cityrag

more melon
yeah, he likes beans and carrots, but Buddy would eat a whole watermelon if you let him.

all we need is Love
Katie and Tom, boring. Lindsay's downward spiral, over that. Paris drunk in Cannes, whatever. we long for the days of that cutting edge, let a guy in Wendy's suck your tit, drama that only Courtney Love can provide. Mark the Cobrasnake snapped the first shots of Courtney back on the scene in months, at a show in LA recently. hoping it's a sign of Love fun to come.

(photos from thecobrasnake.com)

that's LOCO
The Ludlow Orchard Community Organization is kicking ass and taking names! we first learned of L.O.C.O. on Curbed a couple weeks ago and were pyched to find a group taking on some of the community abuse going on in the Lower East Side, including the massive hotel being built on Allen St. and the never ending flood of film crews.

from their site...

We are rising up: To stop the 24 story hotel and other high-rise developments on Orchard Street - and demand the landmark status and zoning changes that will "keep the Lower East Side low!" To tell our local political leaders that we want a say in how this neighborhood and its residents are affected by all the bars, film shoots, and new developments that are bringing an influx of traffic and noise into our streets, and destroying our quality of life! To tell the landlords: we don’t want more yuppy bars. We do want culture and things that enrich the lives of residents! L.O.C.O. seeks to take these issues on, to affect city policy and send a message to developers and local politicians: We have had enough of the takeover of our community! We are reclaiming our streets, and going to keep our community intact and vibrant.

and yesterday's newsletter (email them to sign up) has a tip on an interesting meeting TONIGHT: Housing, Land Disposition, Zoning, & NYC Housing Authority Committee meeting - Tuesday, May 17 at 6:30PM -- Project Renewal, Kenton Hall - 333 Bowery (near 3rd St) the first presentation will be regarding the new Allen Street Hotel

GO LOCO GO LOCO! CityRag is behind you...
- demise of the LES: Pomeranc's Allen St. Fuckover begins
- production companies love messin' with the locals
- why film production companies SUCK
- Law and Order returns to the LES

stone faced
Sharon Stone arrives for the world premiere of "Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith" at the Cannes film festival with a fresh facefull of botox, and looking like she stepped back in time...

Secret Wall Tattoos
on GorillaMask we found a link to an amazing site called Secret Wall Tattoos. here's the deal... you rent a hotel room, remove a mirror or piece of art, create your own art piece on the wall underneath, and then put the item back on the wall. and the flip side is it's creating an army of people peaking behind stuff on the walls of their hotel rooms. fucking awesome!...

not much info on the SWT site about it, but following the "discuss" link we found a newly started message board and a post that has the scoop... "caught this article in the German magazine Der Arztwitz Jun 2005 Issue" (from the article...)

Josh Homme, the 6'4" frontman for the Queens of the Stone Age, has a new venture. Its art and mystery. Homme is known for the enigmatic, the vague and the unexplained. "We've been doing this on tour for some time. It's like crop circles, but better. I used to collect corks as a hobby, but several of us got together and started doing this", muses the rock-star and guitarist from his Berlin hotel room. "We're actually being paid to do this. It all started out in Joshua Tree at local art festivals where local artists we knew down there would do people's ranch house rooms. There's several SWTs in Rancho De La Luna."

His soundman Hutch and Wayne Sherman, a Seattle based tatoo artist Homme met while attending the University of Washington after leaving Kyuss, are the creative forces behind this work. Homme fills in as art director. "Basically, it's like a box of Cracker Jacks. You get a secret toy surprise. We have a set of patterns and each art piece is kind of a stepped up rendition in the duration we spend in a room. We spend a lot of time in museums and hotel rooms while touring. That's our inspiration."

And how do people discover secret wall tatoos? "It's for the obsessive types who are prone to move a picture in a room that is off center, and have to dismount it and they get this little surprise behind it. It like to think it's like panties, there's something better behind the mystery, the ucovering that's even more mesmerizing"

how to get tickets to Saturday Night Live
news you can use... a cool and informative article on The Apiary (an awesome new NY comedy site) has the scoop on scoring those rare SNL tickets!... "Unless you know someone on the crew (they are allotted seats for friends) or live a life of careful planning and decision by entering the SNL ticket lottery last August, you have two feasible ways of getting into Studio 8-H on a whim..." plus a great follow-up on staking out the ticket line this past weekend (with lot of photos)

(Thanks LustyLady for the link!)

not even close
everyone knows there's no truth in advertising; but this tacky jewelry store on 42nd St. in the Hyatt still seems to grab a few unknowing tourists with their deceitful name "Christi Sothers Jewelry" - that rips off Christie's and Sotheby's, 2 of NY (and the world's) most prominent sellers of fine jewelry and art...

Update: Gwin sent us this fabulous observation... Are you sure they aren't trying to send us some sort of carefully-disguised religious message? "Christi Sothers" >> "Christ is others" - I'm just sayin', is all.

ho' some
what nice young gentlemen those Gotti Boys are, proving our point from Friday, they take "EWWWWWWWW" up a level...