| EVENT REPORT 05.12.09 8:00 AM |
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More Correspondents' Weekend Coverage: Bloomberg and Vanity Fair's Exclusive Party, Atlantic Media's Dinner, McLaughlin's Brunch, and More
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FROM WASHINGTON
As in years past, parties of every kind and color—from movie screenings to exhibit openings to hangover brunches—surrounded this year's White House Correspondents' Association dinner. Here’s a wrap-up of the weekend's attractions:
Bloomberg and Vanity Fair's After-Party
Capitol File may have hosted the weekend's biggest party, but the most exclusive honors went to Bloomberg LP and Vanity Fair, who hosted an impossible-to-get-into shindig for 250 on Saturday night. Taking over French ambassador Pierre Vimont's turn-of-the-century home in Kalorama, the party drew big names from politics and Hollywood, among them Demi Moore, Ashton Kutcher, Glenn Close, Eva Longoria, David Axelrod, Desiree Rogers, and the ubiquitous Captains Chesley Sullenberger and Richard Phillips. The party took over the mansion's interior rooms with bars and buffets, and spilled out into the backyard, where the many trees were uplit in blue, pink, and green.
David Bradley's Private Dinner
On Friday night, Atlantic Media owner David Bradley and his wife, Katherine Brittain Bradley, hosted an indoor cocktail reception followed by an outdoor seated dinner at their Embassy Row home. Sponsored by Toyota and Robert Mondavi Winery, the annual event was twice as large as last year, thus requiring for the first time a 40- by 40-foot HDO Productions tent, which Frost Lighting technicians draped with white rope lights.
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White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, Capitol File, Bloomberg, Vanity Fair, Atlantic Media, Toyota, Robert Mondavi Winery, Barack Obama, Haddad Media, White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, Creative Coalition, DC Magazine, The McLaughlin Group, Time Inc., People Magazine, Time magazine |
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| EVENT REPORT 11.17.08 3:12 PM |
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Environmental Media Awards Use Biodiesel Generators and Lots of Green Gifts From Sponsors
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Like the cause it trumpets, the Environmental Media Awards ceremony seems to grow in size and stature with each passing year. And between Thursday's 18th annual awards presentation, produced by Scott Mauro Entertainment, and the after-party attended by 1,000 guests, a dozen restaurant stations, and 14 sponsor product booths, this is an event with a lot of moving parts.
The team charged with the tricky task of pulling it together at Ebell of Los Angeles this year consisted of the Environmental Media Association's president, Debbie Levin, and its director of public relations and special events, Lisa Barnet, as well as Danielle Condon of Benarroch Productions. As guests emerged from the Wilshire Ebell Theatre, where entertainment-industry folk and corporate supporters were honored for spreading the environmental message, they were directed to the sprawling adjacent complex, where they found a crisply organized array of stations offering green products as well as organic edibles and potables.
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Environmental Media Awards, Environmental Media Association, Going Green, Lexus, Tiffany & Company, Toyota |
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| ASK BIZBASH 07.30.08 11:00 AM |
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How Do You Make Out-of-Towners Feel Welcome?
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 | The Orange County Museum of Art's "The Birth of Cool" exhibit.
Photo: Carla Rhea Photography |
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Whether it’s a C.E.O. or hundreds of attendees coming to L.A., guests always appreciate a little local hospitality. Here are ways to thank people for coming, entertain them, or simply help them get oriented.
For Mattel’s third annual Leading Edge Seminar meeting held in December at the toy manufacturer’s El Segundo offices, senior manager of meeting and planning services Kelly Johnsen welcomed 45 of the company’s vice presidents from three states and five countries. After a day of back-to-back seminars, Johnsen took the group to Orange County, where she arranged for stays at the St. Regis Hotel and booked the Orange County Museum of Art so that guests could peruse its “The Birth of Cool: California Art, Design, and Culture at Midcentury” exhibit in private. “Most of our attendees don’t have the time to take a trip down south when they are in our corporate office for business, so this is a nice getaway for them, as well as a productive meeting,” she says. As a memento, Johnsen left a 300-page book about the exhibit in each guest’s hotel room.
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Mattel, E! Entertainment, Sundance, Toyota |
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| FEATURE 02.29.08 7:29 PM |
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Southern California's Top Entertainment Industry Events 2008
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 | The Environmental Media Awards
Photo: Alex Berliner/Berliner Studios/BEImages |
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1. Academy Awards
The most ballyhooed shindig of the entertainment year, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences’ Oscars take place at the Kodak Theatre. Vanity Fair generally has a lock on the most coveted after-party, but the magazine canceled its 2008 event in the wake of the Writers Guild strike, leaving Elton John's AIDS fund-raiser as this year's most high-profile Oscar bash. Sequoia Productions is the longtime producer of the academy’s official Governors Ball. The 80th annual show was held on February 24.
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Southern California's Top 100 Events, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Hollywood Foreign Press Association, Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, DirecTV, People Magazine, ET, Recording Academy, Warner Brothers, Sony, Film Independent, Screen Actors Guild, American Film Institute, Environmental Media Association, Toyota, Goldenvoice, Women in Film, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, American Cinematheque, The Los Angeles Times, Glaad, N.A.A.C.P., Starz, BET |
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| FEATURE 02.29.08 7:07 PM |
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Southern California's Top Sports Events 2008
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Photo: Ben Liebenberg/WireImage |
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1. City of Los Angeles Marathon
The 2008 race is set for March 2, with Honda as the presenting sponsor. More than a million spectators are expected to watch 25,000 runners along the course, which starts at Universal Studios and ends in downtown L.A. Other race-day events include the Emerald Nuts 5K Run/Walk and the Acura L.A. Bike Tour.
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Southern California's Top 100 Events, Honda, Emerald Nuts, Acura, Pacific Life, United States Tennis Association, Toyota, Cedars-Sinai, Chrysler, Countrywide |
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| EVENT REPORT 11.01.07 7:12 PM |
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Environmental Media Awards Grow TV Broadcast
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 | The awards' colorful stage set.
Photo: Alex Berliner/Berliner Studio/BEImages |
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The Environmental Media Association has always been about congratulating Hollywood. Now, with its 17th annual Environmental Media Awards ceremony on October 24, the EMA is going more Hollywood than ever by growing its E! broadcast. (Last year's broadcast was only 30 minutes, and the show had previously not been televised.) The event kicked off with a two-hour taping of the award show hailing film, television, and entertainment-industry activists for spreading the word about green living. The ceremony at the Ebell Club of Los Angeles will be shown on the E! network on November 7. Debbie Levin, the nonprofit’s executive director, and Ian Stewart of Done and Dusted served as executive producers of the event.
The star-spangled ceremony, which honored Al Gore, Trudie Styler, Sienna Miller, and longtime event sponsor Toyota, began an hour later than its scheduled 6 p.m. start, to allow hip-hop band the Roots time to rehearse. But event producer Patie Maloney, the organization’s vice president, steeled the 950 guests for the long slog ahead with organic raisins and chips from event sponsor Earthbound Farm.
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Environmental Media Association, Environmental Media Awards, Going Green, Toyota, E! Entertainment |
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