Can the High School Musical franchise do no wrong? Not likely. Take, for example, two Concord bank-robbery suspects who were arrested in connection with an October 2008 robbery of a U.S. Bank on Clayton Road in Concord. It seems Donte Maurice Turner, 29, and Sterling Isaac Garner, 22, used a totally awesome High School Musical bag in which to hold their booty. Said bag was later identified and used to bust the two HSM fans/bank robbers. more ›

Back in October, we featured Josh Groban in our holiday section of New Tunes Tuesday. We suggested that it would be "perfectly Grobanized - gorgeous string accompaniments, long high notes, huge endings, orchestral arrangements, different languages and of course several collaborations..." It seems that everyone needed to be Grobanized this Christmas season especially after Oprah Winfrey's suggestion that Noel is "the one Christmas CD every family should have." Since then, Josh Groban's Noel has become the #1 best-selling album of the year just passing High School Musical 2 and Daughtry. more ›

-- The Arcade Fire: LCD Soundsystem and Wild Light open for this white-hot -- that's right, white-hot, or so we hear -- Canadian indie-rock band. Music starts tonight at 7 p.m. at Shoreline Amphitheatre, 1 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View; $19-40. more ›

-- SF Macarons versus Macaroons. [Gridskipper] more ›