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Meet Kate Light, Making Music with New York City Opera, Ovid, and the Dick Van Dyke Show

By Amanda Gordon | Wed, 7 Apr 2010 at 9:00 AM

Excerpt: For Kate Light, a violinist in the New York City Opera Orchestra, playing the waltzes at the company's gala as patrons danced was fun but frustrating. “I wanted to watch,” she said a few days after the event, speaking by telephone from her Upper West... [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]

Eat, Drink, Read: The Only Reading List Compiled Exclusively at Cocktail Parties Hits the New York Public Library's Spring Luncheon

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]

The Drawing Center Gala

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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