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Very special T-shirt a tribute to Skip Caray
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The Atlanta boys behind the Esperanza Clothing Co. have come up with a way to pay tribute to beloved Braves announcer Skip Caray while raising funds for one of the late Atlanta icon’s favorite charities.
This week, Esperanza is offering 100 limited-edition, individually numbered, custom-made “Remember Skip” T-shirts, complete with a microphone-and-baseball-bat emblazoned logo.
“Baseball lost a broadcasting legend this summer with Skip Caray’s passing,” explains Esperanza’s Bart Sasso. “Being the Braves fans we are here, we felt it only right to create a shirt in his memory.”
Twenty percent of the proceeds from the sales of each shirt will be donated to Camp Twin Lakes, one of Caray’s favorite local charities. The shirts are $30 and can be ordered from esperanza-atl.com.
We’re told that given the limited run of the commemorative shirt, each T will be made to order, according to each customer’s requested size specifics.
LOCALS LAND ON ‘TOP DESIGN’
NOVEMBERAtlanta’s population of reality show contestants will grow by two Wednesday thanks to a double dose of local love on Bravo’s new season of “Top Design.”
Kerry Howard, who owns Howard House Interiors (www.howardhouseinc.
NOVEMBERcom), and Natalie Williams, the youngest contestant this season, both are vying for $100,000 and mucho publicity.
Judge India Hicks, a fashion model and designer, told Buzz she loved Howard’s sense of humor as well as his nickname “Big Daddy.”
“He asked me to call him George Clooney,” she said. “He’s a true gent.”
Williams, said designer and show mentor Todd Oldham, “was referred to as the party gal. She has a lot of youthful energy.”
Howard himself describes his style as “very eclectic. I like to mix old and new pieces, antiques and contemporary. I prefer clean lines, not a lot of frou frou.”
Williams, a SCAD graduate who had been working at Yessicks Design Center in Alpharetta, said the show producers found her and she has no clue how.
“Being 24, I’m still a baby,” she told Buzz. “The show was nothing I expected. In the real world, we have our own contractors and seamstresses. Here, you have to do stuff on your own.”
Season 2 of “Top Design” starts Wednesday at 10 p.m. after “Project Runway.”
TRISHA YEARWOOD’S UNEXPECTED LANDING
Monticello native Trisha Yearwood had a harrowing experience on a recent flight to Oklahoma when her plane was forced to make an emergency landing in Baltimore.
The country singer was shaken but undeterred; she caught another flight home a few hours later.
“I’m pretty spiritual about it,” she explains. “I turn it over to God and think, ‘There’s nothing I can do about it.’ “
Yearwood, her sister and some friends were returning Aug. 18 from a three-day walk in Boston to benefit the Susan G. Komen for the Cure breast cancer research fund when they heard a loud pop.
Yearwood, 43, said the front left window of the plane had cracked.
“By the time we got on the ground, the crack on the front of the plane’s window was huge, and getting bigger by the second,” she said.
When they reached the ground, she recalled, “It was like in the movies when they land and you see all the firetrucks and emergency crews. That’s a real experience.”
CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS
Actor Meinhardt Raabe (Munchkin coroner in “The Wizard of Oz”) is 93. Jazz pianist Horace Silver is 80. Sportscaster Terry Bradshaw is 60. Actor Mark Harmon is 57. Actor Keanu Reeves is 44. Actress Salma Hayek is 42. Drummer Spencer Smith of Panic at the Disco is 21.
OVERSCENE
Former Buckhead boy John Mayer surprising his old pal, performer David Ryan Harris, during his set at Loft in Midtown. Later, the singer-songwriter was spotted at the Cheetah strip club in Midtown and at Tongue & Groove in Buckhead. Mayer was in town for a weekend gig at Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre in Alpharetta.
Contributing: Rodney Ho and news services
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