The death of Scots actor Nicol Williamson was reported on Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012. As described by Bruce Weber in the New York Times, “Nicol Williamson, a Mercurial Actor, Is Dead at 75” (Obituaries, p. A29), Mr. Williamson could be difficult to work with; I remember his performing I Hate Hamlet in the early ’90s, …
With so much interesting research emerging attesting to Magick-Workers in Early America, it seems undeniable that the Magickal Traditions of the Old World made their way into America through the immigration of European settlers. While such people may not have exerted monstrous amounts of influence in the settling of the New World (preferring, apparently, to …
Caverns of Ice, by Sam Z
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McKillip has been successfully publishing high fantasy novels since the Seventies, and her latest, The Bards of Bone Plain, released last month in a trade paperback edition is fabulous. It does not score as highly on the Paganometer as some of the other books we review here: the society it portrays is, apparently, wholly non-theistic, …
Arizona based singer-songwriter Celia has released the new song titled “Bridget’s Song” just in time for Imbolc. The song is available for download here. You can also see the video on YouTube From Celia’s own facebook page: “Bring on Spring! ‘Bridget’s Song’ is ready! Feel free to share the link far & wide & use …
A significant new biography upon Ben Jonson- Ian Donaldson’s Ben Jonson: A Life (Oxford University Press)- was reviewed Sunday last in the New York Times Book Review (Jan. 22, 2012, p. 1); all the more remarkable, as no one writes biographies of Ben Jonson, who would otherwise be considered the Supreme Writer for the Elizabethan/ …
Once upon a time … Long ago, when the Human race was still young and new to this world Humanity lived in caves and in tents made of wood and animal hides. Humanity had learned to harness the power of fire and to control it. Humanity had learned to kill the other creatures of the …
One of the most delightful of the American light farce film-genre of the late 1930s-early 1940s known as the Screwball Comedy- as well as (excepting The Wizard of Oz) the most significant American film-treatment of Witches until that time- is 1942′s I Married A Witch. Starring ’40s Screen Siren Veronica Lake and accomplished stage-and-screen actor …
Good morning everyone and Happy Saturday once again! Winter has finally arrived here in Chicago, blanketing the city in several inches of the white stuff and reigniting our annual dibs tradition. I’m going to be honest here and say outright I’m not a fan of the cold and snow, as I would rather broil than …
“Sacred Scavenger: Lammergeier,” by Emma-Jayne Saanen In the early days, before physical forms became static, the People cast off their old forms in exchange for new ones far more often. Sometimes a physical form was abandoned because there were no more lessons to learn from it. Sometimes a physical form was left behind because it …