by | June 30, 2010 · 9:45 pm

One For All the Moonlight Ladies

What’s cooler than seeing an American icon up close? Two icons up close. And if any of you out there have seen Carole King and James Taylor’s Troubadour Reunion Tour, you know what I’m talking about.

On June 20, my mom, treating herself to a birthday present, treated me to the best concert ever. I laughed, I cried. I looked back on childhood memories of my mom listening to Carole King while she cleaned the house on a cool summer day. Music blaring. Windows up. The vacuum going, and the entire neighborhood listening to my mom and Carole. That’s icon status.

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by | June 29, 2010 · 8:52 pm

The Grey-test News Ever

Little Edie Beale, the younger half of the dynamic stars of the documentary “Grey Gardens” and the HBO movie by the same name, will soon be an author. If only the New York icon was still around to garner all this acclaim.

According to Stylelist.com, Edie’s diary will soon be published as a hardcover book, marking her 11th year, and the year right before the Great Depression, 1929. Though only a child at the time the diary was written, the book promises to show a glimpse of the eccentricity that Little Edie and her mother, Edith Bouvier Beale, would later showcase on film.

I Only Mark the Hours that Shine will be available Aug. 1. So get your headscarves ready.

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by | June 29, 2010 · 12:34 pm

Apparently Ozeki Kotomitsuki is Japanese for Pete Rose

The governing board of sumo wrestling in Japan is currently grappling with a scandal tantamount to the hit-leader’s back in the 80s. With scary similarities.

According to CNN (and just about every sports news outlet around), the Japan Sumo Association is investigating claims that Kotomitsuki and his “stable master” (which I can only assume is like the guy in the corner of the boxing ring that stitches up people and pours water on their face) be fired from the association amid claims that the pair and 15 other wrestlers have been illegally gambling on…wait for it…baseball.

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