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Battle Of The Venice Beach Beatniks.

An interesting article about some in-fighting amongst the Venice Beach beatniks who frequented The Gas House. From the April 1960 issue of Modern Man. Makes mention of the Miss Beatnik Contest. Found here.

Jazz Pulps

Make Your Own Goatee

A little over a year ago, Brantford had it's first annual jazz fest in the newly finished Harmony Square downtown. It was a great success and at the Brantford Arts Block we had a beatnik themed coffee house type of thing going on, I dj'd jazz and beat novelties, we had poetry readings and screened some films. My friend Robbie P. created some create your own goatee crafts for the kids. I tried putting these up back then but had a bunch of trouble with google and I only recently came across them again, so in the spirit of Halloween and beatnik costumes, here it is.

Ralph - Modern Canadian Beatnik

I wish I knew a little more about Ralph, you can watch some videos here.

New Blog

Head on over to The Record Collectors Hot Platters for some cool beatnik tunes and other cool stuff.

My Costume...?

Found over at Retrospace