About three years ago, a couple friends of mine camped out in the upper reaches of MCI Center to see his holiness Paul McCartney play his first DC show in years. Since they are (were?) blond and relatively attractive, they were whisked by Sir Paul's management to the concert's front row, where they succeed in getting the ex-Beatle to play a repr...

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Question of the week: Is Bonnaroo just SXSW for uncool people? Chew on that one while I go over the can't-miss and must-miss sets of this year's festival:

THURSDAY CAN'T MISS:

Battles, This Tent, 10-11 PM: Neo-math rockers put out one of the best albums of last year, and put on a pretty impressive live show. A bit of a downer on an indie-heavy...

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College Walk is a major thoroughfare, and when crowded with Columbians it's easy to forget that a lot of non-collegians walk in our midst. During the summer they're easier to spot, and few of them look all that happy to be alive. A quick sample of College Walkers, recorded between 5:19 and 5:23 this afternoon:


Above: College Walk is transforme

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One of my suite's previous residents left this in my commons room, and my God are the possibilities endless. A few that I came up with whilst imprisoned on the uptown A train (keeping in mind that I don't actually, like, recommend trying these. This is a thought experiment ONLY. Repeat: a thought experiment ONLY.):

RULE: When a piece is taken,

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Anyone brave enough to leave the tourist gulag of Midtown Manhattan knows that New York is to pretentiousness what the Vatican is to Catholicism, what Washington, DC is to politics, what South Baltimore is to crack, and what Sylvia's is to chicken and waffles. Can't count how many conversations like this one I've had since I matriculated a coupl

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I spent much of my first day back in New York City pushing a ramshackle blue cart. Since you probably go to college, you probably know exactly what this cart looked like, and you probably know that the fackers have minds of their own--especially on uneven terrain, and especially when the person pushing them is in mortal combat with the New York

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