VIA New Media and Music Festival | Slideshow

[wooslider animation=”slide” pause_on_hover=”true” slider_type=”attachments” limit=”19″] In its third year, the VIA New Media and Music Festival featured music performances, visual artists, workshops and lectures for 7 days in Pittsburgh, PA. For the final weekend of the festival, an abandoned PNC Read More …

Beach House Brings Dream-Pop to First Ave

Beach House is a group that has routinely operated on their own self-made plane of existence. As far as acclaim goes, they’ve never really projected any explicit desire to “make it.” Yet at present, they have made it in every Read More …

Review — “The Master”

Paul Thomas Anderson is not known for making easy pictures. Even his most accessible film, “Boogie Nights,” finds its way into tough character dynamics, questions of conscience, and outsider morality. “The Master” runs in a similar vein. The protagonists are Read More …

Batman Comes Alive

[wooslider animation=”slide” pause_on_hover=”true” slider_type=”attachments” limit=”12″] Spider-Man received the theater treatment courtesy of Bono and co., and the Ninja Turtles once headlined an extra-’90s bizarro rock concert/fight-play in which they came “out of their shells”; so it was only a matter Read More …