-Chris Paul Finally Sits Down with Long-Lost Brother, Cliff Paul

-Digitas Makes Some Reductions in NY, Boston

-Yes, BBDO NY is Making Some ‘Significant’ Cuts

-Pierce Parts Ways with KBS+

-McKinney Cuts Staff in NC

-The Porsche Review Might Be Coming Down to the Wire

-Digitas GCD Daggett Moves On

-Chris Chalk, who most recently worked on Team Land Rover at WPP, has assumed the president/chief strategy officer for Cheil Worldwide Europe.

-CP+B has brought on BBH New York/Singapore alum Andy Grant as an ACD in its L.A. office.

-M&C Saatchi L.A. celebrates the new Australian Outback exhibit at the San Diego Zoo with a new campaign dubbed “Koalafornia” (above, see more here).

-Yahoo’s acquisition wishlist expands, this time with Tumblr. link

-Dunkin’ Donuts hops on the Vine. link

-We’ve already mentioned the 2013 Grand Clio winners list. In case you didn’t attend last night’s show in NYC (you missed some nice interaction/ball-busting between host Eric Stonestreet and Rob Schwartz by the way), the Clio crew also handed out their first ever “Gravity Award” to Mayo Draftfcb Lima for inventing a billboard that converts condensation into potable water. See case study here.

-Since you rarely, if ever, see a Lucky Charms ad on the telly anymore, Saatchi & Saatchi, Calabash Animation and PatMan Studios are here to create some nostalgia via the viral mashup above.

-McGarryBowen London managing director Ida Rezvani is heading across the pond to assume the same role in said agency’s New York office. link

-Kevin Smith takes a stand against celeb crowdfunding (as do others, as you may have heard). link

-The “world’s first parrot search engine,” you say? link

-No worries, Netflix won’t be selling ads for its streaming site. link

-This is what happens when Dos Equis hires actor/comedian Michael Ian Black to tweet about their Facebook app (above). See the rest unfold here.

-Holy crap. A 24-year-old Ogilvy China staffer has apparently died from “overwork.” link

-Seattle-based agency DNA has hired Wexley School for Girls alum Roxanne Tolnas as account director and Jenny Lee, formerly of The Hacker Group, as senior art director. link

-Director/VFX artist/animator Drew Lightfoot has joined Toronto-based Untitled Films for Canadian representation. Lightfoot is represented by Passion Pictures here in the States.

-L.A.-based digital agency Sensis has welcomed Polly Beale and Joe Hyde as creative director and director of technology, respectively.

-Campbell Mithun unit Compass Point Media has launched an ad agency trading desk called OdinRTB for retail and CPG clients. link

-Family-owned Massachusetts brand Late July Organic Snacks has tapped Twin Cities agency Haberman to handle its social marketing expansion and new 2013 campaign.

-A Bullseye View, an online magazine focused on Target, notices the similarities between Brian Sanders‘ poster art for season six of Mad Men and ’60s ads for Dayton’s, which was Target’s predecessor. link

-Ted Booth, principal/managing director at design firm Method, discusses what advertising means in an age where there’s no “traditional” agency. link

-And now, some suggestive wine pairings from Harvest Films for California’s SLO Down Wines (above; see two more spots here and here).

-Salt Lake City digital agency Super Top Secret has added Chris Moore as a partner and has launched its film/TV-focused arm, STS Studios. link

-Global production studio @radical.media has signed Stoopid Buddy Stoodios (which includes Seth Green, Matthew Senreich, John Harvatine IV, and Eric Towner) to its roster. link

-London/San Francisco-based mobile marketing agency Fetch has appointed Catalyst S+F CEO/managing partner John Durham to its board of directors.

-It took a month to make it official, but, yes, McCann Erickson along with sister IPG agencies GolinHarris and Casanova Pendrill have been selected by the American Frozen Food Institute to develop a national consumer campaign on behalf of the newly-formed Frozen Food Roundtable.

-W+K Portland and Old Spice have reunited with Terry Crews (who just happened to be hanging with Ron Howard in NYC today) to promote the P&G brand’s Shave Gel launch (one spot above, second spot here). In addition, as part of the Shave Gel campaign, Old Spice has gained open access to Getty Images’ library of stock photography to create a 24-hour website generator, which just might be the most interesting component of the whole effort.

-And now, let’s warm the cockles and tell you that the pair of expecting Peregrine Falcons housed on Campbell Ewald’s rooftop have welcomed their first eyasses (baby falcon). Prepare to say “awww” as here’s a minute-long clip of mama’s first feeding to newborn.

-Well, that was fast as it appears JCPenney has already moved on from apologizing after barely two weeks. link; link

-ABC will kick off Nielsen’s first-ever trial in expanding the latter’s Online Campaign Ratings solution to mobile apps.

It took six months and change, but BBH has finally selected a new CEO for North America in Patrick Lafferty, who joins said agency after spending two-and-a-half years at McCann and the last 18 months as its North American COO. Lafferty replaces Greg Andersen, who was one of those affected by BBH’s major “restructuring” last fall. Lafferty, who will officially assume his CEO title at BBH this summer and based out of its New York office, rounds out a leadership team that includes CCO John Patroulis, CSO Sarah Watson and chairman, Emma Cookson.

Lafferty’s soon-to-be boss, BBH Group CEO Gwyn Jones, says in a statement, “Patrick has a really calm authority and such a rich body of experience. He has seen and done a lot both within and beyond our industry – embracing client side, media ownership and the military. We have great strategic and creative strength in the business, and I think Pat will bring outstanding leadership to that offering. On top of all that – I think he is just a great person.”

As you’d expect, Lafferty, who was, yes, a former platoon leader/company commander in the U.S. Army, will be tasked with running both BBH New York, which of course handles Axe and now Playstation, and L.A., which services clients including Red Bull. During his career, the exec has also worked on the account side at Leo Burnett and as CMO at Travel Channel.

-Alex Yenni, who most recently served as lead digital planner at SapientNitro on accounts including VitaminWater (on, for example, the #MakeBoringBrilliant campaign), has joined Blast Radius New York as strategy director.

-Spikes Asia 2013, which takes place Sept. 15-17 in Singapore, has announced its jury presidents including Ogilvy worldwide CCO Tham Khai Meng, who will head up Film, Press, Outdoor and Radio. link

-Pasadena, CA-based indie agency Ayzenberg Group, which boasts a client roster ranging from EA to Microsoft to Disney, is opening up shop in London this summer.

-Omnicom-owned Minneapolis agency Martin|Williams is behind the designs for new cans being offered by local brewer, Finnegans. link

-David&Goliath has teamed up with Psyop for a new effort called “More Luck for Your Buck,” which promotes the California Lottery’s Fortune 55 Scratchers game (above).

-Indianapolis-based agency Young & Laramore brought on Lindsay Hadley as an art director on accounts including Scotts LawnService.

-After spending the last five years at Venables Bell & Partners, where he most recently served as chief operation officer, John Minty has assumed the same title at DDB California (which includes the L.A. and San Francisco offices).

-Mike Sheehan chats with The Boston Globe about stepping down as CEO at Hill Holliday and handing over the reins to longtime colleague, Karen Kaplan. link

-Former Cohn & Wolfe EVP/managing director/senior digital strategist Brad B. McCormick has joined Dallas-based indie agency Moroch as chief digital officer.

-Leo Burnett/Merkley + Partners alum Melinda Smart has joined McCann Detroit in the newly created role of  EVP/integrated client services director.

-Cali-based agency Zambezi has launched a digital “pants petition” for Ashworth Golf that stars a handful of the latter’s brand ambassadors (above).

-Editorial/VFX/design studio Cut+Run added Amburr Farls as a senior producer in its Los Angeles office.

-Project: Worldwide agency George P. Johnson as appointed former Jack Morton Worldwide VP Jude Braunstein as executive director, client services, based out of the New York office.

-Salt Lake City-based Struck has been named corporate digital creative agency for homebuilding brand, Lennar Corporation.

And now, a bit of news news. The baton has officially been passed from one Martin Agency exec to another as the Richmond, VA operation’s chairman John B. Adams Jr. is taking over for longtime friend and colleague, Martin president Mike Hughes, as head of the VCU Brandcenter’s Board of Directors, which includes other notable names such as David Droga and Bob Greenberg Hughes, who you’re probably aware is battling cancer at the moment, will step down from his VCU leadership position, one he’s held for two decades, and into the role of chairman emeritus with the Brandcenter’s Advisory Board.

In a statement, the outgoing VCU board head says, ““I’m especially proud of my part in helping to bring [Brandcenter director] Helayne [Spivak] and John to these positions. I can’t imagine two better people to lead the changes and advances ahead. The students, faculty and the industry should all feel very good about this. My 34-year partnership with John and my 20-year relationship with the Brandcenter have been two of the highlights of my career. I envy their opportunity to help define the future of this business and the future of advertising and branding education.”