Griffin BlueTrip Giveway Winners

by Letizia Rossi

In our recent post on the Griffin BlueTrip we asked readers to regale us with their most memorable experience of dancing by themselves. There were a lot of great entries, some hilarious, some cringe-worthy. Here are some highlights from our two favorites:

"One night, after a heavy coffee/sleeping pill combo, I apparently woke up, and hallucinating, did my best rendition of La Boheme - complete with whatever ballet I could remember from elementary school. In the bathroom. With the frogs on my shower curtain as my audience. (Apparently I swore they'd called for an encore..)"

"I made my way up to the bed and started to dance like Britney Spears and her giant snake on the 2002 VMAs, trying to sing “Se a vida é” by the Pet Shop Boys which can be a very difficult task when you have a mouthful of prunes. So, the lesson here is, that distracting yourself by dancing, eating, or something calms depression, dried prunes relieves constipation and remembering those embarrassing moments can get you some neat iPod accessories."

Both dancers will receive a Griffin Bluetrip Wireless Bluetooth Receiver.

Moleskine City Notebook

by Letizia Rossi

High-quality materials combined with the cultural cache that come from knowing you are using the same notebook which once held the musings of Van Gogh, Picasso, and Ernest Hemingway have made Moleskine the preferred notebooks of artists and thinkers for the past two centuries. With the launch of the new City Notebook, Moleskine is giving travelers the opportunity to write their own guides.

Featuring a map of the greater area as well as smaller detail maps, a metro map and station index, a filing system for food, people, and places, 48 adhesive labels for personalizing, detachable sheets for quick messages, and tri-color ribbon bookmarks the City Notebook is a way to explore a place you're just getting to know or to catalog a place you already love. Our favorite feature is the stick-on translucent overlays which make it easy to trace your own path along the maps or to design a custon walking tour. Held secure by the standard elastic closure and sewn bindings, sturdy construction makes Moleskine notebooks steadfast travel companions—not to mention that the classic nondescript black cover doesn't scream "tourist."

Launching this October in London the City Notebooks will be available for Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Dublin, Lisbon, London, Madrid, Milan, Paris, Prague, Rome, and Vienna, with books for Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, Montreal, New York and San Francisco slated for 2007.

Blaine Fontana: Lineage Show

by Carol T Chung

Blaine Fontana (you may remember him from a Scion) will be having his very first solo exhibit on the east coast, opening this evening in the city of brotherly love—Philadelphia. As his largest installation show to date, it will feature original paintings, graphite drawings, two brand new limited edition lithograph prints as well as the first eight of his Nestkeeper figurines. So if you heading to Old City tonight for First Friday, stop by the Lineage Gallery to have a gander at his new body of work, although somewhat ostentatiously titled, The Manifest Soup Transcripts of Four Corners. He'll be at the opening reception from 7-10pm. Perhaps some kind brotherly Philly resident will be generous enough to bring him a bottle of Yuengling to congratulate and welcome him. The show will be up thru 8 October, but for those not able to make it to Philadelphia, check out his website for a list of where he'll be thru July 2007.

When and Where:
Lineage Gallery
21 N. 2nd Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106
1 September 2006, 6-10pm
show thru 8 October 2006