With Taking Woodstock in theaters today, hippies are on our mind. Specifically those scantily clad, flowers-in-the-hair, joint-tugging types who make us children of the ’80s wish we had a DeLorean, a ...

Back to Our Future: How the 1980s Explain the World We Live in Now—Our Culture, Our Politics, Our Everything, by David Sirota, Ballantine Books, 220 pages, $25 Sirota thinks the '80s marked the ...

What blacklight posters were to the 1960s is what fuzzy posters were to the 1980s. At least that's what Sean Choquette, inventor of the fuzzy poster, says. Choquette was the creative director of ...

The man whose bearded visage adorns one of America’s best known natural brands — and the co-founder of a multimillion-dollar company who missed out on a large part of its good fortune — is gone. Burt ...

We are preoccupied with war and a contentious presidential race. Taxpayers are bailing out the mortgage industry, and Woody Allen is directing Puccini. These are confusing times. Little wonder that ...

He starred in a movie franchise as a gun-slinging survivalist where he battled monstrous worms that lurked under the Nevada desert. And, as a model railroad enthusiast, is also the 'celebrity ...

PARKMAN, Maine — Burt’s Bees co-founder Burt Shavitz died Sunday. He was 80. A spokeswoman for the natural cosmetics company said Shavtiz died at his home in rural Maine, where he was surrounded by ...

Few people in the world can say their faces have been seen in thousands of households, or been touched by millions of hands. But Burt Shavitz—co-founder of Burt’s Bees, one of America’s most popular ...