Kristen Stewart makes a splash at the Cannes Film Festival with her directorial debut The Chronology of Water.

Stewart’s first steps as a director came eight years ago with the short “Come Swim,” which she also premiered in Cannes, in ...

She presents Lidia Yuknavitch’s story as a series of impressionistic closeup moments that sear themselves into you as if every shot were a sentence ripped from a hidden diary. This is the beauty of ...

On Monday, her book took home the Ken Kesey Award for Fiction at the 2025 Oregon Book Awards ceremony. Parsons’ book has earned national acclaim as well, taking readers on an exploration of a ...

And in another nod to the past, the album cover is based on a rough pencil sketch of McMurtry by Ken Kesey, Larry McMurtry’s fellow student (and frequent rival) at the Stanford Creative Writing ...

The year prior, Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest had brought attention to the crude treatments in mental institutions, and like the novel’s protagonist, the president’s sister ...

The film, based on a book by Ken Kesey, also won Oscars for best picture, director, adapted screenplay and actor (Jack Nicholson). Fifty years after the film was released, let’s take a look at ...

Susan Palmer reported from Ken Kesey's farm in Pleasant Hill that, "A merry band of pranksters, young and old, gathered for a potluck, film and bonfire." "At midnight, a cascade of fireworks lit ...

Formed in Austin, Texas, but of no fixed abode for much of their late-’80s heyday, the Butthole Surfers resembled a cross between Ken Kesey’s Merry Pranksters and the early, no-budget Alice ...

Back in 1968 the story of Ken Kesey’s Merry Pranksters and their attempts to spread the gospel of LSD was not exactly breaking news – it had not, as the saying goes, been torn from the screaming ...

“It was tremendous,” he says. Babbs and Ken Kesey emceed the event. “The band finished with ‘Dark Star,’ and it is still the best version ever done anywhere,” Babbs says. Babbs and Ken Kesey were ...

Eugene’s a university town, with the University of Oregon, and Springfield was a mill town. I don’t know how much you’ve read Ken Kesey over the years, but Kesey [who grew up in Springfield] captured ...