The Modern Age

The creators of my number 2 favorite album of 2006, The Kooks, will be touring the US again–kicking off with an appearance at Coachella.

The tour dates are as follows:

Going through all my old posts made me curious to check up on some bands I haven’t heard from in a while. I just went to the Starsailor site, and low and behold, singer James Walsh just posted an update!
Sounds like they are getting ready to record another album!
What an amazing few weeks we [...]

I’ve been going through all my first posts, trying to categorize them and re-format them so they don’t look all wonky, and I’ve been reading some of THE MOST HILARIOUS posts ever.
You know, I started this site over five years ago when I was in college, and it’s just so amusing to read the [...]

Red Cat Owner Betting on Ilan to Win ‘Top Chef’ - Grub Street - New York Magazine
Immediately following the penultimate episode of Top Chef, we instant-messaged with Jimmy Bradley, the chef and restaurateur behind the Red Cat, the Mermaid Inn, and the Harrison, and the co-author of The Red Cat Cookbook.
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New York [...]

Did you know that Bob Dylan wrote “Golddigger”, “Paradise City”, and “My Humps”? Me either. But according to this video, Bob Dylan wrote every popular song in the last 35 years. Yes, even his 1961 self-admitted clunker, “Had a Bad Day”…

As you may have guessed by now, this is was a joke entirely produced by [...]

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Helloooooo! Who else saw Christopher Richardson–that Justin Timberlake look- and SOUND-a-like–during tonight’s American Idol Season 6 auditions? (What! I was doing laundry, ok?)
You know, the one wearing the green shirt and ::shudders:: tan shorts? He’s my new imaginary reality TV boyfriend. I hope he makes it to the next round…even though he said that [...]

In 2005 I went to go see Claire Danes perform a dance piece called “Christina Olson: American Model” at PS 122. Zac Posen was there with flowers. Claire Danes came incredibly close to my face. I was confused.

Now that Danes is no longer a homewrecker (when you are no longer with your homewreck-ee, does [...]

I was just talking about Yoko Ono today and I did a search on YouTube for her and I stumbled across this footage of Yoko Ono performing “Cut Piece” in 1965 (pre-John Lennon) at New York’s Carnegie Hall. In the work she sits motionless on stage as members of the audience come up and cut [...]

If you didn’t watch the first half of the season finale of Top Chef tonight and don’t want to find out what happens, DO NOT READ ON!