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Gothamist guesses we need to report this bit of Lower East Side news, as Lockhart Steele is on vacation. As part of MTV's week of celebrating the MTV Video Music Awards, there's a $8.28 dinner entree promotion through tomorrow night at Lower East Side restaurants, including Essex, Punch & Judy, and AKA Cafe, are participating. See the full list here.
Check out other VMA related events, like the Iggy Pop and the Stooges benefit concert tomorrow night (tickets $30) or the windows at Saks Fifth Avenue, which have various musician's MTV VMA outfits.
Friend Benjamin tells us that he helped get the MTV News crew to blog, but MTV calls them Daily Diaries. (We learned that Suchin Pak found her dress for the show and Iann Robinson met Freddy Krueger.)
While there are a number of talented nominees this year as Kelefa Sanneh writes in today's Times (we happen to like all videos he mentions), Gothamist is rooting for Johnny Cash. We've been obsessed with the Hurt video since February.
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Weren't they saying the Stooges concert at Jones Beach was the "last show ever"? Wonder how many more there'll be...
This is for charity!
nice how mtv calls them diaries and the url is /blogs.
I'm with you on seeing Mr.Cash get the honor of winning best video. I was reminded of how beautifully haunting and sobering his rendition of Hurt is after watching the video again.
Kill yr videos.
First, thanks Jen for the mention. :)
Second, for Tien, we initially called them Blogs, not Diaries (hence the url), but because the traffic didn't do what I'd anticipated ("This is a huge subculture! It'll be so cool!" I said over and over to my boss), we changed it up after a few days.
They're still not doing the traffic I'd hoped, but nor are the correspondent's (excepting Suejin) writing in as much detail as I'd like.
Still, it's nice to have a job at a major media company that let's you throw things against the wall. We'll see what happens with 'em post-VMAs. The more you read them, the more likely they'll evolve, grow, and survive...
P.S. I'm producing an excellent Johnny Cash feature written by the esteemed Kurt Loder, who went down to the House of Cash last week. Be sure to check it out tomorrow night.