Filed under: Featured, buildings and construction, campaigns, cars-houses, honors — Michael d'Estries @ 9:53 am
September 25th 2009
Sporting a longer than usual goatee/beard, Brad Pitt took to the podium at the fifth annual Clinton Global Initiative to give an update on his Make It Right foundation’s progress in New Orleans. “I don’t know how we build any other way anywhere else,” Pitt said, addressing the audience in New York. “We can no [...]
Filed under: events — Michael Parrish DuDell @ 12:55 pm
July 15th 2009
Russell Simmons’ extraordinary Art For Life Garden Benefit Party is just around the corner, and to celebrate 10 glorious years of philanthropy, the man with the plan is holding a mega luxurious online auction with some killer prizes.
The benefit party is one of the most anticipated events of the year and helps raise money for Simmons’ [...]
Filed under: donations — Michael d'Estries @ 10:19 am
May 22nd 2009
Twilight star Robert Pattinson was definitely a good sport last night when he put himself up on the auction block to help raise money for the amfAR Cinema Against AIDS fund. The actor was in Cannes for the annual film festival, and clearly showed embarrassement over having to endure a rising bidding war for a [...]
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Tagged: bill clinton, diane kruger, josh hartnett, robert pattinson
Filed under: buildings and construction, green and famous — Michael Parrish DuDell @ 11:13 am
December 17th 2008
This morning — after reading on CNN that between 1.5 trillion and 2 trillion tons of ice in Greenland, Antarctica and Alaska have melted at an accelerating rate since 2003 — I decided to move to Mars.
Because I couldn’t find any reasonable non-stop flights (damn gas prices), I was delighted to hear that both Bill [...]
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Tagged: bill clinton, t.boone pickens
Filed under: campaigns, events: la, green and famous, honors — Michael d'Estries @ 10:32 am
October 20th 2008
The 2008 Oceana Partners Award Gala was held in Los Angeles Saturday evening in honor of former President Bill Clinton, Sting, and his wife Trudi Styler. On hand to celebrate were a number of famous faces such as Ted Danson & Mary Steenburgen, Barbara Streisand and James Brolin, Dustin Hoffman, Pierce Brosnan and Keely Shaye [...]
Filed under: campaigns, events: la, green and famous, thegreenpicture — Michael d'Estries @ 9:40 am
October 20th 2008
Adrian Grenier and Trudi Styler pose together for a moment during Oceana’s 2008 Partners Award Gala. The event, which honored former President Bill Clinton — as well as Sting and Trudi — took place this past Saturday. We’ve got a bevy of photos and additional info coming momentarily, but I thought this photo would make [...]
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Tagged: adrian grenier, bill clinton, sting, trudi styler
Filed under: campaigns, donations, events — Michael Parrish DuDell @ 4:17 pm
June 27th 2008
Grab that tiara and white tie — IT’S PARTY TIME! Yesterday evening Elton John and his partner David Furnish held their 10th annual White Tie and Tiara Ball to raise money for the (aptly named) Elton John’s AIDS Foundation, which has recently been given its third consecutive 4-star rating from Charity Navigator, America’s premier charity evaluator.
About 630 [...]
Filed under: buildings and construction, campaigns, cars-houses — Michael d'Estries @ 6:01 pm
March 16th 2008
Those little pink houses were only the beginning. Today, Bill Clinton joined Brad Pitt — along with 600 students from around the world — to formally break ground on Pitt’s Make it Right project. 150 sustainable and affordable green homes will be built in New Orleans devestated Lower 9th Ward as a result of donations [...]
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Tagged: bill clinton, brad pitt
Filed under: politics — paige @ 9:49 am
December 10th 2007
As Oprahpalooza kicked off in Iowa, South Carolina and New Hampshire over the weekend, it is clear that when it comes to celebrity endorsements, Obama is the man. A flood of support continues to pour in from a range of celebrities including George Clooney, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Stephen Colbert, Rev. Jesse Jackson, and [...]
Filed under: business, green and famous, products — Michael Parrish DuDell @ 11:15 am
November 29th 2007
Do you loathe Wal-Mart as much as I do? Because I’m not going to lie to you here, I am an avid Wal-Mart hater! Maybe it’s the smell of pale, salty corndogs covered in high-fructose corn syrup infused dollar store condiments bouncing off the windowless industrial walls that turns me off. Or am I simply [...]
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Tagged: barbara steissand, bill clinton, bill gates, melinda gates, tony blair
