Last Friday night, the Black Lily Film and Musical Festival's Opening Concert stayed good from the second it started. The evening was hosted by Ryva, of Decibel Live, and just as Decibel Live lets no one stay on stage at Mill Creek's First Tuesday event if they're not performing well, or have gone over their time limit, she kept the pace moving and the crowd energized and entertained all night. The evening was filled with......

Jackson O'Connel-Barlow of Grand Buffet, on influences, sweatshops and baseball cards....

The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. Cheer up, folks - the worst day of the year is already over! (Via) Gemotion is a new type of screen for projected video that actually bulges and collapses in synch with the graphics on it. It's real 3D! That's kind of cool, but also kind of creepy... (Via) Sigh. We have to add a new blog to our already crowded......

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. What's with everybody dying lately? We lost science fiction author Octavia Butler (via) and goofy comedic actor Don Knotts on Friday, and then on Saturday, TV and character actor Darren McGavin passed away. Depressing stuff. On the positive side, maybe this will be a good excuse for a retrospective of all their best work...although hopefully not mashed together.......

By now you’ve probably heard of Nouvelle Vague, the French band covering songs of the English new wave in the loungey style of Brazilian bossanova. They’re on the stereo at your hipster friends’ parties, they’re showing up on every list as one of the best breakout albums of the summer, and most recently, they’re on the soundtrack for a T-Mobile commercial. And now the band is bound for World Café Live, the Philadelphia stop on......