On Friday — less than a week before Thanksgiving — the town dealt with another case of illegal dumping, this time at the ...

A look at how communal potlucks, student apartments and social media shaped a tradition that long predated its 2007 name.

Gasp. "Alice's Restaurant" is pushing 40. Gasp. "Alice's Restaurant" is pushing 40. Singer-songwriter Arlo Guthrie laughs, asked how aging flower children -- who didn't trust anyone over 30 -- react ...

No folk music collection is complete without the all-time classic 1967 LP, Arlo Guthrie’s debut, the entire first side of which was the 18-minute opus called “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree.” It was a ...

Growing up in Milwaukee in the 1950s, Jim Abrahams and brothers Jerry Zucker and David Zucker attended the same synagogue, high school and later college, where they enjoyed a reputation as class ...

I enjoyed Joan Vennochi’s Nov. 26 Opinion column, “ ‘Alice’s Restaurant’ — a fun sing-along or a serious antiwar song?” Arlo Guthrie often pointed out that the length of “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree” ...

On Thanksgiving, 1965, Arlo Guthrie, an 18-year-old leftist singer songwriter, went to a local Massachusetts landfill only to find it closed and instead dumped some trash on a hillside. The event ...

Every year around Thanksgiving, radio stations play Arlo Guthrie's epic song, "Alice's Restaurant." For many people, the song is a Thanksgiving tradition. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "ALICE'S RESTAURANT ...

ARLO GUTHRIE: (Singing) You can get anything you want at Alice's restaurant. SHAPIRO: The song was inspired by 1960s artist Alice Brock, who died last week at the age of 83. Viki Merrick was a close ...