1. Rock chronicles

Now in book form: the popular online entries of a cliched, would-be indie rock star from Brooklyn who actually turned out to be a Harper’s magazine editor are, as compiled in “Gary Benchley, Rock Star,” poignant and smart.

2. ‘Rebel’ yells

Rumbles! Switch-blades! Drinking off the pressure with a quart of cold milk! Quaint, comical and still a classic, the now 50-year-old “Rebel Without a Cause” – which made James Dean the first and most enduring cinematic icon of teenage rebellion (hello, Luke Perry and Ben McKenzie) – will be staged off-Broadway from Thursday through Oct. 30 at the Lion Theatre.

3. Tyranny of tabloid chic

Alarming trend alert: black leggings, as seen on Fashion Week runways, dubiously stylish Us Weekly starlets, and in overly priced boutiques like Intermix ($58!).

4. New vintage

The recently opened, expertly stocked vintage shop Calliope in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, also showcases newer designers, isn’t aggressively cooler-than-thou and, most shockingly, is affordable: 135 Grand St.; (718) 486-0697.

5. The collected ‘Calvin’

For a smart comic strip about a 6-year-old boy and the stuffed tiger he imagined as alive, “Calvin and Hobbes” was oddly polarizing; fans of the long-defunct strip can sate themselves with the release of the $150 complete, bound set, on sale Tuesday.

6. Fighting words

Ragged, melodic and billing themselves as sounding like “mommy and daddy fighting”: the Joggers’ new CD, “With a Cape and a Cane,” just released on Startime.

7. Shots of color

Now that we apparently live in an era when nearly everything must be a style detail, the new Besamé Cosmetics offers an unusual conversation piece: tubes of lipstick shaped like actual bullet casings, as they were during WWII.

8. The other Elvis

Now on DVD, “The Right Spectacle: The Very Best of Elvis Costello” chronicles the rock star from his days as a wiry, vodka-fueled upstart to mellower, complacent elder statesman – an inevitable but well-done trajectory.

9. Retro-angst

This week’s “The O.C.” was still trafficking in warmed-over plots, but the music, as usual, was stellar – most notably Youth Group’s delicate cover of Alphaville’s ’80s prom classic, “Forever Young.”

10. ‘Violent’ impulses

Possibly David Cronenberg’s creepiest movie yet: the blandly titled “A History of Violence,” with stellar, unsettling performances by Viggo Mortenson, Maria Bello and Ed Harris.