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Archives: Posts From April 2009
Young Poets Show a Love and Gift for Language At Poem In Your Pocket Day
By Amanda Gordon | Thu, 30 Apr 2009 at 4:15 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: Schoolchildren reciting poems today at Bryant Park’s Reading Room helped mark New York City’s seventh annual Poem In Your Pocket Day.Destinee Sims, a fifth-grader at P.S. 122 in Brooklyn, read her poem “The Ocean," which begins: “I can smell the ocean/ I ...
The New York Sun Diaspora: Links to Recent Stories By Your Favorite Sun Writers
By Amanda Gordon | Thu, 30 Apr 2009 at 10:30 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: MAX WATMAN/SPORTS Churchill Downs Workouts Can Reveal a Winner LIZ PEEK/BUSINESS The First 100 Days: Businesses, Investors Take a Beating From ObamaIRA STOLL/BUSINESS Are the Shares Fit to Hold? (on New York Times)JULIE SATOW/BUSINESS Economist: America ...
Questions and Optimism for WNYC's Greene Space
By Amanda Gordon | Tue, 28 Apr 2009 at 9:58 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: The opening programs at the WNYC Greene Space today showed off some of the thrilling, new things that New York City’s public radio station can do; it also showed the challenges and complexities of running a public event and broadcasting space.With the ...
A Night With the New York Pops
By Amanda Gordon | Tue, 28 Apr 2009 at 9:18 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Best-selling author Barbara Taylor Bradford’s opening night with the New York Pops yesterday started with the concert at Carnegie Hall, where everyone was giddy over the young, new — and movie-star dashing — music director, Steven Reineke, whose charge ...
Kvelling Is In Order for Lenore Skenazy, Author of 'Free-Range Kids'
By Amanda Gordon | Mon, 27 Apr 2009 at 9:22 AM | Permalink | Comments (2)
Excerpt: Does this woman look like a bad parent? Does this boy appear neglected? We know looks can be deceiving, but we also know that the loving bonds between the mother and son pictured here are pretty darn genuine. Yes, Lenore let her son Izzy ride the subway ...
Self-Governing Orpheus Chamber Orchestra Has Broader Lessons to Offer, Says Banking and Civic Leader John Whitehead
By Amanda Gordon | Sat, 25 Apr 2009 at 9:48 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Orchestras around the country are feeling the pain of the downturn, but Orpheus Chamber Orchestra has an edge: it has operated without a conductor for 35 years.In the self-governing orchestra, musicians share and rotate leadership roles. For each work ...
From Puppy Love to Proclamations, Jasa Gala Brings Out Supporters
By Amanda Gordon | Fri, 24 Apr 2009 at 5:26 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: Imagine walking into a gala and randomly picking people to tell you why the organization benefiting matters. It can take a while to get a decent answer. But not last night at the buffet supper for the Jewish Association for Services for the Aged, most ...
Marketing Volunteerism Bloomberg-Style
By Amanda Gordon | Thu, 23 Apr 2009 at 10:14 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Mayor Bloomberg didn't invent the idea of making it easy for New Yorkers to volunteer, and many of the initiatives of his NYC Service plan are things nonprofits have been working on and implementing for years. But the city's 60 days of putting it all ...
Rushdie’s Expanding Sea of Stories and Other Literary Gossip Gleaned from the New York Public Library’s Spring Luncheon
By Amanda Gordon | Wed, 22 Apr 2009 at 5:44 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: Salman Rushdie is putting the finishing touches this week on his second children’s novel. “What kind of writer are you if you can’t write a book for your own child?” he said yesterday during a panel on children’s literature at the New York Public ...
Eat, Drink, Read: The Only Reading List Compiled Exclusively at Cocktail Parties Hits the New York Public Library's Spring Luncheon
By Amanda Gordon | Wed, 22 Apr 2009 at 8:17 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Loans at the New York Public Library are up 17%, which means more than ever, we need recommendations for what to read next. And where better to solicit them than from the parties attracting the well-bred and well-read? So at the library’s Spring Luncheon ...
A Chat with Brett Littman
By Amanda Gordon | Mon, 20 Apr 2009 at 8:27 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: Last week the Drawing Center in SoHo pulled off no small feat: It dramatically cut the expenses of its gala and came away with a 9% increase in funds raised over last year. While the additional $26,000 doesn't make up for the $200,000 or so the ...
Here's to You, Mike Nichols
By Amanda Gordon | Mon, 20 Apr 2009 at 8:55 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Mike Nichols’ mandatory moment of introspection during the retrospective of his work at the Museum of Modern Art came at the end of a 90-minute “Conversation” Saturday night, which was not only sold-out, but had prompted more than 100 people to line up ...
The Drawing Center Gala
By Amanda Gordon | Fri, 17 Apr 2009 at 4:08 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: The benefit of getting involved in a small arts group (as compared to the mighty esteemed museums around town) is the intimacy of the whole enterprise. The Drawing Center is that kind of place."We welcomed 270 people to the event, which raised $375,000 ...
Nurturing New Journalists
By Amanda Gordon | Fri, 17 Apr 2009 at 9:12 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Newswomen's Club of New York presented last night the recipients of its Anne O'Hare McCormick Scholarships. Donna Lee, a reporter focusing on local news, and Erin Siegal, a photojournalist and investigative reporter, students at Columbia Journalism ...
News Hopping
By Amanda Gordon | Fri, 17 Apr 2009 at 8:50 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: PHILANTHROPY&CHARITYGiving by the numbers: a mongo graphic by USA TODAY pulls together data on total giving in recessions, 1967 to present, and a bunch of other isolated stats on corporate giving, volunteerism, increased demand for social services.Toni ...
Ann Pyne Transforms Goth-icky
By Amanda Gordon | Thu, 16 Apr 2009 at 9:36 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Ann Pyne's dining room at the Kips Bay Showhouse takes a room with dark moldings arching over the ceiling, originally built as a chapel, and transforms it into a light, airy, well-proportioned dining room. An Alice in Wonderland theme sparked a ...
News Hopping
By Amanda Gordon | Thu, 16 Apr 2009 at 8:25 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: NY SUN RADARIra Stoll on the differences between the tea party of Samuel Adams and the ones staged yesterday/ForbesPia Catton on 'Grey Gardens'/True/slantTim Marchman on bad ideas in baseball/WSJIN THE MIX:WSJ Opinion: 'The Union War on Charter Schools ...
Macy's Keeps Us in the Pink
By Amanda Gordon | Wed, 15 Apr 2009 at 3:38 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: Macy's has a hit on its hands: the 35th annual Flower Show, up through Sunday, is drawing tons of foot traffic. The design team at the Macy's Parade Studio came up with a motif that is fun, nostalgic for simpler and more prosperous days, bound to please ...
Painting the Town
By Amanda Gordon | Wed, 15 Apr 2009 at 11:14 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: "Art heels and it gives people hope," said art dealer Mary Boone at the Publicolor benefit last night. And that about sums up the spirit of the event, which featured a good hour of painting "Yes We Can" themed murals, followed by a dinner in the high ...
News Hopping: Morning Links
By Amanda Gordon | Wed, 15 Apr 2009 at 10:00 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: New York Times: Skoll Urgent Threats Fund Formed...surely a sign, if we didn't know already, that philanthropy has been turned on its head. Ebay money and Google talent behind the effort.Wall Street Journal: Montclair Art Museum to Sell 50 works in hopes ...
Kips Bay Funhouse
By Amanda Gordon | Wed, 15 Apr 2009 at 1:00 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: A mirrored ping pong table - with matching paddles. Need we say more about the 'wow' factor at the Kips Bay Designer Showhouse, which I saw during a press preview today? What about the bright blue recycled plastic carpet underneath the ping pong table? ...
Christie Brinkley's Love Affair with Artichokes
By Amanda Gordon | Tue, 14 Apr 2009 at 6:02 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: "For most of my life I've had a thing for the artichoke, because it was such an exciting vegetable. You could do so much with it," Christie Brinkley said today at the Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York fund-raising luncheon at Guastavino's ...
News Hopping: Morning Links
By Amanda Gordon | Tue, 14 Apr 2009 at 9:39 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: New York Times Reports On Overhaul of Ford Foundation: Former McKinsey Consultant, now president, is reorganizing 'Lines of Work' (e.g.: "a line of work dedicated to expanding microfinance, which Ford pioneered, will morph into a broader effort to ...
Five Events That May Make You Feel Less of an Oaf Today, Tomorrow, and Wednesday
By Amanda Gordon | Mon, 13 Apr 2009 at 9:32 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: GOODBYE, LADIES There are two days left to see the Freud, Modigliani, de Kooning, Cezanne, and Picasso women on canvas -- and a few others -- in the collection of Steven and Alexandra Cohen. The works are on exhibit at Sotheby’s and represent hundreds of ...
Hello, Again
By Amanda Gordon | Fri, 10 Apr 2009 at 3:04 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: I will be resuming Out & About for The New York Sun. If you have news of the gala circuit in New York you would like to share, please e-mail me at alougord@gmail.com. Thanks ...
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