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Grady High fashion students holding ‘Feed the Models’ fund-raiser
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Beautiful but sometimes painfully thin fashion models have been in the news lately. Now Grady High School is doing something to help. The school’s fashion division, UrbanCouture, is holding a fund-raiser, “Feed the Models, Save the World,” at 7 p.m. March 22 in Grady’s courtyard on Charles Avenue in Midtown. The event is free, but the school will be selling T-shirts emblazoned with the catchy phrase for $25. Project E, a local T-shirt company, donated the tops, which come in assorted colors. And the graphics for the T-shirts were designed by Grady’s Print Studio department.
All shirt sales will benefit the Eating Disorders Information Network that is committed to awareness and prevention of eating disorders. Grady’s UrbanCouture founder and instructor Vincent Martinez said, “Our fashion division is about having people of all shapes and sizes dream and design, and we want to support efforts to promote positive self-images among our youth.” The evening includes music and food catered by Stone Soup. Information: 404-805-1442.
NOT QUITE KOSHER, BUT SEDER GOES MEXICAN
Folks with a hankering for Mexican food on Passover can enjoy a fairly peculiar hybrid at Rosa Mexicano restaurants here and in New York, Washington, D.C., and Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. On April 2-6, the restaurant chain, with a franchise in Atlantic Station, will serve a “Passover-inspired” menu complete with a south-of-the-border take on chopped liver and egg creams.
Rosa’s matzoh-ball soup, for example, is seasoned with roasted jalapeño; chopped liver comes with chipotles. The food, by the way, is not kosher for Passover, which might preclude your Orthodox caballeros from participating, but Reformed gente (and gentiles) with a yen for a Southwestern Seder should feel right at home.
“People love the idea that they don’t have to eat the same brisket,” said partner Howard Greenstone. The chefs avoided shellfish and didn’t mix dairy with meat, as Leviticus requires, but didn’t go all the way, which would have required not just separate dishes but practically a separate kitchen.
“We won’t wrap the chicken in bacon,” said Greenstone, himself a member of the tribe. There is a significant Jewish population in Mexico, dating to before the Spanish Inquisition, and the two cuisines have a lot in common, he said. “Believe it or not, this is one of the more natural things for us to do.”
CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS
Phil Lesh, bassist with the Dead, is 67. Musician Sly Stone is 63. Actress Eva Longoria (“Desperate Housewives”) is 32. Actress Caitlin Wachs (“Commander in Chief,” “Profiler”) is 18.
QUOTABLE
In the course of chatting with R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck during the run-up to his band’s election to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Buzz overheard some music in the background. As Sleater-Kinney segued into the Searchers, Buck explained his music-listening philosophy: “I’ve got kind of a three-tiered system. I’ve got three iPods with different stuff on them, like 55,000 songs. And one’s in the car. And one’s here in the house. And then one I take when I go for walks. And that’s the one that has all the current stuff. Like, I’ll listen to the album in order, then I’ll put it on shuffle, then I’ll listen to the album again. I’ve pretty much got music going all the time unless I’m reading something really serious or playing guitar.”
From Colorado state Sen. Bob Hagedorn, a Democrat from Denver, explaining to The New York Times his resolution to make John Denver’s “Rocky Mountain High” the official state song of Colorado: “If I thought there was anything in that song about the use of drugs or encouraging the use of drugs, I would never have run the resolution. A high is medically the releasing of endorphins in the brain — yes, drugs cause it, but so do lots of other things.”
TOP EARNERS
Billboard magazine recently announced its charting musicians who made the most money in 2006. The top five:
1. Rolling Stones: $234,064,920
2. Madonna: $175,143,644
3. Bon Jovi: $103,246,971
4. Tim McGraw: $102,622,682
5. U2: $94,507,679
OVERSCENE
After his fabulous fund-raiser at the Georgia Aquarium, Dallas Austin could be found soaking up the night life at Trois with ‘N Sync alum J.C. Chasez and actor Orlando Jones.
ON SALE
Parrothead advisory
Visibility will be limited, and a cloud cover will dim most rational activity when Jimmy Buffett returns to Philips Arena on April 25 for his “Bama Breeze 2007” tour. The man with the No. 1 debut album on the country charts, “Take the Weather With You,” will offer tickets for sale beginning at 10 a.m. Monday. Sorry, only six per customer.
Contributing: Marylin Johnson, Nick Marino and news services
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