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500 tunes over 10 days means help for kids
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Josh Rifkind, manager for local band the Whigs, thinks big.
He has produced the annual Open Mic Madness competition featuring upward of 400 musicians. And now Rifkind wants to gather 500 musicians May 3-12 at Smith’s Olde Bar to each sing a song from Rolling Stone magazine’s top 500 greatest tunes of all time. The money raised will help musicians entertain sick kids at special summer camps in Georgia.
“I’m insane,” Rifkind admitted to Buzz this week. “It’s a logistical monster.” But he said the eclectic list, which features songs from Elvis Presley to Nirvana to Run DMC, “felt like something we could rally people around.” He hopes to get big Georgia musicians involved, especially those who have songs on the list, such as R.E.M. and OutKast. Already, Rifkind and his charity foundation have assigned about 200 selections to local acts including Aslyn, Dead Confederates and Second Shift. More information can be found at www.500songsforkids.org.
Ice cream politics
Everyone knows those Communist sympathizers at Ben & Jerry’s discriminate in favor of leftist flavors, what with their cool desserts named after Jerry Garcia and Wavy Gravy. Now they’ve decided to allow a new voice at the dinner table by naming a new flavor for comedian Stephen Colbert.
“I’m not afraid to say it. Dessert has a well-known liberal agenda,” Colbert said in a statement. “What I hope to do with this ice cream is bring some balance back to the freezer case.”
Stephen Colbert’s Americone Dream is composed of vanilla ice cream with fudge-covered waffle cone pieces and caramel. Ben & Jerry’s describes it as “the sweet taste of liberty in your mouth.” Colbert is donating his proceeds to charity through the new Stephen Colbert Americone Dream Fund.
Love blooms
Love was in the air Wednesday night, and Atlanta restaurants and nightspots were clotted with duos holding hands and pledging troths. The Valentine’s in the Garden event at the Atlanta Botanical Garden drew 500 romancers to the steamy orchid center, where at least five eager fellows had informed garden personnel they planned to pop the question.
Spokeswoman Geri Laufer said the Bulbophyllum orchids, which permeate their surroundings with the smell of rotting meat, had blessedly ceased blooming, and only the more pleasing scents of cinnamon, vanilla and other orchid aromas filled the air.
At Medieval Times, Patrick Donovan of Sandy Springs surprised his sweetie, Rhonda Barnes, with a proposal during the knighting ceremony. He had some help from radio station Q-100, which hosted the “dream proposal” contest, and from Q-100 personality Dylan Sprague, who conspired to lure Barnes to the event with a fabricated free “evening at the castle.”
After Donovan proposed in front of a lustily cheering crowd, Barnes smiled through her tears, said yes, then asked when she was going to get to meet Sprague.
Malibu beach access settled
The commission that regulates California’s coast settled a decades-long dispute with David Geffen over public access to the beach in front of his Malibu estate.
The California Coastal Commission agreed Wednesday to forgive Geffen, 63, for building a deck that intruded into a public easement. In exchange, Geffen agreed to open a stretch of beach in front of his home that had been closed to the public.
Commissioners allowed the entertainment mogul to keep a wooden stairway to the beach. They also gave him a privacy buffer so the public cannot legally intrude on his property.
The decision comes 24 years after Geffen first promised a public walkway to Malibu’s Carbon Beach.
In addition to the new access point, the DreamWorks co-founder agreed to pay $125,000 to a special state public beach access fund to help build a metal ramp so the public can get from the pathway to the sand.
Public access to the state’s shoreline is a major issue for the Coastal Commission, which was meeting this week in San Diego.
Television
An end to California scheming
“The O.C.” will breathe its last next week. Among producers’ favorite “O.C.” lines:
“I love shopping, tanning and celebrity gossip. Always have, always will.” — Summer, getting to the heart of the true Summer
“Well, you know, since my grades went from Bs to As, I was actually wondering if you could change my As to Bs.” — Kaitlin, totally messing with Dr. Roberts about wanting breast augmentation
“Men to me are what chardonnay is to you. One sip and I’m upside down on a chandelier.” — Julie, explaining to Kirsten why she’s swearing off men. And reminding Kirsten that she’s a boozehound.
Celebrity birthdays
Actor William Katt (“Carrie”) is 56. Actor Levar Burton (“Star Trek: The Next Generation”) is 49. Rapper-actor Ice-T (“Law &Order: SVU”) is 48. Tennis legend John McEnroe is 47.
Contributing: Rodney Ho and news services
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