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We Are Scientists have been embraced by U.K. critics who know better. But is it too late to win our musical darlings back? Below, a dissection.

In 2005, We Are Scientists emerged as punk-funk debutantes equipped with fully-crafted, danceable hits and a persona that seamlessly mixed scholarship with stupidity. On their first album, With Love and Squalor, the Booklyn-based then-trio of frontman Keith Murray, bassist Chris Cane, and drummer Michael Tapper flirted with their fans stateside, kicked up some feet, and sent ripples through the music press—all the while having good hair.

When Lykke Li asked the packed crowd at Bowery Ballroom how many of them were in love, we estimate about fifteen people put their hands up, including the couple in front of us (her first, then him). They gazed into each others eyes and kissed as Li reminded them of what they shared. We wanted to smack them. “This song is for everyone who’s not in love,” she announced amid cheers from the dispossessed, us included. Li was the centerpiece to a soiree of Swedish sweeties, her flawless set bookended by Scandinavian songbirds—Anna Ternheim first, and Sarah Assbring last, playing under her nom de plume El Perro Del Mar.

Going On is the best song off the new Gnarls Barkley record and now there’s a video to match. It teems with island charisma, and when it’s over, all you want to do is watch it again.

This book's been out for a few months, but if you haven't already heard of Cover Story -- a book of gorgeous, bizarre, and/or erogenous album compiled by Brooklyn's Wax Poetics magazine -- time to correct that oversight. To help get you in the mood, check out our sample gallery of pics from the book.

Nostalgic naysayers suggest that "Saturday Night Live" has lost its edge, and most weeks we tend to agree. The show, however, has always been spot-on with its political satire and politico impersonations. To celebrate the few funny sketches other than Debbie Downer, the folks at NBC have launched an official "Saturday Night Live" Politics site. There's a bunch of fun stuff there including videos, e-cards, and candidate bios from Clinton, Obama, and the rest of the gang. Clinton's page, featuring the inimitable Amy Poehler, explains, "It's going to take someone so annoying, so pushy, so grating, so bossy and shrill... And I think the American people will agree that someone is me." We have to admit, the whole thing is a pretty genius marketing "strategery."

Our favorite girl about town is, well very about town these days. With Vanity Fair naming Lydia Hearst the leading social lady under the age of 30, Frost (a film in which she appears) generated buzz at the Tribeca Film Festival, and her upcoming cameo on Gossip Girl this Monday, the multitasker just nabbed Model of the Year at Wednesday night’s Michael Awards. Hearst joins the ranks of winners Cindy Crawford, Claudia Schiffer, Naomi Campbell, and Christy Turlington before her. Like she told Spencer Morgan last November, “I started at the top. My first job was the cover of Italian Vogue, which is the equivalent essentially of winning an Academy Award. So, there was nowhere else to go from there.” Apparently there was.

Eva Mendes baring all for PETA is nothing compared to Eva Mendes baring all for Vogue Italia. Huffington Post has a saucy, tawdry, topless gallery of the We Own The Night star sporting wigs that would make John Waters proud, and little else. Warning: contains toe-sucking.

The young actress has long been known as Sam Waterston's daughter. But, make room, because that is all about to change.

"I’m new to this," says Katherine Waterston, the young star of The Babysitters, a midnight-dark comedy featuring John Leguizamo and Cynthia Nixon. "I've done a lot of theater, and when you leave the stage, that’s the end of it. This is so much different. It’s just sort of shocking that this film is out in the world now." There's an excited lilt in her voice, bordering on panic, as she discusses her breakout role as Shirley, a naive high school student who, through a series of simple events, becomes the leader of a prostitution ring involving underage girls and married locals. The film, although thoughtful and challenging, won't be for everyone. Waterston's commanding performance, however, is so deeply felt and nuanced that it can't possibly be overlooked. In fact, her languorous—and then breakneck—transition from innocence to experience easily rivals those of Ellen Page and Evan Rachel Wood. Below, Sam Waterston's daughter opens up about law and disorder.

Okay, so it's more like Third Look! since we came across these pictures of Lindsay Lohan filming the season finale of "Ugly Betty" on NYMag.com, who found them on Just Jared. But that's just the way this zany superhighway works. And, on the plus side? If Lindsay's there, it means she's not stealing your fugly coat.

That crazy sumbitch Oliver Stone is really going through with it, isn’t it? Stone’s George W. Bush biopic W is officially underway and we’ve got the pictures to prove it. Well, Entertainment Weekly’s got ‘em, along with an in-depth article on the controversy swirling around the first ever movie about a sitting president. Have a look at Josh Brolin, (nearly unrecognizable is he) and have a look at Elizabeth Banks, the handsomest faux first couple we ever did see.