Now at Revolve: the "Immersion" anorak from L.A. based-line KZO. Designer Joel Knoernschild has a long history of surf fashion—his parents helped bring Billabong to the U.S. and cofounded Hurley—but his own apparel works coast to coast and in between. We can definitely get behind his sportswear's versatility, but a model who resembles Pete Wentz? Not so much.
$233, available at revolveclothing.com
That's right: It's not just for breakfast anymore—at least not in the U.K., where the WSJ reports beer brands are "reaching out to a largely untapped [get it?] group," women. As a result, pubs will begin carrying more female-friendly brews, from Blue Moon to a new one called St. Edmunds. Why the push? In short, British brewers have long catered exclusively to men, thus neglecting half the population ("We've done something fundamentally wrong here," says one male exec). And good news: Something tells us lads stand to benefit from this as well.
This video from Maison Martin Margiela's S/S 2009 show indicates that some fashion editors are taking the house's inspirations a trifle too seriously: Sure, the collection showed a strong disco influence—with mirrored sequins, leggings, and seas of white suiting—but did that require the overlay of so noxious a beat? Between the soundtrack and the color commentary, this one's best enjoyed with the volume off. Still, there's real value in seeing the line as the house presented it—as a life-size look book.
Opening tomorrow in L.A.: Cannibal Carnival, the latest show from graffiti artist (and erstwhile sneaker designer) Neck Face. The show features a series of ghoulish watercolors (what, you expected Baroque oils?) that explore decontextualized horror; says the artist: "When you see a clown at a circus it's funny, but if you saw the same clown from the circus in an alleyway at midnight it wouldn't be funny at all." And when you see the same clown chewing on children? Even less so, we presume.
Aug. 16-Sept. 20, New Image Art Gallery, 7908 Santa Monica Blvd., L.A., (323) 654-2192, newimageartgallery.com
Taiwanese bicycle behemoth Giant isn't exactly the hippest name in the game, but its new collaboration with Michael Young—the British industrial designer behind this watch, among others—might help change that. Dubbed Cityspeed, the (you guessed it) city bike launches in Tokyo this October, and includes nice details like the sloping top bar and LED lights at the head and tail. Want it? You might have to fly to Japan: There's no word yet on price or if it's coming here.
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In a week when Stiller's taking on war and Woody's taking on sex, leave it to an even older master to hit both: Claude Chabrol, whose 2007 thriller A Girl Cut in Two opens today. Doe-eyed Ludivine Sagnier stars as a Lyonnaise weather girl who drowsily seduces both a much older novelist and an unstable rich kid, little expecting to find herself caught in a web of escalating jealousy and violence. (She must have missed the memo: This is a Chabrol picture.) Sagnier's a gorgeous enigma, and perhaps the best endorsement we've recently seen for a coat of red lipstick; whether she actually ends up coupée en deux, we'll leave to you to find out.
Over $100 million worth of classics, collectibles, and exotics—including the very first production Porsche—are going on display this weekend at the Concours d'Elegance at the Pebble Beach Golf Links. Dr. Ferdinand Porsche's first sports car (pictured here with the doctor, right, and his son Ferry) was built in 1948 and dubbed Porsche No. 1; it's traveling from the automaker's museum in Stuttgart as part of the company's 60th anniversary celebrations. The Ferrari 250 GT Spyder California—one of which sold for $11 million at auction in May—is also getting its due, with six examples, including the prototype, on exhibit. Other marques, like Lamborghini, Pininfarina, and Bugatti, will also be represented: Sounds to us like a good use for the fairway.
Sunday, Aug. 17, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m.; for more information, visit pebblebeachconcours.net
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As anyone who's seen The Aristocrats knows, Bob Saget can dish it out, but can he take it? With a grimace, apparently: In Comedy Central's out-for-blood roast, buddies including Gilbert Gottfried and Sarah Silverman skewer him with riffs like: "Full House should have been called Blackjack, because you hit on the Olsens when they were eight, and you didn't stop till they were 21." (Tasteful.) Danny Tanner was allegedly so disturbed by the jokes (see below), he requested censorship.
Sunday, Aug. 17, 10 p.m., Comedy Central
Far be it for us to promote the endeavors of a dilettante rock star, but It's OK, Don't Look at the Road isn't the work of a dabbler. The exhibit features photos taken by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Nick Zinner, who's already released three books of his images (including, most recently, I Hope You Are All Happy Now, with an essay by Jim Jarmusch). He put his lens to good use on the band's recent tours, and, viewed together, the best pics in the show offer an insight into the (mild) derangement that goes along with being on the road for weeks at a time: the red shoes pictured here, a kid with a costume hatchet through his head, and, of course, hotel rooms galore. They're like scraps of someone else's memories—and surprisingly conventional for someone who makes their living playing guitar.
Tomorrow-Sept. 13 at Fuse Gallery, 93 Second Ave., (212) 777-7988, NYC, fusegallerynyc.com
Five things worth knowing today
- In a tribute to one of the city's favorite sons, merchants in Antwerp don period garb for the annual Rubens Market, creating a 16th-century scene in which to peddle tchotchkes.
- The 34th annual Milford Oyster Festival brings mollusks to the masses.
- College-rock poster boys the Dirty Projectors play a free show at New York's South Street Seaport.
- Today in 1965, the Beatles played New York's Shea Stadium, effectively beginning the era of arena rock. So, yeah, thanks for the years of Kansas and Styx, guys.
- And today in 1970, NBC chairman Ben Silverman was born. (He champions parties with live tigers, The Office, and a Colombian telenovela called Sin Tetas no Hay Paraíso—you can translate that one yourself.) How can you not love this guy (pictured)?
In 1966, artist Nigel Waymouth, his girlfriend Sheila Cohen, and Savile Row tailor John Pearse founded Granny Takes a Trip, a London boutique dedicated to the obsessions of its owners: vintage clothing, psychedelic design, and general debauchery. Granny's catered to—and indulged with—the likes of the Stones and the Beatles (who wore the shop's house line on the sleeve of Revolver), but it was most famous for its ever-changing facade, which included everything from a benevolent Indian to half a Dodge. Now, thanks to style and music historian Paul Gorman, the many faces of Granny's are now available in T-shirt form at Topman. Though somewhat less impressive on a crewneck than on a building (see the shop's famous Jean Harlow image on a shirt, pictured, and as it was on King's Road, below), at around $40, history comes pretty cheap. Thrift wasn't one of Granny's cardinal virtues, but that's one revision we'll happily accept.
The Look Presents Granny Takes a Trip shirts, about $40, available at topman.com; for Gorman's history of Granny Takes a Trip, visit rockpopfashion.com
Currently inciting a misogyny debate on the Internets: Wrangler jeans, whose latest France-only campaign comes along with the tagline "We are animals," and the photos (and video) to support it. The ads were shot by photographers Ryan McGinley and Tim Barber, and although there's an unsavory quality to a few of them (we could have done without the roadkill), there also isn't an appreciable difference between these images and those McGinley tends to shoot in his downtime. Those who object just don't like rebranding, we suppose.
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America: best appreciated overseas? Sweden's Permanent Vacation suggests it may be so. The Scandinavian designers' spin on American sportswear includes updated classics like plaid work shirts and naval sweaters in slouchy, vaguely bohemian cuts. Available only in Europe for now, the label is currently in talks to bring it to the States, from which it has drawn some great, if unlikely, inspirations. For Winter 2008, the brand took its cues from both the Marlboro Man and Harvard, while Spring 2008 was "the Seinfeldt [sic] collection." Those dubious of menswear that's about nothing, take heart: The homage is mostly restricted to the womenswear, in a tribute to that great fashion trendsetter, Elaine Benets.
Menswear designer Siv Støldal was named winner of Scandinavia's +46 Award for Spring/Summer 2009 in Stockholm this week, and on the jury panel was our own Laird Borrelli-Persson, senior features editor at Style.com. We checked in with Laird for her take on Støldal's collection for the thinking—but never overthought—Nord:
How many women can you name that design menswear? We can help you add one: Siv Stødal, a Norwegian graduate of Central Saint Martins. Though she's been winning awards and working on high-profile collabs, as with Fred Perry, Stødal's isn't seeking out the spotlight. In a low-key Scandinavian way, she turns creative concepts into wearable clothes that are not quite classic, but not too strange, either. One of her strengths is the ability not to let the intellectual basis of her collections interfere with the design. You can think about these clothes, sure, but one's first impulse is to buy them.
Out now: Ultra Motors' new electric bike. The battery-powered A2B can go up to 20 miles per charge, and tops out at about 20 miles per hour. (We're no math majors, but we think that means an hour's worth of riding before you have to pedal.) So is it an eco-friendly car alternative, or just a bike for lazy people? We report, you decide.
$2,500 ($2,675 with pegs), ultramotor.com
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Lotus' latest vehicle doesn't have much real-world import for those of us not part of the Moon-Regan TransAntarctic Expedition—pretty much exactly what it sounds like, and set to begin later this year. But that doesn't mean the Concept Ice Vehicle ain't badass: It's ultralightweight and includes an onboard ice-penetrating radar system. The propeller-driven three-wheeler also runs on biofuel, which means it won't actively contribute to the destruction of the surface it's charged with traversing. Finally, it just looks cool—especially in action, as you can see from the video below.
Samsung just announced the first phone with a case made entirely from bioplastic, which is created from plant materials including corn. Yes, it's meant to be eco-friendly, which you can also tell from the trim (green) and the name (uh, E200 Eco). Just don't look for it at your local tech shop as it's Europe-only for now. Good thing: Americans would never be wasteful when it comes to their gadgets, right?
The Sundance Channel's Live From Abbey Road really belongs on one of the music networks (if only the music networks were interested in, you know, music). The series showcases live, intimate, hi-def performances by current artists, but in lieu of a typical concert, it captures a band's life in the studio, showing acts like Gnarls Barkley rehearsing and goofing off (if you're privy to that episode, we advise skipping past Alanis Morrisette). Tonight episode features Scottish alt-rock outfit the Fratellis, American piano-popster Sara Bareilles, and the Kills, fine purveyors of British dissonance, who are unlikely to be as done up as they were in their video for "Cheap and Cheerful" (see below).
10 p.m., Sundance Channel
There's vintage and then there's vintage—and then there's Black Sheep & Prodigal Sons' new straight razor. The handle is carved from 10,000-year-old mammoth ivory tusk scales, which makes the hidden extra seem positively newborn by comparison: a microscopic snippet of 18th- to19th-century erotica, visible through an embedded 3mm magnifying glass. (Just what you need when you're shaving: a distraction.) Is it worth trading in your Mach 3? The time may be now. In the words of our fashion editor: "Mammoth—it's a thing."
$750-$1,250, available Aug. 25 at FSC Barber, 5 Horatio St., (212) 929-3917, and atblacksheepandprodigalsons.com
Summer in L.A. wouldn't be the same without outdoor movie nights, and now there's another (welcome) option: Beginning tonight, art rag Afterall will celebrate its 18th issue with Making Strange, a three-week series of sci-fi art films screened atop downtown's Westin Bonaventure Hotel. The films will include lo-fi videos like Powers of Ten by Charles and Ray Eames (still kind of awesome after all these years) and Space Is the Place, directed by John Coney and starring a bedazzled Sun Ra. Can't make it? Here's the next best thing: The chance to watch some of that last one while hunched over your laptop:
Afterall presents Making Strange: Rooftop Sci-Fi at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel, August 14, 21, and 28, 404 S. Figueroa St., Los Angeles, afterall.org
British fashion and music mag The Face is, of course, sadly defunct, but that hasn't stopped at least one enterprising Flickr user from uploading images of the monthly's covers from throughout its run. Part nostalgia trip (remember when featuring Juliette Lewis could drive sales?) and part publishing design porn, the gallery's one of the best uses for the Internet since Flickr's investigation of vintage police vehicles, even if it's also just about as relevant.
A rare prototype sports-racer that helped shaped the future of Jaguar motorcars is being auctioned off in California tomorrow. The 1960 E2A (pictured) was raced by some of the world's top drivers at Le Mans and elsewhere, and is considered the missing link between the company's earlier competition vehicles and its later commercial ones. Its 3.8-liter fuel-injected engine ought to offer a smooth enough ride, but don't start cleaning out the garage just yet: The house is expecting bids in excess of $7 million.
For more information, visit bonhams.com
Five things worth knowing today
- It's the Chinese Festival of the Hungry Ghosts, the day on which the gates of hell burst open and release restless spirits. That's throughout China, not just in Beijing, where the gates of hell burst open and release Bob Costas.
- Tonight on The Works, Daniel Wilson investigates the makings of guns and ammo.
- Rockers Blonde Redhead hit the free stage tonight at New York's Hudson River Park. Likely attendees: Hipsters, Japanese youth, Japanese hipsters.
- Today in 1935, FDR signed the initial Social Security Act.
- And today in 1945, Steve Martin was born: Comedian, playwright, and, uh, Goodwill enthusiast. See below, from a '68 episode of The Dating Game:
One of the highlights of the recently wrapped Copenhagen Fashion Week: Henrik Vibskov, who showed a typically manic collection of avant-schoolboy garb in eye-scorching colors and patterns, a hometown version of his show earlier this summer in Paris. The designer's wit was luridly displayed in bulky sweaters, baggy tailored shorts, and funereal black hats (dangling toothlike curtains), though occasionally the joke seemed to be on us (e.g., a nipple-baring, skintight jumpsuit).
The show arrived hot on the heels of Vibskov's new boutique in Oslo, which opened at the beginning of the month, but the designer showed no signs of fatigue. He was on hand in a white bowler and liberal dose of eye makeup to provide the show's live musical accompanimentto be expected when designers double up as club DJs in their downtime.
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Now available at Oi Polloi: a replica of Belstaff's fifties motorcycle jacket. The vintage style is more than worthy of a trawl through the archives, but this one also has some history to recommend it: Che Guevara wore the original during his famous motorcycle ride across Latin America. Self-styled revolutionaries are now only $800 away from hanging up that Che tee for good.
About $793, available at Oi Polloi
Righteous Kill is not Heat (and, sadly, the anonymous "CAA agent" who bashed Pacino and De Niro at Nikki Finke's blog smacked of brutal truth), but the film's marketing campaign is intriguing enough. Distributor Overature Films partnered with streetwear company Upper Playground, tattoo artist Mr. Cartoon, and photographer Estevan Oriol on materials for the flick (like the T-shirt here), available for purchase starting tomorrow at a downtown L.A. pop-up store. (Yes, the movie has a pop-up store.) It goes without saying that street cred's a little harder to buy, but when you've got the guys behind Cypress Hill's album covers, not mention some of 50 Cent's tattoos, you're in the right neighborhood, at least.
Open tomorrow at 131 E. 6th St., Los Angeles
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It looks like Polaroid is back. Well, kind of—six months after shutting down production on its trademark instant camera, the brand is reviving it in digital form. While the shooter's still in the early stages, the prototype (pictured) is far removed from the iconic box of yore, and produces images using digital ink by Zink. (The photos still come out in the trademark 4 x 3 size.) It's due in Spring '09; you can leave the company suggestions at UK site Amateur Photographer. Just don't ask 'em to make one in pink.
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Mmm...three stories of beer: On the left is what's believed to be one of the tallest refrigerators in the world, packed solid with Heineken. Where can you find it? In a place where other green mind-altering substances are also in abundance: Amsterdam, home to the beer company's newly redesigned HQ. The building's been given an overhaul from Dutch firm Tjep, which also outfitted it with the wall on the right, decorated with 600 bottles of Heiney. (We saw something like that in a frat house once.) Teetotaler? Feel free to cut some tracks at the on-site recording studio.
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Talk about giving back to the community: Kanye West is planning to open ten Fatburger restaurants in the Chicago area, starting in Orland Park at the end of September. (Kanye lived in Chicago for a while and graduated from high school in the city.) This marks the California chain's first location in Illinois—and there's little doubt as to what'll be playing on the sound system.
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Pop's old avant-garde created plenty of intriguing by-products in service to their craft, and, happily, not all of them are on display at the nation's Hard Rock Cafés. Opening today, MoMA's Looking at Music show features a variety of nostalgia-inducing works (think Steve Reich, Laurie Anderson, and, of course, the Thin White Duke), ranging from sculpture to photography, produced during the mid-sixties to mid-seventies—the very weird heyday of the stuff. Proof is in the image pictured left: The Residents never achieved mainstream success, and, obviously, there was a reason for that.
Also at MoMA:Pré, a digital exhibition of architect Steven Holl's watercolor sketches. MoMA explains that the series offers a look at Holl's design processes, but judging by what we've seen, it also offers evidence that he's an accomplished abstract artist. (See below.)
Looking at Music, today-Jan. 5; Pré, through Feb. 2, at MoMA, 11 W. 53rd St., NYC, (212) 708-9400, moma.org
[Pré via Designboom]
Chrysler just announced it'll be the first to offer cars with optional built-in Wi-Fi—the service will cost 30 bucks a month after you buy the $500 core device. Sure, getting online to help with weather, traffic, and maps sounds nice, but how long before some guy gets in an accident because he was DWT—driving while Twittering?
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They ain't cheap, but then again, MartinLogan's 57-inch full-spectrum loudspeakers, released to commemorate the company's 25th anniversary, are a lot more than just wood and wires. Their CLX system (pictured) uses electrostatic transducers to produce sound that's startlingly sharp, and delivers bass with about twice as much force as a normal ESL (reminder: Expect Detox to arrive in time for the holidays). Be prepared to power these babies with a nice fat amp—and, in case you're wondering, yes, they'll definitely highlight the shortcomings of your MP3s.
$19,995/pair, available at martinlogan.com
Now available at Oak: Mike & Chris' skinhead-inspired boots. Rude boys, your footwear has arrived—your ska revival, on the other hand, seems less forthcoming.
$522, available at oaknyc.com
A&E exhumes Animal House (and an orgy of low-brow nostalgia) for tonight's 30th anniversary doc, trotting out fresh interviews with Kevin Bacon, Harold Ramis, John Landis, and cowriter Chris Miller, and following their reunion trip to Dartmouth. Perhaps forgetting it's slapstick with togas, Miller calls it the "deepest and most comprehensive look at the creation and impact of the movie yet produced." (Um, okay.) Puffy self-importance aside, it's a welcome excuse to revisit the sublime stupidity of Otto and Bluto. (See below.)
Animal House: The Inside Story, 9 p.m., Biography
Britain's famous Pinewood and Shepperton Studios are the quintessential British filming locations: Movies shot there include The Third Man, Children of Men, and all the Bond flicks (well, except License to Kill and GoldenEye, but who's counting?). Now, the Film Society of Lincoln Center is exhibiting more than 50 years of photos taken there, with subjects both recent (Keira Knightley shooting Atonement) and less so (Joan Collins sipping tea during Road to Hong Kong). Our favorite: This shot of Orson Welles getting ready for Trent's Last Case, a little-remembered whodunit from 1952. The film's pretty forgettable, but (as his lapels suggest) Orson remained in peak form.
Click here for a slideshow from the exhibit >
Capturing Film History in the Making, tomorrow through Sept. 5, Frieda and Roy Furman Gallery, Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center, 70 Lincoln Center Plaza, NYC, filmlinc.com
Five things worth knowing today
- Minneapolis gets the W treatment when the chain's new hotel, The Foshay, opens.
- Downtown L.A. makes like Hollywood with the inaugural Downtown Film Festival.
- Lincoln Center hosts the U.S. premiere of Kaija Saariaho's La Passion de Simone; secularists may prefer Wilco, playing at Brooklyn's McCarren Park Pool.
- Today in 1913, Harry Brearley invented stainless steel.
- And today in 1962, John Slattery was born. Below, Slattery asMad Men's oily Roger Sterling, lunching out with his office manager in high sixties style:
Olympic architecture earns its share of fanfare, but London, currently preparing for the 2012 Games, isn't interested in presenting its works in progress. The Olympic Park, currently under construction in East London, is surprisingly protected: A ten-foot wall surrounds the perimeter, and guards patrol it round the clock. Undeterred, the rogue designers at The Office for Subversive Architecture created and installed a viewing platform (pictured) so inquisitive Londoners could peer over the partition; it stood for two and a half days before being removed by Olympic Delivery Authority. We don't tend to root for the Peeping Tom, but in this case, we're inclined to make an exception.
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At Dior Homme's Spring/Summer '09 show in Paris, creative director Kris Van Assche attempted to demonstrate taste in more ways than one: The presentation was scored by Justice, the French electro duo whose previous foray into fashion entailed collaborating with Surface 2 Air. Although it remains unreleased, the original 18-minute mix can be listened to on Dior Homme's site now, and, of course, YouTube (see below). It's great pop music—jittery rhythms that alternate between melodic piano trills and hard, hard house—though, we admit, more appropriate for 3 a.m. at Paris Paris than the runway.
A debate we never thought we'd weigh in on: the state of Japan's beaches. Apparently over 50 percent of the country's coastline is covered in tetrapods, giant concrete structures (pictured) meant to prevent coastal erosion. That's good news—unless you're among the many critics who believe that in addition to endangering swimmers, boaters, and surfers, the tetrapods actually exacerbate erosion. (Whoops.) Our take: They look amazing—and, like other Japanese fetishes, are amply documented on Flickr.
If you enjoy seeing how your steak is cooked—though given this particular steak is a BMW, you're probably seeing how someone else's is cooked—check out this gallery of designers creating Bimmer's 7 series. (Go ahead and skip the fawning text—e.g., "The rear view&emanates a combination of power, sportiness, and supremacy.") The pictures are a fascinating bit of design porn, culminating with the team producing a sporty, life-size clay model worthy of Ray Harryhausen. Just one spoiler alert: They build the car.
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Designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Renzo Piano, the new California Academy of Sciences building is solar-powered, composed almost entirely of eco-friendly and recycled materials, and includes a "living roof," home to around two million plants (so that's what they did with the rain forests). When it opens next month, the eco-friendly attraction will also house 38,000 live animals, some of which have already begun to move in. Can't wait? Take a look at the museum's 24-hour penguin-cam now—judging by what we've seen so far, penguins' lives are at least as interesting as the last season of Big Brother.
Open Sept. 27, 55 Music Concourse Dr., Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, (415) 379-8000, calacademy.org
Sometimes the life of an erotic art photographer ain't all it's cracked up to be. Richard Kern (whose voyeuristic proclivities we've discussed before) explains the, er, tricks of the trade to Asylum.com, offering tips on setting the scene (bring mood music), avoiding professionals (nude models don't emote the way first-timers do), and remaining professional (not louche). "People tell me that I'm nothing like what they were expecting," the lensman says. "They were expecting some crazy person, or somebody real sleazy. And some people say, 'Oh, you really remind me of Woody Allen!' And I'm like, 'Great.'" Of course, given Woody's recent work, it would appear the director's been taking a page out of Kern's playbook.
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This winter, Acne—whose stick-thin jeans for stick-thin Swedes brought the brand much of its initial success—loosens up a bit with more trouser-cut styles, the likes of which we've told you about before. We appreciate the more mature approach to denim, considering how it favors (or at least camouflages) our usual cold-weather retreat from exercise. It's a different look for Jonny Johansson and his gang, but they haven't gone too far afield: A pair of bright red boots suggests that the line's rocker impulses aren't gone, just hibernating.
Stay denim, $299, available at acnestudios.com
Last month we told you about Prince Charles' plan to convert his Aston Martin to run on surplus wine. A noble experiment, but what about something more high-test? That's fallen to the folks at the Bruichladdich distillery on Islay, who just propelled a race car from 0-60 in 3.5 seconds with a tank full of X4 Scotch, billed as the most alcoholic single malt ever made. (The car, a British-made Radical SR4, was piloted by Top Gear's James May and wine expert Oz Clark for an upcoming segment on their BBC series Oz and James' Great British Adventure.) Of course, at around $200 a gallon, it's not exactly the most cost-efficient fuel out there, but the fumes are heavenly.
Arriving in stores now: Loomstate's fall collection. Rogan Gregory's organic-cotton clothing line features a variety of well-tailored pieces, including the Allistair jacket, a red-twill take on the traditional varsity style. Its ribbed shawl collar offers an appealing twist, as does its color, which either serves as a reminder that the leaves will be changing soon or that the hue isn't the just the province of sports cars and teams from Indiana.
$288, loomstate.org
Um, not that we've ever camped out for a movie or anything (though The Mummy 2 was totally worth it), but we would consider The Line must-see Web-only TV. The series is about two nerds waiting to see a sci-fi flick called FutureSpace—evidently, these guys never heard of Fandango—and is written by SNL's Bill Hader and John Lutz. The duo came up with the idea during that other time schlubby pale guys stood in lines: the writers' strike. The series wraps up today, but you can watch the previous seven episodes on Crackle. (Well worth it, if only to hear Jason Sudeikis refer to the group as an "ugly baby on a doorstep that no one wants to take care of.") To get you started, here's (ahem) Episode I:
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Ahead of the car's official debut at October's Paris Auto Show, Audi has just released pictures and specs of the RS6 (pictured), the flagship of its '09 sedan lineup. First, the bad news: It doesn't look like it's coming stateside. Now, the good news (which is, we admit, tempered by that first bit): The car has been given a modest but appreciable face-lift, as well as a 580-horsepower, direct-injection V-10, which tops out at an impressive (and electronically limited) 155 mph. Perfect for the autobahn, in other words, but we wouldn't mind testing one of these things on I-95 in the near future. (A note to would-be importers: Price remains TBA.)
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