San Francisco-based band Grateful Dead released their fifth album “American Beauty” in 1970, kicking off a decade of peasant blouses with protests, bell-bottom pants with bombings and godfathers with ...

If you’re looking for hints and answers for Strands for Wednesday, September 4, 2024, read on—I’ll share some clues and tips, and finally the solution to the puzzle with the theme “American beauty.” ...

The Grateful Dead were not, by most people’s definition, a band fit for the studio. To condense their songwriting and penchant for free flowing jams into the sort of sterile, structured environment ...

Oscar-winning actor Chris Cooper tells PEOPLE at the Tuesday, Sept. 2, second premiere of his new movie The History of Sound that everyone who made 1999's American Beauty was aware it would prove ...

The Oscar-winning writer isn't even sure "American Beauty" would get made today given its polarizing storyline. “I feel really sad because of what happened with Kevin had sort of left its mark on it,” ...