Tag: SocialEvent
The Halloween Debacle and how you fell for it.
If you were anybody you were kicking it at the most exclusive party. Where that party was only you know (and us of course). There were exclusive parties and even triple exclusive parties. You were crooning in the background,...
Annika Connor wows us all at the Point Suite Art Ball.
The Point Suite Art Ball was unlike any other black tie event I had attended in New York. As the taxi dropped me off on the corner of 31st and Dyer, I thought that I had gotten the address...
At the Rivington- Jamie Gordon Makes us Smile- a lot.
Summers in NY are about escape, sweating, dreaming and swimming. That said that is exactly what we got when we turned up at Jamie Gordon and Simon Ford’s of Pernod Ricard (the liquor beverage family’s) tete a tete at...
The Metropolitan as ‘Muse.’
Museum membership as status symbol? It may seem a bit stuffy, but The Metropolitan Museum of Art has made a strong case to the under-30 set. Tickets to the heavily attended ‘Young Members Party’ were so in demand that...
Avoiding the paparazzi and triumph at the Designing Women’s Gala.
The Designing Women’s Gala, a New York Women in Film and Television (NYWIFT) event, held its 10th annual awards ceremony at Clearview Chelsea Cinemas last night. Though the title may initially suggest a subversive feminist group would be discovered...
Open City Literary Award Benefit; The Zeitgeist’s tongue.
It can be intimidating at first: the highbrow, polysyllabic witticisms; the silent, lidded, critical assessments; the nonchalant stances (always the nonchalant stances…) as the dimensions of one’s success is overviewed—the Open City Literary Awards, tucked into a little pocket...
Wonder at El Museo del Barrio Gala.
Wednesday evening's gala in celebration of El Museo del Barrio, the city's most prominent venue for Latin American art, was somewhat more splendid than I had expected from an event associated with something else with the word "barrio" in...
What happened to Busta Rhymes? At YRB’S Mag fete.
9pm Wednesday night found us at the M2 Ultra Lounge for the party hosted by YRB Magazine featuring Hip-Hop legend, Busta Rhymes. The VIP was spacious, accommodating, and graciously offered an open bar with well-endowed bartenders. On my second...
High Cheekbones only at the National Arts Council.
Whether by design or scheming dogma the wonderful Andrea Tese brought a certain panache to Monday night’s young innovative awards (which she coincidentally won) at the National Arts Council. Standing in front of her daring pictures and equally daring...
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...
The posh set come to the Rainbow Room.
This past Tuesday, May 12, I attended the National Meningitis Association Gala in the Rainbow Room of the illustrious 30 Rockefeller Center, and I was impressed. Now, don’t get me wrong, this isn’t to say that the pearls weren’t...
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...
Global Nomads Dance for Freedom.
This past Thursday saw a wonderful turnout celebrating awareness for a very special cause very dear to our hearts. Inspired by the collective vision of Janera Soerel of Janera.com, photographer Jennifer Macfarlane and the compassionate humanist Benjamin Skinner we...
An Evening Gala at the Players Club on the Gramercy.
Saturday evening a vibrant nebulous of energy was hosted by the Acting Studio at the Players Club on Gramercy. The Gala was a decadent affair celebrating the Studio’s 25th year reunion and raising funds for the revival of the...
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...
