As California aims to reform cafeteria food, Chez Panisse’s Alice Waters uses a new book to make the case for connecting ...

After more than two decades of being away from the dining scene, Chi-Chi's is making its long-awaited comeback. Chi-Chi's Mexican restaurant will celebrate the grand opening of its flagship location ...

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 ...