COLUMBUSSOCIALITES: January 2008

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

WHY ELLEN POMPEO

*deep sigh* Why Ellen Pompeo? It just seems her girls are trying to climb up or maybe it's the dress. something about this outfit-couture show or not- IS NOT RIGHT. It looks like a velvet number my mom bought for me eons ago and was forced to wear. I would be pissed if someone let me walk out without even giving me a side eye to that outfit

UMMM HEATH LEDGER IS DEAD

HOLY SH!T!!! HOW? WHY? I WAS JUST ABOUT TO POST THAT HE WAS DATING GEMMA WARD APPARENTLY. THEN I FIND THIS OUT!!! SLEEPING PILLS WHAT!?!?!

I'M A BIT DISCOMBOBULATED RIGHT NOW. I WAS SOO LOOKING FORWARD TO HIS NEW CREEPY/COOL MOVIE THAT WAS BEING DIRECTED BY THE GUY WHO DID FEAR AND LOATHING

Monday, January 21, 2008

Ohio to Join Nationwide Campaign Challenging U.S. to Close the Gaps in

Via press release

On Tuesday, January 22, the Ohio Affiliates of Susan G. Komen for the Cure will host two events to launch Ohio's participation in the Komen Community Challenge, a nationwidetour to close the gaps in breast cancer care that cause some women to dieof the disease more than others.

A morning press conference and site tour will be held at the OhioHealthRiverside Breast Health Center in order to give the media a clear pictureof the state of breast cancer in Ohio. A luncheon and community forum on"closing the gap" in breast cancer care will follow at the Ohio StatehouseAtrium. The forum will include community leaders and breast canceradvocates and will be moderated by Heather Pick, anchor of 10TV and breastcancer survivor. The purpose of these events is to educate Ohio residentsabout the state of breast cancer in Ohio and to motivate them to call forlegislative action that will improve access to breast health care. Nationwide, one in eight women will get breast cancer in theirlifetime. In 2007 more than 6,700 Ohio women were diagnosed with breastcancer and more than 1,800 women died from the disease. Ohio is ranked 4thin the nation in breast cancer mortality. Low-income and under-insuredwomen are more likely to die from the disease, whereas those with access toearly diagnosis have a 98 percent chance for survival.

WHEN: Tuesday, January 22
9:30 A.M. Press Conference and tour of Riverside Health Center
12:30 P.M. Lunch and Community Forum

WHAT: "Close the Gap" Press conference and tour of the OhioHealth Riverside Breast Health Center. Community Forum to launch Ohio's Komen Community Challenge

WHO: Speakers at the Press Conference and Site Visit: Matt Moore, Senior Policy Advisor for Susan G. Komen for the Cure Miguel Perez, President, Komen Columbus Affiliate U.S. Congressman Pat Tiberi (R-12) Ohio Senator Tom Niehaus (R-14) Dr. Brenda Sickle-Santanello, OhioHealth Speakers at the Community Forum: Ohio Representative Joyce Beatty (D-27) Dr. Alvin Jackson, Director, Ohio Department of Health Helen Jones Kelley, Director, Ohio Department of Jobs and Family Services Stefanie Spielman, breast cancer survivor & founder, Stefanie Spielman Fund Dr. Jean Stevenson, surgeon, MetroHealth Cancer Care Center, Cleveland Lee Halarewicz, breast cancer survivor and advocate

WHERE: The press conference and tour is at Riverside Health Center Lower Level Atrium, 500 Thomas Lane, Columbus, OH 43214. Parking is available in the purple parking garage, adjacent to the Center. The community forum is in the Ohio Statehouse Atrium.

FIRST PICS OF LOUIS VUITTON BLASON

pics jacked from bbc

The reverse Blason(1st pic) would make a sick pinkie ring and leave a dent if someone were to ever get pimp slapped

Fashionweekdaily reports that Skateboard P had din with COnde Nast international chairman-hmmm wonder what they have in the works?

Sunday, January 20, 2008

THE BLASON+CHANEL AND AUDEMARS WITH OTHER FASH ITEMS

Get Pharrell Williams talking about fine jewelry and he's as clear and emphatic on the subject as the giant diamond solitaire ring on his finger — "D flawless, no inclusions, colorless." The Blason jewelry line a collaboration between the super producer/artist and Camille Miceli for LouisVuitton will debut 1/21/08.

OFF 5TH TO RE-DEBUT

The Off 5th outlet chain, a division of Saks Inc., has developed a prototype that will make its debut in the Prime Outlets International center in Orlando, Fla., in mid-April. The 26,400-square-foot outlet will replace the existing 21,800-square-foot unit in the same mall. Over the next 60 days, three or four new locations will be unveiled as leases get finalized, and sites for additional locations are being scouted around the country, Robert Wallstrom, president of Off 5th, told WWD.

GUCCI MOVIE A GO BUT STALLED DUE TO WRITER'S STRIKE

Giannina Facio, Ridley Scott's Costa Rican wife and the producer of his upcoming Gucci biopic film, revealed more details about the project. The project is currently stalled due to the writers' strike, but Scott seems to have settled on a writer, the third scribe to work on the script.
Facio said that while she was the one who read the biography and showed it to her husband, she defers to him on all creative matters, including casting, which hasn't happened yet.

Ridley makes all the decisions about the movie. He's an artist, and he does what he wants," she said, though she emphasized the actors chosen would be top notch, not Italian unknowns.

Given Scott's proclivity for casting A-list stars... The film will span from the Sixties to the Nineties, and expect to see original period pieces from Gucci's archives.

"I have spoken to all of the family members except for Patricia because I want to make sure we make an authentic movie," said Facio. "Of course, everyone wants to tell it from their point of view." Facio said her husband's greatest talent is for "totally creating a world in which you feel like you are there. He's gonna do Milan in the Eighties and Paris in the Nineties so well."

CHANEL TEAMS UP WITH AUDEMARS

CHANEL is adding a new component to its watch offering.The luxury house has teamed up with Swiss fine timepiece firm Audemars Piguet to create a new movement for an exclusive version of its best-selling J12 wristwatch that will be introduced at retail in September.

HILARY CLINTON IS A FLIP-FLOPER

Don't mess with Anna Wintour. Hilary Clinton¹ was to appear in Vogue as the presidential race reached high gear, but backed out late last fall before a photo shoot was scheduled for fear of appearing too alluring. Annie Leibovitz had her cameras at the ready for nothing. A Vogue spokesman confirmed: "We were told by Ms. Clinton's camp that they were concerned if Clinton appeared in Vogue that she would appear too feminine." (Clearly, though, the presidential candidate didn't worry about that when she cried in New Hampshire)

In her February editor's letter, Wintour takes Clinton to task for being behind the times. "Imagine my amazement, then, when I learned that Hillary Clinton, our only female president hopeful, had decided to steer clear of our pages at this point in her campaign for fear of looking too feminine. The notion that a contemporary woman must look mannish in order to be taken seriously as a seeker of power is frankly dismaying." Wintour continues: "This is America, not Saudi Arabia. It's also 2008: Margaret Thatcher may have looked terrific in a blue power suit, but that was 20 years ago. I do think Americans have moved on from the power-suit mentality, which served as a bridge for a generation of women to reach boardrooms filled with men. Political campaigns that do not recognize this are making a serious misjudgment."

Vogue's spokesman said the magazine and the Clintons are "working on something together for Vogue in the near future."

RIHANNA'S TO DEBUT ANOTHER² LINE OF UMBRELLAS

Rihanna will hit New York this fashion week for a luncheon On Feb. 5 celebrating the launch of her second umbrella collection with Totes. The singer will dine at the accessories firm's showroom along with the three masterminds behind the Senz label — Gerwin Hoogendoorn, Gerard Kool and Philip Hess — who will be launching their windproof umbrella collection in the U.S. Totes will also be debuting its new Eco collection, where umbrellas, gloves and slippers are all made of recyclable products. Rihanna Umbrellas will retail exclusively at Macy's this spring with prices ranging from $20 fora piece in a single color to $50 for a two-toned canopy style.

MATTHEW WILLIAMSON TO OPEN IN NYC

Matthew Williamson is slated to open his first boutique in New York by June, Jean-Manuel Pourquet, senior vice president and managing director for Matthew Williamson America, revealed Wednesday during the designer's pre-fall presentation. "We haven't excluded any neighborhoods," said Pourquet, "but our top priority is the Meatpacking District." He said the house is also looking at real estate in SoHo and along Madison Avenue.

USE IT DON'T ABUSE IT

Alvin Valley is out to save the world. The New York fashion designer teamed up with Amanda Hearst to create the "Use It, Don't Abuse It" canvas tote. Twenty-five thousand of the slate gray canvas totes, which bare the designer's first name and an image of the globe, will go on sale at Duane Reade drugstores starting next month. A portion of the sales of the $14.99 tote will go to Stevenson Green Roof Consortium, which will install an eco-friendly roof on the Stevenson Campus building in the Bronx.

LULULEMON BASHES SODAS, STOCKS ROLLERCOASTER

Lululemon Athletica Inc., the Canadian athletic-clothing maker, removed a reference on its Web site that suggested Coke, Pepsi and other sodas will be considered the "cigarettes of the future,''
The yoga apparel maker's manifesto had said that "Colas are not a substitute for water. They are just another cheap drug made to look great by advertising.''

After starting off like a rocket, shares of yoga-wear retailer Lululemon Athletica Inc. (TSX:LLL) have returned to earth in recent weeks trading near where the stock was in the days after its much-hyped initial public offering. This week, the market will be watching carefully as the lock up period for Lululemon's investors expires on Jan. 23 following company's initial public offering in July and the number of shares eligible to trade is set to grow significantly.
"I think a lot of people might expect those to be sold by insiders and that's one of the things that is keeping the stock low," ThinkEquity Partners analyst Suzanne Price said.
Shares of Lululemon have been on a wild ride since the company's initial public offering last summer at an issue price of US$18. On Friday, the stock ended the week down $1.50 or about 4.5 per cent at $31.84 on the Toronto Stock Exchange, which has also struggled so far this year. Lululemon stock began the year at $47, and traded as high as C$58.77 in October.
Price rated the stock a "buy" with a US$60 price target.
"The company has tremendous growth opportunity, a strong management team, a proven model that has done well in Canada and now is rolling out throughout the U.S." she said.

¹- How can you be afraid of being too alluring when you had one of your campaign Chief of Staff pose in some high end outfits for a 5 page spread. what a manipulating shark

²-when did she come out with the first one and did it sell like that?

IF YOU'RE ROCKING THE HOUSE

2 articles in today's NY Times caught my attention for diff reasons.

1: After Linking New Strain of Staph to Gay Men,

University Scrambles to Clarify

In a matter of days, it jumped from a routine press release to a medical controversy. On Monday, a team of researchers led by doctors from the University of California at San Francisco announced that gay men were “many times more likely than others” to acquire a new strain of drug-resistant staphylococcus, a nasty, fast-spreading and potential lethal bacteria known as MRSA USA300. And sure enough, the study, published online in the Annals of Internal Medicine, was quickly picked up by reporters round the world and across the Internet, including a London tabloid which dubbed the disease “the new H.I.V.” But for gay men in the Castro neighborhood here, which was an early epicenter for the AIDS epidemic and a current hot spot for MRSA, the report also seemed to cast an unfair, and all too familiar, stigma on their sexuality.
“The way they keep targeting gays as if gays alone are responsible for it, its like H.I.V./AIDS all over again,” said Colin Thurlow, 60, who is gay and lives in San Francisco. “And we’re sick and tired of it.” The report also inadvertently offered ammunition for many antigay groups, including the conservative Concerned Women for America, which issued a release on Wednesday citing the “sexual deviancy” of gay men as leading to AIDS, syphilis and gonorrhea.
“The medical community has known for years that homosexual conduct, especially among males, creates a breeding ground for often deadly disease,” the release read.
Another group, Americans for Truth About Homosexuality, also cited the report as a way of proving that “homosexual behavior is unhealthy.”
“Why aren’t all schoolchildren being taught that there are special health risks associated with homosexual behavior and that they should ‘just say no’ to homosexuality?” read a released posted on the group’s Web site. STORY

This is pretty ridiculous that freaking smart people would imply such a thing and asinine of these "advocacy" groups to run with it. MRSA is deadly yes but saying that a gay person is more times likely to die of it when most of the cases reported last year alone did not indicate this. The study was conducted in '03-04. The strain has since grown more resistant and does not chose it's host. The best way for anyone to prevent MRSA is to wash wash wash! also if you go to the hospital make sure attending to you either washes their hands or you see them use antibacterial gel. Unclean hopsitals harbor MRSA.

Two new devices dispense entirely with the bulky turntables and CD players of traditional D.J. equipment. Instead, the new products are so compact that aspiring jam masters can put a D.J. rig in their pocket — or at least in a backpack — and head for the party, connect to the stereo system and rock the crowd.

One of the new players, the Pacemaker (520 euros, or about $760¹), created by a small Swedish company, Tonium, reduces the basic D.J. equipment of dual players and mixer to a device the size of a peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich. The Pacemaker has a 120-gigabyte hard drive, fits in the palm of the hand, runs on batteries and has a built-in mixer to layer tunes seamlessly so the music never stops.

Tonium will begin shipping Pacemakers in February, said Ola Sars, sales and marketing director for the company, which is based in Stockholm. It will focus first on customers in the European Union, Japan and South Korea, and then on the United States. American consumers will be able to order through the Web site, www.pacemaker.net, in February, he said.

The Pacemaker lets the D.J. preview one track in the headphones while another song is playing for the audience through speakers. “You can select the second song, and then mix the songs together so one song goes into the next smoothly,” said Jonas Norberg, the chief executive of Tonium. “I wanted a PlayStation Portable for music,”

Another mobile D.J. device comes from Numark Inc., a longtime maker of professional D.J. equipment. Called the iDJ2 (about $600), this lightweight mixing console has been on sale since September

“People looked down their noses when D.J.’s brought in CD players and computers instead of turntables and vinyl records,” and now it is iPods that are scorned.

Slowly, though, this new stigma will fade. “If you are rocking the house,” he said, “who cares what equipment you are using?”

¹ look at how much the dollar has depreciated and the euro now king. augh the bush admin

Saturday, January 19, 2008

MARC IN CHICAGO + LUPE'S BABY TEEFS

MARC by MARC JACOBS CHICAGO STORE OPENING/DINNER

business partner Robert Duffy

"what does white chocolate green tea short bread taste like?"

Perry Farrelly and his wife Etty performed

LUPE FIASCO HAD AN ALBUM LAUNCH PARTY AT JET AT THE MIRAGE LAS VEGAS

anyone else notice he has mad baby teeth

THIS SHIT RIGHT HEERE N****

Comedian Kat Williams took a pic with a fan at the SOuth Beach Comedy festival. I get the tatoo whatever she's dedicated but can we please focus on the ashyness that is her elbow-dayuuum!!! Get thee some Cetaphil fast

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

JEFF IS HAVING A PARTY!!!

So one of the few people in this town that just looooves to have fun is having a soiree this Friday Jan 18. Jeff's party is also being DJ'd by Aus10. here's what we know so far:

Sir CM, Esq. is pleased to announce the party of 2008

What? My House Party
Where? My House
When? Friday, January 18th starting in the afternoon and going until Sunday
How? Let's just say that's how i roll
Why? Why the fuck not?!?!?!... i've got Aaron "aus 10" Miller be playing some awesome music up in my loft overlooking my great room ... and working on party supplies and the such.... there will be mixers and booze but i strongly recommend you BYOB...

For the one's that don't know... i have a 4 bedroom house near Easton that we can let loose in and have some fun... so that's what we're gonna do... if you get too inebriated (that means fucked up) you will be encouraged to crash here and will probably get written on and have funny photoz of you taken... but hey it's all in good fun... hahahahahaa
The invite list will be very elite so... no offense if i don't give you directions...Get Prepared... Get Jiggy wit it... do whatever you need to do... but if ur going come to my party there will be some simple rules to follow...
1) respect my house (no smoking in the house and that means anything)
2) respect my rules and my little dog
6) did i mention have
8) respect the DJ... he asked me to say that
9) respect my private spaces in my house...

If you know CM,esq then definately hit him up for details. If you don't but interested in attending, let us know and we'll pass the word.

Saturday, January 12, 2008

WALE w/ LIL WAYNE IN DC JAN 15

UPDATE: expressivefrontier is saying that the tickets to the show are actually dog tags which is clever!! They or WPGC will reveal the location tomorrow the day of the show. here's to wishing we could be at this show.
Nike Boot event on Tuesday night with WALE and Lil Wayne. The event is FREE, however, tickets are required.As of now, only know two ways to get FREE tickets.

Go try on a pair of Nike Boots TODAY at:Footaction 1815 Columbia Rd NWWashington, 20009 (202)328-1076
1/13 (call first)FootactionPG Plaze3500 E WEST HWYHYATTSVILLE , MD 20782 (301)853-27542.
Listen to WPGC 95.5(DC area station)

One Republic performed at the new Bank in the Bellagio

WHy are these kids acting so grown. i mean not trying to have a Chris Hansen encounter but it seems Chris Brown is packing. Shad Moss aka Bow-Wow was on Ugly Betty Thursday night

At a concert stop in Kansas City

DOLCE AND GABBANA AU/WI MENSWEAR

Love the shoes, not too craazy on the bags but love the black one thats a combo briefcase/bag, love the suit. A D&G man is very doable

CAPITAL OF CULTURE

Liverpool, England was selectd by the EU(European Union) as the city to represent the '08 european culture capital. A city is given a chance to showcase its cultural life and development. A number of European cities have used the City of Culture year to transform their cultural base and, in doing so, the way in which they are viewed internationally. It was launched in 1985 and has developed since then.

I like this whole idea and I think it ties into the thinking behind Columbus' Indie Arts capital. Rome was not built in a day and good concepts take time to develop into something great but if Columbus can pickup the pace a bit for lack of a better term, this Indie Arts thing can take off and spawn other good idears

GREEEDY McGREEDYS

OK so the Golden Globes is going to be boringer than ever(yes it's not a word and yes it was intentional) cause the celebs don't want to cross the picket lines. NBC will have spastic Billy Bush from Access Hollywood read off the names of the winners-why even bother with the thing.

What I'm ranting about is the swag gift lounges. These so called celebs don't want to cross the lines but yet can still receive free handouts. A bunch of these writers are out of work and have families to feed. Why couldn't these corporations do something honorable by donating the sh!t to those guys? one good turn deserves another CVS, Kari Feinstein style lounge. I am sooooo furious 24 has been pushed back even more!!! That being said here are the greedy asses that can afford but yet still pick up the free sh!t

*RCA Records just confirmed that it's dropped American Idol Katharine McPhee joining Ruben Studdard and Season 5's Taylor Hicks be ejected from the BMG nest.
McPhee's first CD entered the charts at No. 2 in February 2007, but failed to go gold. "Winning 'American Idol' is no longer a guarantee that you're going to make it," says one industry source. "Katharine was hot for a few months. But audiences are fickle."