Monday, 7th: ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO - Big Station

Tuesday, May 8th: JOHN FULLBRIGHT - From the Ground Up

Wednesday, May 9th: EVERYONE ORCHESTRA - Brooklyn Sessions

Thursday, May 10th: RYAN MONTBLEAU - For Higher 

Monday, 7th: ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO - Big Station

Tuesday, May 8th: JOHN FULLBRIGHT - From the Ground Up

Wednesday, May 9th: EVERYONE ORCHESTRA - Brooklyn Sessions

Thursday, May 10th: RYAN MONTBLEAU - For Higher 

Monday, 7th: ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO - Big Station

Tuesday, May 8th: JOHN FULLBRIGHT - From the Ground Up

Wednesday, May 9th: EVERYONE ORCHESTRA - Brooklyn Sessions

Thursday, May 10th: RYAN MONTBLEAU - For Higher

Monday, 7th: ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO - Big Station 

Tuesday, May 8th: JOHN FULLBRIGHT - From the Ground Up

Wednesday, May 9th: EVERYONE ORCHESTRA - Brooklyn Sessions

Thursday, May 10th: RYAN MONTBLEAU - For Higher

Update at 2:30 p.m. ET: The news that Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys has died has now been confirmed by the group's public relations firm.

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Two brothers have been charged in connection with one of the nation's largest drug heists, along with 20 other people in an organized crime ring that stretched from Florida to New Jersey and Connecticut.

It's the culmination of a three-year FBI investigation in which undercover agents managed to prevent any of the stolen drugs from entering the marketplace, the Associated Press reported yesterday.

Talk about a heavy hand: State police say they clocked Nikkolaus McCarthy, 25, flying across the New York Thruway at 170 mph.

That's not a typo. Police said when they finally caught up with him 50 miles later and told McCarthy how fast he was going, he allegedly bragged saying his bike could break the 190 mph barrier.

The Albany Times Union reports:

Barack Obama and Mitt Romney just may be the same person. Think about it. Have you ever seen the two of them in the same limo?

All right. Of course, the pair of politicians who will in all likelihood be the major party nominees for the 2012 presidential election have their differences. Republican Romney, for instance, has been a governor and chairman of the Olympics; Democrat Obama has not. Obama, on the other hand, has been a senator and a president. Romney has not.

A day after the security forces of President Bashar Assad raided the campus of Aleppo University, thousands of protesters took to the streets of Syria's second city and its economic powerhouse.

The AP talked to Mohammed Saeed, an activist, who said protesters were "incensed" by the raid at the university, which killed four.

"Everyone wants to express solidarity with those students," the activist told the AP, adding that the forces fired live ammunition into the crowd.

The AP adds:

It was just a week ago that he dropped into our lives.

Now, we're sorry to report that "falling bear" is dead.

In case you're not familiar with the story, it was April 26 when University of Colorado Boulder student Andy Duann snapped a shot of a tranquilized bear as it was falling from a tree on campus.

The bear survived and was released back into the wild about 50 miles from Boulder.