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...

Hey, I don’t know about you but today seems like the perfect day for some ridiculous French ukelele-synth pop with a cheesy mod-60’s feel. Impossible to find? Ha! Easy to find thanks to the lovely and strange Mareva Galanter. Her 2007 album Ukuyeye is a thrillingly silly and fun mash up of classic...

The Wildhouse Genre: Indie / Pop From: Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom I've always been worried by bands who issue their own manifesto. They're usually po-faced, self important arseholes who think that living in a squat makes them superior to the rest of us drones...

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...

After testing her acting chops with guest runs on the revamped “Melrose Place” and “CSI,” Ashlee Simpson has made her way to Broadway. The pop singer is currently starring in Chicago as Roxie Hart, a role she previously tackled during on London’s West End in 2006. [MTV.com] The popularity of...

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...

Discussed: Sigmund Freud, Terence McKenna, Georges Bataille Audio files of Peter Lamborn Wilson lectures are available at archive.org

White Witches Genre: Alt / Pop From: London, United Kingdom I received an email out of the blue from Dave Barnett (alumni of The New Royal Family, Luxembourg, Pure, Greenheart) about his new and as yet little known London band White Witches (not to be...