The Festivus Film Festival is getting ready to kick off tonight at the Bug Theatre, and we figured it was as good as time as any to dig into the festival schedule and try to find some stuff worth seeing. With somewhere around 60 films on display, there should be…
Sole, aka Tim Holland, is looking for a little help from fans to fill the streets with Tea Party extras this weekend for his newest video, “White Rage.” The filming will be going down Saturday at a currently undisclosed location downtown around 2 p.m. Click through for full details if…
You can leave your 3D glasses behind this weekend if you go to the fourth annual Festivus Film Festival, which takes over the Oriental and Bug theaters for three days and showcases more than sixty independent films. “We wanted to create something that focused on real indie films,” says festival…
Ever since zombies started taking over, ninjas have been getting a bum rap on the game front. Thankfully, Adult Swim Games is around to latch onto these types of things, which is where House of Dead Ninjas comes from. It’s a simple, clever and addictive game…
The majority of the fliers we see are deadly serious affairs, but thankfully, the crew over at Bocumast knows how to make light of a situation while still retaining the essentials of a well put together flier. The fact this one has Neil Armstrong on it just seals the deal…
Netflix’s instant streaming service is quite possibly the most amazing service in the history of mankind. Combing through its offerings, however, is no easy task. Fortunately, we’ve spent an inordinate amount of time watching music documentaries (so you don’t have to) and have narrowed down the ten best offerings. Click…
Christian Lander, author of the popular website and book series Stuff White People Like, will be at the Tattered Cover, Lodo on Thursday to promote his newest book, Whiter Shades of Pale. Unlike the broad strokes of his previous endeavors, Lander’s new book takes a closer look at the stuff…
Kickstarter has proven a remarkably popular tool for, er, kickstarting all different sorts of projects. Nonprofits have used it with great success. So have filmmakers, video-game designers, artists and musicians. Crowd-sourcing your fundraising efforts is a very 21st-century idea. At this point, though, it seems like musicians are skipping necessary…
Now that the holidays are finally behind us, we can all return to a sense of normalcy with our weekend planning. Well, except for the fact the holidays left everyone broke. Thankfully, we’ve got plenty of stuff to do this weekend on the hyper-cheap, including art show openings, films and…
KIROTV in Lynwood, Washington recently reported a story about a real-life superhero named Phoenix Jones who stopped a car theft by chasing the man down the street. Weird, but not unheard of in this post-Kick-Ass world. In fact, there is an entire website devoted to these real world superheroes –…
If you’ve ever been curious about chiptune music, the music made from video game hardware, but were afraid to go off and get your own hacked Gameboy, then you’ll be pleased to hear that Reformat the Planet, 2 Player Productions’ documentary about the scene, is now available for free on…
You might think that 2010 was the year of the platformer, but here we are in 2011, and the damn things are still oozing out of people’s brains and onto the Internet. It’s not a bad thing, by any means, but we’re pretty certain critical mass was reached late last…
Wow! It’s our first flier of the new year with the year 2011 inscribed on it. Looks kind of weird. Who knew the future would come so quickly? Anyway, this In Better Senses flier keeps things simple but still manages to be a nice combination of the psychedelic and the…
You’d think that publishers would take the first weeks of the year off when it comes to new releases, so that people don’t forget about things during Best of the Year time, but there is a theory in the psychology world that people tend to think best of two different…
Local label Laser Palace is giving the new year a jump start by releasing a new compilation chock-full of new and old tracks from the likes of Hideous Men, Iuengliss, VIA, Thundercade and many more. Don’t miss a nearly indiscernible cover of Suicide’s “Cheree” by Phonebooks. Happy New Year, indeed…
As 2010 has come to a close, we’ve seen plenty of changes on the music landscape, but nothing has been as strange and welcome as the increasingly awesome ability to create fully fleshed-out albums on your phone. This all came to a head when Gorillaz decided to release The Fall,…
The town of Lafayette, Indiana was up in arms over a couple of snow penises that popped up in a neighborhood after a big snowstorm. Town folk were terrified of the giant snow penis sculptures, causing a confused state of frenzy and frustration before police showed up and laughed at…
Five events, one venue: That’s the plan for the Mercury Cafe’s New Year’s Eve Celebration. And with numbers like that, the evening is sure to have something for everyone. The celebration starts at 5:30 p.m. with dinner, classical music and jazz provided by Local Color, Ron Tomasic and Nexus, then…
How does running and jumping around a weird universe and avoiding spinning fans of death sound for a quick time-wasting exercise? If it’s your idea of a good lunch break, than Insidia is right up your alley. Insidia is a Metroid-style platforming game in the simplest sense of the words,…
We see a lot of posters throughout the year, and many of them are stellar. This usually all comes to a head on New Years Eve, when venues pull out all the stops and unleash a ton of kickass posters. We haven’t seen many, however, that have come even close…
So you just got Microsoft’s new controllerless system Kinect for your kids for Christmas and you’ve spent the holidays jumping around your house, dancing and having an all around good time. Good news right? Finally your kid is getting off the couch and moving. Well, according to Fox News in…
It’s now post-holiday time, which means one thing in retail: gift cards. If your family decided to not bother getting to know you and instead gave you a card filled with imaginary cash to spend at your favorite store, that means you might be looking for some ideas on how…
