By Jay Schneider, L.C.S.W. “Good morning! What we have here is breakfast in bed for four hundred thousand.” Hugh Romney (Wavy Gravy). The Woodstock Arts and Music Festival kicked off on August 15, 1969. On a 600 acre dairy farm in the small town of Bethel, New York, attendees came to see 32 of the [...]

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By Gina Simmons, Ph.D. I always expected Michael Jackson to die young. Remembering Elvis, Hendrix, Joplin and Cobain, it seemed fitting that Michael would join the ranks of great talents taken too soon. All of these talented musicians struggled with substance abuse that contributed to their untimely ends. I’m sad about the lost creative potential [...]

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