“COMMAND PERFORMANCE”
The Arthur Magazine Email Bulletin
No. 0072
April 12, 02007
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1. BOLLES SAGA UPDATE
Don Bolles is free on bail paid by friends and supporters via paypal. He has colorfully denied all the charges. Dr. Bronner’s is paying for his legal representation. He has a court hearing tomorrow: Friday the 13th. Improbable, we know, but then that’s Don. “Germ Busted for Soap,” a GREAT sum-up by veteran journalist Dean Kuipers is in this week’s LACityBeat, online at
http://www.lacitybeat.com/article.php?id=5328&IssueNum=201
2. IT’S APRIL 12 WHICH MEANS IT’S YURI’S NIGHT AND YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS.
From yurisnight.net:
“‘Let’s go!’ These were the words spoken by Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin as he embarked on the historic first manned space flight on 12 April 1961. Twenty years later on 12 April 1981, the US launched the first space shuttle flight. We think that’s something worth celebrating – so we do! Every year on April 12th, Yuri’s Night is celebrated all around the world – last year there were over 90 events or parties held in over 30 countries worldwide – and 2007 looks set to be even bigger. Whether in someone’s living room, a swinging nightclub or a world-class science museum, Yuri’s Night events all have one thing in common – people who are excited about space exploration and who want to join together to celebrate it.
Peace, Love, Space,
Loretta Hidalgo Whitesides
Co-Creator, Yuri’s Night
George Whitesides
Co-Creator, Yuri’s Night
3. PEACE, LOVE, ECHO PARK
Arthur Magazine and LARecord present
The Echo Park Social(ist) & Pleasure Club
Thursday, April 12
and EVERY Thursday night
930pm sharp
at
LITTLE JOY
1477 Sunset Blvd in Echo Park
((( free )))
21 & up
Tonight’s YURI’S NIGHT SPECTACULAR will be deejayed by
930pm-1100pm: ASTRID QUAY (Winter Flowers)
1100pm-1230am: PETER ALBERTS (Arthur, etc)
1230am-lights out: B+ (Mochilla)
Last week, Daniel Chamberlin “was more or less winging it but I sort of remember playing this stuff though not necessarily in this order: Herbie Hancock, Monomono, Ofege, The Paragons, David Axelrod, Miriam Makeba, Ironcickles, Osibisa, John Holt, Black Uhuru, Susan Cadogan, Jim Nastic & Sound Dimensions, E.T. Mensah & Dr. Victor Olaiya and some field recordings from Afghanistan.” Ron Rege played Devo, Capt. Beefheart, USAISAMONSTER and Nico covering the doors. Becky Stark played Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell duets. Jay Babcock played Tim Maia, Som Imaginario, more Tim Maia, Sly & the Family Stone, Lavender Diamond, yet more Tim Maia and Brightblack Morning Light.
4. WE HAVE ISSUES. BACK ISSUES.
Are you missing Arthur? Buy old issues. Heck, buy the whole run. We’re selling individual copies and entire runs of the rag for cheap cheap cheap online at
http://www.arthurmag.com/store/
5. IT’S YOUR BIOSPHERE TOO
“Urban Permaculture Design and Community: Cultivating Relational Intelligence and Practical Solutions for a Climate-Changing World”
Kat Steele
Friday, April 13 @ 5pm
Hear from a leader in the next generation of bay area permaculture designers as she shares perspectives on the evolving holistic design system and process. What is this design system? Why is it unique? How can it work in our suburbs and cities? How can Permaculture help address the issues of sustainability and community food security in our urban ecologies? Kat offers living and working examples of how projects integrate permaculture principles with green building, affordable housing, new technologies, green businesses and education, and social and economic justice! Hear how Permaculture can be used to best prepare and respond to the climatic and social transitions that we are facing today. In addition to her own work she’ll screen a short film about the innovative City Repair project of Portland, Oregon and lead a discussion about this evolutionary place-making phenomena
Katherine “Kat” Steele is a permaculture activist, designer, educator and founder the Urban Permaculture Guild in Oakland, California. She facilitates workshops on natural building and permaculture as well as publicly speaks about eco-social design, city repair and the power of placemaking. Trained in Ecovillage Design with the Findhorn Foundation of Scotland, Natural Building with Kleiwerks International and Permaculture Design with the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center she also holds an MA in Creative Arts from San Francisco State University. She presently serves on the board of two Bay Area Non Profit Organizations devoted to Peace, Justice and Sustainablity, the NorCal Chapter of Architects, Designers, Planners for Social Responsibility (ADPSR) in Berkeley and Bay Localize in Oakland.
“How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World”
Paul Stamets
Friday, April 13 @ 7:30pm
As we are now well engaged in the 6th Major Extinction (“6 X”) on planet Earth, our biosphere is quickly changing, eroding the life support systems that have allowed humans to ascend. Unless we put into action policies and technologies that can cause a course correction in the very near future, species diversity will continue to plummet, with humans not only being the primarily cause, but one of the victims. What can we do? I think fungi, particularly mushrooms, offer some powerful, practical solutions, that can be put into practice now.
Paul Stamets will discuss the evolution of mushrooms in ecosystems and how fungi can help heal environments. As environmental health and human health are inextricably interconnected, fungi offer unique opportunities that capitalize on mycelium’s diverse properties. Forest dwelling mushroom mycelium can achieve the greatest mass of any living organism – this characteristic is a testimonial to its inherent biological power.
Mushroom mycelium can replace chemical pesticides, break down toxic wastes, including petroleum-based products such as diesel, dioxins, and numerous other toxins into non-toxic forms. Understanding mycelium’s production of antibiotics is useful not only to compete with bacteria in nature but has also proven useful for treating animal diseases. Since bacterial can be vectors for viruses, interesting strategies emerge for supporting ecological health using mycelium as ecological medicine.
About a dozen species of medicinal mushrooms will be explored from a historical perspective leading to the clinical studies in which Paul is participating. Moreover, he will discuss his work with the U.S. Departments’ Bioshield BioDefense program, wherein his extracts were the first natural products from hundreds of thousands of samples tested found to be potent inhibitors of pox and other viruses. The field of mushroom-based medicines is rapidly expanding and this talk will show how mycomedicines can be incorporated in daily living to improve the quality of life while protecting the biosphere.
Farmlab / Under Spring, 1745 N. Spring Street #4, LA, CA 90012
Across the street from the site of the Not A Cornfield project, in a warehouse colocated at Baker Street and N. Spring Street
Salons are always free-of-charge, all ages welcome.
Refreshments will be served.
6. ARTHUR MAGPIE BLOG IS PRETTY HAPPENING RIGHT NOW
Articles from the cancelled Arthur No. 26 are being posted at the blog.
PLUS: new bloggers means more blog action more of the time on more subjects.
Take a gander or two at
http://www.arthurmag.com/magpie/
7. IRA COHEN “INVASION OF THUNDERBOLT PAGODA” DVD – SECOND PRINTING SHIPS JUNE 1 – YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED
Pre-order now:
http://www.arthurmag.com/news/index.php
8. THE NEW HERBALIST 2007 ZODIAC POSTER BY MOLLY FRANCES
Download it FREE from
http://www.arthurmag.com/magpie/?p=1704
9. STATE OF THE MAGAZINE
Here’s the Village Voice blog story on our comeback — brackets are ours:
http://villagevoice.com/blogs/pressclipsextra/archives/2007/04/arthur_ii_the_r.php
Arthur II: The Resurrection
posted: 10:54 AM, April 10, 2007
by Keach Hagey
Look what rose from the grave, just in time for Easter Sunday.
Arthur Magazine, pronounced dead by its editor a month ago, announced late last week that it would come back to life in the next few months.
The afterlife for the five-year-old music, culture, politics and drug magazine arrived courtesy of a “trusted intermediary” who got feuding partners Jay Babcock, the LA-based editor, and Laris Kreslins, the Philadelphia-based publisher, back to the negotiating table late last month. Babcock bought out Kreslins’ share with the help of loans from friends and family.
The deal marks the end of a tiff that started on Jan. 3, when Kreslins informed Babcock that he [Babcock] could no longer publish the bimonthly magazine, but some hard feelings remain.
“I shouldn’t have had to do this,” Babcock said. “Now I’m in deeper debt than before.”
Kreslins, who runs the tourism website movetophilly.com with his girlfriend, always disputed Babcock’s claims that the magazine was finished. His publishing company, Lime Publishing, seized control of Arthur’s assets, trademark and website, where it posted news that the bimonthly publication was on “indefinite hiatus.”
[…]
Kreslins’ bolt for the door locked up the magazine’s credit line and killed the momentum of Issue number 26, which was schedule to lead with a feature on Yoko Ono by Thurston Moore and Byron Coley and drop in time for the March South By Southwest Festival. The delay has meant much of that issue’s content was lost.
“Features walked,” Babcock said. “It’s a total shame.”
Some of content wandered over to other websites, such as The Seth Man’s piece on Sly and the Family Stone, found its way onto Julian Cope’s Head Heritage site. But others are now posted in blog, form on the magazine’s website, now controlled by Babcock.
But the cloud of hiatus had some silver linings. Friends “came out of the woodwork . .. and out of the woods,” to offer a hand to the magazine in its time of need, Babcock said. Plans for CD and DVD releases are in the works, as well as a book anthology of the best of the last five years’ journalism. The sold-out “Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda” DVD will be back in print June 1, and the next issue of the 50,000-circulation magazine will come out “as soon as necessary financing is in place,” he said.
[…]
Babcock speaks the language of legend when discussing the publishing pause. For the last few weeks, the magazine’s website has featured an Aubrey Beardley-esqe drawing of the Lady of the Lake from Arthurian legend with the caption “Arthur is in Avalon.” In some versions of the story, he explained, the lady presides over the British island of Avalon, where Arthur is sent to heal his wounds.
“The whole thing [in the mythology] is that [Arthur] will return in our time of need,” Babcock said. “He is supposed to die and come back.”
10. KURT VONNEGUT R.I.P.
So it goes,
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