In the week ahead, the benefit circuit brings us events for National Audubon Society, American Ballet Theatre, 92nd Street Y, the Kitchen, SummerStage, El Museo del Barrio, Riverkeeper, and the Noguchi Museum.
And here's what we got to do in the week just past:
* admire Kimberly Dozier, a journalist injured in Iraq who has just published a memoir
story: http://www.nysun.com/out-and-about/no-headline
* ignore Mariah Carey in favor of some of the New Yorkers who helped raise money at Operation Smile's benefit
story: http://www.nysun.com/out-about/evening-smiles
photos: http://www.shutterfly.com/pro/nysun/outandabout/20080518os
* meet a pioneer of Brooklyn's cultural scene, Stanley Krieger, at the Brooklyn Philharmonic gala,
story: http://www.nysun.com/out-about/old-friends-new-home-brooklyn-philharmoni...
photos: http://www.shutterfly.com/pro/nysun/outandabout/20080519bp
* pass up steak frites at Cafe Un Deux Trois during the New York Foundation for the Arts gala,
story: http://www.nysun.com/out-about/cast-characters-comes-out-carnival
photos: http://www.shutterfly.com/pro/nysun/outandabout/20080519nyfa
* fantasize about Paris in September at the American Friends of the Paris Opera Ballet luncheon
* see the best of the new shows on Broadway at the New 42nd Street gala,
photos: http://www.shutterfly.com/pro/nysun/outandabout/20080519nvt
* resist buying some beautiful African art at auction at the Museum for African Art gala,
story: http://www.nysun.com/out-about/celebrating-african-art
AND
* be blown away by CNN anchor Christiane Amanpour at the New York Women's Foundation Breakfast,
story: http://www.shutterfly.com/pro/nysun/outandabout/20080518os
photos:http://www.shutterfly.com/pro/nysun/outandabout/20080519afmus
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