Kesey Corrections

"...but powerful body of work, that earned the late Ken Kesey a reputation as one of our finest contemporary..."

Aug. 23, 2009 Postmarks

Magic Trip

This doc about Ken Kesey's famed bus goes all over the place but never seems to end up anywhere all that revelatory.

"...Using heretofore unseen archival footage found in Ken Kesey's barn after his death in 2001, directors Alison..."

Sept. 16, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg

"...Burroughs to Norman Mailer, Joan Baez to Timothy Leary, Ken Kesey to Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Even conservative ideologue William F...."

Feb. 25, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Page Two: Going Places

A metaphysical jumping-off point for a return to the good fight

"...sores, hallucinations and chaos, I remembered a piece by Ken Kesey that appeared in a 1971 supplement to the..."

Jan. 27, 2012 Column by Louis Black

Page Two: "Your Job Is to Get the Paper Out"

On the road from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, overwhelmed with wonder and the terrible history

"...There is a terrific Ken Kesey story in The Last Supplement to the Whole..."

Jan. 15, 2016 Column by Louis Black

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

St. Edward's University has bravely undertaken Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and the show is, strangely, a good time

"...St. Edward's University has bravely undertaken Ken Kesey's counterculture classic with guest director J. Ed..."

July 2, 2004 Arts Review by Heather Barfield Cole

The Merry Hempsters Hit the Road

In 2001, actor and activist Woody Harrelson rang friend and filmmaker Ron Mann up and invited him to tag along on an environmental whistle-stop trip in a hemp-fueled bus -- "The Organic Living Tour." Two years later, Mann's digital video-shot doc Go Further is all but in the can.

"...combined with a manic road trip rivaling those of Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters and music by everyone from the..."

March 7, 2003 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Page Two: Love, Grace, and Tears

Borne aloft by Jefferson Airplane

"...newscaster talks about Woodstock as if he's describing a Kentucky Derby past or a way-too-large garden party, long drifted..."

Aug. 21, 2009 Column by Louis Black

Captain Fantastic

Viggo Mortensen and family go off the grid

"...and to defend themselves (to the death) against some unspoken possibility in the future. At times a benevolent papa,..."

July 22, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Gerry

"...Like the man to whom this film is dedicated, Ken Kesey, Gerry just wants to go "further."..."

March 21, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Get on the Bus

"...the same ease with which we mix metaphors, then Ken Kesey's old admonishments about being either on the bus..."

Oct. 18, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

"...array of star cameos from people like Roseanne Arnold, Ken Kesey, Crispin Glover, Victoria Williams, and William Burroughs. As..."

May 20, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Swampadelic

Grateful Dead + Papa Mali = 7 Walkers

"...band and played its first show at one of Ken Kesey's Acid Tests in December 1965. He missed not..."

Nov. 26, 2010 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Naked City

"...Pranksters has left the bus. Famed wrestler and author Ken Kesey died Saturday in Oregon from complications associated with..."

Nov. 16, 2001 News Feature by Lauri Apple

Zigal Excerpted

"...drinks, as was his wont. I asked him about Ken Kesey and he looked at me coldly and scowled,..."

Sept. 17, 1999 Books Feature by Dick Holland

The Boxing Lesson

Box sets grow up and out

"...– later declared the last "Acid Test" – benefited Ken Kesey's family farm, the Springfield Creamery. The author's Merry..."

Dec. 20, 2013 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Remembering 'Easy Rider' and 'The Last Movie'

CinemaTexas program notes

"...heart of the American dream. In the early Sixties, Kennedy's governmental image was "The New Frontier" at the same..."

June 4, 2010 Screens Feature

How a Collaboration Between Roky Erickson and Doug Sahm Became Part of the Blueprint for Punk Rock

Chapter one of the Austin Punk Chronicles concludes with two local legends setting the stage for a global music revolution

"...sonically violent and dark-toned rock for the NME, Nick Kent, pronounced "Two Headed Dog" a "vision of psychotic dread..."

Aug. 9, 2019 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Playback: Saving Souls at the Electric Church

New venue the Electric Church converts local psychics, and Samuel Grey Horse recounts his mule variations

"...There, Ken Kesey and Timothy Leary have been canonized as patron..."

June 2, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Speaking of the Dead

To mark the Grateful Dead's final performances this weekend, a look back on the band's local history

"...three final concerts in Chicago this Fourth of July weekend, we offer a mostly oral history of their intersection..."

July 3, 2015 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Sunshine Daydreams in the Dark

Grateful Dead and Eric Clapton light up the silver screen

"...Merry Pranksters on hand since the venue belonged to Ken Kesey’s family. Restored in hi-def, with previously unseen footage..."

Aug. 1, 2013 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Love and Death, Underwater

Alison Ellwood's No Limits premieres tonight on ESPN

"...a dive gone horribly wrong. Alison Ellwood (Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place) directs this gripping..."

July 23, 2013 Screens Post by Jessi Cape

Black Coming Up Short in Vision

"...through his own experience and the Prankster and writer Ken Kesey. Brevity was never Louis Black's strong suit as..."

Feb. 1, 2012 Postmarks

Bedside Manner: Return to Bed Station Alpha

Comics, all systems go

"...Gaiman’s American Gods is, because that is well-mapped territory. Ken Kesey’s Sometimes a Great Notion is another novel I..."

Dec. 12, 2011 Books Post by Jason Stout

White Denim

Vinyl Bin

"...Farm" into "Say What You Want." And once the chicken shack's burnt to dirt, ballad "Street Joy," some of..."

Sept. 30, 2011 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Anonymity: Never Gonna Give You Up

Is 4chan Internet freedom's best hope?

"...my personal favorite, Rule 20: "Nothing is to be taken seriously."..."

March 4, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Rise Above

SST Records' Greg Ginn jams econo in Taylor, Texas

"...Whereas Ken Kesey's LSD escapades helped trigger a counterculture awakening on..."

Aug. 21, 2009 Music Feature by Austin Powell

The Insider's Outsider Guide to Texas

Remembering Bud Shrake

"...Strange Peaches (1972) is set in Dallas during the Kennedy assassination, when Shrake and Cartwright were both sportswriters and..."

May 15, 2009 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Rosalie Sorrels

SXSW showcase reviews

"...well as the work of poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, writer Ken Kesey, and folksingers Ramblin' Jack Elliott and Kate Wolf...."

March 27, 2009 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

Music Books

"...on the Bay area band's formative years: hanging with Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters, the various Acid Tests, the heyday..."

May 27, 2005 Music Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

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