Statement of Purpose

In 17th century France a man named Tabarin performed for the Royal Court. He sang, danced, told jokes and with stories otherwise improvised his role as the first and most famous Parisian Charlatan. Though he performed exclusively for the House of Bourbon by day, it was by night that he took to the streets: digesting what he’d learned and seen at Court with the clever disguise of street performance. While political gatherings were considered unlawful in the Middle Ages, his audiences are believed by historians to be among the “Whispers to the French Revolution.”

Charlatan Magazine was conceived during the 2008
election year as both a reaction and response to the State of
California’s Proposition 8. Herein Church, State, and the
Law collided in what is described as the only instance in
US history where civil and pre-existing rights were taken
away from a specific and targeted minority. But when a
consortium of Citizen Journalists determined to merge
current events with philosophical commentary on business, society, politics, religion and style, they effectively fused the chasm between liberal and conservative ideals into a canon of one news source.

Thus, it is the sole and singular mission of Charlatan
Magazine to introduce the Ladies and Gentlemen of the
world: to chronicle their histories, connect their concerns, indemnify their customs and to direct, enlighten and endow the approach to Culture as Lifestyle.