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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

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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 impressi

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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 ... MORE »

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 tho... MORE »

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 ... MORE »

The ever-astute Dr. Benway diagnoses the best student budget-friendly bars in New York City, complains about Columbia's Goldsmith Hall and questions the validity of the Top 100 College Journalists.

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