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After brushing the mainstream with Transatlanticism and song appearances on The O.C., the road-warriors of Death Cab for Cutie stop in for a show on Lansdowne Street. The bat-swinging neighbors across the street will either be in New York or done for the season, so expect the band’s melancholic strands to jive well with the surroundings. Matador rockers Pretty Girls Make Graves open, so get there early. $17.50. All ages. Avalon Night Club, 15 Lansdowne St., Boston...
Some athletes are willing and able to go to bat with their section leaders both for their academics and for their sports, while others simply have to avoid classes that conflict with practice times...
...right around the time Ben Stiller turned up at a Bat Mitzvah disguised as a mime that I started to yearn for the couch. But I had downloaded Starsky & Hutch to my home-office computer. And even though the picture looked great in full-screen mode on my 17in. monitor, with none of the jerkiness that sometimes plagues online video streams, I had my feet propped up on a printer, and my husband had to stand behind me to see Stiller strut his stuff. Not what I had in mind for movie night...
EIA’s findings seem pretty solid—even Secretary of Energy (and Bush appointee) Spencer Abraham was unwilling to go to bat on this one, telling Congress in April that he did “not dispute the EIA analyses...
...will watch other young men do on TV (execute a 360? slam dunk, eat animal entrails, punk Justin Timberlake) than with how other people see teen boys. In CBS's Clubhouse (Tuesdays, 9 p.m. E.T.), 16-year-old Pete Young (Jeremy Sumpter) lands a dream after-school job: bat boy for the New York Empires baseball team. His single mom (Mare Winningham) wants him to focus on his studies, so he tells her he's spending late nights with his school's Scrabble club. But while doing an errand for a bad-seed player, he's caught with the cheater...