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Posted Nov. 26, 2007,
Eight Items or Less: Iggy and the Stooges at Art Basel, Lou Reed in Berlin and Use Your Gift Certificates for Pete's Sake!
By Gary Pini
1. We started packing for Miami over the weekend after we heard that Iggy and the Stooges will be appearing for free on the beach during Art Basel. The group will perform on Wednesday night, December 5, from 10 to 11 p.m. during "Art Loves Music." Past performers in the series include Peaches and The Scissors Sisters.
2. We also heard that Lou Reed will make an appearance at the screening and afterparty for Julian Schnabel's film Berlin. The film is a 2006 concert performance of Reed's 1973 album of the same title. It premiered at this year's Venice Film Festival.
3. And a last bit of Basel news for today: The design for the new Miami Art Museum by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron will be unveiled next week.
4. Sad news in the rock world over the weekend as Quiet Riot singer Kevin DuBrow and Hawthorne Heights guitarist Case Calvert both passed away.
5. If you receive a gift card or certificate over the holidays, don't forget to use it. Retail stores are making a fortune from the cards as 27 percent are not even used leading to annual loss to consumers of over $8 billion. Use it or lose it!
6. With all the anti-immigrant ranting going around, we were happy to read in today's Post that the Fiscal Policy Institute released a study showing that both legal and illegal immigrants account for 22 percent of New York's gross domestic product. More than one in three NYC resident's were born in another country. The report's author says, "We ought to be careful that we don't poison the atmosphere for the broad immigration that is incredibly important to the New York economy."