The Lads from Dublin Hit Fordham

Bono, The Edge, Larry Mullen, Jr., and Adam Clayton capped their week of performances on David Letterman with a surprise Friday appearance today on the campus of Fordham University, in the Bronx. News of the visit was so highly guarded that not even the school's newspaper, The Ram, was able to confirm the appearance before its press time. The early a.m. concert, aired on ABC's Good Morning America, took place on the steps of Keating Hall, a hallowed place on campus known as the Terrace of the Presidents. Performing from their just-released album, No Line on the Horizon, the rock world's most enduring and relevant band performed tracks "Magnificent," "Crazy Tonight" and lead single "Get on Your Boots," in addition to perennial crowd-pleasers "Vertigo" and "Beautiful Day." "It’s great to be here in the Bronx among our peers," yelled The Edge to the receptive crowd. "We may not be the same age, but we’re the same age group." To which one Jesuit-educated undergraduate yelled back: "What age group is that? Eighteen to fifty?" Fortunately, his clever comment was never heard by the Irishmen, lost as it was in a sea of cheering.

Fantastic Founders

"It's like 1999 all over again in here... Except that I don't recognize any of the faces." New York Insider overheard this baffled comment in the Hearst Tower last evening, on our way to the pre-summer cocktail party for the Founder's Club, the periodic gathering of Silicon Alley's most enterprising personalities. The speaker should be forgiven for feeling déjà vu about the pre-bubble-burst Internet era. However, this, as we all know, is the age of Web 2.0 and happy (if slightly less heady) days are here again. Somewhat ironically, get-togethers of the Founders Club have taken place in some of the most iconic halls of old media—from the set of Saturday Night Live to the studios of Good Morning America. Last night's event, held at the Hearst Tower, home of magazines from Esquire to Town & Country, was no exception. Still, by the end of the night, the consensus in the room was that the new media types are the ones really know how to have a good time.