 percent. Democrats contended that the race in New York’s 26th Congressional District — which the GOP had held since the 1960s — became competitive through their efforts tying Corwin to the House Republican budget plan that included a provision to turn Medicare into a voucher program. Read full article > >

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Democrat Hochul wins N.Y. special House election

A study commissioned by American Roman Catholic bishops says abuse occurred because priests who were poorly prepared landed in the midst of the turmoil of the 1960s and1970s.

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Church Report Cites Social Tumult in Priest Scandals