Arthur, printed bi-monthly in oversize format and available free at the savvier venues, bookstores, and record shops near you, set up shop in October 2002. In addition to publishing articles, interviews, artwork, and more on/by Thurston Moore, Arthur C. Clarke, Spike Jonze, Devendra Banhart, Will Oldham, Joanna Newsom, Joe Strummer, and others-- and playing a vital role in the freak folk boom o...

Arthur, printed bi-monthly in oversize format and available free at the savvier venues, bookstores, and record shops near you, set up shop in October 2002. In addition to publishing articles, interviews, artwork, and more on/by Thurston Moore, Arthur C. Clarke, Spike Jonze, Devendra Banhart, Will Oldham, Joanna Newsom, Joe Strummer, and others-- and playing a vital role in the freak folk boom o...

Arthur, printed bi-monthly in oversize format and available free at the savvier venues, bookstores, and record shops near you, set up shop in October 2002. In addition to publishing articles, interviews, artwork, and more on/by Thurston Moore, Arthur C. Clarke, Spike Jonze, Devendra Banhart, Will Oldham, Joanna Newsom, Joe Strummer, and others-- and playing a vital role in the freak folk boom o...

A former CFL player who was convicted of aggravated sexual assault for knowingly exposing two women to HIV is appealing the verdict.

In documents filed in Saskatchewan Court of Appeal, lawyers for Trevis Smith state the judge erred in his decision.

"We believe that the judge failed to apply correctly the reasonable doubt test," Smith's lawyer said in an interview from Montreal. "Th...

Evidently, they've been diligently rocking out. If you're patient and want proof, a Flash-animation transistor radio gizmo on the band's "Children of the Monkey Basket" web site will let you hear snatches of the new record. The clips seem to hint at an album with a bigger, lusher sound and a wider variety of sonic flavors, although making such a guess on this meager evidence is like reading ...

Italian cinema pioneer Federico Fellini once famously quipped that cinema primarily offered pleasure, but for its 29th installment, Carbondale's own Big Muddy Film Festival offers far more than mere diversion or indulgence.

After nearly three decades, the festival aims to be broader, more socially aware and more thought provoking than before. With more than 50 films ranging from shorts, ...

Italian cinema pioneer Federico Fellini once famously quipped that cinema primarily offered pleasure, but for its 29th installment, Carbondale's own Big Muddy Film Festival offers far more than mere diversion or indulgence.

After nearly three decades, the festival aims to be broader, more socially aware and more thought provoking than before. With more than 50 films ranging from shorts, ...

When people around the world cheer next month the 200th anniversary of the British parliament making the slave trade illegal, they should also recognize two facts easy to overlook - one of them inspiring for Canadians, one of them ugly for everyone.

It should be noted that the first political challenge to slavery did not come from the "mother of parliaments" in London. It came from th...

Interview: Author Elizabeth Kantor clears away academic propaganda and looks anew at the great books of English and American literature Marvin Olasky

The standard image of college spring break weeks coming up this month is ugly: excessive drinking, "girls gone wild," etc. But what's even worse is what occurs in many sedate English department classrooms, where some professors gone wild e...

By IANS, [RxPG] London, Feb 23 - A British Indian interpreter and her Iran-born colleague are suing the British government for paying them for 'doing nothing' for 15 years and thereby ruining their careers.

Marti Khan and Odette King are claiming more than 1.5 million pounds - as damages after immigration officials apparently forgot they existed.

Both were paid 25,000 pounds a yea...