Devotchka did their part by warming up the crowd, when The Magnetic Fields took the stage it was as if all the energy was sucked out of the club. Pianist, vocalist and apparent band manager, Claudia Gonson’s pedantic explanations and counting off the start to nearly every song reduced the set to seeming like a freshman seminar entitled The Magnetic Fields: 101.

Tasty news bites featuring yé-yé pop, the religiosity belt and a Chinese kissing contest.

Tomorrow the National Archives will release the 1940 census data, the first ever full census to go directly to a digital format.

Who could resist this face?

The Sunday Morning Post featuring road closures, Pimlico, Jeffrey Thompson, broken escalators and attacking cabbies.

Tasty news bites featuring the best, worst casting decisions, an illustrated commute and what you can’t deep fry.

“You can’t take an adult seriously when he’s debating you over why Twilight vampires are O.K. with sunlight. If my parents had read ‘Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing’ at the same time as I did, I would have looked into boarding school,” writes Joel Stein.

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The Saturday Morning Post. Featuring record setting lottery wins and warm weather, crime, China and Ron Burgundy.

Tasty news bites featuring nothing for something, weird weight loss reactions and green car gizmos.