Archives: Posts From April 2008

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The D.C. Party Report
By Amanda Gordon | Sun, 27 Apr 2008 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: News organizations are competitive, on the number of scoops, the number of readers... and the number of celebrities they can get to come to their parties. On one night a year, these organizations decide to compete simultaneously, and it becomes a fierce ...

Wilco at Tanglewood
By Amanda Gordon | Thu, 24 Apr 2008 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: How to become relevant in an instant to a whole new generation of affluent music lovers? Book Wilco. Tanglewood has done it, and it's cause to celebrate with a Yankee fox trot. Wilco will play August 12. Tickets, ever so reasonably priced at $26 to $36, ...

Manhattan Institute Glam
By Amanda Gordon | Wed, 23 Apr 2008 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: That Alexander Hamilton was an elegant man, and his disciples at the Manhattan Institute follow in his footsteps, as I hope this photo, taken at the Institute's Alexander Hamilton Awards on Tuesday night, indicates. But this admittedly fuzzy photo of ...

Tribeca Film Festival Fashion
By Amanda Gordon | Wed, 23 Apr 2008 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: The Vanity Fair dinner opening the Tribeca Film Festival, which took place last night, is by now one of New York's socially exclusive traditions. With Graydon Carter presiding, the event pre-figured his Waverly Inn, except in some ways it still has more ...

Here She Comes to Save the Day
By Amanda Gordon | Wed, 23 Apr 2008 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: The Met doesn't need to be "saved" by anyone, but it is sure lucky to have fashion superhero Anna Wintour on hand to plan the Costume Institute's fund-raising party. The party is tied into the summer Costume Institute exhibit on superheroes, and today ...

Top Decorating Dish
By Amanda Gordon | Wed, 23 Apr 2008 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Fear not. Decorating is a "logical, rational process that anyone can understand and adopt," reads the introduction of "Decorating Master Class: The Cullman & Kravis Way" (Abrams), by Elissa Cullman and a colleague, Tracey Pruzan. The pair seemed well ...

Orpheus Snapped, Soundcheck Observed
By Amanda Gordon | Tue, 22 Apr 2008 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra's gala last night is the newest addition to the photo gallery, here: http://www.shutterfly.com/pro/nysun/outandabout/20080418 The highlight of the evening was the performance of Bartok's Rumanian Folk Dances, with the help of ...

Partnership with Children Turns Back the Century
By Amanda Gordon | Sun, 20 Apr 2008 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: One small step at a gala, one giant step for Partnership with Children. For the organization's centennial last night at the Pierre Hotel, dozens of women wore turn of the 20th century attire (one small illustration above, with more to come in the column ...

Peter Yarrow @ Channel 13 Gala
By Amanda Gordon | Sat, 19 Apr 2008 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Light one candle for this singer-songwriter, and Happy Passover. Photos of Channel 13's send-off to Bill Baker are here: http://www.shutterfly.com/pro/nysun/outandabout/20080418cu1 ...

Ladies Lunch #...
By Amanda Gordon | Sat, 19 Apr 2008 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: The honorees at the Jewish Women's Foundation of New York Benefit Luncheon, Pierre Hotel, Thursday, April 10, around 2 p.m.: Melva Bucksbaum, Jane Weitzman, Annette Insdorf, and Darcy Miller Nussbaum. The foundation gives grants to organizations and ...

Lots of Green with the Pink
By Amanda Gordon | Mon, 14 Apr 2008 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Above, Evelyn Lauder with her granddaughters, Danielle and Rachel, at last night's Breast Cancer Research Foundation gala at the Waldorf-Astoria. More than $5 million raised. Photos here: http://www.shutterfly.com/pro/nysun/outandabout/20080409 ...

The Morgan: Starting to Feel Like Home
By Amanda Gordon | Mon, 14 Apr 2008 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: With its new architectural configuration coming on its second anniversary, The Morgan Library & Museum is starting to feel like home. So now, for those faithful supporters who attend the museum's gala every year -- including Charlie Morgan, who has a ...

Murakami-Louis Vuitton Love-In at Brooklyn Museum Gala
By Amanda Gordon | Mon, 14 Apr 2008 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Louis Vuitton threw a lot of dough at the benefit it sponsored for the Brooklyn Museum Thursday, to open the Takashi Murakami exhibit that comes to New York via the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. Nobu food, Murakami placemats, and programs with ...

Last Night at Bloomingdale's SoHo: A Healthier, More Beneficial Runway
By Amanda Gordon | Mon, 14 Apr 2008 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: New York private school students took to the runway last night to raise money for Camp Sunshine, led by three peers, Alison Karasyk, Jake Lewin, and Greer Tessler. No doubt the students had the walk and style of professional models (some of the students ...

On the Town with Historians, Explorers, Thespians: New Photos Posted
By Amanda Gordon | Mon, 14 Apr 2008 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Caption: Winner of the New-York Historical Society's American History Book Prize, Daniel Walker Howe, with his wife Sandra. Mr. Howe won for his Oxford History series volume, "What Hath God Wrought." The Howes met at Oxford 47 years ago. Additions ...

Nonprofit Prize Awarded to African Educationalists
By Amanda Gordon | Fri, 11 Apr 2008 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Henry and Marie-Josee Kravis both had solo time at the podium last night to introduce (Henry) and present (Marie-Josee) the Henry R. Kravis Prize in Leadership, awarded by Claremont McKenna Collega, Henry's alma mater. This year the prize and $250,000 ...

Reckoning with New York's Rate of Change
By Amanda Gordon | Sat, 5 Apr 2008 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Friday night, around 7 p.m.: Actor Jim Dale, historian Gordon Wood, journalist Christopher Hitchens, architecture critic Paul Goldberger, and the president of the New-York Historical Society, Louise Mirrer. Architecture critic Paul Goldberger focused on ...