Brooklyn Vegan — photos by David Andrako The 2011 Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival concluded on Sunday night (9/18) with two shows at the Bell House. "A Special Food-Themed Comedy Show For You" was hosted by Eugene Mirman and Leo Allen, with Ron Funches,... more info

Music For Ants — From “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay” to “Me and Julio Down By The Schoolyard” to basically any song by Andrew Bird, there’s always something about whistling that that makes a track burrow deep inside your brain and stay there. Earlier ... more info

Totally Fuzzy — OK Go shows some Muppet solidarity. The rock quartet contributes a cover of The Muppet Show's theme song to Muppets: The Green Album. A new tribute to the music of the Muppets features contributions from Andrew Bird, My Morning Jacket, Weezer a... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Evan Hughes talks to the Brooklyn Paper about his book, Literary Brooklyn: The Writers of Brooklyn and the Story of American City Life. "With the richness of Brooklyn's literary history, I was surprised to find this book didn’t already exist,"... more info

Chicago Tribune — The Hideout will celebrate its 15 th anniversary at its annual block party Sept. 24 with Mavis Staples, Andrew Bird, Jon Langford and Booker T. Jones. more info

Stereogum — Disney put together a compilation called The Green Album for the next Muppets Movie. It includes Muppets-related covers by folks like Weezer (of course), Andrew Bird, Sondre Lerche, and My Morning Jacket, who take on “Our World,” a song that firs... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Amanda Hatfield Andrew Bird kicked off the Celebrate Brooklyn 2011 season at Prospect Park on Friday (6/10). The venue was still filling with fans who had stood online for over an hour by the time Andrew took the... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Andrew Bird @ the Guggenheim in 2010 (more by Dominick Mastrangelo) today in NYC * Sketchfest @ UCB * NRBQ @ Maxwell's * Gyan Riley @ Barbes * Lou Canon @ Sycamore * Alex Waterman @ The Stone * Cosmo... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Hal Willner & Lou Reed As previously mentioned, music producer Hal Willner will present a concert in Prospect Park celebrating the 50th anniversary Freedom Riders. PBS recently premiered a film on the same subject..."FREEDOM RIDERS is the powerful ha... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Andrew Bird @ MHOW in 2008 (more by Kyle Dean Reinford) Summer is not technically here, but the summer season of free NYC shows is beginning. Summerstage (which now encompasses shows in many NYC parks) kicks off tonight (6/7) in... more info