Beach House’s Victoria Legrand is a woman of many trades. She is a wordsmith inspired by the imaginary “shape” of an individual lyric, a keyboardist who crafts woozily whimsical flutters of notes, and — as we most recently discovered — a fur tree maker. In the wake of her band’s acclaimed third release, Teen Dream, we had the pleasure of chatting with Legrand about these aforementioned skills and more, finally confirming the meaning behind the single, “Norway,” and introducing us to five great bands from her Baltimore home that we may not have heard of. Oh, and Selleck Waterfall Sandwich also made its way into the mix.

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A trim online magazine from Amsterdam, Ilovethatphoto offers beautifully composed images and conversations with talented photographers from all shores.

With its eye-catching variety, the site is a repository of inspiration for both photo practitioners and enthusiasts. Each featured artist selects a handful of his or her images, which are contextualized with quotes about their influences, style, and a person-specific definition of the art. The site’s blog features a more interactive option, allowing user kudos and star ratings for everything from rare cameras to the ace photos in its Flickr group.

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South California rockers Cold War Kids are set to tour this winter in support of their recently released Behave Yourself EP, an up-tempo, psychedelic, raw, and sexy follow-up to their second album, Loyalty to Loyalty. Everyone knows their hooks are masterpieces, but not everyone knows that CWK bassist Matt Maust is an accomplished visual artist as well. Flavorpill’s Shana Nys Dambrot caught up with him on the eve of the Behave Yourself tour to talk, art, music, touring — and how these diverse areas of his life inform one another.

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In the first installment of an ongoing series, we’re teaming up with our pals at Daily Serving, a website with its finger on the pulse of what’s hot in the world of contemporary art. An international forum combining an academic viewpoint (founder Seth Curcio is the former director of Redux Contemporary Art Center in Charleston, SC) with fine art eye candy, Daily Serving is a must-read for artheads looking to expand their knowledge of the field. Our excerpt of their recent interview with Whitney Biennial artist Storm Tharp, after the jump.

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This Thanksgiving weekend you’ll probably find yourself in line for The Road, the cinematic adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. In many ways, it’s seemingly everything one could want in a holiday movie. Father-son bonding, check. Epic journey, check. There’s even a scene where the characters have their own post-apocalyptic version of a Thanksgiving feast with canned peaches and Cheetos substituting for turkey and stuffing. But while it’s an excellent film, be warned: The Road will suck all happiness out of your holiday buzz and leave you unsure that you’ll ever be able to smile again.

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Jonathan Evison’s irresistible debut tale of step-sibling obsession, All About Lulu, tap-danced between humor and melancholy whilst exploring family function and dysfunction from a fresh vantage point. The author’s much anticipated sophomore book, West of Here, is due out next fall. From his home base on Bainbridge Island, Washington, Evison — who’s one of the bloggers behind Three Guys One Book — caught up with Flavorpill via e-mail to share some early poetry, his ideal time travel destination, and a packing list for the next book tour.

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Multidisciplinary artist MK Guth brings a homespun feeling to her video, photography, and sculpture pieces that act as channels of social exchange. She has braided fake hair into Rapunzel braids and driven a truck of red shoes around New York City; this fall Guth blends craft and narrative with a textile-based project in lower Manhattan. We went deep into the belly of One New York Plaza’s retail center to chat with Guth about her three-month residency “This Fable Is Intended For You: A Work-Energy Principle” — watch our exclusive video interview after the jump.

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DJ Tim Sweeney has plenty to be happy about these days, not the least of which is that his long-running radio show Beats in Space turns ten this year. In addition to featuring his own eclectic selections, BiS has hosted a who’s who of dance music’s finest as guests on the show, with the likes of Hercules & Love Affair’s Andy Butler, Carl Craig, Lindstrøm and many others either sending in mixes or dropping by WNYU’s studio on a Tuesday night to play their favorite records. We caught up with the DFA house DJ, recent producer, and inveterate music lover while he was making a pit stop in New York in between headlining BiS ten year anniversary shows around the globe.

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Two twenty-something, upper class, educated, Jewish girls traipse around the United States looking for the feminism of a new generation, and once they find it, one of them kills herself. That’s not exactly what the back cover of Girldrive: Criss-Crossing America, Redefining Feminism reads, but that’s one version of what happened. Best friends since 1997, Nona Willis Aronowitz and Emma Bee Bernstein decided to take a road trip and talk to a cross section of young women about the F-word. They met 127 women — including a sex shop clerk, a Bible college student, a witch, a future nun, a former Air Force worker, a 28-year-old mother of six, and an anarchist — to find out why some woman love feminism with a fierceness and why others don’t relate to it at all.

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Philip Seymour Hoffman believes his new film, Pirate Radio, is subversive in its message — that rock ‘n’ roll is an inalienable right.

Pirate Radio takes place in 1966, when British radios played less than one hour of rock a day as decreed to the government-backed BBC. The film’s “Radio Rock,” a fictionalized amalgamation of Radio Caroline, has an ensemble cast of DJs (including Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Rhys Ifans, and Nick Frost) — and one lesbian cook who adorably finds love in what Curtis called his “favorite shot of the film.” They broadcast live “all day and all of the night” from the middle of the North Sea (just outside of U.K. territorial waters) and half of Britain’s population listens.

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