Kickstarter Pick of the Month: Never

Kickstarter Pick of the Month: <i>Never</i>

Each month, your friends at Paste scour Kickstarter to find projects worthy of your support and love. Support independent art today by becoming a backer, and spread the word, why dontcha?...  read more

Stream Tiffany Shlain's New Film Free; TED Book Accompanies

Stream Tiffany Shlain's New Film Free; TED Book Accompanies

Tiffany Shlain, filmmaker and Internet pioneer, premiered her new short film and TED book, Brain Power: From Neurons to Networks, last night at NightLife at the Academy in San Francisco....  read more

Donate Games to Veterans This Saturday Through Operation Supply Drop

Donate Games to Veterans This Saturday Through Operation Supply Drop

Captain Steve Machuga knows how much a care package can mean to a soldier.  read more

Festival Profile: Savannah Film Festival 2012

Festival Profile: Savannah Film Festival 2012

The Savannah Film Festival wrapped up its 15th annual installment last weekend. Here’s a list of participants, including Stan Lee, Matt Dillon and Diane Lane, on what makes the festival special....  read more

Catching Up With Zoe Kazan

Catching Up With Zoe Kazan

Zoe Kazan has what you might call a pedigree. Her parents are the playwrights/screenwriters Nicholas Kazan (Frances, Reversal of Fortune) and Robin Swicord (Little Women, Memoirs of a Geisha), and of course her grandfather is one of the greatest directors in film history, three time Academy Award winner Elia Kazan. Unlike the scions of many connected families, though, she’s used her connections and heritage to build a fascinating and weighty career, as a playwright, an actor of theater and film, and this year as a screenwriter. Kazan sat down with Paste recently to discuss her film Ruby Sparks, now...  read more

Catching Up with Grace Potter

Catching  Up with Grace Potter

Paste got a chance to catch up with Potter about songwriting, cover songs, and the science of picking the perfect performance outfit.  read more

Catching Up With The First Time's Britt Robertson

Catching Up With <i>The First Time</i>'s Britt Robertson

Lead actress talks working with Jonathan Kasdan, Before Sunrise and upcoming roles.   read more

Comic Relief with Scott Snyder

Comic Relief with Scott Snyder

In Comic Relief, Paste chats with some of the most influential writers and artists in comics about their work and the comics that inspired them. Paste was originally scheduled to speak with comic scribe Scott Snyder the second week of October, and then New York Comic Con happened, delaying the interview and opening a host of new questions. If there was any question whether Snyder’s star was rising, that seminal weekend on Manhattan’s West Side answered it. The mind behind Swamp Thing, Severed, and the relaunched Batman was announced as the writer behind a new Superman title pencilled by DC...  read more

Catching Up With Lulu Gainsbourg

Catching Up With Lulu Gainsbourg

Lulu talks his father's legacy; working with Scarlett Johansson, Iggy Pop, Johnny Depp and Rufus Wainwright.  read more

Catching Up With Jonathan Kasdan

Catching Up With Jonathan Kasdan

Kasdan talks storytelling, high school experiences and how they came together for his new film The First Time, in theaters now.  read more

Catching Up With Brandon Baker

Catching Up With Brandon Baker

“I think that the Internet is going to effect the most profound change on the entertainment industries combined. And we’re all gonna be tuning into the most popular Internet show, which will be coming from some place in Des Moines [Iowa].” – Steven Spielberg in an interview for NBC’s Today Show in 1999....  read more

Catching Up With Bat for Lashes

Catching Up With Bat for Lashes

Natasha Khan talks her creative troubles in producing The Haunted Man, what the racy album art means to her.  read more

William H. Macy: Harleys and Ukeleles

William H. Macy: Harleys and Ukeleles

You hear the low rumble first. Then as the Harley draws nearer, you feel it in your chest. Over a hill comes a lone rider, helmeted, leather-clad...  read more

Catching Up With Black Moth Super Rainbow's Tobacco

Catching Up With Black Moth Super Rainbow's Tobacco

Tobacco tells us about being confined by expectations, his ambivalence about Black Moth Super Rainbow, and why he thinks MGMT's manager and Weezer are lame. 
 
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Catching Up With ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead

Catching Up With ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead

Conrad Keely walks us through the creation of the record, the evolution of …Trail of the Dead’s songwriting process and how Lost Songs has reaffirmed their ability to speak their minds through an unstoppable wall of noise.   read more

Jason Schwartzman on What Makes Moonrise Kingdom Different

Jason Schwartzman on What Makes <i>Moonrise Kingdom</i> Different

Back in 1998, young director Wes Anderson found a then-unknown actor to play the near-impossible role of Max Fischer in Rushmore.  read more

Benjamin Gibbard - Familiar Discoveries in Former Lives

Benjamin Gibbard - Familiar Discoveries in Former Lives

“Every song that you write is about a time that no longer exists,” Gibbard says.  read more

Catching Up With Dave Annable

Catching Up With Dave Annable

We caught up with the 33-year-old to chat about 666 Park Avenue, the ending of Brothers & Sisters and why he decided to become an actor.   read more

Catching Up With Letting Up Despite Great Faults

Catching Up With Letting Up Despite Great Faults

On Oct. 9, Letting Up Despite Great Faults released their second full-length album, Untogether, on Rallye Records. Though they’ve only released one other LP and a pair of EPs since forming in 2004, their infectious electronic dance pop has garnered them a sizable following throughout their hometown of Los Angeles and around the country....  read more

Brooklyn Pour Craft Beer Festival's Geeky Goodness

Brooklyn Pour Craft Beer Festival's Geeky Goodness

There’s something incredibly geeky about both purveyors and connoisseurs of craft beer and microbrew. We saw it all at The Village Voice's Brooklyn Pour Craft Beer Festival.   read more

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