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Posted May. 15, 2008,
About Last Night... Chris Brown's Birthday Party at Rebel
By Caroline Torem Craig
Guess who? Could these Power Legs belong to anyone in the world but Rihanna? This photo was taken at the back entrance to Chris Brown’s birthday party last night at Rebel. Are they a couple? Borrowing the style of not posing together à la Jay Z and Beyonce sure must be fun -– but it’s tough on the paparazzi looking for that four-figure-yielding snapshot! I was perfectly satisfied with this shot, though. Many thanks to Jackson Lee.
Posted Apr. 3, 2008,
Eight Items or Less: Jay-Z's Making Millions, Caffeine's Blocking Effects of Cholesterol and Pizza.com's Been Sold
By Gary Pini
1. If Jay-Z and Beyonce get married tomorrow, they will be able to afford one unbelievable honeymoon. The advances quoted for his Live Nation deal are staggering: $10 million for each album, $25 million for concerts, $20 million for music publishing, $25 million for new fashion ventures and $50 million in loose change.
2. The University of South Dakota gave some rabbits a cup of coffee every day for 12 weeks and discovered that caffeine blocks some of the harmful effects of cholesterol, including dementia. (via BBC)
3. April is National Soy Month!
4. The New York Public Art Fund is spending $15 million (1 1/2 Jay-Z albums) to build three temporary waterfalls designed by the artist Olafur Eliasson. They will be up along Manhattan's east side waterfront from July to October.
5. The domain name pizza.com sold today for $2,605,000. (via sedo.com)
6. The Chelsea Hotel is 125 years old.
Posted Jun. 28, 2007,
An Open Letter From Grizzly Bear
By Shanon Kelley
Grizzly Bear just posted this bulletin on MySpace:
I'm so very annoyed about the state of touring and selling your own T shirts. Essentially here's the deal. I'm MORTIFIED that our T shirts were sold last night for 25 dollars. That's just wrong. But guess what, we had ZERO choice. The venue FORCED US TO SELL IT FOR THAT and to boot they wouldn't allow us to get behind the table and sell it.
Essentially the bigger venues you play the more greedy they become and they start taking 25-35% of your merch. This of course forces bands to sell their stuff for higher. Taking into consideration of course that American Apparel shirts are not cheap and the taxes and screen printing fees and shipping fees. When a venue takes 35% of your T shirt sales you essentially make no money unless you raise the price 5 bucks.