Archive for 'Celebrity Residents'
Area Couple Make Cameo in Parody Video
Filming Of Congressional Reality Show Disrupts Committee Meeting
The hilarious fame mongering of government officials and reality TV is the subject of this video parody from The Onion. Filmed before the reality TV driven “Crashergate“, this clip features a cameo from Cobble Hillbillies/ Real Housewives of New York City castmembers Alex McCord and Simon van [...]
Posted: February 26th, 2010 under Arts and Entertainment, Celebrity Residents.
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Norah Jones window update
In case you were curious, Norah Jones now has three windows on the side of her townhouse on Amity Street. Four more to go to make the seven (reduced from her original request for ten).
Posted: February 22nd, 2010 under Celebrity Residents, Real Estate.
Comments: 2
Simon Says: Not So Fast, McCord-van Kempens Still on NY Housewives
This just in from Simon van Kempen in response to Gatecrasher’s report that he and wife Alex McCord were off Real Housewives of NYC:
Posted: February 19th, 2010 under Arts and Entertainment, Celebrity Residents.
Comments: 3
Bravo dumps Brooklyn couple?
Word around the blogosphere for the past few weeks has been that Cobble Hillbillies Alex McCord and Simon van Kempen will not be featured on the upcoming season of Bravo’s The Real Housewives of New York City. [van Kempen says that's not true. Full response here.] I’ve begun to believe the rumors, because the notorious [...]
Posted: February 19th, 2010 under Arts and Entertainment, Celebrity Residents.
Comments: 2
Final performance of Jenny Slate’s “Dead Millionaire” tonight
Catch Cobble Hillbilly and Saturday Night Live cast member Jenny Slate in her final performance of her one-woman show, Dead Millionaire, tonight. The show is about her own funeral, if she was a millionaire who left all her money to her dog. Dead Millionaire is at 7pm tonight at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater (307 [...]
Posted: January 21st, 2010 under Arts and Entertainment, Celebrity Residents, Events.
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Haute secrets from Real Housewife Alex McCord
Season 3 of Bravo’s The Real Housewives of New York airs in early March, so it’s time to start seeing the cast in the press. Our very own real housewife of Cobble Hill, Alex McCord, recently gave her “haute” secrets to Haute Living Blog. She gave quite a few shout outs to the nabe- including [...]
Posted: January 20th, 2010 under Arts and Entertainment, Celebrity Residents.
Comments: 4
Norah Jones cuts back on windows
Perhaps fearing a picket line outside of her Amity Street house over her window installation plans, Norah Jones has chosen to decrease her city-approved addition of 10 windows to 7. The new application, minus 3 windows, was submitted to the Landmark Preservation Committee on December 9, according to the Post. I’m no architecture expert- are [...]
Posted: January 11th, 2010 under Celebrity Residents, News.
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Jonathan Lethem’s marathon finale
In October, Jonathan Lethem kicked off his book tour for Chronic City at BookCourt, and he will return on Friday for his last stop on the tour - and to complete his mission to read all 480 pages at his various appearances. If you ever wanted to know where Lethem does his writing, check out [...]
Posted: December 2nd, 2009 under Arts and Entertainment, Celebrity Residents, Events.
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