Monthly Archives: September 2010

Check out all this loot! A couple of months ago, we invested some green in four Juicy Couture handbags to raffle off during Brainstorming. Our raffle was a success and we had four lucky winners! MyNewPlace would like to offer its congratulations to: Kim Birkholz of Dominium! (since we don’t have her picture, we’ll just [...]

To say “Lindsay Lohan has had a rough summer” is probably the understatement of the decade. For while it is probably impossible to speculate what precisely is going on in the addled mind of the addict, it looks to the casual observer like her recent admission into a southern California rehab facility is either a [...]

Construction of new apartment buildings propelled a housing permits surge in the month of August, according to the US Commerce department.  This will be the largest increase (10.5%) in new construction since April and it brings up many questions for property owners, current landlords, potential tenants, and those of us here at MyNewPlace.com. While the [...]

As we’ve been alluding for over a week now, MyNewPlace has been involved in helping one of our employees raise money for a breast cancer cure (Susan G. Komen Foundation) and we have invited her along with one of our other employees to weigh in – on both the cause and the fund-raising effort! We [...]

With Guest Dlogger, Leroy Brown This week’s news included crazy weather reports, serious threats to the Pope and a slurry of the latest trends strutting down New York Fashion Week runways. But let’s hone in on one of the really important issues: the 2011 Guinness Book of World Records has released its winners, including: the [...]

Good News – it’s what we’ve all been waiting for! The first ever Celebrity Tweet Auction has commenced! Essentially, you enter bids and if you win, your favorite celebrity will give you a shout-out on their Twitter, re-tweet something you say, or follow your Twitter feed for a specified amount of time. Instant notoriety under [...]

When most celebrities decide on their multi-million dollar dream home, they probably just dash off a check and have their assistants move their stuff and take care of all the other messy details. But what about starlets such as Heidi Montag and her on-again off-again husband Spencer Pratt? Presumably they don’t have the same  $40 [...]

Though not quite so scandalous as she was a decade ago, Angelina Jolie still manages to create a media frenzy pretty much every time she opens her mouth. As of this morning the most recent gossip is the following: Angelina Jolie HAS NO FRIENDS!! What? Interviewed from Pakistan by CNN’s Sanjay Gupta, Jolie spoke at [...]