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  • The night they closed ol' CBGB down, The Amp was in the house at the legendary New York City punk club watching Patti Smith stand beside her longtime guitarist Lenny Kaye and bash out a Ramones medley. Starting Friday, we'll be able to think fondly about that 2006 night while eating what's claiming to be a slice of punk rock history.

    The Bleecker Street outpost of pizza chain Two Boots is introducing a special slice called "The CBGB (OMFUG)" this week, and Kaye will be on the scene (to crack a ceremonial bottle of beer on a pizza box or something?). According to EV Grieve, the CBGB (OMFUG) is a chicken, broccoli, garlic, and basil pesto slice that costs $3.75. (Cue jokes about how that's even more tasteless than the endless merchandising around the hallowed venue.) If that flavor profile and/or price isn't punk enough for you, grab a to-go order and drag your pizza over the gutter in front of the club's former Bowery location to get more of that classic CBGB flavor. 

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  • Katy Perry broke the news about her summer California Dreams Tour in a Facebook livestream during which she threatened to detonate some sort of nostril bomb on Mark Zuckerberg's offices. "I bought a little sneak preview of what this tour is going to smell like. I'm going to start making the Facebook office reek!" she said, explaining that the live show, like her album, will have a distinctive aroma. She implied that fragrance would be tied to the candy theme she developed for her "Teenage Dream" artwork and the "California Gurls" video, but then she said something that made us concerned.

    "[It's going to be] based around meat," she said. "It's going to be a very edible looking tour, it's going to be meat and candy. It will look like a smorgasbord." Not, not "Sex and Candy," but meat and candy. She then mentioned the possibility of "edible dresses." Katy, we love you, but haven't we been down this stinky road before?

    Perry added that set pieces have been inspired by Will Cotton, who

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  • Thanks to the marvels of interleague baseball, fans get unique opportunities to see National League teams face off against American League teams. While city rivalries like Mets versus Yankees and the Cubs against the White Sox are yearly battles, the chance to see a team like the AL West's Seattle Mariners come to Miami to play the NL East's Florida Marlins is a twice-in-a-decade event. That is, however, if you schedule the series against a U2 tour. Then it's a once-in-a-decade event.

    For the second straight year, U2's 360° Tour, with its massive "spaceship" stage that requires days to construct and disassemble, is wreaking havoc on the MLB season. This time around, it's forcing the Marlins/Mariners series, scheduled for June 24th to June 26th, to jump coasts from Miami to Seattle because of U2's scheduled June 29th concert at Sun Life Stadium. U2's concert comes three days after the series was scheduled to conclude, but because of the amount of time that's needed to build their stage,

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  • If you've had a hard time finding a job with an English degree, imagine what obstacles 53-year-old Mary-Lu Zahalan-Kennedy is going to face now that she's the proud owner of a masters in the Beatles. She's an official Beatlologist! Or a Beatltician. 

    Zahalan-Kennedy, a Canadian singer who has recorded three albums and been nominated for a Juno, according to the BBC, was one of a dozen students who enrolled in Liverpool Hope University's Fab Four masters program when it launched in 2009. After carefully parsing the sound and composition of the Beatles' albums and the group's relationship with its hometown, Zahalan-Kennedy has completed her course of study and is now a bona fide Beatles scholar. Good luck to the career services counselor assigned to this one.

    Zahalan-Kennedy, whose resume also includes being a finalist in a Miss Canada competition, said simply of her degree, "I am so proud of my achievement." It wouldn't have hurt to throw one Beatles pun in there, just to prove she

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  • If you were holding out on buying tickets to this year's Coachella Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California, you're out of luck: Passes for this year's fest have sold out in record time, just a week after the lineup was revealed. Whether it's the draw of Kanye West's headlining gig, performances by Kings of Leon, Arcade Fire, and the Strokes or the reunions of Big Audio Dynamite and Death from Above 1979, this year's festival was a hot ticket, and yesterday Coachella delivered the bad news to tardy fans on Twitter that tickets are gone.

    How in demand was this year's Coachella ticket? Over on StubHub, car parking passes, which would allow you to enjoy the camping grounds at the festival but not the music, are going for around $650, nearly twice the box office price of a three-day pass that included parking and music. A ticket to all three days of the music festival itself is going between $850 and $5,000 per person, so Coachella tickets were actually a great investment opportunity

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  • In March 2010, Boy George revealed his iconic '80s band Culture Club would reunite in 2011 to celebrate their 30th anniversary, but his promise was anything but a guarantee -- he actually said, "It's all about my mood at the time." The 49-year-old singer may be feeling like making money with his old bandmates is a fine idea right now, because he just told the BBC the group is plotting a tour and new album for 2012. What's more, he broke this news while wearing one of the most sparkly hats in his sizable collection of headwear.

    "We are getting back together!" he exclaimed, when told that producer Mark Ronson -- who recently helmed Duran Duran's latest disc -- was requesting a Culture Club reunion. "Next year. This year I'm doing the Here and Now tour. It's kind of a precursor for what I'm doing with Culture Club in 2010. We'll be doing a proper, huge worldwide tour. And a new album."

    A Culture Club reunion in 2012 would celebrate the slightly less-milestone-like 31st anniversary of the

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  • If the Green Bay Packers' anthem "Go Pack Go!" conjures up memories of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and "Only Happy When It Rains," it should come as no surprise that 6 Packers, the group responsible for the novelty hit tearing up Wisconsin radio stations, features Butch Vig, one of the biggest producers of the alternative rock era and the drummer for Garbage. Vig, a Wisconsin native, teamed up with some of his Garbage cohorts for the track, which has experienced a sudden renaissance thanks to the team's Super Bowl run.

    "The cool thing is, we sent it to the people at Lambeau -- I know one of the DJs, Malcolm, who does on-field [music] at Lambeau Field -- and when they first got it, [guitar tech Chad Zaemish] and I went to the game, and they played it, like, 15 times during the game," Vig told MTV. "We were just in heaven, and, like, I know I've done Green Day and the Pumpkins and Garbage and whatever, but now I can die a happy man. I've had a song played at Lambeau."

    To put things in

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