FOOD: Take a few beer and food bloggers, mix them up with an eclectic menu and and extensive beer list and you've got Bloggers and Beer. Four panelists will be selecting food and beer pairings, and the price of admission entitles you to a mini-meal of the four pairings. Pairings by Nick Fauchald, Food & Wine's "Mouthing Off," Samuel Merritt, Civilization of Beer, our own Laren Spirer and Jeff Gorlechen, Six Points Brewing Company. 6......

Stereogum has raised the bar with their latest endeavor, a tribute to Radiohead's OK Computer on the album's 10th anniversary. Musicians from all over have contributed, some of the New York bands you may recognize: Vampire Weekend, My Brightest Diamond, Doveman and...who's this Samson Dalonoga? We think this guy sounds suspiciously like a character David Cross has been known to take on. We're certain we've heard this voice on a stage downtown at some point.......

One of the Brooklyn-based bands down in Austin for SXSW this week is My Brightest Diamond. Nate from the band has been keeping a tour diary for us, check out his first installment below. SXSW: MUCH BETTER THAN BEING IN IRAQ. Three days before flying out from NY to Austin for the South by Southwest music conference, I had a rather ominous dream. It was the sort of dream you wake up from panicked and......

This morning we woke up to an email saying: "Sufjan played at Union Hall tonight. Pretty cool." According to their calendar "MARLA HANSEN (of My Brightest Diamond) + WOOLLY LEAVES + TIM FITE" played last night, so we're guessing he came to perform with Marla Hansen, as My Brightest Diamond is also on the Asthmatic Kitty label. He recently reviewed a MBD show at Tonic (however last night, the main MBD crew was in London......

In 2004 we asked a bunch of New York bloggers to suggest sonic stocking stuffers. This year, we asked New York bloggers, bookers, musicians and more, what they'd give as a gift this holiday season. Here you go...commence shopping! Jack "Skippy" McFadden, Union Hall booker The Isles "Perfumed Lands" Ian Love's self-titled cd Wes Verhoeve, Cross Pollination / The Undisputed Heavyweights A Brief Smile - R.E.S.T. My Brightest Diamond - Bring Me The Workhorse Kevin......

DISCUSSION: Tonight Dirty Dancing author Eleanor Bergstein will discuss the similarities between Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and her own masterpiece, which starred Patrick Swayze. Shakespearian scholars will be in attendence to agree or, most likely, refute the argument. This discussion may have been a bit more relevant in, say, 1987 - when the film came out. 7:30pm // National Arts Club [15 Gramercy Park South] // Free THEATER: The No Frills Company, which is dedicated......