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This week on The Broke and the Beautiful, celebrities are treading lightly in the bankruptcy waters, but Broke still has some morsels for you. Former baseball star Curt Schilling rags on the governor of Rhode Island, and boxer Mike Tyson is hitting up an investor forum in China. Also, Warren Sapp has a new book.

Solyndra’s trash is two California artists’ treasure.

Since filing for bankruptcy protection last September, the failed solar company has abandoned thousands of the cylindrical glass tubes that made its solar panels unique (and were its namesake). Now, some of those tubes comprise an art installation in the University of California Botanical Garden in Berkeley.

It’s still not clear whether San Diego marijuana dispensary Mother Earth’s Alternative Healing Cooperative Inc.

The collapse of a Washington, D.C.-area warehouse’s roof this summer has thrown a wrench into the wind-down of defunct law firm Howrey LLP.

Attorney Allan Diamond, who is overseeing Howrey’s bankruptcy liquidation, said in a case status report that the June 28 accident at the Recall document-storage facility is “hindering” his team’s effort to get confidential files back into the hands of Howrey’s former clients. (You can read the full status report, filed in bankruptcy court Monday, here.)