| TOP 100 EVENTS 02.16.09 8:00 AM |
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Southern California's Top Benefits 2009
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 | The Los Angeles Philharmonic
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1. Carousel of Hope
Barbara Davis’s fund-raiser is known for attracting celebrities and raising big bucks—more than $80 million since its inception in 1982. Last year’s ball at the Beverly Hilton honored Pauletta and Denzel Washington, and included performances by the Jonas Brothers and Josh Groban.
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| TOP 100 EVENTS 02.29.08 11:15 PM |
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Southern California's Top Benefits 2008
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 | The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County's Dinosaur Ball
Photo: Lee Salem Photography |
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1. Carousel of Hope
Usually called the Carousel Ball, this red-letter event on L.A.’s social calendar is such a production that it’s held only once every two years. The host is Barbara Davis, half of a Hollywood power couple with her late billionaire husband, former 20th Century Fox owner Marvin Davis. Their A-list friends will turn out in droves at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in October for this fund-raiser for children’s diabetes.
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Southern California's Top 100 Events, Nancy Davis Foundation for MS, Los Angeles Opera, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Saks Fifth Avenue, Mercedes-Benz, Unicef, U.C.L.A. Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, HollyRod Foundation, Chrysalis, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Friends of the USC Libraries, Starlight Starbright Children's Foundation, Concern Foundation, Los Angeles Magazine, California Science Center, Fulfillment Fund, Geffen Playhouse, Tiger Woods Foundation |
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| EVENT REPORT 10.11.07 2:08 PM |
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John Mayer Sings at Laid-Back Tiger Woods Benefit
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 | The scene was casual at Tiger Woods's block party.
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One standout feature of the Tiger Woods Foundation’s block-party benefit is the dress code—or lack of it. For the third annual fund-raiser, 700 guests showed up this past Saturday in jeans or their equivalent. Backyard-barbecue-friendly casual wear is a rare sight at a Saturday-night fund-raiser, and it helped set an unusually relaxed tone for the event at the Grove of Anaheim.
Even featured performer John Mayer commented on the mood as revelers danced at their tables during his hourlong set. “Sometimes these things are awkward,” he said, “but you’re like the people who come to my concerts.”
The evening, orchestrated in-house by Michelle Bemis, the foundation’s director of events, began with a silent auction—not surprisingly, heavy on sports memorabilia—just outside the Grove’s doors. The doors opened to reveal the cavernous venue, dramatically dressed in red (the golfer’s preferred color, which he wears every Sunday, according to foundation president Greg McLaughlin) and black. The color scheme was also designed to complement the Italian sensibility of Food Network celebrity Giada de Laurentiis, who oversaw a three-course meal of polenta with marinara sauce, tomato, and goat cheese; filet mignon with balsamic syrup and Gorgonzola; crab and ricotta manicotti; and zuccotto with raspberry coulis.
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