The Modern Age

Was walking around this evening and noticed a new restaurant, Hong Kong Station, is now open on Bayard Street in Chinatown. Apparently this is the second HKS restaurant (the original is on Hester Street near Bowery).
Fortunately it’s open a little later than the Hester Street store, 10:30pm is the regular closing time, 11:30 on Saturday. [...]

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Martha Stewart plans online women’s social [...]

This morning Patrick from Fall Out Boy appeared in the Live Lounge on Jo Whiley. Poor little Patrick was the only one in the Maida Vale studio–his bandmates were most likely sleeping off the jet lag or taking promo pictures of their peens. (According to Pete Wentz’s latest FOB Journal entry, he hasn’t slept in [...]

Yessss! I was so devistated when Dave was eliminated last week and Tiffani remained in the final, so you can imagine how happy I am that resident Top Chef hottie Harold Dieterle has won the title of “Top Chef”.
As much as I loved Harold on the show, his MySpace profile leaves me a bit…disturbed. Under [...]

Whoops! It appears that we’ll never hear “All Good Things”, the much-talked-about duet between Coldplay’s Chris Martin and pop songbird Nelly Furtado, which was slated to appear on her new album being released this summer.
According to Cinema Blend, the song has been removed from the album at the request of EMI. Link from Jerry.

Gallery of the Absurd: High School Textbooks of the Future?
This is like, the skeletal system: Starring Nicole Richie
Where Do Workers Go Online?
The secret is out; employees who work online also play online, and they do so on company time.
Fotografie: Martin Schoeller - ‘Close [...]

Ok, it’s official. I really need to buy a point-and-shoot camera that I will carry around with me every single day because taking photos on my cameraphone is getting sad. So sad. Almost as sad as the fact that I went to go see Say Anything at the SPIN offices tonight. I went half went [...]

Wow, someone at Rough Trade finally had it up to here with Pete Doherty and now his band, Babyshambles, has been officially droped from the RT roster. Apparently Rough Trade can handle a lot of things, but squirting a MTV camera crew with blood from a syringe is not one of them.
In related news, Pete’s [...]

Internet Search Engine Topix Inks Deal With AP
As part of a 15-month agreement to be announced Tuesday, the AP will identify the stories that local papers contribute to the news cooperative so Topix’s search engine can do a better job displaying links to the original source material.
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NME reports that Kaiser Chiefs lead singer Ricky Wilson was injured in a hit-and-run accident on Sunday, but thanks to his leapfrog-like ability to jump in the air he escaped with some minor injuries. According to the official Kaiser Chiefs site:
Ricky was hit by a car whilst walking across a pedestrian crossing in Leeds town [...]