Thinking about punk rock gives one the strange sensation of witnessing a phenomenon and trying to make intellectual sense of it rather than being immersed in it. That of course ages you immediately. No matter what your “sympathies” are toward …
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History of the Fifth Estate
by Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 347, Spring, 1996
“The Fifth Estate supports the cause of revolution everywhere.” —FBI Report In my estimation, the above twelve-word summary by the nation’s secret police serves adequately as an abbreviated history of this paper on the occasion of its 30th anniversary.
Press Censorship
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 53, May 1-15, 1968
Subtle and more unsubtle pressure has caused Detroit’s three up front papers to experience difficulties in the last few weeks in getting their papers printed.
David Busted
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 53, May 1-15, 1968
For the first time a presidential candidate has been busted for dealing grass.
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 63, October 3-16, 1968
Dear Beautiful People, As I was sitting in Grant Park in Chicago August 28 what to my tear-gassed eyes should appear but a beautiful young girl with a free copy of the Fifth Estate. She handed me a copy with …
Elektra buys 5
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 63, October 3-16, 1968
In a lightning move, Elektra Records signed the MC5 and the Stooges to long-term recording contracts in New York September 26. The move was engineered by Elektra’s publicity director, Danny Fields, who flew out to hear the bands last weekend …
Masthead
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 63, October 3-16, 1968
THE FIFTH ESTATE A NEWSPAPER OF DETROIT EDITORS Harvey Ovshinsky Peter Werbe EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Cathy West CIRCULATION Tommye Wiese NEWS EDITOR Alan Gotkin MUSIC EDITOR John Sinclair PHOTO EDITOR Mike Tyre ART DIRECTION Blallen ADVERTISING Gunnar Lewis CALENDAR Resa Jannett …
Off Center
by Sol Plafkin
Fifth Estate # 30, May 15-31, 1967
One nice thing about public feuds between politicians is that it gives everybody a rare chance to see part of what’s going on inside governmental circles. We learn, that at least to some extent, many decisions are made on the …
Fifth Estate Staff
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 30, May 15-31, 1967
EDITORS Harvey Ovshinsky Peter Werbe EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Cathy West NEWS EDITOR Frank Joyce ART Gary Grimshaw MUSIC & LITERARY EDITOR John Sinclair CALENDAR Rhona Whipple FILM EDITORS Joe Fineman Shirley Hamburg ADVERTISING Leon Brenner CIRCULATION Wilson Lindsey TRAVEL EDITOR Sheil …
Excerpts from a Rebellion
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 398, Summer, 2017
The following are excerpts from stories published in the Fifth Estate immediately following the July 1967 events. Reading them a half century later, one is saddened and angered by the fact that the causes of the Rebellion—police brutality, racial discrimination, …
The Coatpuller
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 30, May 15-31, 1967
A lot has happened since the last time I wrote this column, and I still don’t know what’ll come of it, but all we can do is ride it out and see what we can do with it. My own …
Cops Riot at Belle Isle
by Frank H. Joyce
Fifth Estate # 30, May 15-31, 1967
“When you have $50 billion invested in defense what you need most isn’t allies but an enemy.” — Nelson Algren said in Ramparts, May, 1967. When you have policemen on horses and Tactical Mobile Units with little baseball bats and …
Trans-Love Relocates In Warren-Forest
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 39, October 1-15, 1967
After two years on the corner of John Lodge and Warren Avenue the Artist’s Workshop (now known equally as Trans-Love Energies) has moved to the campus side of the expressway and will set up shop in a long-vacant former doctor’s …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 38, September 15-30, 1967
Dearest Hippie Editor: I think you guys at the Fifth Estate are the biggest clot of hypocrites I have ever had witness to. Some people wrote some letters to the Editor in your Aug. 15-31 issue. They called you hypocrites. …
Staff
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 38, September 15-30, 1967
THE FIFTH ESTATE 1107 W. Warren Detroit 48201 831-6800 EDITORS Harvey Ovshinsky Peter Werbe NEWS EDITOR Frank Joyce EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Cathy West CIRCULATION MANAGER Tommye Wiess MUSIC & LITERARY EDITOR John Sinclair ART Gary Grimshaw FILM EDITOR Joe Fineman CALENDAR …