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August 2006

active endeavors

Wallpaper Outline Bedspread – UrbanOutfitters.com
An intricate wallpaper pattern is printed on this bedspread with shimmering metallic print.

LordAndTaylor.com – Shameless Striped Dress
Adorable purple and black high waisted striped dress

LordAndTaylor.com – BCBG Max Azria Taffetta Shirtdress
Cuuuuute!

La Pizza Fresca Ristorante – Flatiron – New York Magazine Restaurant Guide
Rare is the place that can satisfy both wine and pizza snobs while delighting those who are obsessed with neither, but La Pizza Fresca Ristorante pulls it off.

The New York Times > Sip Sak Restaurant Review > New York City Restaurant Reviews
Sip Sak opened in 2004 but didn’t take on the contours of a conventional full-service restaurant until this year, when Mr. Yegen erected a bar just inside the entrance, where several cases for prepared food had been.

The Automat Makes a Comback
An old idea is getting a new life in the East Village. The automat is back. Don’t know what an automat is? Manhattan reporter Rebecca Spitz takes viewers for a tour and a trip back in time.

Thrillist : BAMN!
Love food, but hate people? Then haul a sack of change to gourmet automat BAMN!, and get served by a machine — anytime, day or night.

Making It Up as They Go – Los Angeles CityBeat
With the Raconteurs, rock star and pop singer revel in a different story

Fall Out Boy – Uncyclopedia
Fake history of Fall Out Boy

Nardwuar Radio Show
The human serviette’s classic interviews

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How cute is this? Strokes fan Sandra over at WhatsThatSound.org thought of a great way to wish Julian Casablancas a very happy 28th birthday with a special website composed of photos of fans with their birthday greeting.

Elisa and Patty followed their lead and organized a group of fans called the “Non-Ryans” who didn’t make the first submission deadline to do the same. Julian saw these sites and sent them all this thank you photo:

julian happy birthday

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According to an interview with the band, the new My Chemical Romance album (called The Black Parade) will feature legendary vocal performer Liza Minnelli on their song, “Mama”. Yup, LIZA MINNELLI. Believe me, I couldn’t even make this stuff up if I wanted to.

Also, for those who think that pop punk is not their thing and have dismissed My Chemical Romance based on the fact that they’ve been on Warped Tour–I encourage you to listen to this live version of “I Don’t Love You”, one of the songs off their new album. I think you’ll be surprised to find that you might like it…perhaps you’ll even love it.

If you like Queen, David Bowie, or Supertramp, you might really dig this song. I think it’s a brilliant turn for the band and really shows how much they’ve matured as a group. It really showcases their great songwriting ability and proves they can write straight up beautiful pop songs.

DOWNLOAD: “I Don’t Love You” by My Chemical Romance

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Entertainment Weekly’s EW.com | Cover Story: How ”Project Runway” makes it work
Chic and creative challenges, kooky but talented contestants, and a secret weapon named Tim Gunn help ”Project Runway” turn haute couture into addictive TV

CASSETTE
Fashion from LA

MediaGuardian.co.uk | Press&publishing | MySpace weighs up spin-off magazine
According to Adage.com, the potential MySpace magazine is likely to feature interesting MySpace members and their hobbies, from their taste in music to their social scene.

Ivy Ruffle-Front Flannel Shirt
This is the most feminine flannel shirt you will ever find! All the comfort of soft classic flannel, with a shirt collar, cuffs and a slightly fitted body…

Intermix
Chelsea is a cap-sleeved shift dress in a fine wool crepe with 1 3/4″ of cream silk trimming the neckline and edges of the deep (8″) U neck.

The Sun Online – Bizarre podcasts: Celebs on their love lives
First off was KAREN O from the YEAH YEAHS YEAHS who played an EXCLUSIVE remix of the band’s new single Cheated Heart and told how cheating is a habit she’s finding it hard to break.

PETE DOHERTY – REHAB INSPIRES ROCK SUPERGROUP
Troubled rockers PETE DOHERTY, JUSTIN HAWKINS and KEANE frontman TOM CHAPLIN have set up songwriting sessions together in exclusive London clinic The Priory to cope with their rehabilitation therapy.

NME.COM – News – Panic! At The Disco frontman bottled on stage
Panic! At The Disco frontman Brendan Urie was hit by a bottle seconds into his band’s set on the Main Stage at the Carling Weekend: Reading Festival this afternoon (August 25).

Cooper Hewitt :: the Shop
The ‘I Love New York’ snow globe cleverly adjusts a highly familiar souvenir type into a work of pure beauty and poetics. What first-time visitor to New York hasn’t noticed the quantity of deli bags caught high in the treetops?

Urban Vessel – Dwellings – dwell.com
Goolrick designed sliding partitions that when closed still allow light to flow through her 560-square-foot space, and when opened reveal cocoonlike sleeping quarters.

Dwell Founding Editor Arieff Abruptly Exits
Allison Arieff, founding editor in chief of the wildly successful shelter startup Dwell, abruptly quit the magazine yesterday. In a phone interview with Mediaweek, Arieff said, “The strategy of the magazine was moving in a direction I wasn’t comfortable w

Time Inc. Sinks Office Pirates
Time Inc.’s online men’s magazine led by Maxim veteran Mark Golin will shut down after seven months of operation.

Advertising Age – MediaWorks – ‘Vogue’ Creates Podcasts for Gap, Redken
The Gap podcasts will be available on the advertiser’s website two days after they’ve been released on iTunes.

andrewkendall: Panic! At The Disco
Photo of secret gig in london

SFGate: Daily Dish : Spears Refused to Get Rid of Gum
Pop star Britney Spears angered organizers of the Teen Choice Awards on Sunday by refusing to get rid of her chewing gum before going onstage.

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From ‘Project Runway’ to Airport Runway, Delta Launches ‘Flying in Style’ Promotion to Celebrate Sponsorship of Bravo’s Hit Reality TV Show: Financial News – Yahoo! Finance
Flight attendants will award stylish passengers with SkyMiles certificates, Crown Room Club passes and coupons for the airline’s signature cocktails on select Delta flights from Aug. 23 through Sept. 6

iMedia Connection: Ford: Bold Moves Can’t Save a Weak Brand
Brand New World’s creative chief examines how even the most integrated of campaigns can’t sell you a product that has lost its relevance.

Urbanista Online
Guide to the best that NYC has to offer in services

The Housing Virgins of Manhattan – New York Times
The first apartment hunt is a rite of passage in the jungle that is Manhattan. For the newest New Yorkers, it is a crash course in street smarts.

Condoms Stay Faithful When Prevention Is the Goal – New York Times
The value of condoms goes far beyond disease prevention.

Laptop Slides Into Bed in Love Triangle – New York Times
As a threat to intimacy, electronic devices brought into the marital bed introduce a new kind of ménage à trois.

THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED By MANDY STADTMILLER – New York Post Online Edition: Entertainment
WE all have one. That song you can’t listen to because it’s the one that was playing when she broke your heart, or during that summer job you couldn’t stand, or during the dental operation you’d prefer to forget. Now there’s a Web site devoted to the conc

pick one on Flickr – Photo Sharing!
The White Stripes’ fantasy

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God just hit me with a double whammy. Panic! at the Disco will open up for headline and have Bloc Party open at the Theater at MSG on November 13-14. The Raconteurs will open up for music legend Bob Dylan on November 13th at Nassau Coliseum.

Are you thinking what I’m thinking? Rac/Dylan on Monday, Panic/Bloc Party on Tuesday? Hoooollyyyy crap!

Rest of the Raconteur dates: Thu 11/9 Portland ME Cumberland County Civic Center Sat 11/11 Boston MA Agganis Arena Sun 11/12 Boston MA Agganis Arena Mon 11/13 Uniondale NY Nassau Coliseum Wed 11/15 Amherst MA Univ. of MA Mullins Center Thu 11/16 East Rutherford NJ Continental Airlines Fri 11/17 Fairfax VA Patriot Center Sat 11/18 Philadelphia PA Wachovia Spectrum

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Here’s a warning. If you haven’t watched tonight’s Project Runway yet and don’t want to know what happens DO NOT READ THE REST OF THIS POST.

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What can I say…Zach Braff has a way of just looking at something longingly out of the corner of his eye and it immediately gets a coating of industrial strength quirkiness. Looks like Zach’s latest project, The Last Kiss, is no exception.

The marketing campaign is geared toward “the kids” as it were–young adults on MySpace and YouTube who will hopefully spread around these kinda adorable “Day in the Life Of” videos of the film’s stars, Rachel Bilson and Braff. You can even subscribe to the video podcast for the film, which will update every Tuesday and Thursday through September.

I don’t watch The O.C., but I do love Rachel Bilson because I think her fashion sense is great (I really only know who she is thanks to Teen Vogue), but now I love her a little more because she’s so darn cute in these videos. It makes me a little sick.

WATCH: Rachel Bilson driving and telling jokes

Oh and PS- Casey Affleck is looking SO FINE in the stills of the film. Thank god at least one of the Affleck brothers isn’t an eye sore.

casey affleck the last kiss

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NME.COM – Win – Watch The Futureheads busk on the tube!
To celebrate the launch of Oxjam, the UK’s biggest music festival where you join the line up, The Futureheads are playing a one off top secret acoustic session…on the tube!

The Work of Edward Tufte and Graphics Press

NPR : Edward Tufte, Offering ‘Beautiful Evidence’
Edward Tufte has been described by The New York Times as “The Leonardo da Vinci of Data.” Since 1993, thousands have attended his day-long seminars on Information Design. That might sound like a dry subject, but with Tufte, information becomes art.

Sarah Needs You on JANEMAG.com
Meet Sarah. She’s funny, gorgeous and hopes to lose her virginity by her 30th birthday in November. She came to JANE for help meeting guys.

Guardian Unlimited Arts | Arts features | In Glasgow, beware of flying axes
The Rolling Stones still do it, but how do rock bands survive touring? Dave Simpson hears their tales of drugs, gangs and missed buses

Guardian Unlimited Arts | Arts | Snapshot: The White Stripes’ 2003 tour poster
“After the show, I got a call from the band’s tour manager – he was angry that I had made unofficial merchandise. Then after shouting at me for half an hour he said, ‘By the way, we all really liked the poster. Maybe you’d like to do some more for us.’”

Guardian Unlimited Arts | Arts | Snapshot: Rough Trade Records, 1978
In this 1978 photograph, Travis talks to Genesis P Orridge – busy pushing a record by his own band, Throbbing Gristle – while Richard Scott, who set up Rough Trade’s distribution arm, gets on with business.

Guardian Unlimited Arts | | ‘Of course you can lose yourself’
Beyoncé tells Paul Flynn why she won’t be joining the roll call of R&B divas who have cracked under the pressures of fame.

Kevin Clash Is a Puppeteer Tickled Red to Be Elmo in a Rainbow World – New York Times
Kevin Clash took a shapeless bundle of red fuzz and gave it a voice.

Mirror.co.uk – 3am – SPITTING MAD, LILY
IF EVER there was any doubts that Lily Allen was like her hell-raiser dad Keith they were quashed yesterday when she spat on rival Peaches Geldof at yesterday’s V Festival. Classy.

How To Hurdle The Velvet Rope – Forbes.com
Forbes.com recently spoke with Onorato about the ups and downs of being a New York City Door God.

Bleat on the Brats: CIWWAF and Paramore
Emo-goth bill isn’t exactly Top-8 material

VMA NYC 2006
Blog for the MTV VMAs 2006

PSFK : Ideas, Trends & Lifestyle

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And you can attend a free gig with All-American Rejects, Cartel, Rihanna, and New Found Glory at Battery City Park by snagging tickets tomorrow at noon at Tower Records locations and the MTV store at 1515 Broadway. Read on for more details. Link via Jason.

Also, if you’ve got a VMA-related party you know about (especially if it involves Panic! at the Disco, Fall Out Boy, or the Raconteurs) be so kind and drop a line: laura @ themodernage.org.

Here’s to resting up until next week…

vma kickoff

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