Word: bandness
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...parent figures and leaving the kids to forge their own ethics and agendas on one make-or-break night in Gotham. The plot's twin spurs are that Norah has to keep tabs on her alkie friend Caroline (Ari Graynor) - her nickname is Winehouse - and that a favorite mystery band, Where's Fluffy, may be playing a concert tonight and the teens will stay in town until they locate the venue...
...worries him sick. He seems prematurely 40, so that any teen trauma has the impact of a midlife crisis or some awful dream endlessly repeating itself. As Nick O'Leary in Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist, he's the theoretically cool bass player in a band playing a Manhattan club. Except that the band is called the Jerk Offs, the other two members are gay, their audience includes blasé members of Nick's New Jersey high school, and one of them is Tris (Alexis Dziena), the girl Nick has nakedly and mostly unrequitedly adored for ages...
...Nick, that would be Norah Silverberg (Kat Dennings), whose top-girl hauteur masks her discontent with every punk-star wannabe who wants a recording contract with her music-producer father. She doesn't need leeches; she wants a boyfriend. Just not the quiet, doomed bassist in a queercore band...
...Lafayette 20, Penn 14PRINCETON (0-1) VS. LEHIGH (1-1)Princeton is certainly glad to be back in New Jersey, after a road trip to the Citadel—a military school in South Carolina—subjected the Tigers to a 37-24 drubbing and the Princeton University Band to a classy display by some cadets that included physical attacks and homophobic slurs. Officers and gentlemen at their finest.Look for Princeton to rebound against the Mountain Hawks behind the dangerous Brian Anderson, a veritable running threat at quarterback. Lehigh lost its own versatile signal caller, Sedale Threatt...
...tonight’s indoor performance will feature premier female drummers Terri Lyne Carrington and Cindy Blackman, who have played with Hancock and Lenny Kravitz respectively. Their appearance is part of an annual attempt at innovation. “It’s not often you see a jazz band led by drummers,” Balkin said. “We’ve never done anything quite like this.” The indoor component, unlike tomorrow’s performances, is a paid event attracting more serious jazz fans that enjoy a more formal, controlled environment...