• No ticket for Franz Ferdinand at MSG? Flavorpill recommends the Dirty Three show at Bowery Ballroom. Moody Australian post-rock is the new Scottish dance-punk, anyway. [flavorpill]
• New Yorker editor David Remnick appears at the E. 17th Street Barnes and Noble to discuss his decision to make available every single issue of the magazine since 1925 on eight DVD-ROMs for the low, low, price of $61.11. Make sure to yell at him for not making the actual text searchable. [Paper]
• New Yorker (yes, they all come out on Monday) scribe Nicholas Lemann and New York Review of Books contributor Michael Massing partake in a panel discussion at Columbia on how "value-laden language" influences public opinion on hot-button social issues. Better to drink before this one. [TONY]