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$17,000 Raised for Disaster Relief in Japan; Weight Watchers Now Targeting Men

• Over the past few weeks, Coast in Bucktown and South Coast in the South Loop have helped raise over $17,000 in funds for disaster relief in Japan. [Sloopin]

• Weight Watchers has begun targeting men — but don’t worry, the commercials run during sports games, so it’s still manly. [Crain’s]

• Britney Spears is staying healthy on her Femme Fatale tour by issuing strict instructions that no one offer her junk food or alcohol. If you lack willpower, hire it! [Music/AOL]

• We knew cocktail ice was a big deal, but this is cool: “Ice acts like your liquid oven, stove or essentially, cold ‘cooking’ device where, through a change in temperature and dilution, individual spirits and modifying elements are melded into a delicious whole.” [WSJ]

• Wal-Mart’s latest arena to conquer is online grocery ordering: the company is testing a pilot program in San Jose, California. [NYT]

• Food price increases in Asia are threatening to push millions of people into extreme poverty, though experts expect rice prices, at least, to fall with the spring harvest. [NYT]

• Writer Damien Ma is not down with the Chinese-food scene in our nation’s capital: “If there was to be a contest for ‘Most Pathetic Chinatowns in the US,’ DC’s would rank toward the top,” he asserts. [Atlantic]

$17,000 Raised for Disaster Relief in Japan; Weight Watchers Now Targeting Men