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Tumblr (3.0; @battleblogs)http://edbattle.com/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/768493748a07f8d85bd98a6243a76fa4/tumblr_mn6yl9oAMD1qbnjcwo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>PHOTO of the day | May 22, 2013 | Durbuy, Belgium</strong></p>http://edbattle.com/post/51085262196http://edbattle.com/post/51085262196Wed, 22 May 2013 12:00:20 -070020132013mayphoto of the daybelgiumeuropedurbuy<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/9fe16e305b8bdaea65ecc8b450b3eb13/tumblr_mn6pxeZ5Pt1qbnjcwo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>Sunrise PALMS | Lusaka</strong></p>http://edbattle.com/post/51051931998http://edbattle.com/post/51051931998Tue, 21 May 2013 22:29:00 -070020132013maypalmslusakaafricazambia<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/751a7e729f35f9557f363bc11a6f27f9/tumblr_mn6euzCr2u1qbnjcwo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>Union Station | Los Angeles</strong></p>http://edbattle.com/post/51034985331http://edbattle.com/post/51034985331Tue, 21 May 2013 18:30:35 -070020132013maylos angelesunion station<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/d3099e46bc4f7ca485cd980982860536/tumblr_mn6793dGr51qbnjcwo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>A first! Chelsea Flower Show allows GARDEN GNOMES to celebrate 100th anniversary </strong></p>http://edbattle.com/post/51022090643http://edbattle.com/post/51022090643Tue, 21 May 2013 15:46:15 -070020132013maylondonchelsea flower showunited kingdomeuropegnomesduke of cambridgeduchess of cambridge<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/92e3907acc520ccc57dce87bf61e3016/tumblr_mn52ifMfpR1qbnjcwo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><em><strong>PHOTO of the day | May 21, 2013 | May Company @ Wilshire + Fairfax 1948 | </strong></em></p> <p><strong>LACMA and AMPAS, the organization that sponsors the Oscars, are collaborating on redeveloping the May Company building as the future home of the Academy Awards’ long-anticipated movie museum. Brand-new theater spaces will be added to the rear of the landmark. The May Company building has most recently been used as LACMA temporary exhibition space.</strong></p>http://edbattle.com/post/51005076481http://edbattle.com/post/51005076481Tue, 21 May 2013 12:00:30 -070020132013mayphoto of the daymiracle milemay companyampasacademy awardsoscarslacmalos angelesvintage<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/f8a301d279326aa1645a27307e149b1d/tumblr_mn3amvObIA1qbnjcwo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>PHOTO of the day | May 20, 2013 | Population distribution of the United States in units of Canadas</strong></p>http://edbattle.com/post/50923657837http://edbattle.com/post/50923657837Mon, 20 May 2013 12:00:15 -070020132013mayphoto of the dayusacanada<object width="512" height="288"><param name="movie" value="http://www.hulu.com/embed/e2ogbknek5fx3eilmojqng"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.hulu.com/embed/e2ogbknek5fx3eilmojqng" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="225" allowFullScreen="true"></embed></object><br/><br/><p><strong><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://imwithkanye.tumblr.com/post/50842705017/stefons-first-appearance-on-snl">imwithkanye</a> | <span>Stefon’s First Appearance On SNL</span></strong></p>http://edbattle.com/post/50896724167http://edbattle.com/post/50896724167Mon, 20 May 2013 02:30:00 -070020132013maysnlbill haderstefonvideo<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/b8e0f0b80ba1f7511600d914dbb731be/tumblr_mmxh3szVaM1so3eg4o1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>EMPIRE State</strong></p>http://edbattle.com/post/50895607084http://edbattle.com/post/50895607084Mon, 20 May 2013 01:52:03 -070020132013mayempire state buildingmanhattan<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/a152088e5bd4954c022df283cb547fe9/tumblr_mn2th2vIYH1qbnjcwo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>LATimes | W Hollywood penthouses: All the glitz, none of the grit |</strong></p> <p><strong>For those who will live in the posh abodes, there’ll be no need ever to come in contact with the grungier realities of Hollywood.</strong></p> <p><strong>They keep saying that Hollywood is being transformed.</strong></p> <p><strong><span>They keep talking up new places to dwell and shop and dine.</span></strong></p> <p><strong><span>On the boulevard, such change can seem spotty and slight: Tourists still look nonplused as they try to sync image and reality.</span></strong></p> <p><strong><span>Stores along the Walk of Fame still skew toward glass water pipes, thigh-high vinyl boots and “World’s Greatest Cousin” souvenir statuettes. Just west of Vine, you still find the sign advertising girls: “Totally Nude, Totally Naakt, Totalement Nue, Benar-Benar Bugil.”</span></strong></p> <p><strong><span>And in front of the W Hollywood, Lowell Taylor’s still doing what he’s done for 20 years, bending over a trash bin and reaching in deep for cans and bottles to toss into his shopping cart.</span></strong></p> <p><strong><span>But that’s down low, zooming in. Go up high. Zoom out.</span></strong></p> <p><strong><span>You see hills. You see the Hollywood sign. You see Capitol Records, curb to clouds.</span></strong></p> <p><strong><span>Up high, life on the boulevard recedes.</span></strong></p> <p><strong><span>You don’t just see construction cranes and developers’ dreams.</span></strong></p> <p><strong><span>You see the new Hollywood as if it actually exists.</span></strong></p> <p><strong><span>And maybe it does — as much as it needs to — for a certain clientele who can afford to have the outside world brought to them in their aeries.</span></strong></p> <p><strong><span>That’s the target demographic for the penthouses of the Residences at the W Hollywood, priced from $1 million to … $45 million (with additional monthly homeowners dues of $1 per square foot).</span></strong></p> <p><strong><span>Three years ago, when the Residences opened next door to the W Hotel, the economy was in the tank. A year in, only 10 of its 143 units had sold.</span></strong></p> <p><strong><span>Now 85 have, and Ron Barnes, the director of sales and marketing, says the time is right to woo high-end buyers for the rooms at the top.</span></strong></p> <p><strong><span>The luxury condo building is 15 stories high, which means something, for now anyway, in low-slung Hollywood.</span></strong></p> <p><strong><span>[…]</span></strong></p>http://edbattle.com/post/50877791343http://edbattle.com/post/50877791343Sun, 19 May 2013 19:55:50 -070020132013maylatimeshollywoodlos angeles<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/cb61ad4af16d046e091f2f543394e4e7/tumblr_mn1chloftI1qbnjcwo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>PHOTO of the day | May 19, 2013 | Viterbo</strong></p>http://edbattle.com/post/50840522620http://edbattle.com/post/50840522620Sun, 19 May 2013 12:00:33 -070020132013mayphoto of the dayviterboitalyeurope<object width="512" height="288"><param name="movie" value="http://www.hulu.com/embed/7ecp1egwupahklddfc5bdq"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.hulu.com/embed/7ecp1egwupahklddfc5bdq" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="225" allowFullScreen="true"></embed></object><br/><br/><p><strong>Saturday Night Live | “Xanax for Gay Summer Weddings”</strong></p>http://edbattle.com/post/50799797470http://edbattle.com/post/50799797470Sun, 19 May 2013 01:45:12 -070020132013maysnlgaygay malemarriage equalityvideo<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/3b4b4932c6270ed05e6cc03b5255662a/tumblr_mn1e3cdyl61qbnjcwo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><strong>SNL | “Xanax for Gay Summer Weddings” </strong></p>http://edbattle.com/post/50799030652http://edbattle.com/post/50799030652Sun, 19 May 2013 01:26:00 -070020132013mayfrank brunisnlgay malegaymarriage equality<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/ed38cc3c95d1aaca2d1ee56c4e5677f8/tumblr_mn1cnaIijG1qbnjcwo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>Shady Billionaires maintain long tradition of parking ill-gotten gains in MANHATTAN | </strong></p> <p><strong>NYTimes | Only 10 floors have been completed in what is intended to be the tallest residential building in the Western Hemisphere — a slender, 84-story tower on Park Avenue at 56th Street in Manhattan. But the top penthouse is already under contract for $95 million.</strong></p> <p><strong>Other buyers have snapped up apartments on lower floors for prices that are almost as breathtaking. While their identities are not known, it is likely that many are the rootless superrich: Russian metals barons, Latin American tycoons, Arab sheiks and Asian billionaires.</strong></p> <p><strong>[…]</strong></p>http://edbattle.com/post/50797924847http://edbattle.com/post/50797924847Sun, 19 May 2013 00:54:46 -070020132013maymanhattanrich<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/4b346a932d0a556abd3d86b6fbee629f/tumblr_mn0xljSzNm1qbnjcwo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>MUSEUM Day | Monet Garden | Giverny</strong></p>http://edbattle.com/post/50779271886http://edbattle.com/post/50779271886Sat, 18 May 2013 19:29:43 -070020132013mayinternational museum daygardenclaude monetgiverny<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/7fcf362b57a5bae693e95eca72e67752/tumblr_mn0xizOmOH1qbnjcwo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>MUSEUM Day | Getty Garden</strong></p>http://edbattle.com/post/50779165679http://edbattle.com/post/50779165679Sat, 18 May 2013 19:28:11 -070020132013dayinternational museum daygetty centergardenrobert irwin<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/39ebfb75a89e8ccddae391b2bfebcc63/tumblr_mn0lmuIn5b1r3mwujo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://castroburger.tumblr.com/post/50761997938/absolutely-sillyselleb-longbeach-vodka-gay">castroburger</a> | <span>Absolutely @sillyselleb #longbeach #vodka #gay #pride #boys #ca #la #losangeles</span></p>http://edbattle.com/post/50769508880http://edbattle.com/post/50769508880Sat, 18 May 2013 17:01:37 -070020132013maylong beachpridegaylos angelescastroburger<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/c21390b3d9c12e18177ee447a9a0f439/tumblr_mmzlba84fj1qbnjcwo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>PHOTO of the day | May 18, 2013 | A frame | Hollywood Hills</strong></p>http://edbattle.com/post/50748207301http://edbattle.com/post/50748207301Sat, 18 May 2013 12:00:25 -070020132013mayphoto of the dayhollywoodlos angeles<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/cc98d4a7f7d5dcc0edec3af817febf43/tumblr_mmzjwhdwUg1qbnjcwo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong><em>Weinstein Company announces slate at Cannes Film Festival </em> | </strong></p> <p><strong>The most obvious Oscar bait – at least in the acting category – was a first look at “<em>August: Osage County</em>,” based on the play, starring Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Chris Cooper, Ewan McGregor and Juliette Lewis. It also includes Abigail Breslin and my how Little Miss Sunshine has grown!</strong></p> <p><strong>The film delves into the lives of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, starting with Streep, in a frowsy black wig (Weinstein told TheWrap this week that Streep went wandering through Wal-Marts late at night to prepare for the role), Roberts as her daughter returning during a family crisis and Lewis as her sister.</strong></p>http://edbattle.com/post/50716046139http://edbattle.com/post/50716046139Sat, 18 May 2013 01:36:00 -070020132013maycannes film festivalaugust: osage countymeryl streepjulia robertsewan mcgregorfilm<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/c471af90fbc727a786f147278ef339a2/tumblr_mmzlb5IUW91qbnjcwo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>PHOTO of the day | May 17, 2013 | Applied Arts Museum, Budapest</strong></p>http://edbattle.com/post/50718054667http://edbattle.com/post/50718054667Fri, 17 May 2013 12:00:00 -070020132013mayphoto of the daybudapesthungaryeurope<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/802614af7bd435f9b8bf361a0ada3710/tumblr_mmxczb4QjC1qbnjcwo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>ryangoslingpage</strong></p>http://edbattle.com/post/50631343410http://edbattle.com/post/50631343410Thu, 16 May 2013 21:14:28 -0700ryangoslingpage