It's been a long time since we randomly clicked on a band's website and were utterly captivated by the music we heard. We saw Bowerbirds' name and photo in Cafe Du Nord's show listings and were drawn to listen to the songs they stream on their site. It's amazing the beauty you can find sometimes just by turning over a few rocks. The music is homespun and intimate; Phil's gentle croon and the spare......

We're still recovering from two weeks of finales glut, not to mention a three-day weekend full of way too many episodes of "The Dog Whisperer," (episode after episode, all Cesar seems to do is convince dog owners to take their pets on nice long walks while saying "Tssst!" and using their "hands as a mouth, for biting." And yet, we can not look away!!). Anyway, all that TV watching has turned in to a big......