Alex Lifeson to participate in Alice Cooper's Rock & Roll Golf Classic and Vampire Bash

Alice Cooper's annual Rock & Roll Golf Classic to benefit Solid Rock and The Rock Teen Center, will take place April 24-5 at the Las Sendas Golf Club in Mesa, AZ. There will also be a Vampire Bash in connection with the golf tournament on Sunday, April 24th from 4:30-10PM which includes a Cocktail Reception, Silent Auction, Dinner, Live Auction and Live Entertainment on the PCS Stage with Alice Cooper and friends, including Alex Lifeson, Danny Seraphine (Chicago), Tommy Thayer (KISS), Frank Sidoris (Slash), and Neal Smith (Alice Cooper), and the comic genius of John O'Hurley and Jeff Allen. The golf tournament itself is sold out, but you can get tickets to the Vampire Bash for $250. For all the details and to purchase tickets visit alicecoopersolidrock.com. Thanks to MikeB for the heads up.

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Inside the $10.5M space-age home where James Bond once took a beating

James Bond and the Palm Springs home

From Luxury Listings NYC: Almost as dazzling as the jewels in the 1971 Bond classic film “Diamonds are Forever” was the home featured in it. Now this futuristic Palm Springs, California four bedroom, five-and-a-half bath pad could be yours for just $10.5 million. [more]

Geddy Lee to appear on the Prog Magazine Radio Show tonight

Geddy Lee will be the guest on tonight's edition of the Prog Magazine Radio Show on Teamrock Radio. He'll be chatting with host Philip Wilding about the 40th anniversary of 2112 and other subjects:

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Architect proposes High Line to Hudson sky bridge and island

A concept by architect Eytan Kaufman

It has been a wild week for architecture in NYC. There was the proposal to destroy Central Park by building a 1,000-foot glass wall, the passing of Zaha Hadid and these 11 futuristic skyscraper ideas. And now a firm wants to connect the High Line to an island in the Hudson.

New York architect Eytan Kaufman created the concept, which connects the final leg of the High Line at 34th Street to an island-like pier in the Hudson River, according to 6sqft.

Currently, the High Line comes to an anticlimactic end at the Jacob Javits Center, but Kaufman's design, called Hub on the Hudson, would be much more exciting. He would create a pedestrian bridge over the West Side Highway leading to to a huge, circular recreational center.

As 6sqft pointed out, the proposal isn't that different from Barry Diller's proposed Pier 55 floating park, which is planned for the Hudson River near the Meatpacking District.

The island would extend more than 700 feet into the river and occupy nearly nine acres. It would also boast five interconnected pyramid-shaped buildings. Compared to all the rest of the stuff that has come out this week, this really isn't the worst idea ever. Still, don't expect a floating island in the Hudson anytime soon.

[6sqft] –Christopher Cameron