Diamanda Galas is the master of the theatrical and demonic.
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He reluctantly brushed shoulders with them at the monthly galas.
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Those galas were the old days, well before their time.
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Ms. Winston Wolkoff made her name planning Manhattan society galas.
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What do black tie galas and backyard barbecues have in common?
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In fact, compared with past galas, directors seemed to outnumber actors.
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That's why we still have our opening night galas on Mondays.
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Politicians continued to join Weinstein on red carpets and at galas.
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He enjoys greeting dignitaries and throwing galas and posing for photos.
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But girls like her still deserve their shot at fancy galas, too.
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And it's not all galas and tax-payer funded couture dresses, either.
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Every attendee had probably been to several "real" galas in their lifetimes.
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She took me to movie premieres, balls and galas at snooty museums.
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Others ignore it when it gets them into country clubs and galas.
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The divisiveness of the campaign, however, was an afterthought inside the galas.
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There's so much more to celebrity galas than your classic red carpet photos.
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Latex fans weren't wearing gowns to A-list galas; they were wearing catsuits.
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Back in the 1980s, those galas at the Met were still society affairs.
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Just ahead of fashion week, galas for amfAR and the Germanistic Society of America.
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Some C.S.S.A.s receive funding from consulates for things like new student orientations or galas.
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The group had played the previous two galas, when President Obama was being inaugurated.
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Upper management took notice, and she started catering for corporate galas and celebrity birthdays.
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The crowd at galas for the HRC looks a lot like a men's suit catalog.
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Several organisations cancelled fundraising galas booked at Mr Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
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He did not attend the previous two fight night galas, according to the Arizona Republic.
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My experience was absolutely provincial compared to the mini-Met Galas kids these days expect.
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The top charity galas, art openings and social gatherings on the East End this summer.
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Members threw galas around town, honoring Confederates and downplaying the Civil War's connection to slavery.
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They hustled, handing out samples at more than 50 charity galas and hip Miami parties.
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Dating Jenner must mean endless parties, galas and vacations, but a source once told E!
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They host lectures, cocktail parties, brunches, lunches, dinners, costume galas and presentations of scholarly papers.
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He would attend galas with Ms. Max, then paint at his studio until 4 a.m.
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Scene City Galas were held for the New York Philharmonic, the Bronx Museum and Americares.
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Its booze-soaked openings are like populist galas that draw hundreds of the young and hip.
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The Ziegfeld will reopen next year as an event space, catering to galas and corporate functions.
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Grace's arrival in Monaco set off an eight-day long round of parties, dinners and galas.
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The asparagus season is celebrated with all kinds of festivities, such as dinners, "asparaguseries," and galas.
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Even then I would really let go at company events [like galas and young patron parties].
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Her editors said that while she won awards, she didn't go to galas to accept them.
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They can also rent out the resort for events like weddings, bar mitzvahs, and charity galas.
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Some Met Galas have themes that make dressing for the red carpet pretty literal: Punk, China, superheroes.
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Past galas have featured costumes by Valentino, Thom Browne and Sarah Burton for Alexander McQueen, among others.
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He's a fixture at big tennis galas and is admittedly a fan of blazers and "elegant jackets."
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We've heard of workout groups, baby showers and even charity galas ... all moving to the online realm.
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The Kennedy Center defended hosting the galas underwritten by VTB, describing its role as simply a landlord.
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The avant-garde vocalist and composer Diamanda Galas, photographed by Chad Batka at her home in May.
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She explained the process of getting Gala-ready with this year's theme was "more complicated" than past galas.
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Issa Dee (Issa Rae) and her friends are women who dress up for charity galas and art shows.
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I have a professional stylist I use for special occasions like art galas, company parties, or large dinners.
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She was a pioneer, shaping a persona out of red carpet events, galas, and a fairy tale romance.
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To raise awareness of mushrooms as a food, Farm Africa organized regular galas to demonstrate various mushroom dishes.
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What does someone wear to some of these [expletive] galas like the ones I went to last week?
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But amid the galas and horse riding and fancy restaurants that kept Ms. Angulo busy, things were darkening.
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They had uniforms: shorts for tennis, Polo shirts for polo, tuxedos for galas and (snore) pajamas for sleep.
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Scene City Galas were held for the New York City Ballet, Carnegie Hall and the City Parks Foundation.
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The Viennese ball is the last of the debutante galas on the winter social calendar in New York.
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The designers acknowledged that the nature of dressing up — and the act of primping for galas — has changed.
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Actors were showing up to galas in distressed denim and faded band tees cut and slashed into bra tops.
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But it is normal for royals to greet the line-ups of entertainers at star-studded galas like this.
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The couple's royal lifestyle includes attending star-studded galas such as the Monte Carlo Gala for the Global Ocean.
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From the last century, I remember City Ballet galas that presented world premieres by George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins.
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One of the most iconic moments of Barack Obama's 2009 inauguration celebrations came during one of that night's galas.
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J.C. At Jazz at Lincoln Center's annual fund-raising galas, Wynton Marsalis's septet often backs rock and pop stars.
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It is also why the galas have been seeing increasingly exaggerated, paparazzi-catching looks (and, sometimes, related faux pas).
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I perform in concerts and galas throughout the fall and spring where I'm not in costumes but in dresses.
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Galas were held for the Hetrick-Martin Institute, Elton John AIDS Foundation, International Rescue Committee and the Juilliard School.
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Most have canceled their spring fund-raising galas, which can account for a significant part of their annual budgets.
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Most have canceled their spring fund-raising galas, which can account for a significant part of their annual budgets.
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A policy change coordinates the timing of press screenings so they do not precede and upstage red carpet galas.
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She can shake hands, attend galas and make speeches, but she has little control over how funds are distributed.
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Davis Polk supported many charitable causes, and tickets to star-studded charity galas were a perk of the job.
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But not to worry, Kim has gone to plenty of Met Galas over the years both with and without Kanye.
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"LuAnn has traveled internationally yet is down home and equally comfortable at black-tie galas as country barbecues," he says.
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I was already familiar with the Louisville-based charity, and had appeared at galas to help raise funds for it.
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Bloomberg, Vanity Fair, People and The New Yorker are just some of the outlets that canned their usual glitzy galas.
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From two Met Galas to her latest nod to Edie Sedgwick, Richie's personal style is quite an accomplishment in itself.
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Mr. Donner plays about a third of the 150 balls, galas and soirees his orchestras are hired for each year.
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"I'll often have to meet a designer for a fitting," said Ms. Cambridge, who regularly performs in concerts and galas.
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Last year, the Seattle Symphony decided to allow men to jettison their tails, except for New Year's Eve and galas.
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The company, VTB, a Russian-government-owned bank under limited sanctions since 22004, held two galas at the Kennedy Center.
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They have skirted attending galas where they might have rubbed elbows with members of the media or the Washington establishment.
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Pieces made for these fashion galas often don't find a place in the repertory, but Mr. Abraham's is holding up.
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Prince Charles' 70th birthday is being celebrated with a documentary, several galas and now, a line of stamps starring the heir!
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The Clemson grad grew up among the Charleston elite, mixing and minglingwith other socialites at galas and charity events around town.
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The couple previously attended not only the 2016 soirée together, but also the Costume Institute's 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014 galas.
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At APLA, Bowman put on large-scale events and high-end galas that cost upwards of $1000 per person to attend.
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Eliminating funding for the NEA will not hurt the folks who go to galas at the Kennedy Center or Carnegie Hall.
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Once a bastion for fundraisers and philanthropic galas, the club is now more of a Republican mecca than a bipartisan hangout.
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Making new friends at happy hours and "schmoozing" at galas, it was all such a great experience shared with fellow millennials.
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It is red, though not the red of the red carpet at fashion shows and galas, and it has a pattern.
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"It was run a little more like a sports team," said Mr. Galas, who served most recently as a vice president.
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If that's 236D, and you're a bit of a goofball, then you'll see that "festive occasions" for GALS must be GALAS.
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Picabia spent most of the thirties on the Riviera, living with a mistress and designing the décor for fancy-dress galas.
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The event was to have been held in May in the museum's Hall of Ocean Life, a popular space for galas.
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This Batman has a mariachi costume, goes to bed when his butler tells him to, and "sarcastically" adopts kids at charity galas.
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Oral History He was commonly seen as a lone observer with a camera, a creature of the city's streets and nighttime galas.
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" Vanity Fair is riding very high and she recalls being "blown away by the sheer number of dinners, galas and cocktail parties.
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She encouraged Brooke, who was scarcely out of puberty, to act as camera bait, strutting provocatively at movie premieres and Hollywood galas.
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But to say that art has no business arguing is to say that art has no ideas worth holding galas to celebrate.
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Big stars also dominate the red-carpet media coverage of precursor awards galas like the Golden Globes, which take place on Sunday.
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You find yourself thrust into the position of taking her place, helping to organize lavish galas to connect people and aid the needy.
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But even more so to the point, BuzzFeed's health reporter accepted awards from Planned Parenthood at one of their galas, which is fundraising.
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In addition to attending Republican fundraisers and galas, often clutching a rhinestone encrusted "MAGA" purse, the Herald found records of Yang's political contributions.
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Trump's inauguration consisted of more than 85033 events in total, including a concert near the Lincoln Memorial and a pair of inaugural galas.
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The self-aggrandizing speeches given at art openings and galas — often cringe-worthy performances in themselves — have become another of Ms. Fraser's specialties.
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Since she first began appearing at galas in New York alongside her famous father as a child, Ivanka has always favored long tresses.
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That included $20 million for such a lush renovation of the terminal that it is booked regularly for charity galas and debutante balls.
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Winston Wolkoff is a friend of Vogue's editor-in-chief, Anna Wintour, and began her career planning society galas in Manhattan, the Times reports.
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North West & Kim Kardashian West Her mom covers magazines and attends galas in custom couture, North, 5, is following in Kardashian West's footsteps — literally.
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They both have Super PACs and throw galas featuring Democratic lawmakers, and Democrats often take messaging cues from them on women's or LGBTQ rights.
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New York Magazine ranked the PetSafe Nylon Leash as the best basic leash based on an expert opinion from Stephanie Galas at Pupculture Soho.
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I started as essentially a party reporter, covering culture, characters, galas and night life when the most recent tech boom was hitting its stride.
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With a sandblasted titanium case, it is both featherweight and tough, a watch to be worn daily — not just for galas with the queen.
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Dunham said that her endometriosis-related health struggles through the years —the half-dozen surgeries, missed Met Galas, the hysterectomy and more — changed her mentally.
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When not at galas raising money for Important Causes, billionaires' social lives are spent in the company of other rich people ensconced in similar dynamics.
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For years I wondered why every new product or feature peddled in the annual PR galas put on by Google or Apple involved restaurant recommendations.
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Despite all the galas and dinners and designer dresses, however, the line between the Haves and the Have-Nots ultimately existed beyond the economic divide.
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I have regularly tried to gather executives and spouses for nights at the Metropolitan Opera, Paley Center galas, Lincoln Center events, and various charitable fundraisers.
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Mr. de Blasio has gained no advantage by shunning some traditional galas and black-tie affairs that past mayors have used to polish their reputation.
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More galas (and more Mozart) are scheduled for the fall — including the Cleveland Orchestra's 100th anniversary concert, conducted by an early supporter, Franz Welser-Möst.
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Mr. Hoyt had met her (by some accounts she was last seen at one of his galas), and the vampires were plunged into the spotlight.
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There's certainly plenty to see, between the splashy museum shows, pop-up exhibitions, and beachy art fairs, to say nothing of the parties and galas.
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Any live event scheduled for before June is probably canceled, including springtime black-tie galas, which often bring in large chunks of revenue for organizations.
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The dress code was "Sunday Best," and never, even in the annals of Met Galas past, have boldfaced names raced so wholeheartedly toward a theme.
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The corporate culture shifted under Mr. Smith and became more focused on increasing profit, said David Galas, who left Equifax in 2011 after 13 years.
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He also spent millions of dollars on an effort to promote Azerbaijan in Washington, D.C., hosting galas for members of Congress and other powerful figures.
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Western socialites need a deep closet of gowns for black-tie charity events, but there isn't much charity in China, hence no tradition of galas.
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She has also caught the attention of red-carpet watchers with her regal and elaborate haute couture gowns at several Cannes Film Festivals and Met Galas.
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In the two years before his injury, Mr. Lang played 10 opening galas with major American orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic and the Boston Symphony.
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With galas and plans to expand his fang empire, Father Sebastiaan is looking to re-establish his place in the culture lest it pass him by.
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In the next years, Mr. Hoyt took his fang-making and events company, called Endless Night, on the road, holding galas in Berlin, Paris, New Orleans.
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Asked if the orchestra might host future pride concerts or galas, Mr. Thomas replied, "As my mother would have said, 'From your lips to God's ears.'"
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Perhaps it was the dashing grace with which he presided over New York City Ballet's black-tie galas at Lincoln Center, charming benefactors and attracting donations.
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The legendary jazz musician Sun Ra is the star of this 70s Afrofuturist sci-fi, which features better style than the last few decades of Met Galas.
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Stop by a participating Margaritaville Restaurant or LandShark Bar & Grill on February 22 for specials like $3.99 traditional margaritas, $2 float Gran Galas and $5.99 fried pickles.
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Cyrus has also been vocally critical of the brand's continued support for First Lady Melania Trump, who often wears custom D&G designs to galas and trips.
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It wasn't just that I didn't attend galas on Friday nights, or that I didn't have a maid named Dorota upon which I flung my daily grievances.
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Employees once engaged in staging money-earning events — TV galas or fashion shows, for example — in Tempelhof are now busy undoing those contracts, and assessing refugee needs.
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Karen Wood, the founder of Backstage Creations, takes credit for the gift lounge concept, launching backstage gifting suites and experiences at awards shows and galas in 1994.
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The Post noted that charities' decision to switch locations for annual galas can result in a logistical headache, including finding and working with new vendors and management.
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Hyman said events of various types are a big reason for the rise, as her consumers are going to business parties, galas, and celebrating New Year's Eve.
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Both are run by nerds, and hold galas where the respective wonks from both parallel universes can convene and try to impress each other with obscure facts.
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In just a few years, thanks in good measure to these galas, City Ballet audiences have become accustomed to same-sex pairings amid ballet's more institutionalized heterosexuality.
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When her mother lost her job, Pressley had to drop out of Boston University and started working in a hotel, pouring coffee and clearing plates at galas.
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"The dress code was 'Sunday Best,' and never, even in the annals of Met Galas past, have boldfaced names raced so wholeheartedly toward a theme," she added.
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Charity galas at opera houses were preceded by personal visits to places like the Henry Street Settlement House, an organization to assist the homeless, in New York.
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The Golden Globes are traditionally the not-caringest of awards galas, a cascade of film and TV awards that rush by on a rapids of champagne bubbles.
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Ms. Winston Wolkoff also attended charity galas like New Yorkers for Children with women-about-town like Dayssi Olarte de Kanavos, Lauren Santo Domingo and Rachel Roy.
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The family, estimated to be richer than the Queen of England, attends ritzy galas with heads of state and Hollywood stars and goes on skiing holidays in Switzerland.
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The British designer also designed Kate Middleton's dress and is a go-to for Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour's daughter Bee Shaffer at all the Met Galas.
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It was one of those only-in-New-York nights, gathering enough musicians to headline several galas in celebration of a beloved figure in the classical music world.
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There are several that offer accessible entree into wild circumstances — getting dressed for various galas and balls, smoking weed with Snoop Dogg and getting her famous torso tattoo.
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On Transfer Day, which is March 31, all three islands that are part of the territory — St. Thomas, St. John and St. Croix — will hold parades and galas.
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Imbued with the understated manners of the East Coast elite, he loomed large in the upper reaches of a New York social world of glittering black-tie galas.
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Several galas' worth of classical stars have appeared in cameos — giving them the uncommon opportunity to appear on a small screen that is not a public television station.
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The Nepal Quake Project has since been viewed more than 100,3603 times on platforms like YouTube, Facebook, Gear VR, and in Ryot's app, and was shown at several galas.
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The lower value added from sporting events — and the base effect from global galas in 2016 — already triggered a downward revision of 0.2 percentage points for first-quarter growth.
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Williams has always been a fan of fashion, having designed for Nike and HSN in the past, as well as covered Vogue three times and attended several Met Galas.
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Hollywood has a golden opportunity to shelve politics and go back to what Tinsel Town does best: Make great content and celebrate it via the Oscars and related galas.
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Maxwell integrated herself into the city's high society, attending parties, charity galas, and other events with celebrities, presidents, CEOs, and other members of the city's wealthy and powerful elite.
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What they found was a revolving door of powerful people holding galas in the hotel's lavish ballrooms and meeting over expensive cocktails with White House staff at the bar.
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Over the weekend, the Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach and the Palm Beach Zoo and Conservation Society became the latest nonprofit groups to cancel galas at Mar-a-Lago.
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Yet, in 2001, as he aspired to succeed Republican Mayor Rudy Giuliani, he was largely unknown beyond Wall Street and the exclusive dinner parties and charity galas he frequented.
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Life as a Runway Like the first day of school and the return of black-tie galas, the Chelsea gallery crawl ushers in a new season in New York.
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When you're a celebrity, a comfortable pair of heels is a must for hitting the red carpets and attending extravagant galas — but that doesn't mean they have cost a fortune.
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She's worn a variety of Steve Madden styles to Jackie screenings, Hollywood galas, and other fancy-dress functions — and mastered the art of the high-low mix in the process.
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After all, it's now almost obligatory for Hollywood awards galas to feature anti-Trump screeds and for pop stars like Madonna and Bruce Springsteen to jab the President from onstage.
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For six consecutive galas, she literally shut down the red carpet by arriving last, with her trusty then-stylist Ty Hunter always hovering nearby to keep her train looking #flawless.
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The UAE ambassador to Washington, Yousef Al Otaiba, for example, is renowned for hosting star-studded charity galas, featuring guests from George W. Bush to National Security Adviser Susan Rice.
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Ms. Watts said she looks forward to those galas (the next, "Take Home a Nude," is scheduled for Tuesday) as opportunities to discover new artists and raise money for scholarships.
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And the lavish galas and the largely homogeneous circle of the well-to-do who frequent them may seem incongruous in a diverse city that is wrestling with income inequality.
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"We often create in-house events such as murder mystery dinners, casino royal wine and dine galas, summer poolside parties and more," said Alison Yassky, Castle Hotel & Spa's maître d'hôtel.
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The show was light on politics during its first two hours, a sharp break from other recent entertainment galas like the Screen Actors Guild awards and the Golden Globe ceremony.
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Even at school, he choreographed small pieces for classmates; later he made pieces for fellow dancers for workshops and galas, searching, he said, for something he wasn't finding in performing.
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It's also a multi-purpose event space; its organizers said they have plans to host charity galas, corporate events, movie nights, weddings, fashion shows, and workshops for children in the venue.
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With a decidedly Surrealistic bent, the baron's scrapbook pages blend text, photography and watercolors into a visual feast of balls, galas and other festivities featuring personalities with patrician names (see: Windsor).
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They've become celebrities in their own right, with Jacob regularly walking down the red carpet at LGBTQ galas and Alok featuring in the Janet Mock–narrated HBO documentary The Trans List.
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But spring is more traditional for galas, and the threat of the coronavirus has many theaters scrambling to reschedule or reconfigure events that bring in a sizable chunk of their income.
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I use Cortlands or Romes when I can get them, and when I can't, I choose Fujis or Galas — they don't always get very soft, but their flavor is always good.
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Anyway, Obama's New York visit's been pretty low-key other than the power dinner -- no big speeches or fundraising galas on the books -- and he's even crashing at a friend's place.
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Though the Clintons might show up at some events and galas and friends' birthday parties, they were never really around enough to become part of the society dinner-party circuit, either.
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The event is the Trumpettes USA gala, intended for a group of socialites and Trump supporters whose galas generally raise money that goes to Mar-a-Lago, according to the Post.
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It was, like all galas, perhaps somewhat more about the attendees than the cause, and he communicated, at least to me, that he felt out of place among New York's glitterati.
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Galas are a traditional part of any major figure skating competition, allowing fans to glimpse a different side of the skaters, who do moves and routines not usually permitted under competition rules.
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To get an idea of what valet drivers do for fun, we spoke to Taylor, a former valet who's worked at high-end restaurants, art galas, and the occasional private household party.
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One can conjure any number of nightmare scenarios for galas themed around Judaism, blackness or, say, Aztecs—none of whom remain alive to be offended—no matter how sartorially sensitive the dresses.
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For instance, the honorees at the museum's annual benefit and auction this year — devoted to Wild Noise — were all Cuban; previous galas had honored Bronx-based artists and other New York figures.
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Scene City 33 Photos View Slide Show ' Like the colors of fall, the charity season neared its peak last week, with five or more galas vying for support on a single night.
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Built in 1926, the hotel "became a place to host glamorous fashion shows, galas, golf tournaments and water shows in what was then the largest pool in the world," according to WLRN.
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The goal is to get Mr. Tang looking enough like Mr. Trump that he can impersonate the president-elect and entertain at lucrative company debuts, shopping mall openings and New Year's galas.
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Line: Jaguars by 493 ½ When quarterback Brock Osweiler said that signing with the Texans gave him the best chance to succeed, he must have been referring to these semiannual galas with Jacksonville.
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While the 800-pound gorillas of New York's classical scene, the Metropolitan Opera and New York Philharmonic, prepare for their season-opening galas, a pluckier, scrappier operation took center stage this week.
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HaYovel was invited to participate in inaugural galas and meetings by the Faith and Freedom Coalition, a conservative Christian group that has hosted Trump and Vice President–elect Mike Pence at conferences.
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The presence of flower walls at events that are over in a matter of hours, like runway shows and awards galas, underlines the main limitation of floral installations: They don't last long.
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She lives her insanely cool life — gallivanting from her dream 9-to-5 gig to panel guest spots, art openings, and glitzy galas — in technicolor patterns, cheeky conversation-starter tees, and bold footwear.
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I mean obviously Planned Parenthood in their celebrity is on the extreme edge of it, but there aren't major institutions in the country in healthcare that don't try to have star-studded galas.
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And Mr. Trump, usually accompanied by his wife, Melania, has been a familiar face at well-publicized benefit galas in New York and Florida, where the rich and famous mingle and are seen.
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The column-free galleries are industrial and white; the single theater is boring and black; and the minuscule dance floor is set within a multipurpose skylit room tailor-made for galas and parties.
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And so the two tractor-trailers, packed with enough gowns to outfit guests for a dozen Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute galas, headed to the area where she grew up, the Catskills.
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There were many to choose from in New York — film premieres, museum galas, fashion week gatherings, the odd tech party or two — and they all took place in the most exclusive restaurants and clubs.
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Cozy nights with festive cocktails, gift buying for our BFFs, and all those parties (think everything from fancy black-tie galas to chill group hangs) that give us an excuse to play dress-up.
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Rent the Runway was co-founded by Hyman and Jennifer Fleiss in 2009 to give women a rental alternative for designer dresses they might normally purchase for one-off events like weddings and galas.
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Everyone was going on about REM and Husker Dü. There was a lad opposite me who had a big blond pompadour and a biker jacket, and he started talking about the composer Diamanda Galas.
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She maintained a zest for reporting and grew accustomed in those days to sashaying to galas sheathed in a lustrous dresses, her sharply sculptured features softened by an up-do and triple-strand pearls.
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"This was a packed 68 hours for the pageant queen, including a speech at a Mexican restaurant, two galas, three canvassing launches, a church service and roundtables with black female voters," Jada Yuan reports.
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"When I get dressed up and go to a gala — say the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Ballet, A.B.T. or even some of the lesser galas — it's a chance to sort of unwind," Mrs.
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On the eve of president-elect Donald Trump's inauguration, an angry mob gathered outside the National Press Club to protest one of the many elite galas taking place around Washington, DC, as is inaugural tradition.
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In tech circles, it would be easy to assume that the world of high-impact charitable giving is a rich man's game where deals are inked at exclusive black tie galas over fancy hors d'oeuvre.
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As chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, I was invited to glamorous Washington galas, the ones where thousands of eyes make no eye contact, where pupils constantly rove in search of someone more powerful.
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See what else Wen had to say about her friendship with Kors, highlights of past Met Galas, and what goes through a model's head when she walks the most watched red carpet in the world.
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He started out as the publicist for, I believe it was Michael McDonald, and then the Jacksons as well, Al Green And also he was known for giving the parties, galas, things of that nature.
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The most chilling option of all is this two-night engagement by Diamanda Galas, the avant-garde queen of darkness, whose recent album "All the Way" is a fantastically eerie take on the American songbook.murmrr.
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For New Yorkers, the shutdown will mean one less icon on the landscape for a while — and that the galas that have filled the Waldorf's ballroom night after night will have to find new homes.
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Along with Mr. Kushner, Ms. Trump made inroads on the benefit circuit, popping up at galas for New Yorkers for Children and the New York Public Library, where they were guests at other people's tables.
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The famed Ziegfeld Theater in Midtown Manhattan will close its doors in the coming weeks, and reopen next year as an event space that caters to galas and corporate functions, the building's owner said on Wednesday.
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The Special Needs Network and The John Wayne Cancer Institute are both pulling out of previously scheduled galas at the Beverly Hills Hotel ... and it's all because the hotel owner supports killing gay people by stoning.
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Mr. Hoyt's galas were experimental affairs, rotating through a series of clubs, with coffins splayed out on the dance floor, performances by goth bands and leather-clad vampires who might flog one another with kink whips.
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Christy Scott Cashman, an actress and producer whose credits include "American Hustle" and "The Kids Are All Right," said she had borrowed many ensembles, for entertainment galas, but also for soirees around Boston, where she lives.
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When Trump has attended past New Year's Eve galas, he usually gives a toast to the crowd and sometimes leads the countdown to the new year as the crowd watches the ball drop in Times Square.
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"I chose to have it there because I've attended galas there," Mr. Schrantz said of his event, which will feature a George Michael tribute artist donating his time, as well as honor the astronaut Buzz Aldrin.
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Beloved does not begin to describe the way many local Republicans feel about Team Bush; even in this traditionally Democratic city, all those literacy galas, Astros first pitches and handwritten thank-you notes counted for a lot.
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The move comes after 2 other big foundations -- The Special Needs Network and The John Wayne Cancer Institute -- moved previously scheduled galas out of the Beverly Hills Hotel, which is also owned by Brunei's ruler, Hassanal Bolkiah.
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By 21, major auction companies like Christie's, Sotheby's, and Bonhams were organizing their own space galas, each focused on a period of 22 years between the mid-'60s and '70s — Earth's brief love affair with the moon.
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The most chilling option of all is this engagement on Sunday and Tuesday by Diamanda Galas, the avant-garde queen of darkness, whose recent album "All the Way" is a fantastically eerie take on the American songbook.
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After all, most people think ballet galas are events for pretty dances in which a male star spins on one leg and a ballerina hops around on point, in a dance charmingly set in a bygone era.
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Modern ciders are made with dessert apples (such as honey crisp, red delicious, galas, etc.) They are more akin to a concord grape, so will still taste refreshing, but won't have tannins and a complexity to their flavor.
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And he did it all the way to the wire, darting around town on his bicycle to attend everything from galas at the Museum of Modern Art to raucous late-night parties with drag queens and gym bunnies.
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For Diana, a lone wolf who already wins awards at galas, the show is about stumbling into vulnerability and beginning to trust other women, even those less experienced than her, to come up with some of the answers.
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The former milliner and fashion reporter trained his lens on fabulous creatures teetering into fashion shows and society doyennes swishing around black-tie galas — and he was just as smitten by regular people going about their daily lives.
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A one-time officer of the trade group-cum-social-clique Bottle and Cork Sales Club of black liquor salesmen from major distilleries like Seagram's and Hiram Walker, he was a regular presence at charity events and galas.
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He worked every weekend, and he was out every night attending two, three, four, five events—panel discussions, parties, talks, dinners, galas—leaving one with an apology and a smile, leaping into a taxi, on to the next.
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Museum boards are crowded with the worst of the moneyed elite, permitting them to launder their reputations for plunder and pelf as they impress their rivals with lavish tax-deductible donations, reap prestige, and celebrate themselves with galas.
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The "Full House" alum also praised Williams for his generosity and dedication to helping others, explaining how the iconic star volunteered to perform at seven different benefit galas for the Scleroderma Research Foundation -- which Saget is closely involved with.
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The array of current celebrities who choose his fashion house for red-carpet events (remember Kim Kardashian West's floral gown and Beyoncé's nude latex gown, both worn at recent Met Galas?) prove just how deep his visionary legacy runs.
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He avoided galas and opening nights, preferring intimate dinners at Dan Tana's, the dimly lit, old-school Italian place on Santa Monica Boulevard with red-leather booths, waiters in black bow ties and bartenders in red three-button jackets.
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Appearances at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, the Royal Opera House in London, and other major opera houses followed, and she quickly became one of the busiest opera divas on the scene, a fixture of galas and benefits.
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But those days of festive galas and bipartisan suppers are coming to a close at the apartment, which occupies the fifth floor of the 14-story 1020 Fifth Avenue, at 83rd Street, across from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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From opera galas and latin jazz concerts, to film screenings and yoga workshops for children, not a week goes by that the center doesn't offer artists an outlet for thriving, and community members a place to watch it happen.
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At 51, he wears a short-sleeved polo shirt and shorts everywhere he goes, even to black-tie galas or in New York winters, which gives him the unassailable air of a true eccentric, or a high-school football coach.
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Admitting that it was difficult to choose a dress to top all the ones she's worn to the past Galas, the 31-year-old dished to PEOPLE at her KatyXCovergirl event on Sunday night about her plans for tonight's look.
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But we also get a better look at each of Debbie's new band of thieves as they prepare to rob the legendary Met Gala (a perfect event on which to center a movie featuring Rihanna, undisputed queen of Met Galas).
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"We get asked all the time to be part of galas and fundraisers and silent auctions—things where it costs $0000,803 to get in the door, where they're not really for you and me and everyone that we know," she says.
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It's what might be described as a kind of laundering of privilege: In the Sacklers' case, it meant using their earnings to purchase tables at far-flung charity galas and weasel their way into benevolent foundations, earning plaudits along the way.
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He was created by people who learned from Andy Warhol, not Jerry Falwell, who knew him from galas at the Met, not fundraisers at Karl Rove's house, and his original audience was presented to him by Condé Nast, not Guns & Ammo.
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With his rising profile off the field, however, he becomes a target — for the gossip sites (he recently found himself batting away reports of a romance with Khloé Kardashian), and apparently, for tuxedo-clad HBO stars at A-list galas.
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In a final film, celebrating five years of the company's fall fashion galas, Sarah Jessica Parker (a chairwoman of the event) told us that this attention to fashion was in the tradition of Balanchine, City Ballet's founding ballet master. Really?
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But when I call up Pencils of Promise, the educational nonprofit that Ryot produced a film for, I'm told that it raised the same amount of money at its past two annual galas—in 2360 with a VR experience and in 3603 without one.
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In the cease and desist letter included with the lawsuit, Aldrin&aposs attorney, Robert Tourtelout, cited the upcoming 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission , demanding Korp cease all plans for galas or celebrations that involve Aldrin individually or are associated with his brand.
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Pamela Anderson, Michael Fassbender, James Franco and Mike Tyson were among the celebrities who attended a pair of pre-festival galas Wednesday night, decked out in their black-tie best as they drummed up buzz for the festival and its big red-carpet moments.
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Invitees include Mexican diplomats, friends and family of Hispanic White House staffers, and lucky members of the Cucaracha Circuit (beltway Hispanics who give themselves awards at black-tie galas.) A few years ago, I managed to wrangle an invitation, in the hope of impressing someone.
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Keen to distance himself from his late father Omar Bongo, who relied on oil and business deals with former colonial power France, Ali Bongo organized forums and galas promoting an "Emerging Gabon" that would govern well, engage with a globalized world and protect the environment.
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Up until now, these memoirs might very well have been the only options for anyone curious about how those pigs-in-a-blanket wind up on cocktail trays or where those plates of beef tenderloin, a staple of weddings and charity galas, actually get cooked.
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Huffman, an Emmy winner for "Desperate Housewives," and Macy, an Oscar nominee for "Fargo," taught acting workshops at the school, hosted fund-raising galas, and donated at least $218,22014 to its foundation, while fellow parents basked in their proximity to such a beloved Hollywood pair.
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The series has managed to attract several galas' worth of classical headliners — past episodes have featured the pianist Lang Lang playing Ping-Pong with the violinist Joshua Bell, the pianist Emanuel Ax shuffling his feet through an interactive dance video game, and the conductor Gustavo Dudamel.
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While the bulk of that money is raised from well-heeled board members, or at star-studded galas, or by wooing big donors and foundations for major gifts, smaller donations are still seen as important, and as a way of building a broader community of supporters.
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That payment, officials said, will be the last in a remarkable spending spree in which the university frequently paid more than $22016 million a year to sponsor parades, buy tables at charity galas and civic association breakfasts, and make donations to cultural institutions and other groups.
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It also spent $22014 million for a variety of activities including buying tables at charity galas, making donations to organizations like the New-York Historical Society and Lincoln Center, and attending breakfasts held by the Association for a Better New York or Crain's New York Business.
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Except on this red carpet, unlike the hundreds I've stood on to cover film premieres, theater openings and fashion galas, begging everyone from Al Gore to Rihanna for a minute and a half of their time, the honorees at the AVN Awards weren't being pulled away by publicists.
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Some current and former Kennedy Center officials said that while the decision made sense this year, they worried about the precedent making it easier for future presidents to stay away, stripping the event of the halo of power and bipartisanship that distinguishes it from many other tributes and galas.
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For six years, she oversaw the large number of floral arrangements in the private and public spaces of the presidential residence, in addition to the "tablescapes" of private Obama family parties and official galas (including state dinners, for which she was sometimes allotted a $7,000 budget for flowers alone).
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The hotel was the home to countless galas and parties, including the Alfred E. Smith dinner, traditionally the last event where the presidential candidates share a stage before the election, and the Viennese Opera Ball, which bills itself as the oldest white-tie event in New York City.
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John Mallory, a partner in the investment management division at Goldman Sachs in Los Angeles, said he wasn't attracted to the foundation's model, which relies heavily on fund-raising through events like walks and galas, when he learned his son had Type 1 diabetes almost three years ago.
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However political the polemics may be, they're being shown in the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès, a venue known for its black-tie galas and red-carpet photoshoots, with a street of high-end jewellery boutiques on one side and a sparkling bay jammed with super-yachts on the other.
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And Timothy Butler, owner of A Royal Flush, a company that provides upscale portable bathrooms for events in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut such as charity galas, golf tournaments and weddings, said that even though restaurants and nightspots may be cutting back, attendants remain an essential part of his business.
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Among the extremely logged-on and relatively well-off — like white trans entertainers with academic credentials, online activists with rich families, and the cisgender allies celebrated at nonprofit galas — the language and platform of visibility is mistakenly invoked as a solution to the violence faced by everyone under the trans umbrella.
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Before Tinsley Mortimer was a Real Housewife of New York City, she was a Real Gal About Town in N.Y.C. The socialite ran with a fabulously fashionable crowd and attended the swankiest events — from throwing charitable galas to attending star-studded soirées, Mortimer saw it all — including inside the famed Met Gala.
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Hosted by the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) and qualified as the nation's largest university run festival (over 1003,000 attendees in 2017), the week-long programming is rooted in education and student integration, elevated by top tier premiere galas, and set against a backdrop bathed in Spanish moss and historic charm.
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They aren't the only ones: From corporate boardrooms to breakfast meetings, investor conferences to charity galas, Ms. Warren's rise in the Democratic primary polls is rattling bankers, investors and their affluent clients, who see in the Massachusetts senator a formidable opponent who could damage not only their industry but their way of life.
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According to tax filings, between 2002 and 183, Maxwell's foundation held an average of about $20,000 in total assets each year and appeared to be used to make a few small donations per year, possibly to purchase tickets to some of the fundraisers and charity galas at which she was often photographed.
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According to the tax filings, from 2002 to 2018, Maxwell's foundation held an average of about $20,000 in total assets each year and appeared to be used to make a few small donations per year, possibly to purchase tickets to some of the fundraisers and charity galas at which she was often photographed.
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It was the second annual "shopping day" for OnStage, a program created last year by Ms. Friedman in which women donate black-tie gowns and cocktail dresses to Juilliard's students, who are expected to be outfitted in fancy attire at their many auditions and performances, as well as at galas and parties.
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All those literacy galas starring best-selling authors, the loyal appearances at Astros games (thank God she lived to see them win the World Series!), the endless questions about who she would and would not support, and the bracingly frank answers that often seemed a little jolting in a country-club Republican wife.
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Astor and the youngest Rockefeller brother were often side by side, attending charity galas and taking carriage rides together near her estate, Holly Hill, in Briarcliff Manor, N.Y. By all accounts, the widow and widower never took things beyond that, although this might have had more to do with his hesitation than hers.
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Wynton Marsalis Septet: United We Swing: Best of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Galas (Blue Engine) The trumpeter-bureaucrat didn't just tamp down his jazz chauvinism as such pop titans as Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson and roots flamekeepers as the Blind Boys of Alabama and Tedeschi-Trucks paid their respects at these 2003-2007 fund-raisers.
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Pick up PEOPLE's new special edition Princess Kate: Royal Mom, Future Queen on newsstands April 1 With two glitzy galas to attend, we may even see a beautifully embellished sari – possibly by India's most established designer Ritu Kumar, who is known for using traditional craftsmanship in a contemporary fashion and has a younger diffusion line called Label – Ritu Kumar.
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" The Museum of Modern Art does not seek support from galleries, "other than periodic contributions to our annual events like galas," said Glenn D. Lowry, the director, adding that a gallery will occasionally host a dinner for an artist the museum is showing, "but not at the museum, and as a gallery event outside the museum.
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He and his company have donated, by philanthropic standards, modest amounts to Lincoln Center over the past several years, mostly gifts under $10,000, but neither he nor his foundation is known as a supporter of note of any of the city's museums; the Metropolitan Museum of Art said only that he had appeared at some Costume Institute galas and other benefits.
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Allen garnered tens of thousands of followers for her carefully-curated pro-Trump content: portraits of her attending right-wing galas, wearing MAGA hats, posing with guns, including a semiautomatic AR-15, and repeatedly visiting the White House — at least four times in April 2018 alone, including for the Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn — according to her Instagram account.
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Donations made by President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE's foundation largely went to charities that hosted galas at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, according to an analysis by the Palm Beach Post published Friday.
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But for the piece to be effective, the extremely successful Ailey company, with its fancy headquarters and glamorous galas, has to create a credible sense of "there but for the grace of God go I." If audiences are to feel that "it could happen to you" — as the work's recorded text insists while the dancers point implicating fingers at viewers — then the strong Ailey dancers must be believably beaten down.
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But over years of covering the Oscars, living life according to a calendar dictated by the awards season — the fall festivals, the late-year prestige releases, the votes and awards galas, and, finally, the hectic weeks of scrambling to prognosticate who will win and mind-read the Academy that gives out the statuettes — I have begrudgingly come to understand that there might be some reason, if not to love the Oscars, then to at least see why they matter.
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" He couldn't shake his feeling of alienation from people he imagined would help him: "The more time I spent in their midst, the more I became convinced that they were the problem — not any individual boy or girl or mother or father but the ideas that they represented, of a class apart, and all the trappings that came with it: the mixer, the galas, the networking reception, the panels to discuss blackness in theory when actual blackness was having one hell of a hard time right down the street — when I was having a hard time.
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