Coney Island in Brooklyn is getting some airbrushing. Twenty-five artists are redesigning arcade signs, murals and the facades of some rides in the neighborhood.The Jones Arcade, dime toss and fortune-teller’s booth are among the 35 sites being spiffed up with pop art and other designs.wwd
A new W hotel has now opened in Mexico City www.whotels.com.
Browns Hotel in London is having a refurbishment by Style meister Olga Polizzi who also did the cool Hotel Tresanton in Cornwall.
Aussie restauranteur Will Ricker has opened another groovy place: ‘8 over 8’ in Kings Rd London.
Chloë Sevigny is about to shoot “Mrs. Harris,” a film about the former headmistress of a girls’ school, Jean Harris, who killed Scarsdale diet creator Dr. Herman Tarnower
Microsoft’s Paul Allen and his company, Vulcan Inc is financing the first privately owned spaceship. Called SpaceShipOne, the commercial craft is set to fly into space on June 21st.To reach space, a carrier aircraft, the White Knight, lifts SpaceShipOne from the runway. An hour later, after climbing to 50,000 feet altitude the White Knight releases the spaceship into a glide.
A New book prize,The Man Booker International Prize will be open to authors of all nationalities whose work has been either written or translated widely into English. The £60,000 prize will be awarded for a body of work every two years, with the first winner to be announced in 2005. smh
Katharine Hepburn’s wedding dress and other items from her estate will be auctioned at Sotheby’s.
The ashes of Helmut Newton, who died at 83 in an L.A. car crash in January, were buried in Berlin.
Former president Bill Clinton long-awaited 957-page memoir, My Life goes on sale June 22. Clinton’s publisher, Knopf, has said little about the book or its promotional campaign beyond the first TV interview on CBS’ 60 Minutes on June 20, a party for 1,000 at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art on June 21, and appearances on Oprah on June 22 and NBC’s Today and ABC’s Good Morning America on June 23.(nothing much). At Amazon.com advance orders are already are 6 times those for Hillary’s memoir. NYT
Princess Diana’s mother, Frances Shand Kydd, died on Thursday in a Scottish hospital She was devastated by the death of her stepson Adam Shand Kydd, who died of a suspected drug overdose.
Madonna is endorsing a line of Kabbalah fragrant candles based on the 72 different names of God that Kabbalah recognizes include Sexual Energy, Spiritual Cleansing, Evil Eye, and Power of Prosperity. (the dark ages)
The Doris Duke collection will be auctioned at Christie’s checkout all the magnifique jewels at http://christies.com/special_sites/duke_jun04/home.html
The Duke of Devonshire died last week.
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