Thread count: GQ magazine has included George Bass’ St. Charles Avenue men’s store in New Orleans on its “25 Best Men’s Stores in America” list. “This gentlemen’s shop has been here a quarter century, but don’t call it a nostalgia trip. Bass’s Nawlins-via-Italy aesthetic (suits by Isaia, Kiton) has become the thing in menswear right now,” the magazine says. See the full list here. George Bass opened its Corporate Boulevard location in Baton Rouge last spring.
The name game: There’s been another delay in efforts to create hundreds of Internet address suffixes to join “.com” and others already in use. Last week, a technical glitch forced the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which is in charge of domain names, to abruptly shut down a system for letting companies and organizations apply for new names. The system was supposed to reopen today, but ICANN says it needs more time to inform applicants that may have been affected by the glitch. ICANN has indicated it might take until the end of the week to provide an update. The delay shouldn’t have a major effect on the availability of new suffixes, however. The new names wouldn’t appear in general use until spring of 2013 at the earliest.
Action! Google is adding 600 movies from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to the titles it has available for rent on YouTube and also Google Play, its digital content store for Android-powered mobile devices. MGM, whose film library includes classics like Rocky and Rain Man, joins five other major studios offering movies for rent through Google: Paramount, Universal, Sony Pictures, Warner Bros. and The Walt Disney Co. Several smaller studios, including Lions Gate Entertainment and The Weinstein Co., also rent movies online through Google.
