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A blog about doing good and doing well. Entries in category CULTUREHow Mike Daisey Can Do More With Your Money By Amanda Gordon | Wed, 9 Dec 2009 at 4:53 PM Excerpt: The glass bowl filled to the rim with dollar bills didn’t look like any old tip jar. Resting on the wood table behind which Mike Daisey had just performed his intellectually bracing and laughter-from-the-gut inducing monologue “The Last Cargo Cult,” the... [continue] Introducing the 'Human-Powered Search Engine' By Amanda Gordon | Mon, 9 Nov 2009 at 8:04 AM Excerpt: Patience and fortitude are still keeping watch at the New York Public Library’s flagship Fifth Avenue entrance, but the world is changing around them, and so, in a fashion, are they.The Library has a new logo developed in-house and based on its iconic... [continue] A Party for the Dream Team of McCarter and Fairlie By Amanda Gordon | Fri, 17 Jul 2009 at 2:57 PM Excerpt: Literary agent Jennifer Joel opened her home Wednesday night to toast her client Jeremy McCarter's new book, a collection of "essays and provocations" by British writer and Tory Henry Fairlie (1924-1990), who coined the term "the Establishment" writing... [continue] Mother & Daughter Moments: The Historians By Amanda Gordon | Thu, 7 May 2009 at 9:47 PM 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... [continue] Questions and Optimism for WNYC's Greene Space By Amanda Gordon | Tue, 28 Apr 2009 at 9:58 PM 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... [continue] By Amanda Gordon | Wed, 22 Apr 2009 at 8:17 AM 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... [continue] By Amanda Gordon | Fri, 17 Apr 2009 at 4:08 PM 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... [continue] |
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