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Celebrity Spottings & Appearances
ON THE TOWN with Linda Matlow
by Linda Matlow
BONO LAUNCHES EDUN...U2’s Bono with wife Ali Hewson and designer Rogan Gregory launched their New Conscious Commerce Clothing Line EDUN at Saks Fifth Avenue Men’s store on Michigan Avenue. The event was beautifully catered by Billy Dec’s Rockit Ranch.The story of EDUN began in Spring, 2005. EDUN was born as an alternative approach to catering beautiful clothes in a respectful manner.The model is a marriage of social activism and aesthetic innovation. EDUN’s goal is to build a business while creating sustainable employment in developing areas of the world, such as South America and Africa. In order to achieve the brand’s design and social goals, the team sought out factories that represent “the gold standard” in skill and labor practices. These long-term relationships provided the foundation by which to build the brand and grow the communities in which EDUN works.EDUN is committed to the lives of the people who help to make the brand’s vision a reality. Inscribed in every pair of EDUN’s jeans is the statement – “We carry the story of people who make our clothes around with us.”EDUN wants to keep that story positive by refuting the notion that marginalization and the “race to the bottom” are the necessary costs of doing business. EDUN is available at Saks Fifth Avenue and saks.comHERBIE Cruises WrigleyvilleHerbie The Love Bug catches the Cubs/White Sox face-off at historic Wrigley Field! The latest installment of the classic Disney film franchise – Herbie: Fully Loaded – opens June 22 and stars Lindsey Lohan.ARE YOU AFRAID OF CHARLES?Legendary ball player, Charles Barkley was in town to sign copies of his new book, Who's Afraid of a Large Black Man?, at Border’s Michigan Avenue store.HOW TO LOSE YOUR A$$Actress Kirstie Alley, currently starring in the hit reality series, Fat Actress, was in town last month for an in-store appearance / signing to promote her book, How To Lose Your A$$ and Regain Your Life: Reluctant Confessions of a Big-Butted Star, at Border’s on Michigan Avenue.SAUTEED PAGES...YUMMY!Food Network star Tyler Florence signed Eat This Book, his new cookbook that truly speaks to the way we eat today. The event was at Border’s on State Street.SLY LIKES LONG TITLES...Actor Sylvester Stallone did an in-store signing at Border’s on Michigan Ave. for his new book: Sly Moves: My Proven Program to Lose Weight, Build Strength, Gain Will Power, and Live Your Dream.CACTUS FLOWER GROWS WITH LOTUSActress Goldie Hawn spotted at Border’s on Michigan Avenue, signing copies of her new book, The Lotus Grows In the Mud. An inspiring and unconventional memoir from one of the world’s most beloved actresses.SPENDING LIFE WITH THE DEAD...Grateful Dead co-founder Phil Lesh signed copies of his memoir: Searching for the Sound: My Life With the Grateful Dead.The bass player for the greatest improvisational band in American history tells the full, true story of his life, Jerry Garcia, and the Dead. Phil Lesh first met Jerry Garcia in 1959 in the clubs of East Palo Alto, California. At Garcia’s suggestion, Lesh learned to play the electric bass, joining him in a new band that blended R&B, country, and rock ‘n’ roll with an experimental fervor never before heard.Now, in time for the Grateful Dead’s 40th anniversary, Phil Lesh offers the first behind-the-scenes history of the Dead––a story no one will ever know as he does. From their first gigs to the legendary Acid Tests, in San Francisco’s Summer of Love, at Woodstock, Monterey, Altamont, and the Pyramids, the Dead have been in the center of rock’s defining moments. Phil Lesh tells what it has been like to live at the heart of this whirlwind, making uncompromisingly original music with bandmates Bob Weir, Bill Kreutzmann, Pigpen, Mickey Hart, and especially Jerry Garcia, the charismatic, enigmatic soul of the band.He tells the stories behind songs like “Dark Star,” “Friend of the Devil,” “Truckin’,” and his legendary composition “Box of Rain.” And in intimate detail, Lesh describes what it was like to storm heaven night after night--and the price he and others have paid, up to and following Jerry Garcia’s tragic death in 1995.Searching For The Sound… is a ruthlessly honest look inside one of the greatest American bands, written with humor, intelligence, and a deep affection that only Phil Lesh himself could provide. |
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