It is fascinating, when it isn’t just depressing, how often the things people want lead to exactly the things they don’t want. The other day I was reading G. Gordon Liddy’s book of conservative ...

"Little boxes on the hillside, Little boxes made of ticky-tacky, Little boxes, little boxes, Little boxes, all the same." -- Pete Seeger Pete Seeger made California's high-density, cookie-cutter ...

“Little boxes on the hillside, little boxes made of ticky tacky, little boxes on the hillside, little boxes all the same. There’s a pink one and a green one, and a blue one and a yellow one, and ...

“Little boxes on the hillside, little boxes made of ticky-tacky. Little boxes, little boxes, little boxes all the same.” When Pete Seeger recorded Malvina Reynolds’ “Little Boxes” back in 1963, his ...

Activist Malvina Reynolds decried the “little boxes made of ticky-tacky” turning out people who are “all the same” in the 1960s. Geddy Lee belted out “conform or be cast out” in 1982’s “Subdivisions.” ...

Henry Doelger did not only build ticky-tacky little boxes, though he is most famous for doing just that. Among the thousands of homes Doelger built in San Francisco is a row of 11 very large, ...

“Little boxes on a hillside, little boxes made of ticky-tacky, little boxes, little…” Okay, okay–I’ll stop. But doesn’t The Colony remind you of that town Agrestic from the show Weeds? Well, maybe not ...

It was those first strains of “Little Boxes” that made me sit up and take notice the first time I popped in the screener disc for “Weeds” a few years back. On that first viewing, however, I would’ve ...

Even though the Weeds theme song exploded in popularity after the show’s debut, it wasn’t a new song at all. In fact, “Little Boxes” was released way back in 1962 by folk singer Malvina Reynolds. The ...