BARACK OBAMA
It looks like it’s time to dust off your Google+ account. Although the social network didn’t seem to live up to the hype it generated a few months ago, it’s not quite dead yet. While your page may be a ghost town, Google+ has recently gotten some prominent members. Just last week, in fact, the White House made its appearance on the page’s front door. While that may not sound all that special on its own, the White House’s Google+ account offered some promising things. Users can ask various questions and communicate with members of the White House on the page itself, but the real draw is how they’ll be using Google+ Hangout tool.
Russell Simmons, the multi-millionaire Entrepeneur and Run DMC legend, flew in to NYC from Washington on Monday for the premiere of 'Last Night'; the new movie starring Eva Mendes, Sam Worthington and Keira Knightley.
Speaking with Joonbug before the premiere, he told us that he had been spending the weekend with the Obama's on an Easter Egg hunt. We told him that his shoes looked shiny and he replied with; "You know what? I was just thinking they were filthy because they were on the White House lawn".
Showing up the premiere with Rima Fakih in tow he said that he had been made to come and see it because; "The lady wanted to see Eva."
Last Night is a movie about infidelity and mistrust and is being premiered for the Tribeca Film Festival. It will be out in theaters May 20.
It may have just been fashion week in New York, but this week the MAGIC is in Las Vegas. The Men's Apparel Guild in California, or the snappy acronym MAGIC, is one of the biggest global events in the fashion world. Celebrating its 77th anniversary this year, MAGIC has drawn 700,000 people to the Strip including designers, manufacturers, and celebrities with their own lines.
This is the first year the convention has expanded to include both the Las Vegas Convention Center as well as the Mandalay Bay Convention Center. The women's wear is displayed throughout the original convention halls while the menswear and new footwear FN platforms are at Mandalay.
When it comes to Fran Drescher and Mayor Oscar Goodman, you'd expect the one who'd always be remembered with a poof and a cheetah print skirt-suit to be the one to make a memorable entrance. On the contrary, The Nanny star's arrival to the start of The Jewish Federation of Las Vegas' charity fashion show was enthusiastic, but not over-the-top. Mayor Goodman, however, made quite the entrance, wearing not much more than swim trunks, a hoodie, and a towel!
And this is the man who is looking to take on President Obama after his recent Vegas denunciation earlier this week?
It seems that family man Obama really isn't a fan of the City of Sin. For the second time in less than a year, the President has slammed Vegas during a town hall meeting.
"This isn't how responsible families do their budgets. When times are tough, you tighten your belts," Obama said at a New Hampshire forum on February 2nd. "You don't go buying a boat when you can barely pay your mortgage. You don't blow a bunch of cash in Vegas when you're trying to save for college. You prioritize. You make tough choices. And it's time your government did the same."
What do Moscow, a DJ team from Brooklyn, and impressionistic abstract painting have in common?
The latest offering from the Guggenheim museum for their Art After Dark special. This Friday, explore the works of Russian-born Wassily Kandinsky, famous as much for his richly colorful impressionist and abstract paintings, as he was for being influenced and inspired by music. The evening will be accompanied by music from the Brooklyn born duo of Nick Millhiser and Alex Frankel who currently go by the name of Holy Ghost! (I thought there had to be three of them, but my religious knowledge is Pagan at best). The event occurs once a month, and has steadily been increasing in popularity. The Kandinsky exhibition has been described sensational, and the appointment of the paintings has been greeted with great success. The museum now warns that for the months of November and December, this event will have a strict capacity limit, and priority access will be given to members of the museum. Maybe it’s a ploy to get you to buy into the museum, or maybe we are more cultured a society than I originally gave credit to. Either way, I wish I could give you more information, but getting anybody at the museum to actually answer a phone and answer my questions appears harder than getting Barack Obama, Salam Fayyad and BB Netanyahu to play a friendly game of ‘your bomb, my bomb’.
New York has been viewed as a city with an undercurrent of mafia-run drug empires. Granted, the mob psyche is partially an invention of Hollywood, but Don Corleone is merely the caricature of a vein that is quite real in our society.
Petty drug users in the city live in a world of complacency, as police forces have too much on their plates to concern themselves with the myriad messenger services delivering drugs all over the city. Yeah, that out-of-place kid longboarding up towards Murray Hill with a nondescript satchel, he’s not a resident.
Now, in an unprecedented move in the post-Reagan/”War on Drugs” era, President Obama (an admitted past pot user) has officially sent out the order to take a softer lean on medical marijuana distributors and users. The memo, released today, does not in any way condone drug traffickers, and the principle stance laid out is to spend more time and resources in battling the illegal distributors and drug gangs operating fronts and money laundering pits.
Although the White House has no comment on Jailhouse Toys’ latest creation, a miniature Mrs. Obama will be joining her husband on store shelves everywhere, in a window-boxed package, later this year. Michelle will be available in three different outfits: the vibrant Maria Pinto purple dress worn the night of the “fist-bump,” the red and black Narciso Rodriguez Election Night dress, and the Donna Ricco floral dress she wore on “The View.”
The fashion world is taking President Obama’s lead and producing a stimulus plan of its own in the midst of the failing economy. Fashion’s Night Out, organized by the Barack Obama of fashion Anna Wintour, is an event meant to encourage shoppers to spend money on designer clothing that has been left by the wayside, in exchange for the lucrative prospect of saving money. According to Women’s Wear Daily, this night long retail therapy lust-fest will be infused with a plethora of events including parties, live music, freebies, and designer/celebrity appearances. In New York Ctiy, stores such as Neiman Marcus, Macy’s and Lord&Taylor will be extending their store hours. Fashion’s Night Out has also expanded into international territory as shops in Paris, Greece, Rome, India and Beijing line up to participate in the festivities.
Model Talk
Okay. It’s true. Greenhouse, my latest haunt in Soho, opened with a lot of fanfare but probably opened a little late in the season, missing out on Diddy’s Election Day/ Birthday Party and not nearly in enough time to really get our grove before the holidays. But let me say, Greenhouse is now “the” NYC Hot Spot.
It hasn’t been easy. I won't get into the various inner sanctum minutia that drives me, and most that have integrity in this business, crazy, but I have other club owners call with threats about competing on “their” nights and “stealing promoters”. Crap like that from people with egos that are bigger than they should be. A sizable ego is a must for success in any industry but please… the bullshit from some in this business, as if any of us are the originators of the industry, is just showing your hand and highlights insecurities that wouldn’t otherwise be obvious. Well, not that obvious.
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