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July 1971: The Summer When Rock Grew Up Music fans typically survey rock history linearly or chronologically: First, there was Elvis, then the Beatles, then the Summer of Love … and so on. But that’s not really how life works. When artists are creating, they're usually looking at and reacting to what’s happening around them now, not necessarily what happened before them. With that in mind, our below look at July 1971: The Summer When Rock Grew Up zeroes in on that particular time: Who was doing what? Where were they doing it? And why were they doing it? As you'll see, it was a sum...

The First Art Newspaper on the Net   COLLEGEVILLE, PA .- Two new exhibitions at the Berman Museum explore relationships between humans and the natural world. Mapping Climate Change: The Knitting Map and The Tempestry Project unites, for the first time, two innovative textile art projects that give visual and tangible presence to a changing climate at a crucial moment of environmental precariousness. By translating temperature, precipitation, humidity, or wind speed data into stitch and color, these vibrant works potently and poignantly reveal the centrality of weather to notions of identity...

Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images The Doors’ instrumentalists—keyboardist Manzarek, guitarist Krieger, and drummer Densmore—combined backgrounds in classical music and blues with the improvisational daring of a jazz band. It was the dark-edged eroticism of Morrison’s baritone and pseudo-poetic lyrics, however, that set the Los Angeles-based quartet apart from the prevailing hippie utopianism that pervaded West Coast rock in the late 1960s. Morrison’s early death only enhanced his reputation as the quintessential rock showman and troubled artiste for subsequent generations. Morrison...

Jim Morrison wanted to leave rock music for filmmaking, according to a new anthology of his writings compiled by his sister Anne Morrison Chewning, out June 8.

/PRNewswire/ -- Pseudonymous author John H. Mudgett announced that his novella, "Crazy Is as Crazy Does" was recently awarded an eLit Book Awards Silver Medal...