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April 22nd 2008

Green Apple Earth Day Festival Entertains Across The U.S

Filed under: events, green and famous, music, thegreenpicture — parrish @ 3:42 pm

This weekend the stars came out to help rock the Green Apple Earth Day Festival in cities all across America. The festival held 8 concerts from California to New York with the goal of putting pressure on congress to take action on global warming.

In Santa Monica Amy Smart, Juliette Lewis and Edward Norton took part. In New York bands like The Bacon Brothers and Ricky Saggs and Kentucky Thunder put on the show. Miami was entertained by Menudo, in Dallas Martin Sexton kept it real and Jordin Sparks sang her face off in Washington D.C

The weekend was a success and billed as “America’s largest Earth Day celebration” with 500,000 people expected to have attended. Were you at the show? If so, tell Ecorazzi how awesome it was (or how un-awesome it was). We want to hear from you!!!!

March 26th 2008

Faith Hill and Collin Raye Perform At Muhammad Ali’s Celebrity Fight Night XIV

Filed under: donations, events, green and famous, music — parrish @ 9:54 am

I won’t lie — I am a die-hard country music fan. True, sometimes it’s hard for the vegan in me to justify Tim Mcgraw’s “barbecue stain on his white t-shirt”, but I just assume he and his buddies were simply enjoying a little Sunday afternoon barbecue tempeh. No?

Meat grilling aside, it’s always exciting for me to see some of my favorite country music bumpkins twanging away for the sake of charity. It’s recently been confirmed that Faith Hill and Collin Raye will be among the many celebrity performers at Muhammad Ali’s Celebrity Fight Night XIV, April 4th & 5th, at the J.W. Marriott Desert Resort in Phoenix, AZ.

Celebrity Fight Night is a highly regarded, nationally recognized charity event where celebrities and athletes come together to participate in live musical performances by some of today’s hottest stars. The money raised at the event will benefit the Muhammad Ali Parkinson Center at Barrow Neurological Institute, as well as many other noble charities.

Other performers include John Mellencamp, Dionne Wrwick, Jordin Sparks, Fantasia, and Sinbad. (I frigin love Sinbad. Where did he go?) The event will also honor Kevin Costner, Clive Davis, Reba McEntire,and LaDainian Tomlinson.

Got about two grand to spare? Well then get your non-leather boots, hemp cowboy hat, and electric pick up truck and four wheel it on down to Celebrity Fight Night and tell us how it was!

December 31st 2007

New York City Will Have Green Balls This New Year’s Eve

Filed under: buildings and construction, events, events: nyc, music, thegreenpicture — parrish @ 1:09 pm

Come on, you have to admit that is a brilliant title!  Tonight, my current stomping ground, New York City, is celebrating one of it’s most famous Times Square traditions-the New Year’s Eve ball drop.  This year however, NYC will also be starting a new tradition.  The famous ball is officially going green, baby!!

The 1,415-pound ball will be covered in more than 9,500 energy-efficient light-emitting diodes that will illuminate the ball’s over 600 crystals and set the sky a blazin’.  Officials (whatever that means) say that the LEDs are estimated to use the same amount of electricity as about 10 toasters, which is like the craziest, most super cool thing I’ve ever heard.

As always, my precious little city will rock New Years eve celebrity style with musical performances by Hannah Montana, The Jonas Brothers, Kid Rock, Lenny Kravitz, Lifehouse, The Bravery, and alums from Fox TV’s American Idol, Carrie Underwood, Jordin Sparks and Blake Lewis. 

So take that N train downtown and come celebrate the end of 2007 with the lot of us. Did I mention Hannah Montana will be there?