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Archives: Posts From June 2009
Hamptons Benefit Picks
By Amanda Gordon | Sat, 27 Jun 2009 at 12:53 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: There are still benefits going on in the Hamptons, but here's one you haven't seen covered year after year. WordTheatre, an L.A.-based version of the Moth, celebrating the art of oral storytelling only with more celebrities and less spontaneous material ...
Last Days for 'Abraham Lincoln in New York' at Federal Hall
By Amanda Gordon | Fri, 26 Jun 2009 at 2:12 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: Real estate investor Lawrence Benenson, who spreads his philanthropy around in heart-felt and often off-the-radar ways, hosted a reception last night at Federal Hall to celebrate the exhibit "Abraham Lincoln in New York." Mounted by the Rail Splitter, an ...
Kelli O'Hara, Woody Allen to Play at Cafe Carlyle
By Amanda Gordon | Mon, 22 Jun 2009 at 12:00 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Seeing Bobby Short and Eartha Kitt play at the Carlyle are perhaps our most romantic, magical memories of our first years in New York. More recently we were treated to one of Mary Sharp Cronson's parties upstairs at the hotel (once owned by her brother) ...
Championing Illustration: Laurie Norton Moffatt, Director, Norman Rockwell Museum
By Amanda Gordon | Sun, 21 Jun 2009 at 1:11 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: The culture vultures of the Berkshires enjoy Berkshire Living's monthly series, "The Rest of the Story," at which the editor of the magazine, Seth Rogovoy interviews a subject of an article. Today Mr. Rogovoy interviewed the director of the Norman ...
Dancin' in the Rain: Gala Galoshes, Etc. at Jacob's Pillow
By Amanda Gordon | Sun, 21 Jun 2009 at 11:15 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: We are up in the Berkshires for the weekend, about to listen to a Berkshire Living talk on the Norman Rockwell Museum, but before we go, here are three especially sunny photos from last night's Jacob's Pillow gala. You could say the rain glistened ...
One Couple's Fall Preview: Explosions and Fresh Recipes
By Amanda Gordon | Fri, 19 Jun 2009 at 7:26 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: We caught up with artist E.V. Day and writer and entrepreneur Ted Lee, who are married, at the Whitney Art Party, where we learned about their fabulous fall plans. Ms. Day has been rummaging through New York City Opera's costume warehouses identifying ...
Three Looks We Loved at the Whitney Art Party
By Amanda Gordon | Fri, 19 Jun 2009 at 7:03 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: The fabulous head gear comes second nature to milliner Eugenia Kim (above), but it's her combination of the reminiscent-of-a-feather (in all the right ways) topper with white eye makeup and bright yellow dress that impresses us. Yes, it's a zing, zing ...
Bryant Park's Swank New Porch Opens Today
By Amanda Gordon | Fri, 19 Jun 2009 at 4:38 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: To promote its new service out of LaGuardia, Southwest Airlines is sponsoring a new area in Bryant Park for the summer, dubbed the Southwest Porch, which opened today at noon. Given the tough economic times, getting a new civic amenity supported by a ...
NYPL Thanks New Yorkers for Support of 'Keep Your Library Open' Campaign
By Amanda Gordon | Fri, 19 Jun 2009 at 3:24 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Take a close look at the two talents in this video message from the New York Public Library: they're the ones leading staff, board, and passionate citizens to create the libraries for the 21st...even the 22nd centuries. For now, though, we can all be ...
A Whitney Moment with: Heather Hart
By Amanda Gordon | Thu, 18 Jun 2009 at 10:06 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: It's 11 p.m., and Heather Hart is standing about 8 feet away from her artwork, "Haute," on display at the Whitney Contemporaries Art Party. "I've been thinking about iconic forms and spaces that have been inherited through the generations. Cotton is one ...
Nonprofit Excellence Awards
By Amanda Gordon | Thu, 18 Jun 2009 at 9:38 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Monthly performance reports for every program; required public speaking for all employees; implenting job sharing to save money in the downturn: these were just some of the management practices touted at the annual Nonprofit Excellence Awards yesterday ...
The Art of the Art Party
By Amanda Gordon | Thu, 18 Jun 2009 at 2:11 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: The Whitney Contemporaries, a patrons group for the art-curious aged 21 to 40, held its annual downtown bash last night at Skylight. This quote, by the Whitney's founder, summed up the spirit of the evening.And so Calvin Klein, Bradley Cooper, oodles of ...
A Lovely Party...But Where Was Mr. Knickerbocker?
By Amanda Gordon | Wed, 17 Jun 2009 at 3:27 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: The old Dutchman Diedrich Knickerbocker, with his black coat and cocked hat, was a no show last night at Betsy Bradley's book party, even though he was more or less the guest of honor. Perhaps he did not know how to find his way to Anthony and Margo ...
Lincoln Center Gets the Bergdorf Goodman Windows Treatment
By Amanda Gordon | Mon, 15 Jun 2009 at 1:07 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Two first-time attendees to the Council of Fashion Designers of America Awards tonight will be the president of Lincoln Center, Reynold Levy, and his wife, Elizabeth Cooke Levy. Now that Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts will be the site of the ...
At Wildlife Gala, Ladies Go Wild for Judith Leiber Minaudieres
By Amanda Gordon | Sun, 14 Jun 2009 at 5:52 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: At the Wildlife Conservation Society's black-tie gala last week, the accessory of choice was a minaudiere -- that's the tiny gem of a purse, fanciful and impractical (pronounced me-no-dyear -- the term is of French origin) -- from Judith Leiber.This ...
The Janklow Ambition
By Amanda Gordon | Thu, 11 Jun 2009 at 3:19 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Just found this story in the June issue of Vogue, in which literary agent and writer Luke Janklow -- son of uber-lit-agent Mort Janklow and arts access advocate Linda Janklow -- recounts how he and his wife, Julie, pulled off opening their restaurant ...
Engaged: Dr. Xiulu Meng to Aubrey Reuben
By Amanda Gordon | Thu, 11 Jun 2009 at 10:22 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Celebrity photographer Aubrey Reuben, who for two decades has been a snap-happy widower about town, mainly on Broadway, often for The New York Post, and almost always with a beautiful woman on his arm, is engaged to Dr. Xiuli Meng, who practices physical ...
Community Spirit Shines (If Not the Sun) At Brooklyn Botanic Garden Gala
By Amanda Gordon | Wed, 10 Jun 2009 at 12:18 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: The inclement weather displaced the event from the Cranford Rose Garden, but Brooklyn Botanic Garden's supporters were still rosy at the garden's annual fund-raising event tonight, which honored Dr. Peter Raven, a botanist who heads the Missouri ...
New York City's First Chief Service Officer: Diahann Billings-Burford
By Amanda Gordon | Tue, 9 Jun 2009 at 5:21 PM | Permalink | Comments (9)
Excerpt: Mayor Michael Bloomberg today named Diahann Billings-Burford as the city's Chief Service Officer, responsible for leading NYC Service, a city-wide initiative to promote volunteerism launched by the city in April.The Mayor's office claims the ...
New Chairman at Lincoln Center Katherine Farley Is Poised to Make Her Mark
By Amanda Gordon | Mon, 8 Jun 2009 at 11:35 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: A senior managing director at Tishman Speyer, Katherine Farley, will take the reins as Lincoln Center's chairman in June 2010, the performing arts center's board announced today after its annual meeting. She will be the second woman to hold the position ...
June Parade
By Amanda Gordon | Sat, 6 Jun 2009 at 2:58 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: The Falun Dafa parade today in midtown was a bright and multi-faceted spectacle, from the reflection of the sun in the band's tubas to the waves of different colored banners carried by participants -- all of which popped against the midtown streets they ...
Smells Like...Recovery? A Report from the Fragrance Foundation Annual Awards
By Alex Pasternack | Thu, 4 Jun 2009 at 9:48 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: What does the recession smell like? We sniffed out a few answers at the Fragrance Foundation’s FiFi Awards ceremony held recently at the 69th Regiment Armory.Tossing out an expletive, the actor Dustin Hoffman paused to offer a more a thoughtful response ...
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