featuring...

Chris Ziegler and Kevin Ferguson visit veteran sui generis pop duo SPARKS in L.A. as they prepare to perform their entire 20-album ouevre in a single three-week London engagement in May. "We're actually better than we thought," reveal the brothers Mael. Plus: an appropriately outsized listener's guide to Sparks by Ned Raggett. With photography by Jeaneen Lund, all adding up to 12 pages of Sparks madness.

ENDARKENMENT MANIFESTO: "The last agreeable year for us was 1941, the ideal is about 10,000 BC, but we're not purists. We might be willing to accept steam power or hydraulics." Arthur proudly presents poet/scholar Peter Lamborn Wilson's half-serious proposal for a political movement to uphold and propagate the ideals of Green Hermeticism--the "coherent spiritual movement that constitutes the only imaginable alternative to unending degradation of Earth and humanity." Wilson, using the pen name "Hakim Bey," is the author of the Temporary Autonomous Zone concept, introduced in 1990...

The magazine has been delivered to the printer. It will be out next weekend on the West Coast, and the this weekend in the rest of the country.

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