Allen Ginsberg

One Night Only: The Velvet Underground Pay Tribute to Nico and Allen Ginsberg

Tonight, fans of the Velvet Underground will get to see their idols pay tribute to two of their most revered friends and collaborators--just not on the same stage. At Housing Works, Lou Reed will be celebrating the vinyl and digital re-issue of Allen Ginsberg's FIRST BLUES. Across the East River, Jo ... More >>

Sundance 2013: Sex with James Franco, Sultry Scarlett Johansson, Daniel Radcliffe's Jew-Fro, and a Great Film From Jordan

THE GODFATHER

Celebrate Jonas Mekas’s 90th

POETIC LICENSE

Get your Allen Ginsberg fix

The Beat Hotel

HOWL, GRAPHICALLY

Drooker draws Ginsberg

Live: Philip Glass Brings Patti Smith, Allen Ginsberg, The Brooklyn Youth Chorus, And Music In 12 Parts To The Park Avenue Armory

The Park Avenue Armory on Friday night. ​This year's Park Avenue Armory Tune-In Music Festival was dedicated to honoring composer Philip Glass (who, in turn, turned over a large chunk of it to honoring Allen Ginsberg). Sound of the City attended three of the weekend's five offerings, which clo ... More >>

Philip Glass & Patti Smith

NEW MOON

Something to howl about

Q&A: Stephan Said On Creating A Generational Zeitgeist, Collapsing Genre Boundaries, And Meeting Allen Ginsberg

​ New York-based songwriter Stephan Said has played in punk bands, toured in Ween, worked as a migrant worker and befriended and worked with the likes of Allen Ginsberg, Pete Seeger and Patti Smith. The Iraqi-American musician is a longtime grassroots organizer; he had a hand in the 1999 WTO d ... More >>

Is This the Future of the East Village?

​You pass out in the gutter sometime around 11pm to find all your friends have deserted you. You try to get up, bleary-eyed, your face covered with candy wrappers and street scum. As you peel a prophylactic from your face, you look up to see a blindingly bright sign shining right in your blood ... More >>

Howl Should Have Been Better

​I thought James Franco would be the problem with Howl, the new movie about the Allen Ginsberg poem's place in the history of obscenity and art. After all, when you think of Ginsberg, you don't exactly picture the hottest man on earth, a sort of nouvelle James Dean with moist eyes and pouty l ... More >>

Nothing Is Holy (Holy! Holy!) in Howl

Stonewall: Gay Power Comes to Sheridan Square

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. July 3, 1969, Vol. XIV, No. 38 Gay Power Comes To Sheridan Square by Lucian Truscott IV Sheridan Square this weekend looked like something from a William Burroughs novel as the sudden specter of "gay power" erected its brazen head and ... More >>

Tuli Kupferberg: Model Village Citizen, 1923-2010

​Most afternoons in the 1970s, you could find Tuli Kupferberg, the poet and folksinger who died yesterday at 86, peddling his penny poems along Sixth Avenue. He would hang out at the corner of West 8th Street outside of the old Nathan's. The poems were always little gems of anarchist menace, a ... More >>

Reality Star Gets Paid Peanuts!

Shooting from the hips about Allen Ginsberg, Ron Galella, and other provocateurs

Oh, Those Hippies: A Store Where Everything Is Free

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. September 28, 1967, Vol. XII, No. 50 Everything's Free, But Don't Steal It By Don McNeill The one rule was "No Stealing." Aside from that, it was a free-for-all from the moment the Diggers opened the doors to the Free Store Thursday n ... More >>

William Burroughs Got His First Morphine Hit from This Guy

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. September 21, 1967, Vol. XII, No. 49 Huncke the Juncke: Godfather to Naked Lunch By Don McNeill My phone rang on a hot morning in July a year ago and it as Allen Ginsberg. "Do you know Herbert Huncke?" Ginsberg asked. "Have you ever m ... More >>

Clip Job: A Gathering of the Tribes in SF

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 19, 1967, Vol. XII, No. 14 Scenes By Howard Smith I received two air mail special letters and one phone call from three different San Francisco friends who wanted to tell me about an event that became what all three described ... More >>

Clip Job: The Original Head Shop, and Congress Drops Acid with Allen Ginsberg

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. June 23, 1966, Vol. XI, No. 36 Scenes By Howard Smith One of the primary satisfactions of using drugs is the element of ritual -- rolling, tying up, snorting. All contain sexual sublimations that could, and maybe do, make a religion. ... More >>

Clip Job: Feds Looking to Set Up Ginsberg?

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. April 21, 1966, Vol. XI, No. 27 U.S. Tried to 'Set Up' Ginsberg for Dope Run By Marlene Nadle Musician Jack William Martin, underground film-maker Jack Smith, and poet Piero Heliczer were convicted last week in Federal court of assa ... More >>

Clip Job: Subvert the Establishment!

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesFebruary 11, 1965, Vol. X, No. 17Movie JournalBy Jonas MekasSome people tell us: stay away from the Establishment; the Establishment will swallow you; you'll become the new Establishment.But I reason this way: There is a great beauty in Brakha ... More >>

Clip Job: Allen Ginsberg Likes Himself Naked

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesFebruary 4, 1965, Vol. X, No. 16Chamberlain's NudesBy Nicolas CalasAllen Ginsberg writes that he now likes to see himself naked "because for years I thought I was ugly, I still do, but no longer look at myself through my own eyes...I feel desi ... More >>

JUST BEAT IT

1955 is back!

Clip Job: Ginsberg and Orlovsky -- Legalize Pot!

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesDecember 31, 1964, Vol. X, No. 11Pickets for Pot Push LegalizationBy Mary Perot NicholsIn a light drizzle on a gloomy last Sunday, a dedicated picket line marched in front of the City Department of Welfare's headquarters on the east side of To ... More >>

Fringe Festival 2009 Reviews

Clip Job: Ginsberg, Other Writers and Artists Bemoan "Licensing"

Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesMarch 26, 1964, Vol. IX, No. 23City Puts Bomb Under Off-Beat Culture SceneBy Stephanie Gervis HarringtonThe current zeal of the City's Department of Licenses for the strict enforcement of licensing regulations against small avant-garde creative v ... More >>

Clip Job: Beyond the Beats

And the Beat Goes On

The Howl Festival is back

Clip Job: Paul Newman, Activist

Clip Job: Allen Ginsberg, Prince of the Beat Generation

Clip Job: Allen Ginsberg On Norman Podhoretz's 'Ridiculous Fat-Bellied Mind'

Class Action: Listings

Cred Sheet

Stuff You Need to Know to Avoid Cultural Ostracism

Off the Road

Hey, Jack Kerouac, I know you dressed like a bum, but a shop in Soho is selling your boots for $475

The Beat Root

Chronicling the adventures of Beat seeker Allen Ginsberg

A Half-Century Later, Ginsberg's Epic Poem Still Roars

The Birth of the 'Voice': 1955–1965

From the Beats to Civil Rights, Lenny Bruce to Warhol's Factory . . .

The Bohemian Diaspora

Angel-Headed Hipsters Get Ready for Wigstock

Rebel Yells

Of pride and punches: The fight for gay rights

Horoscope

Beat Happening

Adrift in the valley of lost men, or Ph'nglui mglw'nath Jack Kerouac wagn'nagl fhtagn

Independents Day: Celebrate it with a Salute to City Lights

Photo Shop

Open City

East Village Buddha

Elodie Lauten Frames Allen Ginsberg in Satie-esque Calm

Poetry Project

'Ginsberg and Friends' at Sotheby's

Blast to the Past