Lyric Stash

Happy Mondays, Academy, Glasgow (Independent)
The past is getting closer all the time, as ? just like a packaged nostalgia bill of old beat-combos or glam-rock groups ? this Fac 51 Hacienda tour has reunited leading lights of the late Eighties Madchester scene such as 808 State and New Order's Peter Hook for one more hoorah. The branding was better for this show, of course, and the crowd a lot more rowdy, but it essentially preached to a ...

'Happy Days' Plays Show's "Hometown," Milwaukee (Playbill via Yahoo! News)
The national tour of Happy Days - A New Musical, a song-filled stage adaptation of the hit TV series about friends in the 1950s, lands in the town where she show is set - Milwaukee - Jan. 6.

PASSING THE BAR:Chloe 81 (New York Press)
THIRD TIME?S A charm at this hardto-find Ludlow Street lair, which is tucked almost invisibly below its upstairs neighbor, the Jin Lin Trading Corp. After two failed visits to this quiet Lower East Side block?the bar is closed on Mondays and I ran into a private party on my second try?I finally finagled my way past the doorman and through the velvet drapes to make my underground escape into ...

PENFIELD POLICE reports: Happy Hour heist (Rochester Democrat and Chronicle)
Here are some of the most recent items from police records in Penfield. Reports are updated on Mondays or as they become available.

Fables and Faith : A happy Christmas message from the past (NWAnews.com)
My good friend John Gossett sent me, via e-mail, his rendition of a song written by John Lennon in 1971. The song, titled "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)," was written in response to Lennon's feelings about the war being over. (Benton County Daily Record)