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Katherine Lanpher is an award-winning print and broadcast journalist, host of "Upstairs at the Square," an interview series that can be found at bn.com/upstairs, host of TIME Financial Toolkit on Time.com, contributing editor to More magazine, and substitute host for “The Takeaway,” a collaboration of WNYC, PRI, the BBC and the New York Times. Springboard Press published her essay collection, Leap Days. Contact: leapdays@gmail.com. Any comments? They go here..... Would love to hear from you.....

March 13, 2010

If you didn’t make it to our Upstairs show on Thursday with Care Bears on Fire and Blake Nelson, there is still hope: it’ll be up soon on the Barnes and Noble Studio page, probably on Monday or Tuesday. Watch for one of my favorite moments, when I ask the band what school is like for them. You’d think, after all, that coming back to 9th or 10th grade after performing at SXSW, your classmates would either be supremely jealous or in awe.

Nope. None of the above. Instead:

“Everyone was like ‘you missed the math fair,”’ says Sophie, who does lead vocals and guitar.

“Yeah, they were like “Hey, we had pizza. You missed pizza.”’ adds Jena, who plays bass.

My other favorite moment? When Izzie, the world’s most adorable 14-year-old drummer, gets to grill author Blake Nelson on his iconic coming-of-age YA novel “Girl.”

“You wrote the story of my life,” she says, looking right at him. “How did you get inside my head?”