Last week, Jay-Z announced that he’d be putting together a multi-day music festival in Philadelphia over Labor Day Weekend and today “Phase 1″ of the lineup has been unveiled. The artists announced are: Jay-Z, Pearl Jam, Skrillex, Miike Snow, Afrojack, Calvin Harris, Odd Future, D’Angelo, Maybach Music (feat. Rick Ross, Wale, Meek Mill), Passion Pit, Santigold, Dirty Projectors, X, Janelle Monae, Prince Royce, Rita Ora, Savoy (DJ set), The Knocks. The two-day event will cover three stages on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park on Saturday, September 1, and Sunday, September 2. Budweiser and Live Nation are producing the performances, and a portion of the revenues will go to the United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey.
Tickets for the event will go on sale on Wednesday, May 23rd, via Ticketmaster.com and Livenation.com. A limited number of 2-day tickets will be available for $99 (plus service charges). Tickets will be made available a day early on Tuesday, May 22 on Budweiser Facebook fan page.
Earlier this week, Hublot held an event at Miami’s Club 50 at the Viceroy Hotel, celebrating the official opening of the Hublot Bal Harbour Boutique opening. Dwayne Wade was on hand, sporting is own creation — the Hublot King Power “D-Wade”. Dwyane made his mark as a designer in creating his very own limited edition watch in collaboration with Hublot. “The elements reflect my personal style and love for basketball”, he said of the watch which features his jersey’s #3 and a bball net design on the strap.
Wade enjoyed the soiree with girlfriend Gabrielle Union and Hublot Managing Director Ricardo Guadalupe while guests danced to tunes spun by DJ Khaled. Proceeds from the Hublot King Power Dwyane Wade watch will go to support the Wade World Foundation in its efforts to promote education, health and social skills for children in at-risk situations.
The other night, we had the chance to stop in for Park & Bond’s Movember event at the Blind Barber here in NYC. For those not familiar, Movember is annual event that looks to change the face of men’s health. During November each year, Movember is responsible for the sprouting of moustaches on thousands of men’s faces, in the US and around the world. With their Mo’s, these men raise vital funds and awareness for men’s health, specifically prostate cancer and other cancers that affect men. Where do you come in? You support their efforts by donating and joining in on the movement as well. This way, the support grows as does the conversation around men’s health and specific cancers that affect us. A long list of gentlemen from Park & Bond’s team have joined Movember, and we were there on November 1st to witness a few guys known for their beards hop in the barber’s chair and wipe it all off.
To donate to Park & Bond’s team, head on over to mobro.co/parkandbond and get in on the conversation.
Boglioli teams up with Kolor for these jackets to help the victims of the 2011 Japanese earthquake. The two-piece capsule collection features garment dyed jackets, available in cashmere and high performance cotton, bridging fine Italian tailoring, innovative fabrics research and garment treatments Boglioli is known for with Kolor’s conceptual and deconstructed designs for the sophisticated, fashion-forward consumer.
Featuring a limited production of only 600 pieces worldwide, all proceeds from the sale of the two jackets will be donated to Save the Children Japan. Por Vocacao will be one of the few shops who will be carrying this when the pieces land in late October.
If you haven’t heard yet, Nike’s dropping the MAG sneaker, one you might remember from the 1989 Back to the Future II movie starring Michael J. Fox. Nike announced that 1500 pairs of this shoe will be auctioned on eBay, nikemag.eBay.com, with all net proceeds going directly to the Michael J. Fox Foundation. The auctions have begun and will end on September 18 with 150 pairs to be posted on eBay per day for 10 days.
We’d like to turn you all to a new premium eyewear brand coming out of California. Shauns Shades delivers top quality frames that are designed in Cali but hand made in Italy utilizing the finest materials in the process like Carl Zeiss lenses. They’re very wearable and are limited in branding as it only features a Braille “S” logo at the tip of the left temple in SHAUNS SHADES signature green.
Think about all those different ideas that run through your head when you’re lighting on up being a couch potato. Well, maybe this is the time to try to pitch some of those and see how they fair. In celebration of their 10th birthday, Google’s announced Project 10 the the 100th to put a grip on these different ideas and use them for a greater cause.
How it works: fill out a 20-step Submission Form that covers your contact info and what your idea is. Once that’s done with, you hit the Submit button $10 million in funding if you win.
Seem simple enough? Get your brains pumping, people. Check the video below.
Q: What is Project 10^100? A: Project 10^100 (pronounced “Project 10 to the 100th”) is a call for ideas to change the world, in the hope of helping as many people as possible.
Q: Why is Google doing this? A: The short answer is that we think helping people is a good thing, and empowering people to help others is an even better thing. Here’s the long answer.
Q: How many ideas are you funding? A: We have committed $10 million to fund up to five ideas selected by our advisory board.
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are donating $2 million to a clinic in Ethiopia, the birthplace of their 3-year old daughter, Zahara. The Global Health Committee will use the money to build a centre in the capital city of Addis Ababa to fight HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis.
The centre will be named Zahara. The World Health Organization estimates that the African nation has 1.7 million people infected with HIV and 6,000 people infected with drug-resistant tuberculosis. “It is our hope when Zahara is older she will take responsibility of the clinic and continue its mission,” Pitt, 44, said in a statement.
In Cambodia, where their oldest son Maddox was born, the couple’s opened the Maddox Chivan Children’s Centre, where the centre has provided medical treatment, education and social services to children affected by HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis since February of 2006.
“Our goal is to transfer the success we have had in Cambodia to Ethiopia, where people are needlessly dying of tuberculosis, a curable disease, and HIV/AIDS, a treatable disease,” Jolie, 33, said in a statement.
In response to the devastation Haiti has faced the past few weeks because of storms, Wyclef Jean has announced the Haiti Storm Relief Fund through his Yelé Haiti organization and in coordination with the Pan American Development Foundation and the World Food Program.
Yelé Haiti is hoping to “provide food, water and other essentials to those organizations that are helping to stabilize the lives of more than 600,000 people who were cut off from food supplies and displaced by the storms that have battered the country over the past few weeks,” according to a press release. The fund also will provide tents, blankets, medical supplies, hygiene kits and money to the non-profits responding to the emergency.
The Yele Haiti movement, founded by Jean to give hope to Haitians in need, already has sponsored food, supplies and water to assist victims in Southeastern Haiti. The organization plans to ship additional containers with emergency supplies into the country over the next few weeks.
Jean, who is a Haitian Goodwill Ambassador, along with Haitian President Rene Preval, have made a public appeal for help from the international community. “My country is facing a serious catastrophe at the moment,” Jean said in a statement. “And we urgently require assistance.”
The problem’s beyond short-term relief to its people. With the diminished tree coverage, the country will always be susceptible to mudslides and flash floods from storms and hurricanes.
If you are able to help in anyway, head over to yele.org.
Today, Google and their partners like HSBC gave $60 million to help place an order for 16 low-orbit Thales Alenia satellites to help improve the infrastructure of developing markets such as Africa. 3 billion people in the world are without internet access, and Google and their partners hope to deliver it to them. A total of $150-$180m is required by O3B networks (other 3 billion) to establish the satellites. O3B is the company that will be launching the satellites and managing the initiative.
The company also has plans to convert mobile phone towers into multipurpose high-speed network nodes, which when complete is estimated to cost $750m all told. Google says it will help drop the price of broadband by up to 95% in some places where it’s a rare commodity.
The satellites won’t be launching until 2010, so look for news to break about the companies dishing out the remaining $100m + to launch the satellites from now ’til then.
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