The truth of the song is stretched out, but it still happened—even if Arlo Guthrie wrote him and Alice (remember, it’s a song about Alice) and Robbins into a predicament no one else lived through.

Alice Brock, the Massachusetts restaurant owner and artist who inspired folk artist Arlo Guthrie's "Alice's Restaurant Massacree," died at 83 on Nov. 20 in Provincetown, Massachusetts, as Guthrie ...

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 ...

Arlo Guthrie has posted a remembrance for his friend Alice Brock, whose namesake restaurant inspired the title of his most famous song, the 1967 ditty “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree.” ...

When Seeger was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996, Arlo Guthrie noted the song's success, adding, "I can't think of a single event in Pete's life that is probably less important ...

Arlo Guthrie often pointed out that the length of “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree” is nearly identical to the infamous gap in the Nixon tapes. Who knew? The opening sentence of Joan Vennochi ...

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.

Thanksgiving doesn’t really have carols — except for “Alice’s Restaurant,” the quirky Arlo Guthrie song whose namesake, Alice Brock, died last week. Thanksgiving has generally resisted ...

Alice, famously immortalized in Arlo Guthrie’s 1967 classic Alice’s Restaurant Massacree, passed away last week. The song, which recounts a Thanksgiving meal at a deconsecrated church where ...