Tag: Charity
Fighting Cystic Fibrosis with Fundraisers, DJ and a Dance Floor.
Saturday night-the damp corners of eleventh avenue hang freshly with rain, shrouded in a veil of gathered industrial buildings and spaciously modern art galleries. Nestled at the baron end of twenty seventh street, crouches Cain Luxe Nightclub, whose sprawling...
Pomp and Circumstance at Cipriani’s – The legends come out.
This Tuesday I took in the goings-on at the annual Friars Foundation Awards Ceremony at Ciprianis 42nd Street. The Friars Foundation is the charitable leg of the famous Friars Club, which was founded in 1904.
The three recipients receiving awards...
2009 Annual Benefit to Support the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers.
The artists who will be impressing us with their talent within the next five years are probably all in high school today, and the 2009 Annual Benefit to Support the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers is in the...
Chocolat & Vin, Indoor Decadence during the Rain.
On a beyond dreary, depressing and wet Thursday night, I popped up my umbrella and grudgingly headed through China town to the St. Jude’s Chocolat au Vin (mais oui, that is chocolate and wine) fete. Dropped curb side, I...
Amanda Lepore turns up for DEPESHA, kind of…
Chic and sleek characterized the upper-level, upscale Depesha mag designer charity auction at the Helen Yarmak Showroom on May 21st. From the beautiful faces to the immaculate attire, everything was aimed to please, but none more so than the...
Making Passes at the Make-a-Wish Benefit…
This Wednesday night I headed over by the Bowery to check out the Make-a-Wish Foundation benefit at Antik, which also served as the venue for one of the GEN ART film festival's after-parties a couple of months back (apparently,...
Tia Walker- a Girl’s night out for Save the Eggs Foundation.
If one is in the habit of coming to benefits and the sorts of fetes that champion philanthropic causes they will undeniably find themselves beguiled, charmed and a smidgen curious as to how such things ever come together. One...
Operation Smile Gala- not just a Dadaist performance act.
Though it took me a while to figure this out, I have finally come to understand that the event-related press releases which get sent to reporters in this town are not really intended to have any relationship to actual...
Bagtrends Green Army Party.
I don’t know what you think about when you think “green fashion,” but when I agreed to go to the Bagtrends.com Green Arm Candy Party, I was expecting a lot of almost trendy, almost well-dressed vendors ready with spiels...
Charity: Water. And a Date?
The Scallywag crew entered the narrow hallway of Chelsea Market shortly after 10pm Tuesday night. Little did we know we were like small metal balls about to enter a toy tilted wooden-maze. A series of photographs on display near...
2nd Annual Benefit NY Art Rocks; Manners, Etiquette and Pizzazz!
We’ve been getting accustomed to skinny girls with high cheekbones hanging out with guys with long hair and plush lips, but Thursday’s Art Rocks benefit at the Bowery Hotel held in honor of the Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center at...
