Self Magazine: Breast Cancer Awareness

SpinShoppe continued its national wing spreading by working NYC this week in advance of October - Breast Cancer Awareness month. SSPR brought the sizzle to the “Self Magazine: Spotlight on Breast Cancer Awareness” benefit concert hosted by Gabrielle Union and Michelle Branch at Crobar in NYC on Wedensday night, September 27

Feeling a little breast envy as the tag along boyfriend and only breastless one in the team of: Melissa, Elissa Kravetz, Eileen Colavita (Philadelphia H.S. ’92, USC ’96, CAA ’97, Rogers & Cowan ’01, SSPR ‘current), Employee of the Month Andrea O., and Jessica Kravetz (Framingham High ’00, Indiana ’04, SSPR ’06) – I assumed the officially appropriate title as the "breast man".

Michelle Branch owned the concert portion of the event. She recently adopted a heretofore unknown girl to partner with her on a new country sound and album. The Wreckers performed inside, and outside on the red carpet we played an unsuccessful trivia game of “What other big star musicians have partnered with a total unknown, not just to make a one-off hit single, but to make a whole album ....and tour on it?” It proved to be a tough category. Had it been a drinking game, I likely would have been stumbling and groping people.

The overwhelmingly female and positive turnout, - over 500 people at $75 a ticket – got treated to fine celebrity company, but none more special than Joey Cioffi (Dayton High ’95, Monmouth ’99, Cioffi’s Pizza ‘life, Papa John’s National TV Commercial ‘fall 2006). Joey broke his red carpet cherry. Metaphorically, he ran back the opening kickoff and “scored a touchdown with this one” as an instant paparazzi darling. (Wait until they get ahold of the scandal of the famous Jersey pizza eatery's owner doing commercials for Papa John's. Get used to the flashbulbs.)

Also on the XY chromosome side of the DNA, Ted Roosevelt (Deerfield ’94, Princeton ’98, Lehman ‘current) popped in. Ted raised both his breast cancer awareness and a Heineken, without rubbing in the recent Amazing Race humiliation one bit.

Uptown from this pseudo “theatre”, in the legit theatre of Broadway – a V-VIP
made this her after own party, thankfully bringing along and introducing her cast mate and star of “Hairspray” to other suffererers of MTV’s “Two-A-Days” Addiction , Shannon During.

Jess Keyes (Hollywood, FL H.S. ’95, Maryland ’99, Private Jewish Upper East Side Nursery School ’06) gets bonus points for paying attention to breaking fashion trends and showing up in uniform. (picture of jumper at left)

Susie Castillo (Ipswich H.S., Miss USA ’03, MTV VJ ‘current), whom I auditioned over the phone several times for "Miss USA Fear Factor" years ago before all the remarkable credits listed above, confirmed that not booking that show hasn’t really hurt her career at all. I agree.

Companies losing money on Thursday morning due to employee barfing: NY Law Firm X (Lisa Sidman-Sanchez), Saks 5th Ave. (Aly Scherling), Nickelodeon (Jamie Moskowitz), Universal Consulting (Jeff Frumin), Marnie Luciani's store.




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Aly Scherling Loaned to NY Times

Clearly because of equal repute, NY Times has been repeatedly name-checked on TheCHIMP.net over the past few months...

Now there is actually a good reason, with the appearance of CHIMP.net item fixture, NY fashion plate, and blog consumeraholic Aly Scherling Organek (Scarsdale High '97, Michigan '01, Saks Buyer 'current) hitting the NY Times style section Sunday, September 24.

Aly was also spotted with husband Jacob at Blue Smoke on 27th St. last night eating warm BBQ potato chips and drinking Abita Amber during the Patriots loss to Denver. Fashionable.


Previously:
Wedding of Aly Scherling and Jacob Organek(TheCHIMP.net)
Deerfield Has Esteemed Graduates (NY Times)
Candy Glazer saves me the NY Times Society Pages (NY Times /TheCHIMP.net)

And here is the rest of it.

The Amazing (Disg)Race

Each television season, a group of intrepid Deerfield adventure fans join together for a small stakes fantasy reality pool – drafting teams in pairs and supporting them on their race around the world. Reflecting the diversity of the cast, we have a geographically diverse field of contestants for this fall’s edition:



LT and Lela – Married with 3 daughters (2 pictured) from Hickory, North Carolina
Ted and Serena – freshman participants - professional singles from Manhattan
Greg and Andrea – newlywed lawyers from Austin, Texas
Chris and Tania – cultured MBA educated parents from San Francisco
Mikey and Melissa – LA Faker Douchebags

Well, the last description hasn’t been “network approved” per se, but considering the hasty dispatch of the duo, it does seem appropriate. As LT called it, “Team Hollywood” got expelled curtly. One of only 2 people that luckily got 3 teams instead of two, all 3 teams got eliminated in the first 2 episodes ... a near statistical impossibility.

While The Amazing Race has won the reality Emmy every single year since its introduction, maybe one day when accepting a reality casting emmy, I will point this out in the way high school coaches share this cliché.

Feedback UPDATE:
"This is akin to LT getting beat at a lawnmower riding competition." - Greg Lowry