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Posted May. 25, 2007,
Eight Items or Less: Perez Gets a Record Label, Shoes Get a ZIP Code and Pinkberry Gets a Theme Song
By PAPERMAG Editors
1. According to the AP, customs police at Cairo's airport yesterday arrested a man who was trying to board a plane with 700 live snakes. Let's make a movie...oh, wait. Done that. Maybe it's hype for a sequel.
2. Soup Kitchen 2007: If you are hungry on Wednesdays this summer and a bit skint, head over to the Whole Foods Market on the Bowery where they are having a weekly Block Party featuring free tastings and samples.
3. Celebrity blogger Perez Hilton discovers brand building! Newsweek reports the 2006 PAPER Beautiful Person "hopes to start a record label and launch a tour and program his own night at the South by Southwest music conference." Whatever happened to Madonna's vanity label?
4. We like to think of ourselves as music "know-it-alls" but we've never heard of Biffy Clyro. They are a three-piece rock group from Scotland, have released four albums and 14 singles with weird titles like "Toys, Toys, Toys, Choke, Toys, Toys, Toys" and have just been signed in America to Roadrunner Records. We assume that Roadrunner knows what they are doing since they have sold zillions of albums by an artist that wasn't a contestant on American Idol: Nickelback. What does Perez think?
5. Must be the shoes (part II): Saks Fifth Avenue's shoe department has been given its own ZIP code, 10022-SHOE. It is the first time (and we hope the last) that a floor has been blessed by the United States Post Office. And we were just getting used to customized postage stamps.
6. "Sorry ice cream, we're going to Pinkberry!" Because everything needs a theme song, the fab- franchised-faux-yogurt chain has their own. Performed by The Lady Tigra, the song has a pop-rap feel that is reminiscent of Tigra's early work with Miami bass act L'Trimm and their novelty hit "Cars That Go Boom." Wikipedia also tells us that Tigra was once the manager of now-shuttered NYC nightspot Spa/Plaid where Fancy from the group Fannypack was a DJ. Sorry wiki, but who cares. Via Idolator.
Posted Apr. 24, 2007,
Eight Items or Less: Liv Tyler Likes Art, Nadia Comaneci on DVD and Pinkberry Needs More Berries
By Alexis Swerdloff
1. Last night, Vanity Fair and Free Arts NYC hosted a benefit auction at Milk Studios. Hostesses with the mostesses Amy Sacco and Alice Stephenson oversaw the event, along with co-hosts Liv Tyler and Scarlett Johansson (who was a no-show) and Simon de Pury led the auction. At one point, De Pury got so carried away that his gavel-thingy broke! Spotted by us: Derek Blasberg and Lyle Maltz leaving with model Jacquetta Wheeler; a pregnant Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber looking mildly irked; Rachel Zoe seated with a man much her junior; and Rachel-Zoe-in-training Kristian Laliberte working the room with a girl in a hat.
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2. The most hilarious Bob Odenkirk (he of Mr. Show fame who most recently directed Let’s Go to Prison) just signed on to do 12 short episodes of a show called Derek & Simon: The Show for Super Deluxe, the comedy broadband newtwork. According to the show’s description, the shorts will follow “real-life friends Derek Waters and Simon Helberg as they chase girls around Hollywood.”
3. This drunk German man rode a horse into a bank.
4. In the two days since the weather became lovely, the Pinkberry on 32nd St. has gone from ghost town to traffic jam! We noticed that they were being a little skimpy with the fruit toppings. If all these ladies are going to be eating Pinkberry for lunch, they’re going to need more nutrients –- so bring on the blueberries!
5. Nadia, the made-for-TV movie that I rented so many times as a young girl that the video store finally gave to me, has come out on DVD at long last! The 1984 biopic follows the career of Olympic gymnast Nadia Comaneci. There’s even footage (played in slow motion) from her actual bar routine during the 1976 Montreal Olympics that earned her the perfect 10!
6. Rumor has it that everyone’s go-to session rock-star Matt Sweeney (who has collaborated with everyone from Will Oldham to Cat Power to Johnny Cash, and played with Chavez, Zwan and Earlyman) will be working with Neil Young on a new album. While you’re at it, check out Neil Young’s super-well-designed, politically-charged and anti-Bush website.
Pictured above: Liv Tyler, Mary Alice Stephenson, Amy Sacco (front row) & Simon de Pury. Photo courtesy of www.patrickmcmullan.com