Twentysomething

11/30/2009

Ah yes.

Ah yes.

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11/28/2009

Maybe the Most Brilliant Way to Start a Story:

Here’s how Tegan Quin would like this to go down — we start with the basics: She plays with her sister Sara in a band called Tegan and Sara, they sing catchy songs about relationships, they’re from Canada and they like hockey (go Flames!). “Journalists always blow their load in the first paragraph,” she says, sipping water at a bar in downtown Vancouver. (She’s ill.) “Then they spend the next five floundering around with boring details.”

Fair enough. So what next? “Then we get into the twin thing,” she says. Okay: Tegan and Sara are 29-year-old identical twins born eight minutes apart. (Tegan is older.) They admit to sometimes trading places for interviews, but otherwise they’re far from interchangeable. Tegan dates an L.A. photographer and parties with rock stars like Paramore’s Hayley Williams; Sara’s idea of a great evening is a glass of whiskey, a copy of The New Yorker, and Fresh Air on NPR. Their onstage chemistry is such that a few of their typically obsessive fans started a self-explanatory site called teganandsarabanter.com. “I think Sara is probably a little smarter than me,” Tegan says. “But I’m taller.”

Then when do we get to the part about them being lesbians? “Third paragraph!” says Tegan. “Just drop it in, like, ‘Also, they’re gay.’” Done.

(Spin Tegan and Sara: Across a Crowded Womb)

Good job writer Josh Eells!

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11/25/2009

Stephen Crowley/The New York Times
From the State Dinner. Lovely; just lovely.

Stephen Crowley/The New York Times

From the State Dinner. Lovely; just lovely.

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11/24/2009

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11/21/2009

Expect many of your holiday gifts to be from here.

Expect many of your holiday gifts to be from here.

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11/19/2009

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