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As if it wasn't exciting enough that power-duo Gnarls Barkley has released its much-anticipated followup to 2006's St. Elsewhere (just in time to get the hype rolling for some summer jams), now we get news that Messrs. Cee-Lo and Danger Mouse are playing the Highline Ballroom on April 10. Yes, that's one week from today! [On Sale: Friday, April 4 at noon]

So R.E.M. is making a comeback, huh. They've got a new album, a new look and a new tour with Modest Mouse and Brooklyn it-band The National, which comes to MSG on June 19. [On Sale: Saturday, April 5 at noon]  read more »

• Washington Heights is officially uber-hip: Modest Mouse, Björk, Iggy Pop, and The Arcade Fire are playing at Reverend Ike's Christ Community United Church, a former movie palace at Broadway and 175th Street. [New York mag/D.I.]
• Despite Gawker's wishful thinking on 33 West 67th, realty goddess Barbara Corcoran and William Wilson Corcoran aren't related. ("Sadly, no. I wish I was related," she emailed The Observer a few months ago. "P.S. In the 19th century, my family was still digging ditches! No one in my Corcoran family even had a bank account until the late 1990's.") [Gawker]
• Speaking of which, Corcoran is now the first big New York firm to charge its brokers marketing fees. The price-tag will be $1,500--which means as much as $2.4 million for the huge brokerage each year. [Real Deal]
• Tomorrow, Columbia will be graced with a panel on the coolest architect [see above, left] since Michelangelo. The poetic get-together is called "Life and Poetry in Technological Structures: The Contribution of Santiago Calatrava." [I.D.] - Max Abelson
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