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...

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

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...

NOVEMBER 30 — MOTHER JONES “Iʼm no lady, Iʼm a hell-raiser.” Labor radical, agitator. NOVEMBER 30 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS… ST. ANDREW’S DAY. JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER DAY. ALSO ON NOVEMBER 30 IN HISTORY… 1667 — Satirist Jonathan Swift born, Dublin, Ireland. 1835 — American humorist and social critic...