Keyshia Cole is off the market. Cole, the R&B songstress who resides in Alpharetta and will play the Fox Theatre Thursday, is dating Cleveland Cavaliers guard Daniel Gibson, Cole’s publicist confirmed Tuesday. Their status had been rumored on the Internet, and they were photographed together leaving Cole’s concert in Chicago last Friday.

Prior to that, Cole wore Gibson’s jersey in her recently released “Trust” video with Monica, and Cole sang the national anthem at a Hawks-Cavaliers playoff game at Philips Arena. If you’re wondering, Gibson, a Cavs sub, played 14 minutes that night in front of his sweetie but did not score in Cleveland’s Game 3 win.

Five thousand donate to Save Paste campaign

It’s been about a week since Decatur-based music magazine Paste went public with a request: Save us.

In a rough economy that’s doling out sucker-punches to the publishing industry — really, Buzz feels you — the magazine set up a Save Paste donation site and asked artists to offer up tracks for donors to download as a reward.

What’s happened since then? More than 5,000 people donated so far, and more than 100 artists pitched in rare songs. Among them: The Decemberists, Neko Case, She & Him, Of Montreal, Indigo Girls, Over the Rhine, Arrested Development and Yoko Ono. (That last one caught them by surprise, too.)

Editor-in-chief Josh Jackson said they won’t announce the donation total yet, but with the momentum of the first week behind them, they expect to keep it going a little longer. Readers are pitching in by organizing benefit concerts and in one case, making a short film to be distributed to donors.

“The name ‘Save Paste,’ that’s not an understatement,” Jackson said. “This process is actually saving Paste.

“We’ve been blown away. It’s been the most encouraging week of my life. It’s been such a reaffirmation of what we’re doing. Seven years, always based in Decatur — this is our baby. Our baby got rescued.”

Coca-Cola Party? Not just for the under-caffeinated.

When food writer Mark Kurlansky dug into never-published, New Deal-era Works Progress Administration writings about Americans’ eating habits, he found a history of food from 1938 to 1941, before highway systems and Happy Meals, back when we all ate locally grown food with regional flavor, because it was the only way.

The South was a particularly rich source of food history, he said, but the Georgia item that amused him most was a short writeup about Coca-Cola Parties: “Usually the ladies assemble between eleven and twelve in the morning at the home of the hostess. Trays of tall iced glasses filled with Coca-Cola are passed, followed by platters of crackers and small iced cakes. The dining table is decorated like any tea-table with flower fruit or mints, except that there are little buckets of ice so that guests may replenish their glasses as the ice melts.”

Like many items Kurlansky found in the “America Eats” WPA archives, the entry was undated and the writer unnamed, but he published it in his book “The Food of a Younger Land.” While touring with the book, he often hears about families that still eat foods prepared a certain way or serving special regional ingredients, but Coke parties haven’t shown up.

“It’s one of the few things in the book that doesn’t exist anymore,” Kurlansky said, admitting that he wishes he knew more about it.

Buzz checked in with Phil Mooney, The Coca-Cola Company’s director of heritage communications, and he said Coke had only recently made the move from soda fountain specialty to new-fangled home refrigerated beverage in the 1930s, so the company advertised it as a home entertainment tool. Coca-Cola parties, he said, were probably inspired by the 1932 book “When You Entertain,” by Ida Bailey Allen, the Martha Stewart of her day. Coca-Cola sold the small, red hardcover book to hundreds of thousands of people for 10 cents.

“In all the illustrations,” Mooney said, “there was always a discreetly placed bottle of Coke.”

Buzz suspects that Coca-Cola Parties still exist — we just call them Lines at the Vending Machine.

Kurlansky will speak and sign books at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Central Branch of the Atlanta-Fulton County Public Library, 1 Margaret Mitchell Sq., 404-730-1700. The event is free and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase.

Overscene

“Make Me A Supermodel” host Tyson Beckford at the W Atlanta Midtown, sporting a black & white plaid shirt, white vest, skinny black jeans — and a mohawk. Kourtney Kardashian at the W, too, over the weekend, in a black hat and a long striped black and white wrap sweater. One woman was overheard telling Kardashian that she didn’t realize she was “tiny.”

Celebrity Birthdays

Singer Joe Cocker is 65. Singer-actress Cher is 63. Actor Dave Thomas (”Grace Under Fire,” “SCTV”) is 60. Musician Warren Cann of Ultravox is 57. Actor Dean Butler (”Little House on the Prairie”) is 53. Guitarist Jane Wiedlin of The Go-Go’s is 51. Actor Bronson Pinchot is 50. Singer Susan Cowsill of The Cowsills is 50. Actor John Billingsley (”Enterprise”) is 49. Actor Tony Goldwyn is 49. Singer Nick Heyward of Haircut 100 is 48. TV personality Ted Allen (”Queer Eye for the Straight Guy”) is 44. Actress Mindy Cohn (”Facts of Life”) is 43. Guitarist Tom Gorman of Belly is 43. Rapper Busta Rhymes is 37. Bassist Ryan Martinie of Mudvayne is 34. Actor Matt Czuchry (Friday Night Lights,” “Gilmore Girls”) is 32. Singer-actress Naturi Naughton (3LW) is 25

Contributing: Ken Sugiura and news services.

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