Walter Cronkite Memorial To Include President Obama, Mickey Hart, Jimmy Buffet

Walter Cronkite Photo: John McNab The AP reported that President Obama will speak at a memorial service at Lincoln Center on September 9 for the late CBS news anchor Walter Cronkite. Other famous guests expected to attend are former President Bill Clinton; news personalities Katie Couric, Andy Rooney, Bob Schieffer, Tom Brokaw; and the astronaut…

Today Is The Day!

Congratulations to President Obama on the occasion of his inauguration, I don’t know about you, but I’m looking forward to some changes around here (not around this blog per se, but you know, the country in general). (NOTE: This is a real book.) Miss Modernage will be covering the inaugural festivities from DC (and probably…

Barack Rock Update | NY, OH, PA

  Benefit Concerts and Rallies for Sen. Barack Obama 10/04/08 Ben Franklin Parkway (Philadelphia, PA) – Bruce Springsteen Unplugged 10/04/08 Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA) – Vampire Weekend 10/07/08 Music Hall of Williamsburg (Brooklyn, NY) – “Barack Rock” featuring Andrew Bird / Eugene Mirman / The Fiery Furnaces / Kumail Nanjiani / Alina Simone /…

Lorne Michaels, Amy Poehler and Seth Meyers at Times Center Tonight

SNL scored big this weekend with Tina Fey‘s impression of Sarah Palin, (but the rest of the show was predictably ho-hum). According to Tom Shales, (who wrote the hard to put down Live From New York), Barack Obama and Chuck Norris were last minute cancels and William Shatner was a little minute fill-in. Tonight you…