This video made me laugh:

Have you read this New York Times story about people who leave their air conditioning on all day long? The reason many of them leave their AC on? Because electrical utilities are included in their monthly rent!!!

Many of these people claim that they keep their AC on in sympathy for their pets, which I get, but c’mon — you do NOT need all units in your apartment turned up full blast. News flash — your dog/cat WILL LIVE if your apartment is 78 degrees!!

Listen to this quote from Danielle, a social worker living in Stuyvesant Town who leaves two units running all day long for her purse-size dog:

“I don’t want to walk into a hot apartment at the end of the day… It’s nice to not have to worry about it.”

I guess Danielle’s empathy only runs as far as helping people. She probably comes home to her arctic chilled apartment and slips into a nice and comfortable “eff the environment” t-shirt. I wonder if that’s after she turns off the TV that’s been blasting all day long because her pint-sized dog really likes to watch soap operas between 1-3 (watching it on DVR later just isn’t the same as watching it live).
Continue reading ‘A-Holes Reveal How Big of A-Holes They Are to the NY Times’ »

Long-time readers already know that whenever I mention the word “Keane,” a mention of my mom couldn’t be too far behind. As I’ve explained over and over on this site, my mom LOVES Keane. Basically every time Keane is within the tri-state area I get an email from my mom alerting me of the concert and a request that I get tickets for her to go to the show.

We’ve already been to Keane shows at Radio City and Bowery Ballroom in Manhattan, but I was pretty excited to find out that my next Keane-venture would be in Brooklyn at the very beautiful Williamsburg Waterfront venue which has a fantastic view of Manhattan across the East River.

The weather was perfect — warm, but not sweaty, with a cool breeze. The crowd was in high spirits. By the time Keane came on stage I think my mom had already worked herself to the third or fourth row of the crowd. Singer Tom Chaplin was looking a bit like a ’50s greaser, with a shortly cropped ‘do, skinny black jeans, black and yellow Fred Perry polo shirt, and slim light-colored sneakers.
Continue reading ‘Keane Make Waves at the Williamsburg Waterfront’ »

The crocheting fiber artist Olek is not only talented (you’ve seen her work — the knitted bikes on the LES), but as this Crushable photo reveals, she’s incredibly to die for cute as a button!

Nerdy yet stylish glasses + crazy hair + Polish accent = adorable.

Don’t you think she’s supercute?

[Crushable via Young Manhattanite]

Please always wear your hair like you had it in the W magazine photo shoot with Rebecca Hall. It’s simply the decent thing to do for the benefit of the world.

Loving the photo series of these two in the most recent issue of the mag. So casual, yet glamorous. Beautiful clothes and styling.

It’s probably been said before, but it just came into my mind yesterday as I was listening to “Honey” by Best Coast at the behest of the BSB — Best Coast’s Bethany Cosentino loves Hole, and boyfriend Nathan Williams of Wavves loves Nirvana.

Does that equal Best Coast and Wavves being the new Courtney and Kurt with the self-destructiveness behind them (hopefully)?

Here are some things in their favor:

Smoking massive amounts of weed is less risky than shooting up massive amounts of heroin.

Referencing your boyfriend’s previous on-stage meltdown shows an awareness to what is and isn’t bad behavior:

Continue reading ‘Best Coast and Wavves: The New Courtney and Kurt?’ »

I saw this in front of me waiting on line at Trader Joe’s.

Tragic, no?

If you’ve recently been perusing Curbed.com, you may have seen an item about some a blog post about a 2008 job done by hotter than hot interior design team Roman & Williams for “an actress, her musician husband, and their children.” Doesn’t take a genius to figure out that it’s none other than Coldplay’s Chris Martin and actress Gwyneth Paltrow. Although the original post has since been removed, thanks to the internetz the pictures remain!

And if there was any doubt that this home was in fact the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Martin, egle-eyed readers will recognize the kitchen as the “set” of Gwynie’s most recent photo shoot with Mario Testino for the August 2010 issue of Vogue to promote her new…cookbook. Oh yeah…

Master bedroom:

Living room:

Kitchen:

The decor is aggressively pastel-y and soft. Not sure if I would choose to live in this kind of space — but for the Martins it might be a nice change from the decor of some of their other, full-time homes in England.

Could you live in such a space?
Continue reading ‘Inside Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow’s TriBeCa Home’ »

Today’s the day of The Village Voice’s 10 Year Anniversary of the Siren Festival. It’s hard to believe that for TEN YEARS I’ve been making the yearly trek down to Coney Island for this concert — and to stuff my face with a Nathan’s hot dog, and basically melt in the heat.

The fun starts today at 1pm. I’m getting my nails ready… see y’all there!

(I bought that “Going Green” Sally Hansen nail polish the other day after seeing Alexa Chung and/or China Chow sporting a vibrant green color a few months back, only to discover last night that green is really in right now!)

Some past Siren Festivals:
2007 | 2006 | 2005
Continue reading ‘Getting Ready for Siren Festival 2010’ »

I have to admit, they are pretty damn cute: