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Sunday, July 2, 2023

East Village Other Archive

Marshall McLuhan’s cultural influence in New York City—which spread “Mac”’s name across the world—was triggered by John Cage, Gerd Stern, Tom Wolfe, Nam June Paik, and John Culkin.

But a little-remembered influencer was the EAST VILLAGE OTHER. Its editor, Walter Bowart, was inspired to create the famous “underground newspaper” by McLuhan while he was “slumming” in the jungles of Puerto Rico.

Two columnists for the EVO—Lita Eliscu and Dean Latimer—were the main journalists keeping McLuhan’s name in the Counterculture from 1968 through to 1971.

Lita Eliscu, who was a friend of mine, was a very close friend of Quentin Fiore.

Dean Latimer, also a friend of mine, was the only Baby Boomer underground journalist who stressed the importance of McLuhan’s “communication theories”. He actually could talk intelligently about McLuhan’s work.

You will find their weekly columns indicated in each issue where they appeared:

Lita Eliscu’s is titled THILM (the first 11 columns are titled “Theatre?” or “Theatra?" before she decides on the final name), beginning with the March 29, 1968, edition.

Dean Latimer’s is titled DECOMPOSITION, beginning with the July 5, 1968, edition.

1965

Issue: 01-01

Date: 1965-10-01

Issue: 01-02

Date: 1965-11-01

Issue: 01-03

Date: 1965-12-01

1966

Issue: 01-04

Date: 1966-01-01

Issue: 01-05

Date: 1966-02-01

Issue: 01-06

Date: 1966-02-15

Issue: 01-07

Date: 1966-03-01

Issue: 01-09

Date: 1966-04-01

Issue: 01-10

Date: 1966-04-15

Issue: 01-11

Date: 1966-05-01

Issue: 01-12

Date: 1966-05-15

Issue: 01-13

Date: 1966-06-01

Issue: 01-14

Date: 1966-06-15

Issue: 01-15

Date: 1966-07-01

Issue: 01-16

Date: 1966-07-15

Issue: 01-17

Date: 1966-08-01

1: Cover - Interview with Mark Lane on JFK

Issue: 01-18

Date: 1966-08-15

Issue: 01-19

Date: 1966-09-01

Issue: 01-21

Date: 1966-10-01

Issue: 01-22

Date: 1966-10-15

Issue: 01-23

Date: 1966-11-01

Issue: 01-24

Date: 1966-11-15

Issue: 02-01

Date: 1966-12-01

Issue: 02-02

Date: 1966-12-15

1967

Issue: 02-03

Date: 1967-01-01

Issue: 02-04

Date: 1967-01-15

Issue: 02-05

Date: 1967-02-01

Issue: 02-05

Date: 1967-02-15

Issue: 02-07

Date: 1967-03-01

Issue: 02-08

Date: 1967-03-15

Issue: 02-10

Date: 1967-04-15

Issue: 02-11

Date: 1967-05-01

Issue: 02-12

Date: 1967-05-15

Issue: 02-13

Date: 1967-06-01

Issue: 02-14

Date: 1967-06-15

Issue: 02-15

Date: 1967-07-01

Issue: 02-16

Date: 1967-07-15

Issue: 02-17

Date: 1967-08-01

Issue: 02-18

Date: 1967-08-05

Issue: 02-19

Date: 1967-08-19

Issue: 02-21

Date: 1967-09-15

4: Walter Bowart movie review - Bob Dylan - Dont Look Back

Issue: 02-22

Date: 1967-10-01

Issue: 02-23

Date: 1967-10-15

Issue: 02-20

Date: 1967-10-15

Issue: 02-24

Date: 1967-11-01

Issue: 03-01

Date: 1967-11-15

Issue: 03-02

Date: 1967-12-01

Issue: 03-03

Date: 1967-12-15

Issue: 03-00

Date: 1967-12-31

Issue: 02-09

Date: 1967-12-31

1968

Issue: 03-04

Date: 1968-01-01

2: Alan Watts - Manifesto to cut the big hang-up
5: Timothy Leary - The Great Millbook Snot Bust

Issue: 03-05

Date: 1968-01-05

Issue: 03-06

Date: 1968-01-12

Issue: 03-07

Date: 1968-01-19

5: Walter Bowart - Drop Seeding the Buffalo Grass

Issue: 03-08

Date: 1968-01-26

Issue: 03-09

Date: 1968-02-02

Issue: 03-10

Date: 1968-02-09

Issue: 03-11

Date: 1968-02-16

Issue: 03-12

Date: 1968-02-23

Issue: 03-13

Date: 1968-03-01

Issue: 03-14

Date: 1968-03-08

Issue: 03-15

Date: 1968-03-15

Issue: 03-16

Date: 1968-03-22

Issue: 03-17

Date: 1968-03-29

9: Theatre? by Lita Eliscu - Getting down on it at La Mama

Issue: 03-18

Date: 1968-04-05

8: Theatre? by Lita Eliscu - First American Radical Theater

Issue: 03-19

Date: 1968-04-12

Issue: 03-20

Date: 1968-04-19

11: Theatre? by Lita Eliscu - The Alligation; Fur

Issue: 03-21

Date: 1968-04-26

11: Theatra? by Lita Eliscu - Eugene's; The Electronic Nigger

Issue: 03-22

Date: 1968-05-03

9: Theatre? by Lita Eliscu - Electric Circus; La Mama

Issue: 03-23

Date: 1968-05-10

7: Theatra? by Lita Eliscu - Hair

Issue: 03-24

Date: 1968-05-24

2: Lita Eliscu - Marshall McLuhan on Violence

Issue: 03-25

Date: 1968-05-24

10: Theatre? by Lita Eliscu - Reflection on a Reality

Issue: 03-26

Date: 1968-05-31

9: Theatre? by Lita Eliscu - Dionysus in 69

Issue: 03-27

Date: 1968-06-07

6: Theatre? by Lita Eliscu - Review of Marshall McLuhan's The Medium is the Massage

Issue: 03-28

Date: 1968-06-14

9: Theatra? by Lita Eliscu - Futz; Dionysus in 69

Issue: 03-29

Date: 1968-06-28

6: Theatre? by Lita Eliscu - Dionysus in 69

Issue: 03-31

Date: 1968-07-05

3: Thilm - Rock Flow
4: Decomposition - Indian land confiscation and Dick Gregory's arrest

Issue: 03-32

Date: 1968-07-12

9: Thilm - Rochelle Owens
12: Decomposition - Chuck Matthi and Bram Lukam

Issue: 03-33

Date: 1968-07-19

5: Polymorphous Polkadot by DA Latimer - Yayoi Kusama
8: Decomposition - What to do when the police dogs get you
14: Thilm - The American Pig

Issue: 03-34

Date: 1968-07-26

2: Decomposition - Fashion and status symbols
6: Thilm - For Love of Ivy

Issue: 03-35

Date: 1968-08-02

4: Decomposition - Angel and the Ape comix review
14: Fascion by Lita Eliscu - Fashion review

Issue: 03-36

Date: 1968-08-09

6: Decomposition - Summertime Green
12: Thilm - The Producers

Issue: 03-37

Date: 1968-08-16

6: Thilm - The Seventh Continent
6: Film review by DA Latimer - Revolution
7: Decomposition - All hell will break loose

Issue: 03-38

Date: 1968-08-23

4: Decomposition -
5: Rebuttal - Rebuttal of DA Latimer's review of Revolution by its producer
5: Thilm - criticism of Eugene McCarthy

Issue: 03-39

Date: 1968-08-30

12: Decomposition - Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia
12: Lolita's Almanac by Lita Eliscu - The Scene

Issue: 03-40

Date: 1968-09-13

4: Thilm - The Legend of Lylah Clare
7: Decomposition - Humphreak

Issue: 03-41

Date: 1968-09-13

4: Decomposition - Mayor Daley's press conference
9: Thilm - Living Theatre; Avant-Garde Festival of the Arts

Issue: 03-42

Date: 1968-09-20

4: Decomposition - Mayor Daley's flick about yippie conspiracy
7: DA Latimer - Avant-Garde Festival
11: Thilm - You Are What You Eat

Issue: 03-43

Date: 1968-10-04

5: Decomposition - Vote Pig Through A
10: Thilm - You Are What You Eat

Issue: 03-44

Date: 1968-10-04

5: Thilm - The Film Festival
6: Decomposition - Cold War rumors.

Issue: 03-45

Date: 1968-10-18

4: Thilm - Interview Becks
11: Decomposition - The city is sinking in a sea of dog shit

Issue: 03-46

Date: 1968-10-18

6: Decomposition - R. Crumb's Head Comix
9: Thilm - Living Theatre, Frankenstein

Issue: 03-47

Date: 1968-10-25

9: Lita Eliscu - Up against the wall, Bill Graham!
16: Buckminster Fuller - The Grand Strategy
27: Thilm - Barbarella

Issue: 03-48

Date: 1968-11-08

6: Thilm - Barbarella; Earth
14: Decomposition - All Fall Down

Issue: 03-50

Date: 1968-11-15

10: Thilm - Shalako; Yellow Submarine; Future Tense
13: Decomposition - Comics

Issue: 03-49

Date: 1968-11-15

4: Thilm - Flesh
9: Decomposition - The Free Store died

Issue: 03-51

Date: 1968-11-22

14: Thilm - The Touchables
17: Decomposition - Comics

Issue: 03-52

Date: 1968-11-29

11: Thilm - Dionysus in 69
15: Decomposition - US Selective Service

Issue: 04-01

Date: 1968-12-13

8: Decomposition - Sticking frogs
11: Thilm - Living Theatre

Issue: 04-02

Date: 1968-12-20

9: Decomposition - Frank Sinatra in Cement (Lady in Cement film review)
12: Thilm - The Fixer; Riot; Candy

Issue: 04-03

Date: 1968-12-20

11: Thilm - Up Tight

1969

Issue: 04-04

Date: 1969-01-03

9: Decomposition - What the California scene is really like
11: Thilm - Barbara

Issue: 04-05

Date: 1969-01-03

3: DA Latimer - Cops Invade Hippie Religious Sex Rites
6: Decomposition - Faggot Logic - on William Buckley
10: Thilm - Monterey Pop Festival

Issue: 04-06

Date: 1969-01-10

7: Decomposition - The Motherfuckers
11: Thilm - Greetings movie

Issue: 04-07

Date: 1969-01-24

6: Decomposition - Super Bowl in Miami
14: Thilm - 2001 A SPACE ODYSSEY

Issue: 04-08

Date: 1969-01-24

13: Thilm - Travels With Charlie

Issue: 04-09

Date: 1969-01-31

3: DA Latimer - ’72 presidential candidates
7: Decomposition - Black Panthers gunned down at UCLA
11: Thilm - Film-Makers Cinematheque

Issue: 04-10

Date: 1969-02-07

5: DA Latimer - Radio Free Prejudice - WBAI
15: Thilm - Little Murders

Issue: 04-11

Date: 1969-02-14

7: Decomposition - John Lennon uncircumcised
15: DA Latimer - I will... Cooper development

Issue: 04-12

Date: 1969-02-21

6: Decomposition - Joey Scaggs
15: Thilm - Peace, the musical

Issue: 04-13

Date: 1969-03-01

3: Decomposition - Comix reviews
8: Thilm - Frank Zappa interview

Issue: 04-14

Date: 1969-03-07

4: Decomposition - Comix reviews

Issue: 04-15

Date: 1969-03-14

5: Decomposition - Che! play

Issue: 04-16

Date: 1969-03-19

5: Decomposition - Nigger comix
11: Thilm - Otley

Issue: 04-17

Date: 1969-03-26

3: Decomposition - NY Times demonstration

Issue: 04-18

Date: 1969-04-02

8: Thilm - Living Theatre

Issue: 04-19

Date: 1969-04-09

15: Thilm - The Illustrated Man movie

Issue: 04-20

Date: 1969-04-16

11: Decomposition - Interview w/ Lennox Rafael, playwright CHE!
12: Thilm - Living Theatre

Issue: 04-21

Date: 1969-04-23

13: Decomposition - Decency – Morrision v. Miami; Jackie Gleason rally; Father Hill

Issue: 04-22

Date: 1969-04-30

11: Decomposition - Permissiveness - Che!; Screw Magazine
14: Thilm - War Games play

Issue: 04-23

Date: 1969-05-07

5: Decomposition - Lita Eliscu’s Erotica Festival
9: DA Latimer - Street people
13: Thilm - Erotic Energies Benefit

Issue: 04-24

Date: 1969-05-14

5: Thilm - MC5
7: Decomposition - Che! Performance busted

Issue: 04-25

Date: 1969-05-14

14: Thilm - People Meet

Issue: 04-26

Date: 1969-05-28

3: Decomposition - John Sinclair (MC5 manager)
6: Thilm - An afternoon with the world – Crazy

Issue: 04-27

Date: 1969-06-04

Issue: 04-28

Date: 1969-06-11

12: Thilm - WHO interview

Issue: 04-29

Date: 1969-06-18

6: Decomposition - Kim Dietch, cartoonist
10: Thilm - Last Summer

Issue: 04-30

Date: 1969-06-25

2: Decomposition - Billy Graham crusade
6: Thilm - Earth Catalog

Issue: 04-31

Date: 1969-07-02

4: Decomposition - Decency, Discipline, District Attorneys (Screw, Kiss, Pleasure magazines)
8: Thilm - Busts against sex magazines

Issue: 04-32

Date: 1969-07-09

7: Decomposition - Comics reviews
8: Thilm - Putney Swope

Issue: 04-33

Date: 1969-07-16

6: Decomposition - The “New” hippies
9: Thilm - Easy Rider

Issue: 04-34

Date: 1969-07-23

9: Decomposition - Reference to McLuhan communications theory.
11: Thilm - Various events around NYC

Issue: 04-35

Date: 1969-07-30

6: Decomposition - Wonder Wart Hog
9: Thilm - Lothar and the Hand People

Issue: 04-36

Date: 1969-08-06

6: Decomposition - Poughkeepsie
9: Thilm - More (film)

Issue: 04-37

Date: 1969-08-13

6: Decomposition - MIRV nuclear device
8: Thilm - John Sinclair in jail

Issue: 04-38

Date: 1969-08-20

5: Decomposition - Crackdown on smut zines

Issue: 04-39

Date: 1969-08-27

5: Decomposition - review of The Daily Column, NY’s cleanest paper
9: Thilm - Report about something too big for anyone to understand

Issue: 04-40

Date: 1969-09-03

Issue: 04-41

Date: 1969-09-17

10: Thilm - Medium Cool movie

Issue: 04-42

Date: 1969-09-17

7: Decomposition - Daily Column v. EVO
7: Thilm - San Francisco

Issue: 04-43

Date: 1969-09-24

4: Decomposition - random goings-on in NY
8: Thilm - Rock subculture

Issue: 04-44

Date: 1969-10-01

8: Decomposition - More on NYC smut-zine crackdown
11: Thilm - Greatest Little Soul Band and others

Issue: 04-45

Date: 1969-10-08

4: Decomposition - Letter from editor of Kryptadia Journal; EC Comics

Issue: 04-46

Date: 1969-10-15

4: Decomposition - New York Review of Sex & Politics

Issue: 04-47

Date: 1969-10-22

3: Decomposition - Anti-war demonstration in NYC
9: Thilm - Various updates

Issue: 04-48

Date: 1969-10-29

3: Decomposition - Anti-war demonstration in NYC
4: Thilm - There is no rock subculture

Issue: 04-49

Date: 1969-11-05

7: Decomposition - Smut zine crackdowns

Issue: 04-50

Date: 1969-11-12

11: Thilm - Makbeth
12: Decomposition - More comix smut

Issue: 04-51

Date: 1969-11-19

8: Decomposition - Don’t stop all the bombing - more Americans killed on roads than in Vietnam)
10: Thilm - Warhol – Raiding the Icebox

Issue: 04-52

Date: 1969-12-03

6: Decomposition - Junkies invade pinkville
13: Thilm - Tell Me Lies film

Issue: 05-01

Date: 1969-12-10

6: Thilm - Movement Speakers Bureau
9: Decomposition - The Gang Who Couldn’t Shoot Straight

Issue: 05-02

Date: 1969-12-17

4: Walter Bowart - Message to the Media (effects of television)
6: Decomposition - Ten Commandments of Militant Protest
12: Thilm - Tell Them Willy Boy Is Here

Issue: 05-03

Date: 1969-12-24

11: Thilm - Grotowski

Issue: 05-05

Date: 1969-12-31

5: Jud Yalkut - The Medium Is The Medium (Fred Barzyk)
8: Thilm - Nina Simone, Miles Davis

1970

Issue: 05-05

Date: 1970-01-07

6: Decomposition - National Guard ads and Black Panthers
10: Thilm - Byrds at The Filmore

Issue: 05-06

Date: 1970-01-14

12: Thilm - Review of 1969
12: Decomposition - Miami Rock Festival

Issue: 05-07

Date: 1970-01-21

5: Decomposition - Junkies rob his apartment
18: Thilm - Women's Liberation

Issue: 05-08

Date: 1970-01-28

5: Decomposition - Recuperation – downing the over-thirties
5: Thilm - Lightning Hopkins double-LP

Issue: 05-09

Date: 1970-02-04

5: Thilm - Studio Del store on 7th Street
7: Decomposition - Death and the poolside phone

Issue: 05-10

Date: 1970-02-11

7: Decomposition - Neil Hubbard

Issue: 05-11

Date: 1970-02-18

9: Thilm - Fill in the blanks

Issue: 05-12

Date: 1970-02-25

10: Thilm - Aram Avakian
15: Decomposition - Graffiti in EVO john wall

Issue: 05-13

Date: 1970-03-03

11: Thilm - Consumer guide to top bands

Issue: 05-14

Date: 1970-03-10

8: Thilm - Iggy and the Stooges
14: Decomposition - Che Rides the Lightning

Issue: 05-15

Date: 1970-03-17

Issue: 05-16

Date: 1970-03-24

Issue: 05-17

Date: 1970-03-31

6: Decomposition - Dow Shit-wipes
9: Thilm - Operation Sidewinder

Issue: 05-18

Date: 1970-04-01

7: Decomposition - Mary Alta

Issue: 05-19

Date: 1970-04-07

5: Decomposition - Green Lantern comics

Issue: 05-20

Date: 1970-04-14

7: Decomposition - Comics review

Issue: 05-21

Date: 1970-04-21

10: Decomposition - Environmentalists

Issue: 05-22

Date: 1970-04-28

5: Decomposition - Earth Day

Issue: 05-23

Date: 1970-05-05

5: Decomposition - Peanut Butter n' Bubble Gum

Issue: 05-24

Date: 1970-05-12

Issue: 05-25

Date: 1970-05-19

7: Decomposition - College kids getting beat up.

Issue: 05-26

Date: 1970-05-26

10: Decomposition - Ed Sanders' record Truckstop

Issue: 05-27

Date: 1970-06-02

10: Decomposition - Allen Katzman

Issue: 05-28

Date: 1970-06-09

4: Decomposition - Wolfgang Grojanka on the tube

Issue: 05-29

Date: 1970-06-16

Issue: 05-30

Date: 1970-06-23

16: Decomposition - Screw magazine on trial

Issue: 05-31

Date: 1970-06-30

4: Decomposition - Billy Graham

Issue: 05-33

Date: 1970-07-14

8: Decomposition - Betty & Veronica comics

Issue: 05-34

Date: 1970-07-21

Issue: 05-35

Date: 1970-07-28

11: Decomposition - Women's Liberation

Issue: 05-36

Date: 1970-08-04

8: Decomposition - David Walley

Issue: 05-37

Date: 1970-08-11

Issue: 05-38

Date: 1970-08-18

Issue: 05-39

Date: 1970-08-25

Issue: 05-40

Date: 1970-09-02

12: Decomposition - Women's Strike

Issue: 05-41

Date: 1970-09-08

10: Decomposition - Lennox Raphail's play Blue Soap

Issue: 05-42

Date: 1970-09-15

16: Decomposition - Special Tetracycline Essay

Issue: 05-43

Date: 1970-09-22

Issue: 05-44

Date: 1970-09-29

11: Decomposition - Archie Shepp, Lennox Raphael, Blue Soap

Issue: 05-45

Date: 1970-10-06

8: Decomposition - Ed Sanders, Shards of God

Issue: 05-46

Date: 1970-10-13

Issue: 05-47

Date: 1970-10-20

Issue: 05-48

Date: 1970-10-27

8: Decomposition - Donald Duck

Issue: 05-49

Date: 1970-11-03

Issue: 05-50

Date: 1970-11-10

16: Decomposition - Seduction of the morbid

Issue: 05-51

Date: 1970-11-17

7: Decomposition - Tattoos

Issue: 05-52

Date: 1970-11-24

12: Decomposition - Junk-Head Jones, Archie, Betty & Veronica

Issue: 06-01

Date: 1970-12-01

4: Decomposition - Anecdotes about EVO and staff
16: AJ Weberman, Garbologist - Dylan's Garbage's Greatest Hits

Issue: 06-02

Date: 1970-12-07

6: Decomposition - Manson murder trial coverage

Issue: 06-03

Date: 1970-12-15

15: Decomposition - Comic book reviews

Issue: 06-04

Date: 1970-12-22

7: Decomposition - A Christmas Fable

Issue: 06-05

Date: 1970-12-29

6: Decomposition - Comics review

1971

Issue: 06-06

Date: 1971-01-05

14: Decomposition - Insect Fear 2

Issue: 06-07

Date: 1971-01-12

8: Decomposition - People suffering economically under Nixon

Issue: 06-08

Date: 1971-01-19

8: Decomposition - People suffering economically under Nixon

Issue: 06-09

Date: 1971-01-26

18: Decomposition - Manson – his last will and testament

Issue: 06-10

Date: 1971-02-02

Issue: 06-11

Date: 1971-02-09

25: Charles Bukowski - Story about a president

Issue: 06-12

Date: 1971-02-16

7: Decomposition - 2 studies in decomposition

Issue: 06-13

Date: 1971-02-23

20: Decomposition - An old drunk

Issue: 06-14

Date: 1971-03-02

14: Decomposition - Philip Morgan, singer

Issue: 06-15

Date: 1971-03-09

14: Decomposition - Pissing

Issue: 06-16

Date: 1971-03-16

Issue: 06-17

Date: 1971-03-23

Issue: 06-18

Date: 1971-03-30

10: Decomposition - The chastening of the blade

Issue: 06-20

Date: 1971-04-13

11: Decomposition - On smut

Issue: 06-21

Date: 1971-04-20

8: Decomposition - At Last, a use for Easter

Issue: 06-22

Date: 1971-04-27

14: Decomposition - The latest smut bust

Issue: 06-23

Date: 1971-05-04

14: Decomposition - The latest smut bust

Issue: 06-24

Date: 1971-05-11

14: Decomposition - The latest smut bust

Issue: 06-25

Date: 1971-05-18

Issue: 06-26

Date: 1971-05-25

15: Decomposition - The fur-lined knotholes

Issue: 06-27

Date: 1971-06-01

12: Decomposition - It's all right. Ma–I'm only 30

Issue: 06-28

Date: 1971-06-08

Issue: 06-30

Date: 1971-06-23

Issue: 06-31

Date: 1971-06-30

14: Decomposition - 86 AJ (Weberman)

Issue: 06-33

Date: 1971-07-07

10: Decomposition - Dirty Writers of America

Issue: 06-33

Date: 1971-07-07

Issue: 06-34

Date: 1971-07-21

Issue: 06-36

Date: 1971-08-10

Issue: 06-37

Date: 1971-08-25

Issue: 06-38

Date: 1971-09-08

Issue: 06-40

Date: 1971-10-06

Issue: 06-41

Date: 1971-10-21

Issue: 06-42

Date: 1971-11-03

Issue: 06-43

Date: 1971-11-17

Issue: 06-44

Date: 1971-12-23

17: Decomposition - McCabe & Mrs. Miller

1972

Issue: 07-01

Date: 1972-01-12

Issue: 07-02

Date: 1972-02-06

Issue: 07-03

Date: 1972-02-20

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