“COMMAND PERFORMANCE”

The Arthur Magazine Email Bulletin

No. 0066

February 02, 02007

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Get up and get on out,

1. OPENING TOMORROW: ARTHUR PRESENTS “RADICAL LIVING PAPERS” IN NYC

“RADICAL LIVING PAPERS”

A history of the free, alternative, counter-culture and underground press, 1965-75

Gavin Brown’s enterprise at PASSERBY

436 W. 15th Street,

New York, NY 10011

February 2 – March 7, 2007

Opening reception: Friday, February 2, 2007, 6pm

“The Council for the Fortieth Anniversary of The Summer of Love with Gavin Brown’s enterprise opens and invites you to an exhibition of the world’s most radical living papers from a time when the press took risks and voiced opinions.

Celebrating the heyday of alternative magazine publishing in Europe and America, Gavin Brown’s enterprise at Passerby opens an exhibition of more than two hundred original copies, as well as reproductions of these seminal and obscure publications, whose influence reverberates through culture, politics, and society.

         Covering politics, revolutions, evolutions of the planets, freak-outs, love-ins, support of green politics, gay liberation, power to the people, the peace parties, protests, the Panthers, peyote, LSD, pot, fiction, music, poetry, prose, prayers and more. Publications include: Actuel, Avatar, Berkeley Barb, Berkeley Tribe, Black Panther Papers, Digger Papers, Door, East Village Other [EVO], The Fifth Estate, Freep, Grabuge, Hobo-Québec, International Times [it], Los Angeles Free Press, The Oracle, The Organ, Other Scenes, OZ, Rat, The Realist, Re Nudo, Rolling Stone, The Seed, Ann Arbor Sun

.more.

Please note: A press conference to the unified, positive forces actively involved in the community will be held at 6pm on Friday, February 2, 2007, with active members of today’s free press.

Curated by Eva Prinz, Dan Donahue, and Thurston Moore”

More info:

http://www.gavinbrown.biz/passerby/passerby.html

Check out Arik Roper’s poster for the event at

http://www.arthurmag.com/magpie/?p=1646

2. THANKYOUFORLETTINUSBEOURSELVESEVERYWEEK.

Please join us for an evening of music, spirits and celebration 

tonight tonight TONIGHT at 

The Echo Park Social(ist) & Pleasure Club

Thursday, Feb 1

and every Thursday night

10pm-close

at

LITTLE JOY

1477 Sunset Blvd in Echo Park

FREE FREE FREE 

21 & up

presented by ARTHUR Magazine, L.A. RECORD (RETURNING FEB. 15 TO FINISH THE JOB OF FIXING L.A.’S MUSIC SCENE!!!!!) and the good ol’ Journal for Aesthetics and Protest

Tonight’s deejays will be 

10pm-1100pm: a special unnamed somebody spinning soul music (f/c Sly Stone remasters, etc)

1100pm-1230am: Arthur Art Directors Mark Frohman & Molly “The New Herbalist” Frances

1230am – close: Arthur contributor Peter Relic

Tonight’s bartender will be Arthur Magazine’s “Do the Math” pundit Dave Reeves. 

If you were there last week, you heard deejay ZACH COWIE play records by

little feat

david blue

bobbie gentry

the beach boys

dino valente

led zeppelin

norman greenbaum

gandalf

ron cornelius

buckingham nicks

denny doherty (rip, our brother)

johnny darrell

steely dan

randy newman

tony joe white

nrbq

robert palmer

grateful dead

neil young

supa

fotheringay

carole king

wimple winch

and 

thunderclap newman

(not necessarily in that order)

4. CAN YOU DEAL WITH THE ARTHURMAGPIE BLOG

http://www.arthurmag.com/magpie/

5. LAST WEEK’S BENEFIT FOR ALL-AGES L.A. HOTSPACE IL CORRAL….

…was a triumph raising over $1500 for a brand new club for this worthy venue! Congrats to everyone!

How did you get so damn beautiful,

Arthur’s Little Helpers

Atwater Village, California