Archives: Posts From January 2008

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"Persepolis" Author's Fashion Friend
By Amanda Gordon | Mon, 28 Jan 2008 at 9:50 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: If a big Academy Awards ceremony does take place this year, red carpet and all, Marjane Satrapi will be going down the red carpet in a Diane von Furstenberg dress. Ms. Satrapi, who lives in Paris, is up for an Oscar for best animated feature for her ...

A Touchdown for Save for the Children
By Amanda Gordon | Thu, 24 Jan 2008 at 6:03 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Tiki Barber, Tess Blythe & Eric Mourlot/credit: Robert Gulick Even though it'd be easy for Tiki Barber to think only about football in the days leading up to the Super Bowl -- his former team, the Giants, is in the contest for the first time since 2001 ...

How Not To Look Old At Your Book Party
By Amanda Gordon | Mon, 21 Jan 2008 at 2:50 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: In writing a book titled "How Not To Look Old," Charla Krupp has put her own looks on the line. No problem for her: not only does she not look old, she doesn't look sad, tired, or frustrated. And why should she be? Her book moves to No. 5 on the New York ...

Deitch Projects Goes Bananas
By Amanda Gordon | Mon, 21 Jan 2008 at 12:00 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: It was a typical afternoon at The New York Sun until our receptionist Michelle Eusebio rang me up and said, "There's a banana for you at the front desk. It just arrived by messenger." "A what?" I said. Didn't she mean, oh, i don't know, a bouquet of ...

Opera News Awards
By Amanda Gordon | Sat, 19 Jan 2008 at 11:18 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: The Sun's Cheryl Warfield, who recently started the paper's "Song and Numbers" blog, about being an accountant and an opera singer, has posted an audio interview with the editor of Opera News, F. Paul Driscoll. Topics include the history and mission of ...

Where It's Warm and Cozy
By Amanda Gordon | Fri, 18 Jan 2008 at 6:56 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: John Thain For the 15th year in a row, a storm greeted the arrival of the Winter Antiques Show gala preview. And this time around, the precipitation included plunges in the stock market. But all was well inside the show, where platters of cupcakes and ...

How To Make a Folk Song
By Amanda Gordon | Tue, 15 Jan 2008 at 6:40 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Political candidates could take a lesson or two about what makes America great from Woody Guthrie. His music and writings are distilled beautifully in a touring tribute show that came to New York's Knitting Factory Monday titled "Ribbon of Highway ...

Best of the Archives: the Inaugural Art Parade
By Amanda Gordon | Thu, 3 Jan 2008 at 6:58 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: One day in September, 2005 a spectacle descended on Grand Street, and Out & About was there to watch, photograph, and write about it. Photos from the inaugural Art Parade have just been added to the Photo Gallery [click here], plus here's the Out & About ...

First Party of the Year
By Amanda Gordon | Thu, 3 Jan 2008 at 6:05 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: In the city that never sleeps, the Metropolitan Opera is the cultural institution that never sleeps. For what institution would be bold enough to throw a fund-raising gala on a night when most patrons are expected to be out of town? The Met's New Year's ...