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Passing Strange - Review - Theater - New York Times
“Passing Strange” is bursting at the seams with melodic songs, and it features a handful of theatrical performances to treasure.
(tags: theater nytimes)

Apartment Therapy New York | Jar Tops by Jorre van Ast
These attractive lids and spouts from designer Jorre van Ast prolong the life of ordinary […]

TMA favorite St. Vincent (aka Annie Clark) will be ripping it up at the Bowery Ballroom tonight at a sold out show.
See ya there!
UPDATE: It’s official, St. Vincent can do no wrong. Annie let loose by wearing a charming sleeveless black trapeze dress and let her naturally curly “Tina, diva” hair do its thang, making […]

New York City homies Vampire Weekend are quickly becoming as ubiquitous as MacBook Air commercials–currently gracing the cover of the music magazine for the “blawg-rockers”, SPIN and now they are featured in the new issue of Nylon magazine:

(Bigger photo on Vorrasi.com.)
The shots were taken at Tom & Jerry’s bar in the East Village by TMA […]

The BSB writes: “This YouTube video show Yeasayer in a studio working their magic. They sure do a whole lot of work to get their sound don’t they!”
Enjoy folks:

As of tonight I have a lot in common with the Arctic Monkeys, Kate Nash, the Klaxons, and Facebook. We are all 2008 Shockwave NME Award WINNERS! Muwahahah.

YOUR VOTING was the key in helping this lil’ ol’ blog win a 2008 Shockwave NME Award for Best Music Blog.
I would like to thank YOU, the […]

This is a humbling video. His skills make Olympic athletes look like they’re learning to walk.
grab some tissues cause you’re about to start crying now:

8:29PM: Sitting down with a quart of Ben & Jerry’s right now in front of the television, waiting for the Oscars to start. Will update when something notable happens.
8:35PM: Daniel Day Lewis, earrings on both ears… yay or nay? Colin Ferrel, how/why is he allowed at the Oscars?
8:36PM: James McAvoy! Sitting next to wifey and […]

Did some sleuthing this morning and FINALLY fixed the RSS feed. Yay!
You can now subscribe to the RSS feed by plugging in themodernage.org/feed/ into your RSS reader of choice.
Here’s to minor victories!

Ok, so has anyone been going absolutely OUT OF THEIR MINDS since Old Navy started airing those ridiculously ANNOYING ads for their spring fashions? You know, the one that has some winsome-sounding girl singing about how her “arms get cold, in February”?

These commercials are so cloying that I end up screaming at them the […]

UPDATE: Here’s the “Bitch is the new black” video, straight from the top. Read below to read my running commentary:

11:28PM: Yes it’s the first SNL since the writer’s strike has ended. The Backseat Blogger has decided that we should be live-blogging this event even though I’m feeling pretty lazy. So here we go…
11:29PM: Looks like […]