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Posted Oct. 10, 2007,
Eight Items or Less: Mr. Mickey's Kylie-Tastic Birthday, Wasteful Phone Books and Balazs' $350,000 Terrace
By Gary Pini
1. It's Mr. Mickey's birthday so we'll begin with a little present: Kylie Minogue's new video for "2 Hearts." Have fun tonight, Mickey!
2. General Motors is running an ad campaign touting fuel efficiency, ethanol etc. that includes tips to save the planet taken from a book called The Green Book. These caught our attention: Telephone books make up almost 10 percent of waste at dump sites. ATM receipts are one of the top sources of litter on the planet. Commercial car washes use up to 100 less gallons of water to wash a car then doing it yourself.
3. In the stacks of flyers at a gallery in Chelsea, we spotted one for Michael Alan's Draw-A-Thon. The event, held every Saturday in October at 64 East Fourth Street, features 20 nude models in a 2,000 square foot, multi level space with live music and costs $24 for a full day pass or $15 for half. All are invited to draw, paint or just "think and be influenced... by models giving emotion and energy."
4. We noticed a cool new store -- actually two stores -- while walking on Smith Street in Brooklyn. Both are called Homage and one feature "100 percent organic snacks" and the other sells skateboard decks, wheels etc.
5. According to Comscore Inc., Facebook users were up 33 percent in August while MySpace was down 7.4 percent.
6. Somebody is selling a 342-square-foot cabana on the terrace of Andre Balazs' new Jean Nouvel desiged building on Broadway for $350,000. You have to already own a condo there, however, to be eligible to buy.
7. From the London Times re: the demise of the music business: "A revealing story doing the rounds in America tells of a young rock band who decided to stop selling their CDs at gigs after they discovered that by offering their CDs for $10 they were cannibalising sales of their $20 T-shirts. The truth now is that a rudimentary cotton garment with a band logo stamped across it that has probably been manufactured for pennies in a Third World sweatshop costs about twice as much as an album recorded in a state-of-the-art western studio. And even at that price, recorded music isn’t selling."
Posted Mar. 29, 2007,
San Francisco Bans Evil Plastic Bags!
By Ann Magnuson
"San Francisco's Board of Supervisors Tuesday afternoon passed an ordinance requiring large supermarkets and pharmacies in the city to replace non-biodegradable plastic bags with reusable or recyclable bags."
It's about time someone passed some legislation against this insidious pox upon our planet. I have had a pet peeve about plastic bags for years. It seems that everytime I go hiking in the "wilderness" I am greeted by a Vons or Sav-On bag wafting on the breeze (or, more often, hanging in the trees). Everytime we drive to Joshua Tree on the 10 freeway I see thousands of the damn things impaled on the razor wire that surrounds some trailer park near Colton. Yes, there is something poetic about the sight of so many of them flapping in the wind (I see Art Installation!) but the American Beauty schtick wears thin.