After news that leading breast cancer charity, The Susan G. Komen Foundation, was stopping its funding to Planned Parenthood’ s breast screening and health initiatives, Planned Parenthood supporters donated over $400,000 in 24 hours . And a grant from a Texas couple will raise the total to $650,000. Update : Now, according to NYTMetro , Mayor Bloomberg says he’ll donate $250,000 to Planned Parenthood, which would raise the total to $900,000. [ more › ]
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UPDATE: Actually, Planned Parenthood Raised $650,000 In 24 Hours
The Alamo Drafthouse has announced an amazing wine pairing with their February 14th screening of The Princess Bride : the Bottle of the Wits! The new wine line was also created to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the movie, and includes a red and a white—choose wisely. Or choose both! The Alamo Drafthouse may be based out of Austin , but the fine folks will let all of America uncork a bottle, with a promise that online ordering will be available any day now . [ more › ]
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It’s A Bottle Of The Wits: Alamo Drafthouse Brings Us Princess Bride Wine
And we have a winner! The MTA’s App Quest competition to find the best applications using MTA data has concluded and Embark NYC , a nifty trip planing app that also lets you know about service changes, is the big winner. But Embark wasn’t the only sweet app in the running, quite a few of them caught the eyes of the judges (which included our own Co-Founder Jen Chung). [ more › ]
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Embark NYC Wins MTA’s Smartphone App Competition
Copyranter, the grumpy advertising blogger (his bio proclaims he’s the “Best Fucking Ad Blogger in the World”), noted this fake advertisement submitted to a British advertising creative contest, declaring, “Tasteless is bad enough. Unfunny and tasteless, no excuse.” The fake ad, for Sapporo beer, says, “A beer so good it’s hard to believe we made it with our eyes three-quarters closed.” Asian eye jokes—that’s so c r assy! [ more › ]
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NJ Ad Agency Makes The Most Racist Ad Of All Time
New York Knicks center Tyson Chandler has scooped up a $32,500 a month NYC rental that has 3,600 square feet of hardwood floors. Not too shabby, considering an NBA basketball court itself has 4,700 square feet. Curbed NY has photos of the new digs. [Curbed NY]
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Sure, Los Angeles is an okay place to live if you like abundant sunshine and driving up Highway 1 on a weekday afternoon with the top down, a surfboard in the backseat, and Steely Dan’s “Babylon Sisters” blaring on the stereo. But we could never live there! We’d miss the seasons ; these magical winter days playing in the snow and nights making love in front of a roaring fire. And then there are precious afternoons like this, where all the windows in the office are open and we’re fighting a despicable urge to turn on the air conditioning. [ more › ]
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It’s February 1st, And NYC Is Only 3 Degrees Colder Than LA
Have a nomination for a jaw-dropping listing that would make a mighty fine House of the Day? Get thee to the tipline and send us your suggestions. We’d love to see what you’ve got. Click here to view the full photogallery. Location: Hermosa Beach, Calif. Price: $5,295,000 The Skinny: The Pritzker Prize-winning starchitect Thom Mayne is in high demand lately. He and his L.A.-based firm, Morphosis, have designed plenty of award-winning buildings across the country, including the jagged New Academic Building at NYC’s Cooper Union. In Hermosa Beach though, this three-bed beach house has been lingering on the market for years, with a price that’s varied wildly, from a high of $7.9M to a low of $3.5M, before settling at $5.3M. A tall, vertical design just steps off the famous beachfront Strand, the metal-clad house enjoys ocean views from the upper levels, 4,000 square feet over four levels, a basketball court out front, two fireplaces, an elevator, a wine cellar. The mercurial nature of the price remains a mystery, but something that’s been featured in both the New York Times and Architectural Digest was always going to end up with a multimillion-dollar price tag. · Hermosa Beach [Zillow]
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House of the Day: Thom Mayne-Designed SoCal Beach House Still Awaits Buyer
Photo: Homes of the Rich · A 50,000-square-foot mansion from Robert A.M. Stern. [Homes of the Rich] · Bloomberg wants ten more Frank Gehry buildings in NYC. [The Real Deal] · A fireplace controlled by iPhone. [Freshome] · Closed-circuit security cameras as chandelier. [Freshome] · Recycling an Airbus to make light fixtures. [Contemporist] · Volkswagen’s Autostadt stashes 400 cars in a tower. [Architizer]
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Linkage: Bloomberg/Gehry Love; A 50,000-Square-Foot Stern; More!
The clock is ticking for everyone’s favorite purveyor of Ham Bowls to open up shop in NYC: Crain’s notes that after Walmart wined and dined us last summer, it’s now acting all “Oh we’ll call you next week.” In two years, the company will likely have to deal with an anti-Walmart mayor (although Christine Quinn has flirted with the store), and polling may not be so generous, so it’s crucial that they don’t squander the goodwill. “Walmart doesn’t know how to be a good winner,” a “political insider” says. Will they finally bust out the Wet kiwi strawberry intimacy gel and consummate this thing? [ more › ]
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Will Walmart Seal The Deal In NYC, Or Are They Facing A Rollback?
Yesterday we brought you the unexpected discovery of a James Patterson quotation on a block of mimolette cheese at Chelsea’s Westside Market. Intrigued, we ventured to the store in search of the mind behind the rind. And there we discovered Peter “The Doctor” Daniels, a seven-year cheese man of the Westside Market and a 25-year veteran of the food industry, who started putting quotations on the cheese just to fill a labeling void. “There’s extra space where a description is supposed to go but I found that people weren’t reading them,” he explains. ” I thought I would put something else that people could be inspired by. ” [ more › ]
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Meet The Mysterious Cheesemonger Behind The Quotable Fromage