Archives: Posts From January 2007

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Playing Arias for Laughs
By Amanda Gordon | Wed, 31 Jan 2007 at 12:22 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Opera stars at the Pierre Sunday night for the Opera News Awards. An under-recognized strength of the Metropolitan Opera is the Metropolitan Opera Guild. Its volunteers lead tours of the opera house, and its publication, Opera News, keeps people all over ...

Mogul of Mod
By Amanda Gordon | Tue, 30 Jan 2007 at 3:24 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Flirty, colorful clothes with a '60s vibe are Lisa Perry's passion - and new business. Read more in my cover story today, and see more of her styles at the Lisa Perry Style web site. ...

Waltzing Debs & Dignitaries
By Amanda Gordon | Sun, 28 Jan 2007 at 4:34 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: In a suite next to the ballroom, the debutantes and their male admirers waited for their big entrance. At the Viennese Opera Ball, held Friday, young men and women dressed up and performed the waltz for a grown-up multinational crowd, who later joined ...

Doing Good, Acting Well
By Amanda Gordon | Fri, 26 Jan 2007 at 1:52 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: International Women's Health Coalition and Manhattan Theatre Club are the subjects of today's column - page 12 of the print edition. Those featured in the photo essay include Kati Marton, Elizabeth Jennings, Marnie Pillsbury, Constance Spahn, Richard ...

A Gracious Evening
By Amanda Gordon | Wed, 24 Jan 2007 at 2:36 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: The Gracie Mansion Conservancy benefit is my favorite event of the year, as I wrote in Out & About today. Photos, including ones not in the print edition, are here. As promised, below are some online extras. The Scene The Guests Board members of ...

Diplomatic Wives Club
By Amanda Gordon | Wed, 24 Jan 2007 at 10:46 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: The U Thant Institute brought together a power United Nations crowd Monday. My column is here and photos are here. Some online extras: The lunch menu at the Metropolitan Club: baby spinach salad with candied walnuts, grilled peach, and crumbled ...

In Soap Land, Bomb explodes at Fundraiser
By Amanda Gordon | Mon, 22 Jan 2007 at 5:29 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: On the January 26th episode of "General Hospital," a massive explosion interrupts a charity fundraiser at Port Charles' swanky Metro Court Hotel. Episodes over the next few weeks turn the clock back 16 hours to explain how this could possibly happen -- ...

The Winter Antique Show Party
By Amanda Gordon | Fri, 19 Jan 2007 at 12:44 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Thursday night at the Armory, a gala preview raised money for the East Side House Settlement. The Out & About photo gallery has a bunch of snaps and... Mayor Bloomberg and Arie Kopelman Martha Stewart, Robin Marino & Memrie Lewis Margaret Russell & ...

Lowry Nurtures
By Amanda Gordon | Thu, 18 Jan 2007 at 9:46 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: A museum director does all sorts of things to support art and artists. At the opening of 'sleepwalkers' the other night, Brazilian musician, composer, and actor Seu Jorge's hands were cold. So MoMA's director, Glenn Lowry, lent him his gloves. When the ...

All Eyes On 'sleepwalkers'
By Amanda Gordon | Wed, 17 Jan 2007 at 10:58 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: The opening festivities last night for Doug Aitken's project at MoMA demonstrated the dynamism of the New York art world. Check it out in the Out & About photo gallery. ...

MLK Birthday Wishes, in CORE fashion
By Amanda Gordon | Wed, 17 Jan 2007 at 10:41 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: An array of well-wishes turned out for the Congress of Racial Equality's annual bash to honor Martin Luther King Jr. Read about it in the column today and see the photos I took in the photo gallery (links to both are on the navigation bar at left). ...

Around the Rink
By Amanda Gordon | Thu, 11 Jan 2007 at 9:08 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Today's column is about the Central Park Consevancy's annual skating party. Check back later this morning for online photos ... and a round up of where to get your blades on this season. ...

Time to Read
By Amanda Gordon | Wed, 10 Jan 2007 at 8:32 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: It's low season for the charity ball but high season for book publication parties. In today's column, I write about the party HarperCollins threw for "Tales from the Town of Widows," the literary debut of James Canon. Some bonus party facts: * After a ...

Morning Memo
By Amanda Gordon | Mon, 8 Jan 2007 at 8:23 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: * Today's column: New arrivals on Wall Street are ready to make their mark with the help of the workforce development nonprofit Year Up. See them in the photo gallery. ...