The New York Times Sunday Travel section had an article on Arcosanti, where I’ll spend a week next month performing as part of the Different Skies 2007 Electronic Music Festival. The reporter really “got” the place as far as I’m concerned, recognizing the potential and realities of the place.
I love this opening…
I’d stopped to use the bathroom at the McDonald’s three miles from Arcosanti, the famously never-finished experimental city in the Arizona desert. This is cactus country, an arid hour north of Phoenix, and the McDonald’s and Arcosanti were the most prominent outposts of civilization for miles. I asked the woman at the register what she’d heard of the place.
“Very bad, very bad. The people there …” she trailed off, searching for a word that might capture the terribleness. “I’ve heard it’s a cult.”
Sold.
Read the whole article here