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Posted Jun. 11, 2008,
Eight Items or Less: Sayonara Scott Storch, Merci Metropolitan Opera and Laters Lotus
By Gary Pini
2. Over 150,000 people are expected to attend a performance by the Metropolitan Opera next week (June 20) in Brooklyn's Prospect Park. The opera company says that the concert in the Long Meadow baseball fields will be "one of the largest outdoor concerts in the Met's history."
3. The goalie for Mexico's national soccer team, Oswaldo Sanchez, was arrested in Chicago yesterday after refusing to turn down the music in his Westin Hotel room. When police arrived he resisted arrest so they sprayed him with pepper spray. (International Herald Tribune)
4. Sunday, June 15, will be the last night for MePa club Lotus. As we reported last year, the owners of Tenjune and David Rabin are re-vamping the space with a new restaurant planned for the first floor and a club in the basement.
5. The Guardian reports that Kerstin Fritzl, the 19-year-old Austrian girl who was born in a dungeon prison and held captive by her father, woke up from a coma and asked to attend a Robbie Williams concert and go on a boat ride.
6. Billy Idol is appearing at the Hammerstein Ballroom on August 26 and 27.
Posted Nov. 12, 2007,
Eight Items or Less: Dinner in the Sky, Three Standards and One QT for Sale and Lotus Changes Hands
By Gary Pini
1. Starting tonight, you and 21 friends can eat dinner while suspended in the air from a crane. Waiter, may we have the check please: $11,444 excluding the food.
2. For Sale: Three Standard Hotels and one QT. Yes, Andre Balazs is selling them, but he wants to keep managing. (from Crains)
3. Popular Science reports that a man has discovered a way to set fire to saltwater by bombarding it with radio waves. Unfortunately the process uses more energy than it produces.
4. A recent call to retractable-roofed, Williamsburg-locatedRadegast Hall and Biergarten, revealed that either tomorrow or Wednesday they'll have a set opening day. Most likely it'll be next week.
5. The Duran Duran shows scheduled for tonight and tomorrow (November 12th and 13th) have been moved to Roseland (235 West 52 St.) due to the strike (stagehands, not writers).
6. New York club Lotus has been sold to the owners of New York club Tenjune.
7. A dead body was found in the men's bathroom of downtown music venue Knitting Factory early Sunday morning.
8. 1 + 1 = Halo! Boys who play video games after homework may have trouble remembering what they just learned, according to the Pediatrics Journal.