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...popularity of Underage gigs, and a growing number of like-minded club nights in cities across the country, comes from the same impulse that prompted Killcoyne to organize Underage in the first place. "Me and my friends were really, really obsessed with this band called The Horrors," says the modestly spoken but over-achieving Killcoyne between sets as a DJ at a London record store. "I tried to see them seven or eight times - once in a strip club in Soho - and I couldn't get in. Because they sell alcohol, you have to be 18, and I look really...
...appears that something larger than local fame is about to be thrust upon him. He instinctively understands that his success depends on the defense of his singularity, his incomparability with anyone else, and he becomes nervous, uncertain and withdrawn about moving beyond his small Washington pond - symbolized by a gig on The Johnny Carson Show, which he funks...
...would a rational well phone-equipped person consider dropping a perfectly good device and plunking down $599 (because a 4 gig model is out of the question if an 8 gig model is available) for a new phone? With analysts estimating over 500,000 phones sold just last weekend, perhaps search term data could help us figure out why we've gone iPhone crazy...
...week shy of his 21st birthday in June, Shia LaBeouf spent a morning learning to drive bizarre, top-secret vehicles alongside Harrison Ford. This fantasy gig started, as Hollywood fairy tales often do, with a summons to Steven Spielberg's office two months earlier. "Steven said, 'You ever seen Indiana Jones?'" the boyish-looking actor recounts, while chain smoking outside the Burbank, Calif., strip mall where he buys his daily Boston Market chicken and Robek's fruit smoothie ("The parking lot of dreams," LaBeouf calls his suburban stomping ground). "I said, 'Of course I've seen Indiana Jones.' He said...
...talked his way into a stand-up gig at a comedy club in Pasadena, Calif. "My thing was the 50-year-old mouth on the 10-year-old body," LaBeouf says. He took to the stage in overalls, with a bowl haircut, and "the first words out of my mouth would be 'Listen, assholes,'" he says. "Sometimes I would bomb. I'd talk about personal stuff and instead of laughing, people would look at me like, 'Oh, man, I'm so sorry.'" The potty-mouthed-preteen act only took him so far, so at age 11 LaBeouf found an agent...