Arthur Magazine

Poet/author/mensch Jerry Martien has edited A Watershed Runs Through You: Essays, Talks, and Reflections on Salmon, Restoration, and Community, a gorgeously appointed print collection of Free...

https://arthurmag.com/2024/02/26/a-watershed-runs-through-you/

Above: an early draft for the cover of what was intended to be Arthur No. 26, originally scheduled for release in Spring 2007. This issue was delayed til the fall amidst the publication’s owner...

https://arthurmag.com/2022/04/15/arthurs-lost-spring-2007-issue/

Jay Babcock (editor): https://jaybabcock.substack.com/ “Landline is a weekly-ish newsletter of ideas, nudges and recommendations that hopefully form a small bailiwick outside the cruddiness at ...

https://arthurmag.com/2022/01/24/arthur-folks-doing-stuff-in-2022/

In reference to “Talking to GODSMACK about what they use they use their music for,” published online in May 2006 and then in print in Arthur No. 23 (July 2006)…

https://arthurmag.com/2022/01/24/arthur-v-godsmack-over-horrible-bands-activity-in-wartime-military-recruiting-campaign-new-york-post-may-10-2006/

Originally published in Arthur No. 29 (May 2008) WILLFULLY DISTURBING Artist Arik Roper on the art and inspiration of filmmaker Ralph Bakshi Art direction by Mark Frohman and Molly Frances I foun...

https://arthurmag.com/2021/12/01/willfully-disturbing-artist-arik-roper-on-the-art-and-inspiration-of-filmmaker-ralph-bakshi-arthur-2008/

Sometime in 2004, I asked Daniel Chamberlin to write a piece for Arthur to explain how on earth he could be so into the Grateful Dead—how it had happened, what was the nature of the appeal give...

https://arthurmag.com/2021/10/27/you-cannot-underestimate-how-big-a-deal-this-hair-thing-was-at-the-time-david-berman-on-a-certain-shift-in-punk-culture-in-the-1980s/

Originally published in Arthur No. 32 (December 2008) (web-only, print issue cancelled) For the Pretenders’ Chrissie Hynde, Akron, Ohio has always been a hometown in permanent decline, a place ...

https://arthurmag.com/2021/10/26/pretenders-qa/

Originally published online April 5, 2009 Dan Deacon at the controls (“photo by Zardoz, as interpreted by James Petz“) A NEW STAGEExperimental pop musician/joybringer Dan Deacon on his new te...

https://arthurmag.com/2021/10/26/dan-deacon-on-his-new-tent-his-new-album-and-his-new-live-show/

Originally published in Arthur No. 5 (July 2003) Life During Wartime From the journals of musician-artist-activist David Byrne… These are excerpts from a journal/diary. Obviously I’ve taken o...

https://arthurmag.com/2021/10/25/life-during-wartime-from-the-2003-diaries-of-david-byrne-arthur-2003/

Originally published in Arthur No. 35 (August, 2013) as a sidebar to What the Sufis Taught Me Ten Things That I’ve Learned From the Sufis 1. A remedy for boredom: Consider that our senses provi...

https://arthurmag.com/2021/10/25/ten-things-that-ive-learned-from-the-sufis-by-wendy-jehanara-tremayne-arthur-2013/