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This week, Fashion Icon and Supermodel, Heidi Klum, ran the circles of New York’s Fashion week…escorting none other than Barbie, press correspondent, as her personal sidekick! Watch and see this hilarious clip…

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Hope everyone had fun this week at Fashion Week…We know we certainly did keeping up with all of the designers and watching the celebrities; on television!…And be prepared if you see us coming with our camera. Starting this week we’ll be publishing weekly “Street Style” pics of Indy people who we see out and about who catch our style eye!

Eyes open…we’re watching!

Since we previously wrote about the Kanye West disses Taylor Swift at the MTV VMA’s…we thought we would update you with her response on The View…
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While Kanye did apologize later on The Jay Leno show, we’re wondering why it took a timid Taylor, to announce he hadn’t personally reached out to her before he made the decision to apologize. Come on Kanye…Grow some balls and be a real man…or maybe that new, sexy dude…uh, girlfriend Amber Rose has more gumption between his legs than you ever will!

On a side note, we totally fell in love with Lady GaGa’s performance/pop art at the VMA’s that we thought we would leave you with another one of her live performances at the V Festival in August…enjoy

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Eyes Open…We’re Watching!

So the rumors are true!!! Kendra Wilkinson will be calling Indianapolis her new home with hubby, wide-receiver Hank Baskett who just signed a one year contract with the Indianapolis Colts. Kendra Wilkinson, who became famous as Playboy Playmate and for her debut on E Channel’s “The Girls Next Door, is getting ready for a little time in our city and we think it’s about time a real celebrity moved to our great state and began enjoying all we have to offer. We were a little sad to read in an article on People.com that Chris Gahl, Associate Director of Communication for the Indianapolis Convention & Visitors Association, was tempting Kendra with St. Elmo’s Steak House??? Wow! What a way to make us sound like we’re “not just cornfields”. Although we highly support our local restaurant owners, let’s be for real…We have way more to offer than that!!! Late yesterday, Kendra tweeted Perez Hilton asking…”u gonna come out to a colts game with me??:D”

Well Kendra…we sure hope all of your friends don’t leave you out here in the cornfields, but as a couple who loves to host and have a good time…we would like to extend the offer show you the best that Indy has to offer, and trust us…it’s not just a dinner date. We are so excited to have you guys here and hope that you enjoy your stay, or even, decide to call Indy your new home!
We’re waiting for your call…and yes…we’d be more than willing to escort you to a Colt’s game any day!!! Love Ya!

Eyes Open, We’re Watching!

On Sunday night, Madonna gave an award speech to Michael Jackson. In her speech she talked about her kinship with Michael and defined him as a “hero”. She also explained how we let him, “slip through our cracks.” We began talking about this speech and about our experiences since starting raannt. We’ve met a lot of wonderful people, been exposed to a lot of wonderful experiences, but the flip side is true as well. For every article we write, we receive just as much praise as we do hate mail, not necessarily for us, but mostly for the people or the establishments we write about in our blog. This past weekend, we discussed how our motive had been to bring this community, not of straight or gay, black or white, young or old…but the community of Indianapolis together and to help everyone enjoy what our great city has to offer. So, with this video clip, we hope to inspire all of our readers to do great things, come together in our kinship, try to understand one another, critique helpfully and love more, and not let what we have here in Indy slip through our cracks…
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We love you Indy…
Eyes Open…We’re Watching!

raannt would like to extend our condolences to the family and friends of Mel Simon who passed away today at the age of 82. He will be remembered as someone whose positive influence, personal and professional, helped Indianapolis become the city that it is today!

For more information on Mel Simon please read this link at The Associated Press: “Mall Magnate, Pacers Owner Melvin Simon dies at 82”

You will be remembered Mel…

Eyes Open, We’re Watching…

October is almost here! Time to begin pulling out those tweed scarfs and argyle socks to pad the inside of your Chuck Taylor’s! And…begin planning your Halloween Costume! We at the raannt offices are filling our bowls with candy corn and beginning to pull our costumes together as we speak!

Which is why we here at raannt are just a little exhausted from our long weekend of events, parties and planning and are now, settling into catching up on our t.v. shows, and planning out the rest of our social month. (Trying desperately to get out to Las Vegas to visit with our good friend Brittany Mason and to see the final show of the Britney Spears “Circus” tour at Mandalay Bay!)

While you’re waiting for our list of events to attend for the rest of September, enjoy this Kathy Griffin clip we found, “Kate is Enough”, of her parody of Kate Gosselin! Hilarious! “(We personally love the hair parody, especially since it can be found here in Indy in every aisle of every Walmart or at the counters of the Speedways and Gas America’s!)
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Eyes Open…We’re Watching!

Just moments ago, Taylor Swift was shooed aside by Kanye West while she was accepting her award so that Kanye could pump the genius of Beyonce’s video for Single Ladies, which would win Video of the Year moments later. Seconds after Kanye was booed while being announced as a nominee for Video of the Year, Beyonce won, handing over the microphone to Taylor Swift, giving her back “her moment.” Congrats Beyonce…not only did you show what a class act and premier diva you are, you also showed how important you are as a role model in the music industry and how, just maybe, you are way, way underrated.

Taylor then took the microphone, smiled and said, “Maybe we could try this again?”, showing that class and style isn’t something learned, but something inherent! Standing ovation by Perez Hilton, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Pink and the entire crowd brought celebrity alike together as they figuratively pushed Kanye out to pasture…(although Lady GaGa, who you couldn’t see through her atrocity of a costume, and Perez dressed just as ridiculously, were sincerely moved).

While we impressed with Beyonce’s win and Taylor’s class…we at raannt still believe the award for video of the year should have gone to…yes folks, Britney Spears! If you want to see the Kanye moment…we’re sorry, we had it up for awhile, but is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Viacom. Hmmm…the people want to see Kanye’s Craziness!!!But as long as it stays up…we have the moment that Beyonce gives the mic over to Taylor! Watch it here!
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Eyes open, we’re watching!

So…Is it Lucky 7 or End of a Winning Streak? Hmmm…We’re not sure. But after our engagement party, we went out to Talbott Street last night, looking for a good time, especially since it was their 7 year, anniversary party and we felt it was a sure thing that the place would be packed…uhhhh, not the case. For the record, we did have a great time, but only for two reasons. First, because all of our closest friends were together in one place. And second, special guest DJ Twisted Dee was absolutely amazing and played it up most of the end of the night. At the beginning of the night, well…never mind. But she was great and we danced pretty much the entire time she spun. Right on sister! We loved ya. We were told by a bartender at Talbott that DJ Dee is extremely well known in Florida and that an Indy local dj is going to be spending some time with her in Florida, learning a few tricks. We think this is a very good idea and can’t wait to hear a new spin on an old song! Mentorship is always a great thing!

But in all honesty…Talbott was pretty empty most of the evening, which has somewhat been the case the last several times we’ve been there, which makes us a little worried. Everywhere we go anymore, people stop us and give us their feelings about certain clubs in Indy and what they want us to write. So, let us just fill you in on what we heard last night at Talbott, because honestly, it was everywhere we turned. “The drag show is lame and the same every week. They shouldn’t have fired Alana. No matter what the business problems were, she at least knew how to keep a big crowd entertained.” And, “D.J. Deane needs to retire. Either decide if you’re going to tend bar or D.J., but it looks bad for Talbott to have her do both.” And, “this place has been empty all night and it’s always empty anymore. We’d rather go to Broadripple, and that’ saying something.” And, “they had this guest drag queen two weeks ago that was great and if she was here every week I’d come, but it’s boring and I don’t think I’ll come to the show anymore.”
Now…mind you, WE have been extremely supportive of Talbott Street and continued to say we had a good time, but please give us a leg to stand on.

Here…let us give a few suggestions…Hire someone to turn the show around. We really do like Vicki and Asia and think they’re great, but the show doesn’t have much cohesiveness. Think The Connection. Talbott has the room and the stage to do this and back in the day, this was the case on a little stage at the Metro, and Wednesday nights were packed. Promote the hell out of your events. We’d be MORE than willing to help you with this since our readership has quadrupled in the last month, but we’ve never been asked. Be creative…Think outside of the box. Think Studio 54 and make Talbott amazing again. We know you have it in you.
We would like to say that MOST of the staff is more welcoming than ever…unless they feel that our comments are personal and then we just go to a different bartender. We would like to throw out a huge kudos to Shai who is always friendly and who we personally witnessed taking care of a patron who was passed out on a couch. She explained to us the personal attention they give to patrons who are in trouble, calling a cab or holding someone’s drink while they go to the bathroom. We would like to just add how impressed we are, especially since we have witnessed other club’s doormen or bouncers laying drunk patrons outside the front door of their club. Good going lady and thank you for always being so friendly and quick!!! You’re amazing!!! Also, we were impressed that $2 of our admission went to the Indiana AIDS Fund AIDS Walk!

We would like to just put one rumor out there that we have heard over and over and over again lately. And that is that Talbott Street is either closing or going under new ownership??? We’re just putting it out there since that’s what we’ve heard. Maybe someone would like to fill us in on the truth…Love one another!
Eyes Open…we’re watching!

We’ve had a busy, busy schedule this weekend, but we wanted to put a HUGE thank you out to our friend Gracia and our bevy of beauties who threw us a small, intimate engagement dinner at Bella Vita on Saturday night. Not only did we get to have dinner with 12 of our closest, but we were able to celebrate our wedding engagement and begin the countdown to our wedding next August. Thanks all who came out and helped us celebrate…

and especially Silver Carpet Alum and Indy elite hair stylist at Salon 01, Stephanie White who danced it up with us after the dinner on the patio at Bella Vita to their live band. (Really, try to get out there before it gets cold and enjoy the last days, or nights, of summer! The patio is still open and it’s a pretty amazing setting for being in the heart of the northside of Indy.) And the bar INSIDE Bella Vita is one of the coolest bars to just sit around and have a drink. The atmosphere is extremely relaxed and loungey, and we noticed some pretty amazing looking people, just hanging out, socializing. Reminds us a little bit of old, hotel bars in Chicago…

Also…look for our new blog, The Road to Hell documenting the year leading to our wedding…
Remember,
Eyes Open, We’re Watching!

Yeah…don’t freak out or anything, but we have a question for you. What do David Letterman, Vivica A. Fox and Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds have in common??? That’s right folks. They’re all from Indianapolis. And…who else is from our fair city? Brittany Mason. And she’s about to explode. We’ve been trying to tell you this for some time now and we’re getting the feeling that no one believes us…so be forewarned. Your own Miss Indiana USA 2008 is about to be HUGE!!! And this little piece of humble pie is someone we can truly be proud to claim!!!

And when she gets famous…and makes us all proud…and reminds us that Indiana is a great place to come from…remember…

There’s more than corn in Indiana…
We love you Brit Brit and can’t wait to show all those disbelievers what an amazing person you are!!!
Eyes open!!! We’re Watching!!!