Arthur magazine was a bi-monthly periodical that was founded in October 2002, by publisher Laris Kreslins and editor Jay Babcock . It received favorable attention from other periodicals such as L.A. Weekly , Print , Punk Planet and Rolling Stone . Arthur featured photography and artwork from Spike Jonze , Art Spiegelman , Susannah Breslin , Gary Panter and Godspeed You! Black Emperor . Arthur's regular columnists included Byron Coley , Thurston Moore , Daniel Pinchbeck , Paul Cullum , Douglas Rushkoff , and T-Model Ford . Some of the magazine's influences included Joan Didion, Thomas Paine, William Blake, Lester Bangs, Hunter S. Thompson, Tom Wolfe, and Greil Marcus, as well and the exhibit and book A Secret Location on the Lower East Side: Adventures in Writing, 1960-1980 .
5-772: ArthurFest was a two-day music festival curated by Arthur Magazine . The festival took place September 4 and 5, 2005 at the Barnsdall Art Park in Los Angeles, California . The lineup included such acts as: Yoko Ono , Sonic Youth , The Black Keys , Modey Lemon, The Time Flys, Winter Flowers, Dead Meadow, Future Pigeon, Dos, Fatso Jetson, the Night Porter, Lavender Diamond, Radar Brothers, Nora Keyes, Geronimo, Six Organs of Admittance, Brightblack Morning Light, Circle, Comets On Fire, Earth, Cat Power , Young Jazz Giants, and Devendra Banhart This music festival-related article
10-539: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Arthur Magazine Arthur magazine was particularly drawn to noise music , stoner metal , folk and other types of psychedelia . The first issue of Arthur featured an interview with journalist and author Daniel Pinchbeck (author of Breaking Open the Head ); artwork by Alan Moore ( Watchmen , From Hell , League of Extraordinary Gentlemen ); and an interview with Arthur C. Clarke . Previous to creating
15-708: The publication, Laris Kreslins created the popular music journals Sound Collector and Audio Review . Jay Babcock was a contributor to Mojo magazine and the L.A. Weekly . Arthur magazine also released CDs and DVDs under the imprint of their label. On Labor Day weekend in 2005, they curated Arthurfest in Barnsdall Park ; in February 2006, Arthur Ball in Echo Park; and in October 2006 Arthur Nights at The Palace Theater, in downtown Los Angeles. On February 25, 2007, it
20-514: The seat of North America's publishing industry. On March 6, 2011, Jay Babcock announced that the magazine would cease to exist in any form as of March 15, 2011, though its archive and store would remain active for an unspecified period thereafter. In November 2012, the Arthur website announced the return of the magazine as of December 22, 2012. However, this resurgence proved to be brief, and in March 2014
25-533: Was announced on the magazine's web site that it would be ceasing publication indefinitely. The hiatus was due to a breakdown in negotiations between Lime Publishing ( Arthur ' s original publisher) and another unnamed publisher. In April 2007, it was announced that the magazine would return as Arthur Vol. II in the near future. The magazine resumed publication in September 2007. In June 2008, owner Jay Babcock moved Arthur's headquarters from Los Angeles to New York,
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