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Archives: Posts From May 2009
The Reading List: Compiled at New-York Historical Society's Strawberry Festival Luncheon
By Amanda Gordon | Tue, 26 May 2009 at 2:26 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: A little history, a little glamour, and theories of child-rearing."The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt" by T.J. Stiles. "For sure he'll be a contender for our book prize."--Louise Mirrer, President of the New-York Historical ...
Mayor Bloomberg Hears Out Critic On the Newly Closed Stretch of Broadway in Times Square
By Amanda Gordon | Tue, 26 May 2009 at 12:41 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Mayor Bloomberg walked through Times Square in the early evening of Memorial Day with girlfriend Diana Taylor. A New Yorker living at 38th and Park, Michele Kroll, approached the mayor to tell him she shouldn't have to go to Chicago to get home ("that's ...
What Kind of Art Do the Obamas Want in the White House?
By Amanda Gordon | Fri, 22 May 2009 at 8:49 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: The Obamas have put out a call to galleries and museums to borrow modern American art for the White House, the Wall Street Journal reports."If the old White House had portraits of men in powdered wigs... the Obamas love punchy colorful abstracts, we're ...
The Moods of El Museo
By Amanda Gordon | Thu, 21 May 2009 at 3:13 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: "Caliente! I'm feeling extremely caliente right now," Barney's window impresario and fashion writer Simon Doonan said at El Museo del Barrio's annual gala last night, after recommending a BBC show to designer Jason Wu.RELATED: This year's party pix in ...
Society Portraits by Amber Charter School Fifth Graders Unveiled
By Amanda Gordon | Wed, 20 May 2009 at 11:28 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: Sometimes it takes a gala to turn a class of students into celebrated artists. For its annual fete, which took place Wednesday night at Cipriani 42nd Street, artist Ruben Toledo worked with fifth graders from Amber Charter in East Harlem to create ...
The Reading List: This Edition Compiled at Hale House's 40th Anniversary Benefit
By Amanda Gordon | Wed, 20 May 2009 at 12:01 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: We scoped the crowd at Hale House's 40th anniversary benefit last night to find out what the charitable-minded are reading now. For people united by Hale House's mission -- to provide subsidized daycare to children from the age of 6 weeks to 5 years ...
Allison Rockefeller's Wardrobe Conservation and the Cure for Nature Deficit Disorder
By Amanda Gordon | Tue, 19 May 2009 at 5:43 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: In a video screened at the National Audubon Society Women in Conservation Luncheon today, Allison Rockefeller described the Rachel Carson Awards, which she founded, and a new internship program placing young women in National Audubon Society's offices ...
Senator Gillibrand Delivers Keynote at New-York Historical Society Strawberry Festival
By Amanda Gordon | Mon, 18 May 2009 at 7:37 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Senator Gillibrand introduced herself to patrons of the New-York Historical Society Monday at the museum and library's annual Strawberry Festival Luncheon.In the past few years, the luncheon has become an important stop for women on the campaign trail ...
Bottomless Closet's Firm Believers
By Amanda Gordon | Sun, 17 May 2009 at 12:14 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Bottomless Closet New York City provides 1,000 women annually with business clothing, interview skills, and career development support. At its annual gala on May 7 at the Marriott Marquis, 550 guests gathered to celebrate the organization's 10th ...
Gala Interview with...Lex Fenwick, C.E.O., Bloomberg Ventures
By Amanda Gordon | Sun, 17 May 2009 at 9:31 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Who: Lex Fenwick, C.E.O., Bloomberg Ventures, former C.E.O. Bloomberg LP Where: The Whitney Museum of American Art Occasion: Black-tie dinner honoring Bloomberg LP for its corporate support. When: Mr. Fenwick had just greeted Leonard and Evelyn Lauder at ...
Bette Midler and Allison Rockefeller: Two Parkies Stick Together
By Amanda Gordon | Sun, 17 May 2009 at 12:28 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Bette Midler and Allison Rockefeller both work hard to ensure the vitality of parks. Ms. Midler, founder of the New York Restoration Project, revitalizes community gardens and parks in underserved neighborhoods. Ms. Rockefeller advocates for park land ...
Social Ladies Go Inside the Mind of David Patrick Columbia, Their Favorite Diarist
By Amanda Gordon | Fri, 15 May 2009 at 1:30 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: The social chronicler David Patrick Columbia — whose Web site New York Social Diary has coaxed more Upper East Side ladies onto the Internet than Facebook ever will — did in person the other day what his column does best: expose the anxieties and ...
Big Wheels Turning For City Harvest
By Amanda Gordon | Fri, 15 May 2009 at 10:19 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: The pressure is on to feed New Yorkers: City Harvest says 34% of New Yorkers have had to choose between spending their money on food or rent.City Harvest will distribute 24 million pounds of food this year to more than 600 food programs in New York City ...
Robin Hood Audacious As Ever, Raises More Than $72 Million, With Text Pledges and Tweets All Night
By Amanda Gordon | Tue, 12 May 2009 at 10:07 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: The stories of tonight's Robin Hood Foundation gala at the Javits Center:Tom Brokaw introduced six people’s stories showing how Robin Hood helps New Yorkers:• A sick child gets emergency care from the Children’s Health Fund• a 4th grader at Excellence ...
Happy Birthday Francis Morrone
By Amanda Gordon | Tue, 12 May 2009 at 5:16 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: We heart this architectural historian, prolific writer, and former contributor to the Arts pages of The New York Sun, where he had a loyal following. Many people miss his writing, and we know they will join us in wishing him a Happy 50th birthday.We ...
Robin Hood Thrills, via Twitter, We Hope
By Amanda Gordon | Tue, 12 May 2009 at 3:37 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Robin Hood Foundation's gala tonight is about 4,000 people getting together, including Jon Stewart, emcee, the Black Eyed Peas, who will perform, and dozens of names that appear in the business, culture, and celebrity pages. The number of volunteers ...
Fountain House Luncheon Mixes Substance and Style
By Amanda Gordon | Tue, 12 May 2009 at 7:37 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Yes, that was Glenn Close chatting with Anne Mai, one of the chairwomen of the Fountain House luncheon, along with Patricia Begley, Lorna Hyde Graev, and Alexandra Herzan. And that was Silda Wall sitting with Cyrus Vance Jr., who is running for Manhattan ...
Laurie Tisch's Arts Monday: From Lincoln Center to the Whitney, With a Boot In Between
By Amanda Gordon | Tue, 12 May 2009 at 12:57 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: At the Whitney Museum’s American Art Award dinner on Monday, philanthropist Laurie Tisch, a trustee of the museum and founder of the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund, granted our request for a report on the Lincoln Center 50th anniversary celebration ...
New Yorkers We Love to See in D.C.: The Top 10 New Yorkers at the White House Correspondents' Dinner
By Amanda Gordon | Mon, 11 May 2009 at 9:50 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: The ties between New York and Washington D.C. are tighter these days, and we’re not just talking Tarp. At the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, New Yorkers asserted their social prominence in the nation's capital, not just because they were hosting the ...
Mother & Daughter Moments: The Historians
By Amanda Gordon | Thu, 7 May 2009 at 9:47 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Mother: Susan Nagel, author, most recently, of “Marie-Thérèse, Child of Terror”Daughter: Hadley Nagel, founder of Americans For MadisonWhere we met them: The Central Park Conservancy ‘Hat Luncheon’ (Mrs. Nagel has been on the committee for the event for ...
UPDATED Fashion From the Top: A Hat Pageant Raises $2.1 million for Central Park Conservancy
By Amanda Gordon | Thu, 7 May 2009 at 12:14 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: THURSDAY MORNING:Hats in the Downturn (photo gallery here)“It’s amazing, people recycled and bought new and were creative, they did what they needed to do to come out here today and look beautiful,” a past president of the Central Park Conservancy’s ...
Lessons His Grandma Moses Taught Him: One Man's Celebration of His American Jewish Family Tree
By Amanda Gordon | Wed, 6 May 2009 at 10:37 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: The celebration last night of an American Jewish family here since the 1690s brought out a crowd of diverse ancestries to the Metropolitan Club. Call it a 2009 our-arms-are-open crowd: there was Marion Wiesel closely examining the large family tree on ...
Jamie Dimon's Honoree Style: No black tie, no long speeches, and Charlie Rose
By Amanda Gordon | Tue, 5 May 2009 at 12:49 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: The chairman and chief executive of JPMorgan Chase & Co. not only stepped up for Thirteen's gala last night, he also had fun with it. "Charlie Rose came to my office and interviewed me. So we'll have a video of that. No black tie, no long speeches, we ...
Twitter Feed from Red Carpet Photos of Met Costume Institute
By Amanda Gordon | Mon, 4 May 2009 at 9:03 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: We tweeted the fashion highlights as they came thru on the wire from the Met Costume Institute Ball, and we bring the first batch to you now (you can follow us at AmandaGordon on Twitter). MOREMET: brunettes bshields, ccrawford, kperry rock turquoise ...
Drama at the Costume Institute Ball: Enough Already!
By Amanda Gordon | Mon, 4 May 2009 at 6:07 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: As if the weather weren't casting enough of a cloud over the Metropolitan Museum of Art's fashion ball tonight, a designer's dismay has brought another.You'd think a well-regarded designer would be able to rise above the celebrity-fueled pomposity of the ...
Honoree of the Week: Jamie Dimon for Thirteen/WNET
By Amanda Gordon | Mon, 4 May 2009 at 11:18 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: Yesterday we posited that there is a lot of good that could come out of the current difficulty organizations are having securing honorees, to the extent that it will reduce the reliance on honorees to actually raise the money. But we also think the ...
Gala Shakeups
By Amanda Gordon | Sun, 3 May 2009 at 12:45 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Galas are a part of American culture, and they're not going away in the downturn. But they are changing, which we think is all for the better. The New York Times warns today that difficulty finding honorees threatens "the entire fund-raising ecosystem" ...
Kentucky Derby Fashion
By Amanda Gordon | Sat, 2 May 2009 at 6:29 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Hats off to the local newspaper in Louisville, Kentucky, the Courier-Journal, for its fun, up-to-the-minute fashion coverage of the Derby. Check out on the scene reporters snapping and commenting, and once you're on the site, there's so much more ...
Gerstein on Souter and Other Links to the NYSun Diaspora
By Amanda Gordon | Fri, 1 May 2009 at 9:01 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: TodayJOSH GERSTEIN/SUPREME COURT Supreme Court Justice David Souter plans to retirehttp://www.politico.com/news/stories/0409/21972.htmlGRACE RAUH/NEW YORK Bloomberg To Outline New Layoffs, Sales Tax HikeRYAN SAGER/NATIONAL Gay Marriage: The Storm IS ...
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