Arthur No. 35 (August 2013)
Broadsheet newspaper
Contents:
ON THE TRAIL OF THE LONESOME SNOCK
Wily folkplayer MICHAEL HURLEY (aka Elwood Snock) has charmed hip
audiences for over fifty years now with his timeless surrealist tunes
and sweetly weird comics, all the while maintaining a certain ornery,
outsider mystique. Longtime Snockhead/Arthur Senior Writer BYRON COLEY
investigates this Wild American treasure in an enormous 11,000-word,
8-PAGE feature replete with rare photos, artwork, comics... and a giant
color portrait by Liz Devine. Snock attack!
CHEW THE LEAVES, GET IN THE TANK
Inside Baltimore’s T HILL, new kinds of experiments with salvia
divinorum are going on. Journalist/photographer Rjyan Kidwell visits
Twig Harper, Carly Ptak...and the Wild Shepherdess.
BURIED ALIVE BY THE SUFIS
Swap-O-Rama Rama founder WENDY TREMAYNE wanted to understand what
motivated her life-long anti-consumerism. She found the answer
underground. Illustration by Kira Mardikes
GASH, CRASH, ASH
Nobody rides for free. DAVE REEVES on the price motorcyclists pay for being better than you. Illustration by Lale Westvind.
THE BIOPHONIC MAN
Guitarist, composer and analog synthesizer pioneer BERNIE KRAUSE
left the recording studio to find that really wild sound. What he
discovered was far more profound. Interview by Jay Babcock.
Illustrations by Kevin Hooyman.
GIANT STEPS FOR MANKIND
Stewart Voegtlin on JOHN COLTRANE’s startling 1960s ascension from
space bebop to universe symphonies. Dual astral/material plane
illustration by Beaver.
FLOWERS, LEAVES, ANARCHISM
Matthew Erickson on the J.L. Hudson Ethnobotanical Catalog of Seeds
Plus...
* Arthur’s new regular column “Come On In My Garden” debuts. This
issue, Camilla Padgitt-Coles visits Enumclaw’s Norm Fetter at his
family’s Pennsylvania mushroom farm. They’re medicinal!
* The Center for Tactical Magic on demons and drones...
* New full-page full-color comics: “Forgiveness” by Julia Gfrörer and Part 2 of Will Sweeney’s “Inspector Homunculus” serial.
* And, of course, the “Bull Tongue” exhaustive survey of underground
cultural output by your intrepid hosts Byron Coley and Thurston Moore...
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