Nick Huinker

As novel as it seems for Joss Whedon to have brought together the four Marvel Studios franchises into one tentpole film in The Avengers, it’s been inevitable for as long as there have been movie blockbusters.

On Oct. 10, 2010, thousands of people from every country on Earth picked up their video cameras and participated in what organizers hope to be a continuing event in global culture. That footage has now been compiled into the feature ...

Hollywood will try to sell you Snow White twice in two months this year, and at first glance Tarsem Singh’s Mirror Mirror looked like the loser. The only obvious sin of June’s self-serious adventure Snow White and the Huntsman is ...

Christian Cox is a Knoxville-based artist and designer who has recently branched out into performance. His first set this year found a roomful of eager Royal Bangs fans running the anti-comedy gauntlet of hack standup “Garry Plimpton,” to the bemusement ...

When the normally prolific Wil Wright went through a songwriting dry spell last summer, he took the opportunity to go out of his element with the help of ostentatious Knoxville DJ Tom Ato; the eventual result was Lil Iffy, a ...

The members of the Mutations may not have illustrious wave-catching pedigrees (“I’ve been to the ocean,” offers bassist Joel Thompson) but they revel in the genre’s sunny imagery.

If you’re looking for any more evidence of how the Internet has altered the music business, consider this: Dracula Horse, arguably Knoxville’s most prominent record label, has spent the last two years giving its music away digitally in a pay-what-you-like ...

Are we ready yet to be grown up at the movies?

By early 2011 Fine Peduncle’s sound had solidified into a suggestive, hooky blend of hip-hop and left-field electronica, brought together by Cole Murphy’s Timberlake-on-bad-acid falsetto. What really brought the project to maturity, though, was the incorporation of his lifelong fascination ...

As fashionable as it’s become to plunder old genres for easy cheers, there’s no sign on Dead Town that Knoxville mod-rockers the Vaygues have anything less than complete, qualified commitment to the jangly guitar pop of yesteryear.