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Vol. 3, Issue 29 |
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 Simply the case. The now-ledgendary iPod has lived in socks, cowhide, and even illegally squatted in a gutted Walkman, but the tech-world's darling Apple iPhone has yet to be suited and booted for the style set. Until now. This week Louis Vuitton began selling four luxe offerings (above, left), ranging from their simple signature print ($225) to a wilder alligator hide ($1,120). The cases are available now at the company's Fifth Avenue flagship, and will soon be available in Vuitton stores across the country. Go to www.louisvuitton.com.  For the more practically inclined, or for the frequent flyer, check out Belkin's Acyrlic Case ($30, right), the first we've seen to offer a prop-stand: perfect for watching your stored movies and TV shows when rested on an inflight seat-back tray. Any solution that leaves your hands free for the First Class cocktails works for us. Go to www.belkin.com or order online at Amazon. |
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 IT'S A KIND OF MAGIC. Mercer Street, CITY Magazine's little corner of New York City, is no stranger to suspicious gatherings and unexplainable events, but this Friday it's getting a magical makeover. Mercer will transform this Friday, July 20, into Harry Potter Place, a "Magical Outdoor Celebration" organized by publisher Scholastic to allow children—and adults—to stay past midnight and be among the first to purchase the final installment of J.K. Rowling's bestselling series. If you can't make it, head to your local bookstore for its Potter party, and check www.city-magazine.com for our Potter Place photographs. Pre-order Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows for 40% off the cover price at Amazon. Go to www.amazon.com/harrypotter |
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| BECAUSE THEY CAN'T, WON'T, DON'T STOP. The Beastie Boys are set to embark upon a late-summer tour of the U.S. to support the release of their recent instrumental offering, The Mix-Up. Always trying something different, the Boys are playing "Gala Events" across the country, promising "quality time, our time, just you and the band sitting by a fire on a tropical beach late at night being serenaded with love songs." The band has asked fans to "dress to impress," and while it's selling out fast, pull some strings for tickets to L.A.'s Greek Theater, August 25, for what will be a very special evening. Go to www.beastieboys.com/tour [Photography by Vanya Edwards] |
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 WHAT'S SO FUNNY? Broadcast television networks tell us "funny" is safe,
cable says it's raunchy, and YouTube says "anything where my (cousin, brother,
uncle) is kicked in the unmentionables." There's gotta be something
better—something not too polished, but not reeking of
this-is-my-mom’s-digital-recorder either. Some former NBC writers and
producers thought so too. So with an undisclosed sum garnered
from a bet on black 20 at a Taj Mahal Casino roulette table, and a shabby
chic (er, shabby) Brooklyn office straight above a subway, the group
created Black20, a broadband network that creates its own content. With
shows, news, and virals (all under 3 minutes, give or take a second),
Black20 is not afraid to be, well, funny. One of their virals, "The Easter
Bunny Hates You," won a Webby in 2006. Black20’s new season begins July
30. Go to www.black20.com |
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 What's your favorite restaurant in your home city? Not the fanciest or the most expensive or the hardest to get a reservation at, but simply your favorite? What's the spot where you're guaranteed a great meal on every visit? That's the question CITY asked in compiling our list of 101 favorite restaurants across the country, as featured in our new Summer Food & Entertaining Issue, on newsstands this week. From Boston to Boulder, New York to New Orleans, we hit 55 different American cities and just about every cuisine on the menu. Check out the full list in the new issue or online and tell us about your favorite restaurants at www.city-magazine.com/restaurants
The new issue also features an in-depth look at what may be one of the most serious threats to our food chain: the decline of our honeybee population. As scientists race all summer to discover the culprit for this phenomenon, CITY asks if one of the alternatives — the outsourcing of America's farms and agriculture — is an option we really want to choose. We also turn to one of the country's top sommeliers to find out how to avoid buying counterfeit wine, and we ask a celebrated chef to give us a guide to navigating your local green market. And for all you baseball fans bemoaning Barry Bonds' imminent breaking of Hank Aaron's home run record, sportswriter Jeff Pearlman takes a seat in the stands and puts America's pastime into perspective. |
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 Due to overwhelming demand, the deadline for submissions for our ONE CITY, MANY DESTINATIONS™ travel photography competition has been extended until 11:59 p.m. EST on JULY 31, 2007! The ONE CITY, MANY DESTINATIONS™ competition boasts the ultimate grand prize: CITY Magazine's cover shot. Amateur and professional photographers from around the  world are invited to submit images for juried competition and a chance at landing on the cover of CITY's Fall '07 Travel issue, on sale September 25, 2007. Photographers are asked to submit images that best capture the essence of a city or other travel destination. The grand-prize winner will also receive a LEICA M8 professional camera with a Leica Elmarit 28mm f2.8 lens; a 4-day, 3-night stay at any W Hotel in the continental U.S. or Canada, including round-trip airline tickets for two; and a $500 gift certificate to Calumet Photographic. The 15 runners-up will also win a LEICA C-LUX 2 compact camera. The work of all 16 finalists, including the grand-prize winner, will appear in a special travel photography portfolio inside CITY's Fall '07 Travel issue. To find out more, and to enter, go to www.city-magazine.com/photocontest |
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Longtime CITY contributor Greg Lindsay is spending the new few months on the road reporting for his forthcoming book, Aerotropolis (John D. Kasarda and Greg Lindsay; Farrar, Straus and Giroux). In his new exclusive CITY Magazine blog, IN TRANSIT, he's filing dispatches along the way, covering the best hotels, restaurants, gear, and airlines the world's "airport cities" have to offer.
Check out his latest entries at www.city-magazine.com/intransit |
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July 2007
Vol. 3, Issue 29
Simply the case. The now-ledgendary iPod has lived in socks, cowhide, and even illegally squatted in a gutted Walkman, but the tech-world's darling Apple iPhone has yet to be suited and booted for the style set. Until now. This week Louis Vuitton began selling four luxe offerings (above, left), ranging from their simple signature print ($225) to a wilder alligator hide ($1,120). The cases are available now at the company's Fifth Avenue flagship, and will soon be available in Vuitton stores across the country. Go to www.louisvuitton.com.
For the more practically inclined, or for the frequent flyer, check out Belkin's Acyrlic Case ($30, right), the first we've seen to offer a prop-stand: perfect for watching your stored movies and TV shows when rested on an inflight seat-back tray. Any solution that leaves your hands free for the First Class cocktails works for us. Go to www.belkin.com or order online at Amazon.
IT'S A KIND OF MAGIC. Mercer Street, CITY Magazine's little corner of New York City, is no stranger to suspicious gatherings and unexplainable events, but this Friday it's getting a magical makeover. Mercer will transform this Friday, July 20, into Harry Potter Place, a 'Magical Outdoor Celebration' organized by publisher Scholastic to allow children—and adults—to stay past midnight and be among the first to purchase the final installment of J.K. Rowling's bestselling series. If you can't make it, head to your local bookstore for its Potter party, and check www.city-magazine.com for our Potter Place photographs. Pre-order Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows for 40% off the cover price at Amazon. Go to www.amazon.com/harrypotter
BECAUSE THEY CAN'T, WON'T, DON'T STOP. The Beastie Boys are set to embark upon a late-summer tour of the U.S. to support the release of their recent instrumental offering, The Mix-Up. Always trying something different, the Boys are playing 'Gala Events' across the country, promising 'quality time, our time, just you and the band sitting by a fire on a tropical beach late at night being serenaded with love songs.' The band has asked fans to 'dress to impress,' and while it's selling out fast, pull some strings for tickets to L.A.'s Greek Theater, August 25, for what will be a very special evening. Go to www.beastieboys.com/tour [Photography by Vanya Edwards]
WHAT'S SO FUNNY? Broadcast television networks tell us 'funny' is safe, cable says it's raunchy, and YouTube says 'anything where my (cousin, brother, uncle) is kicked in the unmentionables.' There's gotta be something better—something not too polished, but not reeking of this-is-my-mom’s-digital-recorder either. Some former NBC writers and producers thought so too. So with an undisclosed sum garnered from a bet on black 20 at a Taj Mahal Casino roulette table, and a shabby chic (er, shabby) Brooklyn office straight above a subway, the group created Black20, a broadband network that creates its own content. With shows, news, and virals (all under 3 minutes, give or take a second), Black20 is not afraid to be, well, funny. One of their virals, 'The Easter Bunny Hates You,' won a Webby in 2006. Black20’s new season begins July 30. Go to www.black20.com
What's your favorite restaurant in your home city?
Not the fanciest or the most expensive or the hardest to get a reservation at, but simply your favorite? What's the spot where you're guaranteed a great meal on every visit? That's the question CITY asked in compiling our list of 101 favorite restaurants across the country, as featured in our new Summer Food & Entertaining Issue, on newsstands this week. From Boston to Boulder, New York to New Orleans, we hit 55 different American cities and just about every cuisine on the menu. Check out the full list in the new issue or online and tell us about your favorite restaurants at www.city-magazine.com/restaurants
The new issue also features an in-depth look at what may be one of the most serious threats to our food chain: the decline of our honeybee population. As scientists race all summer to discover the culprit for this phenomenon, CITY asks if one of the alternatives — the outsourcing of America's farms and agriculture — is an option we really want to choose. We also turn to one of the country's top sommeliers to find out how to avoid buying counterfeit wine, and we ask a celebrated chef to give us a guide to navigating your local green market. And for all you baseball fans bemoaning Barry Bonds' imminent breaking of Hank Aaron's home run record, sportswriter Jeff Pearlman takes a seat in the stands and puts America's pastime into perspective.
ONE CITY, MANY DESTINATIONS
Due to overwhelming demand, the deadline for submissions for our ONE CITY, MANY DESTINATIONS™ travel photography competition has been extended until 11:59 p.m. EST on JULY 31, 2007! The ONE CITY, MANY DESTINATIONS™ competition boasts the ultimate grand prize: CITY Magazine's cover shot. Amateur and professional photographers from around the world are invited to submit images for juried competition and a chance at landing on the cover of CITY's Fall '07 Travel issue, on sale September 25, 2007. Photographers are asked to submit images that best capture the essence of a city or other travel destination. The grand-prize winner will also receive a LEICA M8 professional camera with a Leica Elmarit 28mm f2.8 lens; a 4-day, 3-night stay at any W Hotel in the continental U.S. or Canada, including round-trip airline tickets for two; and a $500 gift certificate to Calumet Photographic. The 15 runners-up will also win a LEICA C-LUX 2 compact camera. The work of all 16 finalists, including the grand-prize winner, will appear in a special travel photography portfolio inside CITY's Fall '07 Travel issue. To find out more, and to enter, go to www.city-magazine.com/photocontest
IN TRANSIT
Longtime CITY contributor Greg Lindsay is spending the next six months on the road reporting for his forthcoming book, Aerotropolis (John D. Kasarda and Greg Lindsay; Farrar, Straus and Giroux). In his new exclusive CITY Magazine blog, IN TRANSIT, he's filing dispatches along the way, covering the best hotels, restaurants, gear, and airlines the world's 'airport cities' have to offer. Check out his latest entries at www.city-magazine.com/intransit](http://www.city-magazine.com/img_nav/1px_FFFFFF.gif){kind=small}
