GlobalPost correspondent and native New Englander James Foley has been located in Syria, announced GlobalPost CEO Philip Balboni at a World Press Freedom Day event in Boston this morning.

According to a private security firm hired by GlobalPost to find Foley, he is being held in a detention facility in the Damascas area. Foley was kidnapped in Syria in November, 2012, just a stone’s throw from the Turkish border, and has been missing for 162 days. Balboni told reporters today that Foley was captured by “pro-government militia” and then handed over to the Assad regime.

A well-known and accomplished conflict journalist for GlobalPost and AFP, Foley had previously been abducted by Gaddafi’s forces in Libya in 2011 and imprisoned for over 40 days.

Balboni said the facility where Foley is being held may be controlled by Syrian Air Force intelligence, and also may hold a number of other Western press, including “at least one other American.”

Balboni did not name the private security firm hired by Global Post, but said, “We have obtained multiple independent reports from very credible confidential sources who have both indirect and direct access that confirm our assessment.” He added that to the best of his knowledge, Foley had not been physically harmed.

Immediately following today’s announcement, many in the press corps who know Foley, or know of him, breathed a slight sigh of relief on Twitter, reposting the news that he had finally been located with the hashtag #freejamesfoley. (Full disclosure: I was an intern, copy editor, and blogger at GlobalPost and worked with Foley between 2008 and 2013.)

Of course, Foley’s situation is still treacherous. Although GlobalPost has been in touch with many influential figures in continued attempts to secure Foley’s release, the Syrian government refuses to confirm his whereabouts. It could take many more months to make progress on his release, and GlobalPost is being understandably tight-lipped about what other information they have.

Despite many questions from reporters, Balboni would not comment further on specifics, presumably so as to not risk losing track of Foley again.

“These are slow-motion crimes,” said David Rohde today at GlobalPost’s World Press Freedom Day event. Rohde, a New York Times and Reuters journalist who was kidnapped twice, discussed the danger of publicizing news about missing journalists, warning, “you don’t know how publicity is going to play” with kidnappers or hostile governments.

The Committee to Protect Journalists records that there are 232 journalists currently imprisoned around the world. Last year was one of the worst on record for conflict journalists, according to the CPJ. Over 70 reporters were killed in 2012, – 28 in Syria alone – and 17 have already been killed this year.

GlobalPost’s event today, “Silenced Voices: When Journalists Go Missing,” was timed to coincide with World Press Freedom Day. The panel discussion featured four reporters, three of whom, including Rohde, had previously been kidnapped and detained while on assignment.

The names of journalists who were killed covering conflicts last year were posted on the brick walls around the room at the Pilot House, the GlobalPost offices, as a somber reminder that conflict reporters often make the ultimate sacrifice to tell a story others can’t.

Names of combat journalists killed last year, on the wall at @globalpost's #freejamesfoley event. Very somber. twitter.com/lexikon1/statu…

— alex pearlman (@lexikon1) May 3, 2013

World Press Freedom Day was created in 1993 by UNESCO for the purpose of honoring journalists while also creating a day to focus on rights abuses and purposeful murder of reporters.

Former foreign correspondent and veteran reporter for the Boston Globe, David Filipov, who is about to travel to Chechnya, and who has previously reported from Russia and Afghanistan, spoke with Henry Santoro this morning about the importance of this global holiday, and some of his experiences working overseas.

Listen to his stories here:

Just in time for Cinco de Mayo, Dave Littlefield from Salsa's Mexican Restaurant dropped by with a GIANT margarita!

Oh, and lots of good food to eat, too. Here, listen:

Pay them a visit this Cinco de Mayo! Click here for locations.

On March 10th, 1863, John A. Frye opened the doors of a small shop on Elm Street in Marlboro, Massachusetts. One-hundred and fifty years later, The Frye Company continues its tradition of uncompromising quality and craftsmanship by opening doors at 284 Newbury Street in Boston. Frye is the oldest continuously operating footwear brand in the country, and one of a handful of companies who crafts their products here in America.

Frye Creative Director Michael Petry joined Henry Santoro and Julie Kramer this morning.

Join Adam 12 at the Grand Opening this Friday, May 3rd from 2-4 p.m.!

It's a little-known fact that, long before he was Iron Man, Tony Stark studied -- and partied -- right here in Boston. Even as a skinny 14-year-old freshman at MIT, Stark was a little bit larger than life. Chain-smoking and sporting a tragically '80s haircut, he was often spotted around town -- in fact, by the time he graduated in 1987, it seemed like everyone had a Tony Stark run-in to recount.

Whether he was executing one of his legendary hacks at MIT, stage-diving at a metal show at the Channel, or picking fights across a chess board in Harvard Square, Stark left an indelible mark on the city; we can only imagine that the reverse was true. After all, he still wears his class ring. As the third installment of his biopic opens in theaters this weekend, we asked some Bostonians to share their memories of Stark's time in the Hub. (And if you have your own Tony Stark story from back in the day, please share it with us in the comments.)

Tony was definitely around the scene back then. This older guy Devon was kind of a metal mentor and did a zine called Hatchet Job. One of the issues had an interview with Post Mortem and you can clearly see a young Tony Stark with a dirt stache in the crowd.

Devon also swears that a huge skinhead from New Hampshire was close to pounding Stark at a Wargasm show at the Channel, but I think that's a spicy one as he tended to exaggerate and there weren't many skins at metal shows.

-- Anthony Pappalardo, author of Radio Silence: A Selected Visual History of American Hardcore Music and Live ... Suburbia!

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I saw him a few times at the chess boards near Au Bon Pain in Harvard Square. There was this guy down there, a chess master, and you could give him five or ten bucks and he'd play you a game. A couple of times I remember [Tony] breezing in and throwing money on the table, and kind of wiping the floor with the guy.

I remember he always did this thing - in the chess world, it pisses people off if you take your knights and face them outward. Tony was one of those guys. He'd put the pieces down a little off center, too, and that would really annoy people.

He wasn't a regular player. He would just come waltzing in, and it seemed to me that he just needed to beat somebody. Like how someone else might just need to have a cup of espresso - he just needed to see somebody lose, and then he would be okay again. He'd win the game, and then move on.

-- Scott McCloud, cartoonist, Lexington native and author of Understanding Comics

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One time he was at the Channel, up in the mosh pit, and then the bouncers threw him out on his head. It was one of those all-ages shows and ppl were going crazy - or maybe not all-ages, because he had money, so he could get the best fake ID. Anyway, the Channel's bouncers were known for playing rough, so when a bratty kid starts moshing and tries to stage dive, they had him out in the back parking lot. He made such a fuss - said his daddy was going to close the place.

He was probably drunk; he was into the hardcore scene, but wasn't straight edge; he liked to party too much. Of course, after they threw him out, he just came back. No one really knew him, he was just a rich kid. Everyone wanted him around, though, because he'd always bring something fun for the party.

I remember him at after-parties on Thayer Street. He was up later than anyone else. But you could always get a ride home with him, because he always had a car.

-- Clea Simon, feline mystery author, former Boston Globe copyeditor and Boston Herald rock critic

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I arrived at MIT at the very tail end of the 1980s and Tony Stark's time there had already become the stuff of legend. I don't know what I heard more about - his reputation as a gifted scholar, ramped up even above MIT's already high average intelligence level, which I heard plenty about from other faculty members, or his reputation as a playboy and rule-breaker, which was certainly part of what I heard about Stark from the students at Senior House where I was housemaster for many years.

Some students are larger than life - they leave a trace across the entire campus, and people talk about them well after they have left the building, so to speak. Stark was one of those people. I've often wondered if the "Iron Man" nickname might be traced back during this period, when he had a reputation of being able to drink even the most hardcore student under the table.

And don't get me started about the hacks that have been ascribed to Stark through the years. I have heard all kinds of claims about what Stark put on the great Dome to the ways he rewired the elevators in the Green Building. They can't all be true, can they?

-- Henry Jenkins, former co-director of MIT's Comparative Media Studies program and author of Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide

Tony Stark could not be reached for comment on this article.

Last night's show kicked off Daughter's amazing cover of Daft Punk's "Get Lucky". I also played new tracks from She & Him, Lemuria, and Savages.

To see last week's playlist, click here

• Daughter// Get Lucky (Daft Punk Cover)
• Blake Babies// Out There
• Parks// Sweater Weather
• Kate Nash// O My God!
• The Box Tiger// Knives
• Polica//Tiff
• She & Him// Sunday Girl
• Savages// City's Full
• Colleen Green// Time in the World
• Lemuria// Brilliant Dancer
• Best Coast// Fears of My Identity
• Daughter// Youth
• Summer Hours// Close and Closer
• Sures// The Sun
• The Naked and Famous// Eyes

BECK: August 2 at Bank of America Pavilion. Tickets go on sale Saturday, May 4 at 10 am. [Tickets on sale now with presale code at this link.]

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The Bob Dylan/Wilco tour will be a complete failure if Jeff Tweedy doesn't get Dylan to play along on a version of "Bob Dylan's 49th Beard." Just throwing that out there. No pressure. In the meantime, you might want to get tickets to everything below before these things sell out, which we suspect will be almost immediately.

BOB DYLAN, WILCO, MY MORNING JACKET: July 20 at the Comcast Center in Mansfield. Tickets go on sale Saturday, May 4 at 10 am. [Tickets on sale now with presale code at this link]

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BLACK SABBATH: August 12 at the Comcast Center, Mansfield. Tickets go on sale Friday, May 3 at 10 am. [On sale now with presale code at this link]

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BLAKE SHELTON: September 7 at the Comcast Center, Mansfield. Tickets go on sale Friday, May 3 at 10 am.

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WIZ KHALIFA, A$SAP ROCKY: August 7 at the Comcast Center, Mansfield. Tickets go on sale Saturday, May 4 at 10 am.

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PET SHOP BOYS: September 21 at the House of Blues, Boston. Tickets go on sale Friday at 10 am.

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SMALL BLACK. May 29 at the Paradise Rock Club. On sale Friday May 3, noon.
PATTY GRIFFIN. June 7 at House of Blues, Boston. On sale Friday May 3, 10 am.
THE OLMS. June 11 at Brighton Music Hall. On sale Friday May 3, noon.
TWENTY ONE PILOTS. June 22 at Middle East Downstairs. On sale Friday May 3, noon.
SLASH. July 8 at House of Blues, Boston. On sale Friday May 3, 10 am.
POLYPHONIC SPREE. July 8 at Brighton Music Hall. On sale Friday May 3, noon.
WAVVES. August 1 at Paradise Rock Club. On sale Friday May 3, noon.
RODRIGO Y GABRIELA. August 3 at House of Blues, Boston. On sale Friday May 3, 10 am.
JIMMY EAT WORLD. August 5 at House of Blues, Boston. On sale Friday May 3, 10 am.
TED NUGENT. August 7 at House of Blues, Boston. On sale Friday May 3, 10 am.
EL-P & KILLER MIKE. August 13 at Paradise Rock Club. On sale Friday May 3, noon.
PERE UBU. September 14 at Brighton Music Hall. On sale Friday May 3, noon.
AUSTRA. September 24 at Brighton Music Hall. On sale Friday May 3, noon.

The Super Secret Project makes videos "so you don't have to." And the videos they make are pretty funny.

Their latest? "One For You, New England," where they riff on pretty much every memorable TV and radio spot from the last 30 years.

Roll call: Water Country? Right up front.

"WLVI, is part of living...Living 56!"

Light N Leisure, the Purple Building? Check.

"...part of the NYNEX family."

Show of hands: who's seeing Iron Man 3 this weekend?

OK, then you'll want to listen to Dan Kline here, who had some interesting things to share.

Gone are the days where we'd while away the summer at the ballpark or the beach. Nowadays, summertime is TV time, says The Boston Globe's Sarah Rodman.

Movies. TV. Stay indoors. Ignore the sunshine. Or Iron Adam 12 will blast you.

United States District Court judge Denise Casper has ruled that Whitey Bulger cannot claim immunity during his trial. Despite the notorious mobster's insistence that he received immunity from a federal prosecutor, Casper has said there is no evidence of Bulger ever being immunized, although he was a federal informant for many years.

Boston Globe deputy metro editor Mike Bello explained the details of the ongoing case to Henry Santoro and Julie Kramer this morning.

In addition to discussing the Bulger trial, Bello spoke about yesterday's developments in the Boston Marathon bombing investigation. Three men have been taken into custody and charged with covering up evidence. Two Kazakh nationals and one American, all students at UMASS Dartmouth, allegedly disposed of a laptop and a backpack belonging to Dzokhar Tsarnaev, the younger bombing suspect.

Listen to Bello's entire segment on RadioBDC this morning:

(Image taken from Dias Kadyrbayev's webpage)

It's the first round of the NHL playoffs, so Adam 12 and the Boston Globe's Kevin Paul Dupont invited fellow puckhead and RadioBDC PD Paul Driscoll to sit in on their weekly hockey chat. They previewed Bruins/Leafs and made their picks in all eight first-round match-ups. Listen:

The guy who gets the most picks WRONG buys the two winners beers at The Banshee. And that guy will probably be Adam 12.

Say it with us: "Wednesday is Henry in the Grub day." Every week, some of Boston's finest dining establishments stop by to pay a visit to Henry Santoro.

This week, Chef Keenan Langlois brought by some of what he's been whipping up in the kitchen at Granary Tavern on the Greenway in Boston.

The view from the patio is outstanding, as you an imagine. The food looks good, too!

And it tastes delicious. Thank you, Chef Keenan!

And thanks as well to Mayor Joe Curtatone, who stopped by shortly after the folks from Granary Tavern cleared out. Mayor Joe had his friends from The Neighborhood Restaurant in Union Square in tow. Listen:

House of Cards star KEVIN SPACEY has been in town visiting some of the Marathon victims recovering at Spaulding Rehab (above).

But he made his biggest splash in town with an unannounced appearance on Boston Common. Via the pop-culture blog HyperVocal and Reddit:

A Redditor’s friend claims she tried to take a picture in front of Boston’s G-Dub statue, and that’s when a yogging Kevin Spacey jumped out of nowhere, screamed “PHOTOBOMB” and gave the Internet this glorious picture.

MORE: Tyler Seguin's awesome photobomb

Just another Manic Monday Tuesday with Henry Santoro and Julie Kramer, who welcomed Love Letters writer Meredith Goldstein to talk about her latest column.

Per usual, Julie tied it all together with a song.

Then, Grub Street Executive Director Eve Bridburg stopped by to talk about this weekend's 'The Muse in the Marketplace.'

Finally, another spirited conversation with Joanna Weiss, who's Boston Comment blog addressed voter fatigue as we trudged to the polls yet again today.

Don't forget to tune in Wednesday, May 1st for another edition of Henry in the Grub, where Henry welcomes Granary Tavern!

Concerns that the internet has reached "peak cat" -- a concept, similar to "peak oil," that posits the threat that we may someday run out of cats to populate our blog posts -- continue to be proven unfounded. For instance: the designer Alfra Martini continues to find felines to populate a collection of album covers re-created with cats in them.

The only thing better than the Radio BDC playlist? The Radio BDC playlist's top albums as rendered with cats. Pics or STFU, you say? Well then:

1. KITTENMIND

2. PABLO KITTEN

3. THE WHITE STRAYS, ALLEYPHANT

4. JESUS AND MEOWY CHAIN, PSYCHO CATTY

5. BEASTIE KITTENS

6. 9 LIVES THROUGH THIS

7. KIT CAVE & THE BAD SIAMEEDS

8. MISKITS

9. IS THIS KIT?

10. FURGAZI

11. THE FURRY UNDERGROUND

12. SONIC KITTENS

13. RAMEOWNS

14. CAT FLAG

15. MEOWISSEY

Source: The Kitten Covers [Tumblr]

On Monday, the hipsternet had an orgasm over the announcement of a Neutral Milk Hotel reunion. Today, the rest of the world goes: "meh." Because there are only two kinds of people in the world . . .

half of brooklyn is wondering where athens, ga is and the other half are wondering who neutral milk hotel are #nmh #hipster #dufus

— Andy Cunningham (@AlmightyAndy) April 29, 2013

Well, actually, there's a few more kinds of people than that.

1. There are the people who are just confused about what could be so neutral about milk hotels.

ok quick question just WHAT is a neutral milk hotel (please don't hurt me)

— gluckwunsch (@hallbears) April 29, 2013

I don't know who/what/where Neutral Milk Hotel is.....Sounds comforting though.

— Victoria Hubbard (@hubahubahubbard) April 29, 2013

Who the hell is Neutral Milk Hotel and why should I care? #hipsterstuff

— Nick Adriance (@wheredatweetsat) April 29, 2013

Biggest music news of the day is Neutral Milk Hotel's reunion show. I'm like, who. I feel really really bad and uneducated.

— sighmon (@stingeyes) April 29, 2013

I don't think I'm cool enough to know/understand what a Neutral Milk Hotel is. Is it like Habbo?

— Joshua Pauley (@PutUp0rShutUp) April 29, 2013

i don't know what neutral milk hotel is #topical

— ARP (@Yelix) April 29, 2013

I have no idea who Neutral Milk Hotel is.

— David Menestres (@AbstractTruth) April 29, 2013

2. Then there are people who know who what a Neutral Milk Hotel is, but just . . . don't . . . care . . .

@kevindepew I have never heard them before i figure as long as there are still Bad Company recordings who cares about other bands

— sarah miller (@sarahlovescali) April 29, 2013

No, I don't care if Neutral Milk Hotel is reuniting....pretty OK with that.

— Garry Juhans (@GJuhans) April 29, 2013

3. There are people like my friend, former Phoenix music editor and Vanyaland boss Michael Marotta, who are pretty sure they are the only people in the world who don't care about Neutral Milk Hotel:

I think I'm the only person who doesn't really care that Neutral Milk Hotel is performing again.

— Meg (@xxMegOxx) April 29, 2013

4. And there are people who are mad at the Neutral Milk Hotel reunion because it is not a reunion by their favorite band:

who cares about neutral milk hotel wake me up when my chemical romance gets back together

— Jon Shippling (@teenageadult) April 29, 2013

I don’t get Neutral Milk Hotel, but that’s okay. Glad youse got that. I got my Boards of Canada announcement. :D

— Mark Shields, FYI (@sheeldz) April 29, 2013

I see Neutral Milk Hotel are playing again, meh don't get the fuss really. Was always more into Olivia Tremor Control meself #controversial

— Kane Martin (@KaneMartin2) April 29, 2013

OMG WHO CARES ABOUT NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL!!!!!!! TLC IS PLAYING A SHOW IN PA THIS SUMMER!!!!!!! AHHHH!!!!!!!

— misty moonheart (@soleunab) April 29, 2013

Neutral Milk Hotel reunion is whatever. where is the ABBA reunion? thats what i want to know. I want an ABBA reunion. I WANT ABBA. ABBA OK?

— me (@thebluehoodie) April 29, 2013

One thing you can't fault people for asking -- I mean, does anybody have an answer for this?

NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL last played Boston on July 24, 1998. The group played its final show, in its hometown of Athens, about six months later. Now you can start the countdown: today the band's web site announced that there are five reunion shows planned this year, featuring the lineup that accompanied Jeff Mangum during the tours for the group's two best releases, On Avery Island and In the Aeroplane . . . Over the Sea.

The past couple years have seen Mangum touring solo, playing stripped down -- but utterly fantastic -- versions of the NMH catalogue. And seriously, those shows -- including two in Boston in September 2011 -- have been great.

But in their heyday, NMH were a chaotic and raucous punk-rock circus band. And the idea that they could be coming back is pretty much the best thing ever.

Neutral Milk Hotel tour dates:

OCTOBER 22, 2013
w/ Elf Power
Athens, GA
40 Watt Club
Tickets go on sale Friday May 3rd at 10am EDT, Online Only

OCTOBER 23, 2013
w/ Half Japanese
Athens, GA
40 Watt Club
Tickets go on sale Friday May 3rd at 10am EDT, Online Only

OCTOBER 25, 2013
w/ Half Japanese, and Daniel Johnston
Asheville, NC
Thomas Wolfe Auditorium

NOVEMBER 28, 2013
Taipei, Taiwan
Hostess Club Festival

DECEMBER 1, 2013
Tokyo, Japan
Hostess Club Festival

Hey, it's Adam 12. And yes, I'm old enough to have watched Schoolhouse Rock as a young boy. And I can remember being in college when they brought it back and Bob Dorough visited WFNX to play songs like "I'm Just a Bill" live on the air. And now that I have kids of my own, you know I'm pulling up classics like these on YouTube and passing down my love for the franchise.

So was I excited when I heard the Boston Children's Theatre was staging Schoolhouse Rock? You betcha believe it! We checked it out, sang along to the likes of "Conjunction Junction" and "Interplanet Janet" and were thoroughly entertained.

See it for yourself! Bring the kids along! The Boston Children's Theatre is presenting Schoolhouse Rock this Saturday, May 4th and Sunday, May 5th. Click here to get your tickets!

Ladies and gentlemen, your 2013 Boston Red Sox--projected by many to finish fourth in the AL East--have the best record in Major League Baseball at 18-7. If they beat the Blue Jays in Toronto on Tuesday night, that'll make 19 wins in the month of April and new club record.

The old adage rings true: pitching wins games. Adam 12, Chad Finn, and Steve Silva talked pitching, pitching and pitching today on RadioBDC, from the starters to the pen, plus a bit on Big Papi. Have a listen:

Tune in next Monday at 2, when the Sox will likely be 18-13 and we'll be talking about the second Wild Card spot again.

Beyonce performs during her Mrs. Carter Show World Tour 2013, on Friday, April 26, 2013, at the LG Arena in Birmingham, UK. (Photo by Joel Ryan/Invision for Parkwood Entertainment/AP)

Hey, remember audio watermarks? No? OK, rewind: once upon a time, there were these things called record labels who sort of owned the music industry? And WHOLE MONTHS before an album was released to the public, these entities would secretly mail a CD version of the album to the press. But these labels had the wildly misguided notion that they could PREVENT THE PRESS FROM LEAKING THE ALBUM, so they recorded goofy voices saying weird phrases over the music every 20 seconds.

We'd completely forgotten about audio watermarks until East Village Radio evidently decided they absolutely needed to get all of the credit -- ALL OF THE CREDIT! -- for leaking a new Beyonc-ified version of Amy Winehouse's "Fade To Black" on their airwaves. The person doing the leaking happened to be Mark Ronson, who produced the original. So now when we listen to the new version, we have to endure what is probably the most annoying watermark since 2006's legendary "Atlantic Records, TI Clearance."

ANDRE 3000 & BEYONCE: BACK TO BLACK

Anyway: there is now on planet earth a version of Amy Winehouse's "Back to Black" that starts off with Outkast's Andre 3000 singing and gets better when Beyonce starts singing. History will likely record that you listened up to the part where Beyonce started singing, and then shortly thereafter we all lost interest and went back to looking at photos of Beyonce's latest tour, because . . . well, because this:

. . . and this:

. . . and this:

Also: Amy's dad doesn't like this version, and Beyonce isn't letting press photographers into her tour. Sad trombone.

GO: Beyonce, July 23 at TD Garden.

It's an annual tradition that, according to Tom Brokaw, has been "ruined" by the likes of Lindsay Lohan. But the band plays on at the so-nicknamed "Nerd Prom" down in Washington, each year getting more outrageous as the President gets less funny and Hollywood types take over our nation's capitol.

This year, the guests were all a-Twitter at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, and there were some surprising (read: silly and mean) tweets from your favorite sideline characters.

Sarah Palin, the country's favorite do-nothing big-mouth, criticized everyone for wasting time on honoring the fourth estate, while "real" Americans are working.

That #WHCD was pathetic. The rest of America is out there working our asses off while these DC assclowns throw themselves a #nerdprom

— Sarah Palin (@SarahPalinUSA) April 28, 2013

The most heartbreaking example of the worst part of the correspondents dinner is this tweet from Christiane. Even the most seasoned war journalists lose their heads around the glitzy celebs.

Homeland's Abu Nazir and I at #WHCD! Yay Iranian star Navid Negahban. Still looking for Clare Danes! twitter.com/camanpour/stat…

— Christiane Amanpour (@camanpour) April 28, 2013

But apparently not all journalists are so easily swayed. Professional explainer Ben White was clearly unhappy about the media's blatant hob-nobbing with the stars.

For the love of God can we STOP with the #whcd pics? OK, you were somewhere near Clooney. Here is your Medal of Freedom. Now shut it.

— Ben White (@morningmoneyben) April 30, 2012

In which members of Congress are so dumb, a Sports Illustrated model tricks them.

I joked that I was a congresswoman (from Washington) and a real congressman believed me. This is epic. #WHCD

— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) April 28, 2012

But the best BEST tweets were all the ones calling out the Boston Globe for excellent coverage of the bombings. (Aw, shucks...)

Obama on serious note at #WHCD: If anybody thought lately newspapers were thing of the past, all you had to do was pick up @bostonglobe.

— POLITICO (@politico) April 28, 2013

Everyone knows that The Empire Strikes Back is the greatest Star Wars movie of all time. Sure, it will be nice if JJ Abrams can top it. But until he does, director Irvin Kershner's masterpiece stands as the pinnacle. Kershner, who died in 2010, would've turned 90 today. In his honor, here's a glimpse at the lighter side behind-the-scenes of the darkest episode of the original trilogy -- looks like this one might've been the most fun to film, too.

1. KEEP THAT THING IN YOUR MOUTH, FARMBOY

2. IS THAT YOUR LIGHTSABER OR ARE YOU HAPPY TO SEE ME?

3. ROBOT LOVE, PART 1.

4. CHEWBACCA MAKING OUT WITH A PRINCESS.

5. THIS IS GETTING OUT OF HAND.

6. ROBOT LOVE, PART 2

7. DARTH, WE'VE GOT TO STOP MEETING LIKE THIS.

Source: 66 behind-the-scenes images from The Empire Strikes Back.

Let's hear it for the age of the SEO concept song.

First things first: This is not a video of Tay-Tay eating out with ex (ex?) boyfriend John Mayer.

Instead, it is a new video for Boston retropop superfiend JOHN POWHIDA's song "John Mayer Dines with Taylor Swift," in which he mercilessly deconstructs the interpersonal dynamics of that particular celebrity encounter with a rapier wit worthy of the Onion.

If Google searchbots happen to think otherwise, then one can assume Powhida won't mind -- even if a legion of Top 40 fans end up being very, very confused.

Powhida, a cult sensation who won the 2011 Rock N Roll Rumble at an age when most performers are hanging up the gloves, is a master of the classic-rock suckerpunch. This particular song owes absolutely nothing, save the premise, to the musical styles of Mr. Mayer or Ms. Swift -- but we sure are detecting a David Bowie vibe here. Feel free to disagree in the comments.

Here it is:

John Mayer Dines With Taylor Swift from Amanda Nichols on Vimeo.

Grrl Power started off with the newest single from Lemuria whose album, The Distance Is So Big comes out June 18. This week's show also included new songs from Daughter, The xx, Laura Stevenson, Poliça, Best Coast and The Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

Below is the full playlist from this week's and last week's show.
You can listen to Grrl Power every Wednesday and Sunday nights at 9pm.

April 24th:

• Lemuria// Brilliant Dancer
• Haerts// Wings
• Manchester Orchestra & Grouplove// Make It To Me
• Best Coast// Fear Of My Identity
• The XX// Together
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs// Despair
• Poliça// Tiff
• Great Thunder// Fade Into You (Mazzy Star Cover)
• Shout Out Louds// Illusions
• Daughter// Amsterdam
• Mr. Little Jeans// The Suburbs (Arcade Fire Cover)
• Freezepop// Peptalk
• Letters To Cleo// Here & Now
• Laura Stevenson// Eleonora

April 17th:

• Yeah Yeah Yeahs// Mosquito
• Stars// Hold On When You Get Love And Let Go When You Give It
• Thee Oh Sees// Toe Cutter-Thumb Buster
• Little Green Cars// Harper Lee
• Deap Vally// Lies
• The xx// Sunset
• The xx// Do You Mind (Aliyah Cover)
• Savages// Flying to Berlin
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs// Despair
• New Order// Regret
• Grimes// Oblivion
• Tegan and Sara// I'm Not Your Hero
• Guards// I Know It's You
• Wild Belle// Keep You
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs// Slave

Adam 12 was pleased as punch to have #44 Dennis Seidenberg on his show Friday afternoon. Of course they talked about the playoffs, but they also talked about Celebrities for Charity's Boston Marathon Relief Raffle.

Four tickets to every first round playoff home game hosted by the Bruins, meeting Zdeno Chara, Milan Lucic, Dennis Seidenberg and Ray Bourque...the list of grand prizes goes on and on. Click here help support the victims and family members that were affected by the senseless tragedy that occurred during the Boston Marathon.

After a moving memorial service for fallen MIT Police Officer Sean Collier earlier this week, a move to posthumously appoint him as a Somerville Police Officer, which was his dream.

Somerville Mayor Joe Curtatone and Police Chief Thomas Pasquarello joined Henry Santoro and Julie Kramer this morning to discuss the decision.

All class, always. Thank you, Mayor Joe, for being a friend of RadioBDC.