With the unparalleled devistation in Haiti, people have been coming up with creative means to raise money for relief efforts despite our dire economic times.  People like Charlie Simpson, 7, from Fulham, west London who set out to raise £500 ($812.25 US) by organizing a bike-a-thon has amassed over £110,000 ($162,450 US) and Lexi Caruthers, 10, from Encinitas, CA who hoped to raise $10 selling hand painted rocks that she gathered over the weekend raised $124.81.  In Sacramento, things are no different; nightclubs such as Punchline Comedy Club and Marilyn's on K have organized benefit shows, Sugar Plum Vegan Cafe has organized a bake sale and now The Coffee Garden is hosting an artwork raff

Now we just need the city to rid the bike lanes of garbage/recycling bins, piles of yard waste, "valet parking signs", etc. and to *finally* do something about the fact that the RT bus garage on 28th barricades the bike lane

Not to steal your thunder but "greenwash" is not a "newly coined term" unless you mean that you *just* "coined" it. Greenwashing is a term that has been used for some time to describe the practices of companies who disingenuously spin their products/policies as being environmentally friendly (like Old Soul saying that their coffee is Fair Trade and/or Organic despite it being neither)

Oh, and you missed the beginning of my post; what the hell does the Harlem Globetrotters have to do with Midtown, ice skating or bowling? I mean, really ...

No, they don't move to Midtown for quiet and parking *but* when a half a blocks worth of parking gets taken by an ice rink that is only benefiting a few businesses then parking turns to crap as half a blok is gone and more people are being drawn into the area (read the comments on any article dealing with the rink and you'll see). As for quiet; I live on G street (for blocks away) and *I* can hear the damn music being played at the rink (audible from that distance is a violation of the law but, try to get the city to enforce it; I have).

Oh, yeah ... nothing says "midtown", "ice skating" and/or "basketball" like having the Harlem Globetrotter bowling at an ice rink. Really? And has anything come from the comments of neighbors losing sleep and parking to the ice rink?