Datebook: 1.06.09
Five things worth knowing today
- Nip/Tuck has its winter premiere tonight on FX. Elective surgeries may no longer be in your budget, but no reason you can't enjoy them (and, given the series' macabre tilt, their grisly after-effects) on TV.
- Apple gears up for its last keynote at the Macworld Expo today, deliveredfor a changenot by Steve Jobs.
- Scotland's Glasvegas, whose brand of Wall-of-Sound jangle landed them on many best-of-'08 lists recently, release their self-titled album in the U.S.
- Today in 1870, Vienna's Musikvereinhome of the Vienna Philharmonic and renowned for boasting some of the world's very best acousticswas inaugurated.
- And today in 1986, Arctic Monkeys singer Alex Turner was born. Below, he Mod-rocks his way through "Standing Next to Me" with his stylish side project, the Last Shadow Puppets:






