You’ve graduated college. You’ve moved to a crappy apartment. You don’t have a job, and you don’t have friends. Sound familiar? Avenue Q, a Tony Award-winning Broadway musical with the looks of Sesame Street and the perversity of Team America, reassures its audience that the Real World may be a scary place at first, but as long as you surround yourself with friends, you’ll do just fine. MORE »

Say “hi” to our fancy new intern, Malaka Gharib. She writes a crazy restaurant thing for the D.C. Examiner, and also does production at Al Jazeera in Washington, and has this crazy food blog too. And she will be writing about all of those types of things, and also music and movies and etc. Hooray! MORE »

THIS SPITZER MUSICAL IS HA-HA FUNNY: Are the three days of Spitzmas coming to a close? Le sigh. Perhaps we finally must start paying attention to the congressional district map in Pennsylvania. But, but first, here’s a funny thing someone did about Eliot Spitzer again! The New Yorker’s Ben Greenman wrote a musical-in-one-act about the affair for McSweeney’s, and it is a delight. [McSweeney's]

* Ohh, this new blog is very shiny and has so many things to click! [Freeride] MORE »

* Be afraid, be very afraid. [Iraq: The Musical] MORE »

It’s true, most of us honor Veteran’s Day with a fantastic white sale. We salute the Marine in today’s Washington Post who’s celebrating his return to civilian life with show tunes. Shouldn’t he have been in the Navy? Kidding. Patrick Young, a Maryland native and Iraq veteran, had a tough tour — he lost his best friend and came home unsure what to do with his life — no wonder he has found solace in “The Sound of Music.” But don’t go thinking he’s that way. Back in the suck, one thought about his stateside home kept him going:

When he was pinned facedown in the dirt by insurgent fire, with only a shrub for cover and “wishing I could become part of the ground,” it was there: Hooters in walking distance.

He seems like a good kid, actually. Maybe the Hooters girls will come to him. MORE »