Tired of the way your home looks? Think a 32 ft. long Oriental rug would spruce the place up? Then tomorrow is your lucky day, because tomorrow at 9 a.m., some of felonious ex-San Diego Congressman Duke Cunningham's ill-gotten gains will be auctioned off.
According to the San Diego Union-Tribune:
The public can bid on his stained-glass doors, his wooden sleigh bed, his brown-and-white-marble vanity. They can bid on his brown lingerie cabinet, his washstand, his Oriental hallway rug that stretch
No, you can't actually buy Trestles Beach. But you can show your support for the Yosemite of Surfing by bidding on several on-line auctions, all to try and stop the Foothill-South toll road extension.
Adio, Body Glove and Oakley have all donated prize packages to be auctioned off on eBay; 100% of proceeds go to the Save Trestles campaign (don't worry, I'll check up on that). If you're wondering how Surfrider Foundation chose these particular sponsors, look no further than the event with which t
Some highlights:
- Yahoo's open bar and their token Yahootinis (basically Lemon Drop martinis with some strange medicinal aftertaste). And their nuclear ice cubes. (See photo.)
- Gear from the L.A. County Coroner's Office gracing the silent auction - and becoming a major draw.
- Arianna Huffington and Kevin Sites accidentally failing to announce that the Times' "Altered Oceans" team won the Newspaper Design category - though the screen across them did.
- The return of LYT's fabled rainbow 'do
The Angels are auctioning off Chone Figgins' helmet for charity! Did Chone steal your heart as well as second base this season? Then cast your online bid and his helmet can be yours. No, ladies, not that kind of helmet.
Where's Commie Girl when I need her to make GOOD jokes about Angels' genitalia?
CLICK HERE TO BID
A "Taste For Charity" and Silent Art Auction, 5 p.m.Tastes by top restaurants, silent auction of art from local galleries and a
live auction with raffle prizes! This charitable gathering has it all. Proceeds benefit the Community Clinic,
1st Thursdays Art Walk, Sally's Fund, CSP Youth Shelter, Woman's Club
of Laguna Beach, No Square Theatre, and two Laguna Beach High School
Scholarships.Tivoli Too, 777 Laguna Canyon Rd., Laguna Beach, CA; 949-494-9650
Sgt. Pepper's Dueling Pia
As you may have already heard, the St. Regis Monarch Beach is on the verge of being auctioned off in a foreclosure sale. LA Times had the scoop.The ritzy hotel, as many have noted, is infamous for hosting a certain AIG boondoggle. You know the one: The bash they held after accepting government bailout money?But the whispers in food circles is how this affects Michael Mina's Stonehill Tavern, which is set inside the belly of the resort and is the poshest of its posh restaurants. Well, I cal
Jason Bentley (seen looking very sly in that picture over there) took over as host of Morning Becomes Eclectic--and KCRW music director--on December 1 of last year, but though the taste-making Santa Monica-based public radio station's signal covers Orange County comfortably, Bentley hasn't had the chance to make it out here recently.That changes next Wednesday, June 24, with Bentley up in our area for the first time since taking over from the venerable Nic Harcourt. He'll be DJing the "STARS of
Perhaps you recall John Tu, the president of computer memory manufacturer Kingston Technology Co. of Fountain Valley, selling 80 percent of the company stock for
$1.5 billion in 1996 and giving $100 million of that revenue to his employees
as a bonus, turning many into instant millionaires.Now, a woman who purports to have been a girlfriend of Tu's would like a bonus of her own: $4 million.
