Benefits
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CASINO QUEEN Model Mag g ie Rizer is host of the fifth annual Viva Glam Casino, which offers the chance to gamble for a good cause. Proceeds go to the Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS. This year’s benefit has a Venetian ball theme, with Ms. Rizer dressed as a Venetian queen. Tonight, 7:30-11:30 p.m., Gotham Hall, 1356 Broadway at 36th Street, 212-727-3100, $1,000, $500, $350.
SUMMER SUNSET The Brooklyn Botanic Garden offers a Passport to Summer evening of twilight cocktails, a sunset picnic, and dancing to Cuban music under the stars.The benefit features a raffle for vacations, New York nights on the town, and a collection of wines from the Niebaum-Coppola vineyards. The “young professionals” event is intended for New Yorkers between 25 and 50. Thursday, June 23, 6-10:30 p.m., Brooklyn Botanic Garden, entrance at 900 Washington Ave., between Crown and Carroll streets, Brooklyn, 718-623-7254, $100 basic package for one, $260 VIP package for two.
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