I began to sense the work going on beneath the seed-based cheeses and ‘zines. An undercurrent of excitement bearing no relationship to anything on the surface and which ran through the most trivial interactions. I recognized the feeling from my childhood, the excitement that was there when people...

SPECTRE joined Arthurmag’s ring of banner contributors two months ago, but I neglected to give them a proper introduction to our readers. Here’s one they penned…. Spectre Event Horizon Group http://spectregroup.org OPEN DATASHARE CULLED FROM PUBLIC INFORMATION SEARCHES; A COMMUNITY BACKUP OF DATA IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST —————————————– things to talk about at parties —————————————– XXXXX SPECTRE PRIORITY XXXXX Before we had a [...]

DECEMBER 2 — ANDY PALACIO Belizean Garifuna singer, cultural ambassador, folk activist. DECEMBER 2, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS Belgium: LOVERS’ FAIR.������������ FEAST OF PIRATE UTOPIAS. ALSO ON DECEMBER 2 IN HISTORY… 1620 — First English-language newspaper published, Britain. 1859 — Abolitionist...

This just in: Mat Brinkman will be signing at the PictureBox booth at the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival.

This Saturday night, at 7:30, guest curator Aron Rose has put together an impressive roster of short films by (and sometimes about) some of our favorite artists, like Harmony Korine, Cheryl Dunn, Chris Johanson, Spike Jonze, Thomas Campbell, Ed Templeton, and Geoff McFetridge. Special guests...

I had been with Grace and Miro in a hundred kitchens like that. Everything was wood, metal, paper or glass; nothing was disposable. I knew where to look for cloth filters, tea, compost buckets and co-op containers of peanut butter, honey and tahini. I knew how the bread would taste, how the clay...

DECEMBER 1 — ERNST TOLLER Leader of the Munich “soviet” of 1919. Playwright, bohemian, hounded to suicide by the Nazis. “Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so.” DECEMBER 1 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS INTERNATIONAL PRISONERS...

by Ryland Walker Knight Today you can go out and buy one of my favorite movies not only of last year but of all time: Arnaud Desplechin's A Christmas Tale. I'll have more to say over in The Auteurs Notebook shortly, but for here, for now, know now that it's worth every...

by Ryland Walker Knight — Gorgoneion aegis