
1. Ewan McGregor and Jim Carrey were hanging out at South Beach gay bar Halo on Tuesday night. The actors are in Miami researching and filming I Love You Phillip Morris based on the true story of a Texas convict who falls in love with his cellmate. The book was written by Houston Chronicle crime writer Steve McVicker. (via the Miami Herald)
2. The Scissor Sisters are hard at work on their third album but you can catch them on LOGO tomorrow night (April 24) at 8 p.m. The high-def footage was shot last year during one of their sold out shows at London's O2 Arena.

3. The Bent Festival is back in NYC this week (April 24 to 26). Bent is a mixture of "DIY electronics, hardware hacking and circuit bending" with installations and nightly concerts including one by Austin, Texas' Furby Youth Choir featuring an army of customized Furby toys. It all goes down at the DCTV building at 87 Lafayette Street, right below Canal.
4. Pitchfork raves about Cut Copy's new album: "A gloriously positive record...a combination of ingenuity and easiness that you don't often come by. "In Ghost Colours" is a brilliant summer record!' The band is appearing at Coachella on the 25th and will be in NYC for a couple of shows in mid-May. We can't wait.
5. Ang Lee is set to direct the filmed version of Elliot Tibor's 2007 memoir Taking Woodstock. Tibor headed the Bethel, New York, Chamber of Commerce that issued the permit for the 1969 concert on his neighbor Max Yasgur's farm. (via Reuters)
6. Also via Reuters: "Police in Congo have arrested 13 suspected sorcerers accused of using black magic to steal or shrink men's penises." Sorcerers? Penises? Go here for all the gory details.
7. UK music festival All Tomorrow's Parties announced its first East Coast version will take place September 19 to 21 at Kutsher's in the Catskills ("the last of the Borscht Belt grand resorts" -wiki). My Bloody Valentine is headlining (and curating) in their first US show in 16 years. Also appearing: Meat Puppets, Mogwai, Built to Spill and many more.
