Paste Announces "Best Breweries of the Decade" Party in NYC
While we enjoy cracking open a cheap beer at a concert as much as the next show goer, we also believe it’s important to seek out Signs of Life in all of culture—brews included. It was in that spirit that we compiled our list of Best American Breweries of the Decade late last year. And now, we’re going to celebrate those very beer makers in New York City.... read more
Duncan Sheik Composing Music for American Psycho Musical
In 2008, we told you about the musical adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’ American Psycho, because the only thing scarier than a smart, handsome serial killer with a penchant for powder and Phil Collins is a smart, handsome serial killer with a penchant for powder and Phil Collins who also sings and dances.... read more
Comedian Eugene Mirman to Host SXSW 2010 Film Awards
This year’s SXSW festival just got a little funnier. Paste’s eighth favorite comedian of the last decade and all-around hilarious dude, Eugene Mirman, is slated to host the 2010 SXSW Film Awards in Austin, Texas on March 16.... read more
Twitter Makes Wine to Promote Children's Literacy
What do wine making and literacy have in common? Twitter, apparently, and yeah, we’re scratching our heads, too.... read more
iPad Apple Tablet Details Revealed
Apple unveiled its newest gadget in San Francisco this morning. The iPad, previously known as the Apple Tablet, is an unprecedented device that marries an iPhone-style interface with wireless internet capabilities and a 10-inch screen. The iPad may very well turn the publishing industry on its head, as four major publishing companies are already working on technology to offer their content via paid subscription on the new instrument.... read more
Apple to Reveal Tablet Today
Speculation about Apple’s newest game-changer, the Tablet, has run wild in recent weeks. Today, at 10 a.m. PST, the computer giant will finally give the public a taste of the new device at a press conference in San Francisco.... read more
Kim Kardashian, Soulja Boy, More Making Thousands From Single Tweets
What’s the old adage? A tweet is worth…ten thousand dollars? The saying holds true if you’re Kim Kardashian, reality-television star and one of a number of celebrities making thousands of dollars to send out product-endorsing tweets.... read more
Is Indie Dead?
Indie is, at once, a genre (of music first, and then of film, books, video games and anything else with a perceived arty sensibility, regardless of its relationship to a corporation), an ethos, a business model, a demographic and a marketing tool... read more
Fake AP Stylebook Creators Talk Book Deal
Ken Lowery and Mark Hale didn't start their Twitter account with the intention of writing a book... read more
Faux News is Good News
Over the last decade, the newspaper industry has buckled. Three of network TV’s longest-running and most trusted news anchors (Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings and Dan Rather) have disappeared from the airwaves. And cable news has become consumed by talking heads paid to eternally bicker as if trapped in some earthbound Purgatory, a place where opinion and hearsay are subtly suggested to be fact, and where it’s policy to cut away from coverage of the day’s most important issues to follow a live car chase on the L.A. freeway.... read more
Weird Al, Dave Eggers, Conan O'Brien, Many More Performing at SF Sketchfest
If laughter is the best medicine, then the three-week long, star-studded San Francisco Sketch Comedy Festival can surely cure anything. The SF Sketchfest has packed its ninth year’s lineup full of comedic heavyweights.... read more
ESPN and Discovery Announce 3D Television Networks
3D is swiftly moving from theaters to living rooms via a handful of networks that plan to launch 24/7 3D channels. In light of home entertainment’s fast developing technology, 3D programming could soon be a heated competition in the television world.... read more
How to Survive the Next Year, By Eugene Mirman
In 1996 we all thought that by 2010 the world would be an unrecognizable dystopia... read more
Mike Judge's The Goode Family Moves to Comedy Central
Mike Judge The Goode Family endured a rocky first season with ABC, thanks at least in part to the show’s controversial premise, which chronicles the life of a hyper-liberal family that failed to resonate with television viewers.... read more
First Edition Alice In Wonderland Sells for $40,000
In the midst of the swelling anticipation for Tim Burton’s adaptation of Alice In Wonderland, there are perhaps more people than ever who are interested in the original book. An extremely rare first edition of Lewis Carroll’s nearly 150-year-old classic recently sold for $40,000 at California’s Profiles In History auction house.... read more
Guitar Center's Drum-Off Finals to Feature Mastodon/Tool Collaboration
If you’ve ever been to a karaoke contest, you know that such a competition is filled with 1) often-impressive unknowns who likely practice a ridiculous number of hours each week and 2) big dreams. Oh, and booze, but that’s neither here nor there. However, karaoke isn’t the only outlet for long-shot dreamers. Guitar Center Drum-Off aims to expose the best unknown drummers in the country, in a big way. The Drum-Off Finals, going down Jan. 8 at L.A.’s The Wiltern.... read more
Leonardo da Vinci-Designed Instrument Premieres in New York
Leonardo da Vinci has been dead for about 490 years now, but we still haven’t gotten over the fruits of his boundless creativity. If his art isn’t mysterious, beautiful or functional, it at least leaves people scratching their heads. This is what happened in New York’s Discovery Times Square yesterday, where a group of da Vinci enthusiasts revealed their peculiar instrument that was, according to The Guardian, designed by none other than the Renaissance man himself.... read more
1000TimesYes to Interview Andrew W.K. on Twitter Today
Reviewing albums for a living ain’t a bad way to spend your days. But reviewing 1000 albums in a year, well, that takes a bit more dedication. Such is the task of Christopher R. Weingarten, who has taken to his Twitter account, @1000TimesYes, to do just that. It looks like he might just pull it off, too; just yesterday he posted number 955. Frankly, we’re rooting for the guy. So much so, in fact, that we named Weingarten one of our 10 Unique, Funny or Useful Twitter Users You Should Follow Right Now.... read more
Jeff Tweedy, Mountain Goats, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy Set to Play Steve Albini's Christmas Charity Drive
Nothing says "24 Hour Charity Marathon" like hanging out with Will Oldham at 6 a.m.! read more
USPS Blacks Out Steve Albini's Christmas Charity
When sound engineer Steve Albini isn’t producing albums, shredding a guitar in Shellac, writing songs, leaving comments on Paste reviews or tending to any of his other right-brain hobbies, he and his wife, Heather Whinna, dedicate their holiday season to helping Chicago’s needy households. Every year, according to the Chicago Tribune, they raise around $100,000 via an annual Second City fundraiser, and then pack the proceeds into a van in the form of toys, clothing, computers, grocery-store gift certificates and cash, all to be delivered Santa-style on Christmas Day to less-fortunate families.... read more
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