In 1971, a group of squatters took over a military base in Copenhagen and called their enclave "Christiania." Their plan was to break away from Denmark and its laws, to stop living under a ...

When Nancy Cogen opened a batik store on Atlantic Avenue’s antique row in Boerum Hill 41 years ago, it was a neighborhood of run-down rooming houses and communes, where a brownstone cost $25,000. The ...

A MONSTER 4m marijuana plant was among the crops destroyed as NSW police revealed hippies are using dope proceeds to fund their lifestyles. Drug squad officers have found a large number of crops next ...

It can be argued that comedy's being taken seriously as a cinematic artform nowadays thanks in large part to the Judd Apatow-produced Bridesmaids. With the film's Oscar recognition, Academy voters and ...

Frustrated with the Vietnam War, The Man, and the general state of the nation, hippies set out to do everything differently. They founded rural communes, dabbled in psychedelics and cultivated a ...

The summer of 1967 saw a surge in protests and the rise of the hippie movement. Frustration with the Vietnam War fueled social and political discontent. The Haight-Ashbury district in San Francisco ...

In 1968, 18 children and 22 adults lived together as the first Bay Area hippie commune. Living on 760 acres, the historic site of Olompali state park in northern California was once the home of music ...

The Manson Family began as a commune built around the charisma of Charles Manson, but it quickly transformed into one of the most infamous cults in American history. In 1969, the group carried out a ...