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...

Although Roger Reynolds has been based in California for the last 40 years, his Midwest upbringing and formative experiences in both Europe and Asia have given him a world view that knows no boundaries. Read the interview...

By Frank J. Oteri I've always been emotionally and artistically drawn to the West Coast, but I'm not completely convinced that I'm drawn to a specifically "Californian" aesthetic, since I'm doubtful that such generalizations are possible.

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

The Blackberry Apocalypse was settling into a traffic menace and maybe Sasha was right that not much had actually changed, but I saw it differently. Over the digital streams and dammed expressways, my flag flew like gauze in front of the stars… Download: ZAZEN, Chapter 21 — “Into the Snow” (62k...

Susan Boyle has made U.K. chart history. The former Britain’s Got Talent contestant sold over 410,000 copies of her debut album I Dreamed a Dream in its first week of release, making it the fastest-selling album of 2009 as well earning the biggest first-week sales of any album in U.K. chart...

On November 24, 2009, America lost Hale Smith whose works musically intertwined the dialectic between African American identity and European traditions.