NOVEMBER 28 — EMMETT GROGAN San Francisco “Diggers” leader, “A Life Played for Keeps.” “Anything anybody can say about America is true.” NOVEMBER 28 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS MAKE YOUR OWN HEAD DAY. ALSO ON NOVEMBER 28 IN HISTORY… 1628 — Pilgrim’s Progress author John Bunyan born, Elstow...

Eda Zavala Lopez is a Shaman visiting from the Rainforest of Peru. This is a rare and special opportunity to hear Lopez talk in an intimate setting on topics such as Rainforest preservation, feminine shamanism, ancient healing techniques, and other traditions passed down from her ancestors. Read on...

Cage The ElephantGenres: Alternative Rock, Punk Rock, Funk Rock From: Bowling Green, KY, U.S. Imagine for a second that the Replacements didn’t reign over the Midwest, and instead Westerberg and company wrote their brand of raw-bone rock...

Hipped to this via a first-time-in-forever interview with Liz Fraser at The Guardian… Stream: Download: Jeff Buckley & Elizabeth Fraser – “All Flowers In Time Bend Towards The Sun” (unfinished) (mp3)

NOVEMBER 27 — FERNAND BRAUDEL Revolutionary French historian of material life. “Events are the ephemera of history; they pass across its stage like fireflies, hardly glimpsed before they settle back into darkness and as often as not into oblivion. Every event, however brief, has to be sure a...

This week, we celebrate Thanksgiving here in America, and we’d like to give thanks to everyone who reads the Jamz every week. We do this for you and hopefully you’ve all found some decent groups throughout the year. We’ll be rounding up our faves in a couple weeks and there are still two spots open...

Classical cellist Matt Haimovitz has been astounding audiences –- and confounding critics –- with his edgy, high tech "Figment" tour and album. In his own words, Matt talks with AMG about embracing non-traditional venues, new technology and his collaboration with new music composer Du Yun.

MONO NO AWARE IS AN INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF EXPANDED CINEMA PERFORMANCES. TAKING ITS NAME FROM THE JAPANESE EXPRESSION MEANING -THE PATHOS OF THINGS-. THE CONCEPT IS TO PRESENT WORK WHICH IS EPHEMERAL IN NATURE WITH AN EMPHASIS ON THE CINEMATIC EXPERIENCE. RECENT ADVANCEMENTS IN TECHNOLOGY HAVE...

Originally published in Arthur Magazine No. 10 (available from the store), with an illustration by Brian Ralph… “I could use some flip-flops” What if Godzilla was one of us? A slightly testy King of Monsters reflects on his long career in this exclusive interview with Dave Tompkins Known for his bad sense of direction, Godzilla “King of the [...]