Jim Steinmeyer
Rains of frogs and rains of fish and strange spacecraft and spontaneous... read more
Found in: Books, ReviewsSandra McCracken: Red Balloon
Three years ago, Sandra McCracken released a... read more
Found in: Music, ReviewsLens Crafter: A Chicago Artisan's Spectacular Glasses
When Scott Urban damaged his glasses during an ill-fated break-dancing 
attempt, he had a choice: purchase a new pair, or craft his own. “I thought I’d make a pair of wooden frames,” he says, “because I hate shopping...” read more
Found in: Culture, FeaturesKevin Barnes free-associates with Of Montreal discography
In addition to their long chats at Jittery Joe's in Athens, Ga., while preparing for Paste's November cover story Associate Editor Steve LaBate and Of Montreal's Kevin Barnes engaged in a lightning-round of free-association with the band's discography. Read the uncut interview here, and peruse the workings of Barnes' subconscious below.... read more
Found in: Music, FeaturesOf Montreal's Kevin Barnes: The complete Paste interview
Paste's Associate Editor, Steve LaBate, sat down with Of Montreal frontman (and our November cover subject) Kevin Barnes for two hour-long interviews outside Jittery Joe’s Coffee in the artist's hometown of Athens, Ga. Here, uncut and in its entirety, is their two-part conversation.... read more
Found in: Music, FeaturesStar Wars: The Force Unleashed
Publisher: LucasArtsPlatforms: Xbox 360, Ps3, Ps2, Wii, DS, PSP, iPhoneEmbracing your Dork Side can be loads of funHardcore Star Wars fans are well aware of what happened during The Clone Wars and after the Emperor died. But in casting you as Darth Vader’s Secret Apprentice, who’s tasked with hunting missing Jedi, this third-person action-packed game is one of the few adventures set between the fall of the Republic and the rise of the Rebellion.... read more
Found in: Games, ReviewsDead Space
Publisher: EA GamesPlatforms: Xbox 360, PS3, PCAverting disaster, once again, requires plenty of goreZombie-like aliens overtake an abandoned ship floating through space, and it’s your job—as the none-too-subtly-named Isaac Clarke—to traverse the corpse of the ship while running a series of mostly forgettable errands. That’s right: It’s Shinji Mikami’s Resident Evil 4 meets Ridley Scott’s Alien. Even the over-the-right-shoulder viewpoint is lifted straight from RE 4. And like Alien, the game’s most unnerving moments are found between encounters. Listening to the sound of something scuttling in the overhead ducts is far more goosebump-inducing than finally seeing whatever horror emerges.... read more
Found in: Games, ReviewsWorth The Walk: Five African Women's Journey to Hospital
A severe condition in which a hole develops between a woman’s rectum or bladder and her vagina, obstetric fistula results from obstructed labor and leads to... read more
Found in: Movies, FeaturesRise of the Argonauts
Publisher: Codemasters Platforms: PS3, Xbox 360Tracking the Golden Fleece is (mostly) a pleasure cruiseThe cultural obsession with superheroes is not a contemporary phenomenon. Thousands of years before Batman and Spider-Man saved Gotham and New York—and a few decades later, Hollywood—human beings were fascinated with superhuman do-gooders. Don’t forget: The Christian faith begins with an ordinary-seeming guy who reluctantly unveils miraculous powers in his crusade against injustice and an unfathomably sinister arch-nemesis. (Sounds like a Stan Lee creation, no?) The ancient Greeks had their own superheroes—some divine, some mortal. In a world filled with such wearying complexity, we yearn for tales... read more
Found in: Games, ReviewsPlanet B-Boy
For the average person, breakdancing is merely a jocular piece of... read more
Found in: Movies, Reviews
