While on a recent trip to Berlin, Germany, Ali Riaz took the time to catalog examples of the prolific graffiti and street art on display there. No photo’s have been doctored in any way. Enjoy.

Last time I set up my noise manifesto of sorts and now is the time to get to the good stuff – my experiences at shows as a noise musician. Usually when I did noise at a show it was part of an improvised jam or if I did ambient music and at the end I would climax with a lot of noise followed by silence – real rock n’ roll. It wasn’t until later in my freshman year that I decided to do an entire set by doing noise, …

Ahh the breeze coming in through the window hitting me gently in the face, the sun staring down with a bandit smile, the sugar cane fields to my left, the imposing Andes mountains to my right with a couple of cows ruminating on the bloody grass where they stand, a lonely highway that seems to lead nowhere, and a soulful voice in the background that cries: “excuse me while I kiss the sky”. The reminiscence of the many times after school that I would drive south right past my house …

Correspondence from an American Poet Abroad:

This past Sunday, the 21st of June, while party goers and pagans alike were celebrating the summer solstice at Stonehenge, there was a different kind of celebration in Paris- where I am living- a celebration of music. Sunday was the day of “la fête de la musique,” an annual tradition which began nearly 30 years ago.

By the Johnsonville Press Editorial Staff
Andrew Darlow knew he wanted to be a photographer since high school when he spent time living in Japan.  Being away from home, he quickly found that taking pictures of places, people and things (most notably every meal his host-mother prepared) was the ideal way to convey the experience of living in a far-away place.

A Historical and Literary Analysis of LSD and the Dialectic of Mainstream and Oppositionary Cultures in the 1960’s

Lysergic acid diethylamide, or LSD, is a potent psychotropic drug that was first isolated by the late chemist Albert Hofmann in 1938 while he was working as a researcher in the Sandoz pharmaceuticals firm in Basel, Switzerland (Jordans). Since its synthesis, LSD has been used in a variety of scientific experiments, ranging from psychiatric research on the mental state of schizophrenic patients

by Matia Guardabascio

How quick the world is today
She said to me, ‘You live too much in your head!’
C’est la folie n’est-ce pas? Ah oui, je sais.[1]