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I’m in the epicenter of American Club Culture with my MTV News colleagues and we spent our evening partying … at The Radisson. I spent the balance of my Monday in transit. Better living through chemistry made takeoff, flight, and landing painless. My knuckles were far from white. In fact, I slept through everything, including…

I spent the balance of my weekend in Montauk cracking jokes with a buncha’ thirtysomething triathletes and surfers about our impending joint replacement surgeries. Good times, really. I’ve lived in New York City nearly ten years but had scarcely set foot on Long Island. Until yesterday. I set out for the LIRR to Montauk late…

The annual musical during my first year at Conestoga Senior High School was ‘Pippin.’ I played Pippin. My mother said then, and has said since, that ‘Pippin’ is the story of my life. I think, in its way, it’s the story of all of our lives. Basically, it’s about the kid, Pippin, who’s the only…

Funny thing, rocknroll. Looks cheap. Ain’t. Take tonight’s Sin-e performance, for which I am monumentally stoked. My excitement not withstanding, shit ain’t cheap. $150 – Postcards $160 – Pickup $125 – Pickup installation, tuning and set up $56 – Rehearsal space $16 – Capo $54 – Patchcord(s) $33 – Tamborine (you’ll see) Don’t get me…

Thunder echoed through the canyons of Midtown. It was raining. Traffic on Fifth was at a standstill, red tail lights clear to the Empire State. I stepped into the city from the park as a distant voice rose above it all: “Everything really does happen in Manhattan.” Sadly, there was some confusion as to when…

Had I not snapped out of my slumber as the driver blew past my apartment and turned west towards the river, I’m sure I would have woken up in a tub of ice water with an incision where my liver used to be. Not that it’s of much use these days. Aaaah, Sweet Brooklyn, Borough…