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I stayed up past my bedtime and headed over to Audrey‘s new weekly Wednesday night party at Sapphire, “Calling All Kids”. Going to this party is like hitting a fiesta at one of your friend’s apartments, except your friend’s apartment doesn’t have a built-in bar and a disco ball hanging from the ceiling…or does it? …
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Woah! I can’t believe how many deep-pocketed White Stripes fans exist in this world. Well, I guess there are at least 50 of them who like to wake up for a 9am EST sale, because a limited edition set of the 11 posters created for the White Stripes most recent North American tour (below) completely …
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This is sad news, the British quintet The Needs (formerly know as Special Needs) has decided to call it quits citing widespread band depression and ominous feelings as the cause of their demise. Guitarist Andrew Pearson had this to say: “It’s a bit hard to admit your best days are well and truly on someone’s …
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It seems as though you’ll soon be able to see Meg White‘s mug starring back at you from a fashion magazine as Meg is the face of an upcoming campaign by designer Marc Jacobs. From Vogue UK via Candy Cane Children: “There are all sorts of people I’d like to work with,” he [Marc Jacobs] …
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Here are two things I discovered about my two favorite reality TV shows (“ANTM” and “Project Runway”) this week: In the “duh, even I guessed it” category, Fashion Week Daily revealed that Nicky Hilton is the mystery socialite that the designers will be fighting to dress in this week’s new “Project Runway” episode. I kinda …
Remember how I wrote about Jack White throwing Polaroid pictures of himself and Meg into the audience during the second Coney Island show in September of 2005? Well Rayna was doing some Googling and happened to find this photograph that Jack took during the August 27th show at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis. Awesome!
Fanart is not unusual to come across…but sometimes you come across fanart that is so unusual (and varrying degrees of wonderful) that you just have to share it with the world. Check out this Beckart cookie by a girl named Lizzie I found on the Oh So Quiet Show. Amazing.
Check out Tricia’s roundup of how those in clubland will remember this past year…what about you? What will go down in the history books as being your defining moment of 2 to the 005?
What could possibly be on Claire Danes‘s mind as she sits between boyfriend Billy Crudup and not boyfriend David Duchovny during a recent Knicks game?
Um, how psyched am I to learn that everyone’s favorite smart, yet slightly snotty, America’s Next Top Model alumn, Elyse Sewell, is releasing her very own book!?!? It comes out January 19, 2006 on SCMP Book Publishing and it’s going to be based on some of Elyse’s blog postings but also featuring some previously un-blogged …