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Archives: Posts From July 2006
Golden Anniversary
By Amanda Gordon | Mon, 31 Jul 2006 at 11:44 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Everyone likes reading about divorces but some marriages do last. The former ceo of ITT, Rand Araskog, and his wife Jessie Araskog, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary Saturday with a big bash out in the Hamptons. Cheers to them and to another ...
Polo Update
By Amanda Gordon | Mon, 31 Jul 2006 at 11:23 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Ashley Schiff's polo team, Northwood, won in overtime Saturday at the Mercedes Benz Polo Challenge. Her hard core fans watched the match from a tent set up on the general admissions side of the field -- the better side for viewing, as all true Polo ...
Today's Column
By Amanda Gordon | Mon, 31 Jul 2006 at 11:15 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Super Saturday earned its name this weekend. The designers brought some of their best merchandise and the shoppers -- raising money for the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund -- did their best to clear it out. Donna Karan, Judy Licht, Jessie Della Femina, and ...
Today's Column
By Amanda Gordon | Fri, 28 Jul 2006 at 11:46 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: The Hamptons has it all: polo, estates, renowned artists, long stretches of beach, and Pianofest, a program for some of the most talented young pianists today. They come from far away to practice all day on a Steinway. Read about them all you want in my ...
Today's Column
By Amanda Gordon | Thu, 27 Jul 2006 at 7:34 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Fresh faces from San Francisco joined with familiar ones from New York at the opening night gala of the San Francisco Ballet at Lincoln Center Festival. See them in the paper today: Pamela Joyner and daughter Morgan Joyner Love, Kathryn Chenault, Alicia ...
Today's Column
By Amanda Gordon | Wed, 26 Jul 2006 at 7:53 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Warning: this installment of the Sun's social column may make you hungry.
The James Beard Foundation's tasting event in the Hamptons brought out chefs from all over the country. Ones we caught on film: twhree working in New York, Thomas Keller, Eric ...
Social Enterprise
By Amanda Gordon | Mon, 24 Jul 2006 at 11:25 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: As of Saturday night, Daniel Marks Cohen is not just another 35-year-old single Jewish male looking for love in Manhattan. He's the guy who sent an e-mail to his network with the subject line "The woman of my future," in which he begs to be set up on a ...
Today's Column
By Amanda Gordon | Mon, 24 Jul 2006 at 8:43 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Polo is a sexy sport -- and in most people's minds, that means Argentine men on the field and beautifully dressed women on the sidelines. In the Hamptons, though, women are taking up the sport. Read about some of them here or grab the print edition to ...
Hard-Working in the Hamptons Part II
By Amanda Gordon | Fri, 21 Jul 2006 at 7:29 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Yesterday morning at Citarella in East Hampton, Plum Sykes and Toby Rowland were hard at work food shopping. Dressed in a faded Tory Burch terrycloth top, Ms. Sykes scooped up grapefruit, tomatoes, and corn at the market -- appropriately healthy food for ...
Today's Column
By Amanda Gordon | Fri, 21 Jul 2006 at 8:43 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Just when you were getting used to the small travel bag in which you threw in a bikini and a sundress, the fashion industry is telling you it's time to fill your closet with bulky winter clothing. So it went Tuesday at Bill Blass New York's fall 2006 ...
Today's Column
By Amanda Gordon | Wed, 19 Jul 2006 at 7:36 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Taste of Summer at Lincoln Center turned one section of the performing arts plaza into a lover's lane, while the young set at Brooklyn Botanic Garden's Passport to Summer demonstrated how to picnic in style, then took over the Palm House to boogie down. ...
Television
By Amanda Gordon | Tue, 18 Jul 2006 at 11:47 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: The Emmy Award nominees for News & Documentary were announced today, with lots of nods to Katrina and the war in Iraq. Of note is the list of programs that turned up under the category "Outstanding Cultural and Artistic Programming." PBS rules with three ...
Presidential Wrap
By Amanda Gordon | Tue, 18 Jul 2006 at 11:14 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Diane von Furstenberg was yesterday elected president of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, a move that will give the designer a formal platform for her civic leanings (most recently she's taken up the cause of Friends of the High Line). "I ...
Culture Wave
By Amanda Gordon | Tue, 18 Jul 2006 at 7:27 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: There are those who choose ice-cold air-conditioned comfort for their cultural consumption, and there are those who prefer to sweat it out. For the latter, two options tonight...
...8-10 p.m., the New York Philharmonic performs in Central Park with ...
Good Editorial Directing
By Amanda Gordon | Mon, 17 Jul 2006 at 2:58 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Today is Ellen Levine's first day on the job as editorial director of Hearst magazines, after editing Good Housekeeping for so long. Hopefully she'll still get to partake of her former magazine's famous popovers, which I had the pleasure of sampling at a ...
Today's Column: Watermill Center
By Amanda Gordon | Mon, 17 Jul 2006 at 1:13 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: The white attire at Watermill Center's benefit certainly showed off those summer tans -- Somers Farkas had the look down in an off-white long dress with crochet accents and beach-tousled curly hair. Thankfully no one looked like they were wearing a ...
Hard-working in the Hamptons
By Amanda Gordon | Fri, 14 Jul 2006 at 2:01 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: At SoHo House Wednesday night, Robin Hazelwood (right) signed a copy of her book "Model Student" for Valerie Wayne, while her brother Charles Rockefeller (center) purchased his copy.
Model turned novelist Robin Hazelwood, whose book party I wrote about ...
Status Raingear
By Amanda Gordon | Wed, 12 Jul 2006 at 6:41 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: When the rain pours, as it right now, forcing the cancellation of the New York Philharmonic's concert in Central Park, there's only one umbrella New York's most elegant ladies carry: the one made by Wathne for the Central Park Conservancy. It's not for ...
The Arts & Liquor Section
By Amanda Gordon | Tue, 11 Jul 2006 at 12:53 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Alec Magnet files a fun piece in today's Sun on Opera on Tap, a young group presenting the rarified art form in local bars. Apparently inebriation produces not only more attentive audiences but also better performances. But the article leaves to our ...
Fancy Pours
By Amanda Gordon | Tue, 11 Jul 2006 at 11:37 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Tomorrow the entire aquamanilia collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art goes on view at the Bard Graduate Center. That's right, aquamanilia -- you know, those water pitchers popular in the Middle Ages, fashioned in the form of humans and animals: so ...
Monster Love
By Amanda Gordon | Tue, 11 Jul 2006 at 7:55 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Lincoln Center's press reps tell us that three lovely-looking actresses -- Isabella Rossellini, Julianna Margulies, and Rachel Weisz -- are expected to take in the tale of one very ugly monster (performed by Eric Owens) at tonight's opening of "Grendel: ...
Chimp Expert to Visit Hamptons
By Amanda Gordon | Mon, 10 Jul 2006 at 1:40 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: The wildlife of Georgica Pond will have a close observer on August 12th when Jane Goodall makes her first visit to the Hamptons. And you can join her as she makes her study -- to include the influence of a live performance by Sarah McLachlan -- at a ...
This Morning's Flames
By Amanda Gordon | Mon, 10 Jul 2006 at 11:42 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: It is worth noting that several foundations are located in the immediate vicinity of the fire that brought down a building on East 62nd Street this morning. One block down: the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Lily Auchincloss Foundation. The Russell ...
Taking a Swing
By Amanda Gordon | Mon, 10 Jul 2006 at 10:54 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Those long stretches of green are a favorite place for charities to bring in the green in the summer months. Today: Autism Speaks is at the Winged Foot Golf Club; at the Canoe Brook Country Club the birdies will be benefiting Special Olympics of New ...
Good Eats in the Hills
By Amanda Gordon | Mon, 10 Jul 2006 at 7:47 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Tanglewood aficionados are happy with a picnic (which you can buy on site if you wish). At the opening night gala, benefactors attended a sit-down dinner under a tent. Highlights: the green glass goblets, the oyster mushrooms on the salad from the ...
Today's Column...
By Amanda Gordon | Mon, 10 Jul 2006 at 7:33 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: ....takes readers to the Berkshire Hills, where Jasper Johns, Al Roker and Deborah Roberts, James Taylor, and James Levine's mother were among those who celebrated Tanglewood's opening night.
So turn to page 12 to find out what Mr. Levine isn't eating ...
Bright Lights, Big City
By Amanda Gordon | Fri, 7 Jul 2006 at 10:46 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: In today's column, I write about the Ghetto Film School's Fellows program, which teaches teenagers how to make films. "When I started the program, I had no idea people could do this for a living. I thought it was something that happened in California for ...
The Great Outdoors
By Amanda Gordon | Fri, 7 Jul 2006 at 9:49 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: No camping equipment necessary for the great outdoor parties in New York City over the weekend.
TONIGHT: The Cooper-Hewitt's weekly dance party draws a design-friendly crowd to the pristine courtyard of the museum, originally built as a grand Fifth ...
Fundraising on the Fourth
By Amanda Gordon | Thu, 6 Jul 2006 at 1:26 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: New York is one of the most philanthropic cities in the countries so it's odd how little you hear about charitable activity on the holiday. I do understand the impulse to take a break: it's nice to have a holiday where everyone gets to focus on family, ...
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