Keane In-Store

Keane is doing an in-store at Hear Music on the Promenade per Jessica Blueprint. Info here.

Cheers to You

Radical Teen Cheerleaders Pom Poms Not Bomb Bombs perform at protests and cheer for peace and a regime change. This is not your typical high school cheerleading squad. Way to go!

Julie Heffernan Exhibit

The Mint Museum in Charlotte, NC is hosting a special exhibit of Heffernan's latest works through September 5. As disturbing as they are beautiful, the paintings visualize the subconscious fears that gave rise to classic fables/allegories.

US Drivers "Energy Illiterate"

Salon.com: The Gas Guzzlers Who Just Can't Quit

Like Gilligan's Island Only Better

After a mere seven days, the 17 members of PBS's Colonial House are already drooling over raw muskrat and barring servants and women from "important" meetings. The House is spiritually divided between the Waco preacher/governor, the intellectual theologian (who, pinkie akimbo, instructs his wife to use the "WHITE truffle oil" in the prequel), and the feminist athiest who cries at the drop of a hat. From the peanut gallery (that would be me and Amy): This show is reality television at its most captivating. Tomorrow promises more of indentured servant Paul Hunt shirtless (!) while governor Jeff Wyers breaks out the scarlet letters.

Lost and Found

"From his parents' basement to the pages of The New Yorker, Davy Rothbart has made a whole world from the detritus of our everyday lives. Creator of Found magazine, contributor to NPR's This American Life, and author of The Lone Surfer of Montana Kansas, Davy returns to Book Soup..."
At Book Soup on Sunset, Thursday night @ 7pm

Slightly Obsessed

Download "Jenny" by The Killers.

Jazz Baby
Precocious (that's anyone who's talented and under 24, btw) musician Jamie Cullum is profiled on All Things Considered.

Beethoven's Ode to Joy. Just because it's been three days since I returned from vacation and I'm trying to keep "real" life on the DL for as long as I possibly can.

"head over heels is not just a cliché; it is also, when you think about it, a faintly absurd one. Our heads are usually over our heels."
Bill Bryson, Dictionary of Troublesome Words

It Takes a Colony
PBS's Colonial House premieres on Monday night. Find out what happens when software engineers, Oriental carpet salesmen, professors, and theologians take on the austere life of colonial settlers in the New World ca. 1628. If it's anything like Manor House, it should be very, very entertaining.

Finally the role of Hamlet is going to be played by an actor who's actually the right age...Not that I didn't love Liev Schreiber's performance (I was in the front row and he was amazing), but really Hamlet (who is still a university student when the play begins) has all the passion and despair of youth and, of course, a plethora of unresolved issues with women, especially his youthful and still quite attractive mother.

Kim and Sarah at Blackfriars Pub in Glasgow _ May 6

Poster for Donnie Darko re-release