The Modern Age

MTV.com reports: Former America’s Next Top Model contestant and prolific LiveJournal-er Elyse Sewell has been cleared of all charges of domestic violence against now ex-boyfriend Marty Crandall of the pop group The Shins due to insufficient evidence. Crandall will be arraigned on Wed, and it is assumed all charges against him will also be dropped [...]

I woke up this morning to find my blog post about this weekend’s Marty Crandall/Elyse Sewell’s mash-up in Sacramento totally re-purposed without any attribution by The Post Chronicle writer Jim Brogan. (Thanks for the notes from readers who also noticed!)
Mr. Brogan has blatantly taken my January 5th blog post–swapping in synonyms every now and then–and [...]

If you are a lover of reality television, especially of Tyra Banks’s hit show America’s Next Top Model, you will be amazed by the rest of this post. OR if you are a lover of The Garden State OR of sensitive music written by men, you will also be riveted.
OK, so fans of ANTM Season [...]

They tried to make her brush her hair and she said, “No, no, no!”…

More heartbreakingly adorable/frightening photos over at The Daily Mail.

Aussie reader Kylie wrote in with a special report from The Vines (yeah remember them?) show in Brisbane, Australia on Saturday April 14, 2007:
I thought you might like to know about a crazy 2002 moment I had on Saturday night. I went to see the Vines and the Red Riders play here in Brisbane (Australia) [...]

Hanging out and smokin’ the death sticks with Kirstin “Kiki” Dunst is one thing, but hanging out, smoking, and then asking for some alcohol in a CHURCH WITH KIKI IN TOW? Oh Fab! You silly boy. A little “color” (that’s what we call it in “the biz”…and “the biz” is a term we use in [...]

when the NYTimes.com had the Anna Nicole death story as the main news item on their homepage. (They have since changed their landing page.)

As you may have heard by now, Pete Doherty once again checked into rehab on Jan 30th of this year. The next day, video and photos surfaced of Pete shooting up two days after he and Kate Moss received Buddhist blessing for their romance in a commitment ceremony of sorts on New Year’s day in [...]

Why on earth does he looks so hilariously fruity in this photo? (Image via Popsugar via the Strokes BB.)
If you MUST know more about Kiki and Fab’s alleged romancing, go ahead, indulge yourself.

Check out this item about The View (the Scottish band, not Rosie O’Donnel and co…who I saw earlier this month at Mercury Lounge) from this week’s edition of Popbitch (if you don’t read Popbitch, you don’t have a clue, do you?):
The View rock the Liverpool Travelodge
Indie hopefuls The View played a gig in Liverpool [...]