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Q&AS WITH EVENT STRATEGISTS SwimShow Director Brings on New PR Firm, Trims Show Length to Cut Costs Billy Melynk Expands Bacardi's B-Live Concert Series to More Than 46 Markets Daytona 500 Organizers Slash Ticket Prices, Anticipate Fewer Spectators   PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT... What's Worth It? Where to Spend and Where to Save in Today's Budgets Guerrilla Marketing Guide: Where to Stage Stunts in Six Cities Fair Minded     Ted Kruckel Archive 11.20.09 5:25 PM Masked Raconteurs Tell Tales at Moth Ball, and I Have a Blast The Moth Ball at Capitale Photo: Flash Rosenberg FROM NEW YORK Early in his remarks at the Moth Ball, host Garrison Keillor told the guests that he had recently suffered a stroke. The room fell quiet. He went on to say that his was a mild stroke, “the best kind to have.” Then he admitted that telling New Yorkers about it had a surprise benefit. “In the world of New York City conversationalists, it’s like having a handicapped parking permit.” Rather than being interrupted within 10 seconds, as is our city’s norm, he said, leading with the stroke news gave him a “fighting chance” to last, say, “20 to 30 seconds.” It was his way of congratulating the 12-year-old organization on its surprising success in the city that “doesn’t sleep and certainly doesn’t listen.” The Moth is a not-for-profit group that holds story “slams” for anyone with a story to tell, now also in three other cities (Los Angeles, Chicago, and Detroit). People line up around the corner, sometimes waiting for an hour to pay and listen to (mostly) amateur storytellers. Hundreds of people at dozens and dozens of events, each with a different one-word theme—who knew? MORE >> RELATED TOPICS The Moth 11.06.09 4:33 PM Gossip Girls in Chanel at Four Seasons and David Rockwell's High-Tech Taste on Paper Plates Chanel's Fete d'Hiver at the Four Seasons Restaurant to benefit The Society of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Photo: Bill Farrell-Patrick McMullan FROM NEW YORK There are so many reasons why I’ve never seen an episode of Gossip Girl. For starters, I’m not really sure what channel is the CW, and besides, doesn’t CW make you think of country music? By the time New York magazine was calling Gossip Girl “Best. Show. Ever.” I decided I was too late to the party. Couldn’t I just hold my breath for a few years till it faded away? How stupid. Because as with the last cult hit show in the New York area, The Sopranos, Gossip Girl’s far-flung cast is relentless in pursuit of publicity and as a result, I see one or two of them at every single party I go to, and it is always a big deal, despite the fact that they all seem so tiny in person. MORE >> RELATED TOPICS The Society of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Chanel, David Rockwell, New York Magazine 10.14.09 12:33 PM Food Network's Festival Stretches Its Scope (and My Belt) Guy Fieri, up to his usual theatrical antics, at the New York City Wine & Food Festival Photo: Courtesy of the New York City Wine & Food Festival FROM NEW YORK If there is one thing that really struck me about the second annual Food Network New York City Wine & Food Festival, sponsored by Food & Wine and Travel & Leisure, it was the sheer size and diversity of it all. Last week, I wrote about the plethora of food festivals happening this month in New York, most of which have no problem filling kitchens, dining rooms, stores, and other venues with paying, eager eaters. Yet at the same time, the industry’s oldest and most prestigious magazine, Gourmet, up and folded, and downtown, perennially top-rated Chanterelle closed its doors. But at the New York City Wine & Food Festival this past weekend, it was as if those closings happened on an altogether different planet. The four-day affair kicked off with “Celebration,” a V.I.P. event on Thursday at the Food Network studio. There were so many celebrity chefs that festival founder Lee Schrager found himself in trouble when, during his speech, he began thanking present network personalities Alton Brown, Guy Fieri, and Sandra Lee, and suddenly a bunch of others started shouting out their own names. Lee wisely widened his thanks to “everyone at the Food Network, including the security guard, who five years later still doesn’t recognize me.” MORE >> RELATED TOPICS New York City Wine & Food Festival 10.06.09 4:59 PM As Gourmet Bites the Dust, October Is Food Month in New York Jacques Pépin at New York magazine's Culinary Experience Photo: Larry Busacca FROM NEW YORK It’s getting hot in here and the pressure is mounting. I’m in the kitchen with Jacques Pépin and about 20 students who are racing against the clock to complete their stuffed ballotines of chicken. Pépin is perspiring and working furiously as he goes from one student to the next, showing each the main steps that he demonstrated twice onscreen already. It is 4:15 on a Saturday afternoon at the French Culinary Institute, and I’m sitting in on a New York magazine-sponsored deluxe weekend of instructional cooking, the New York Culinary Experience, with some of the world’s leading chefs. In addition to Monsieur Pépin, fellow F.C.I. deans André Soltner (formerly of Lutèce) and Alain Sailhac (formerly of the 21 Club) are sauntering around the room, assisted by six sous chefs, by my count. In two days, the announcement that Gourmet is closing will shock this community, but today we are all blissfully enjoying Food Month. MORE >> RELATED TOPICS New York Magazine, Gourmet magazine, Bon Appétit, French Culinary Institute 09.30.09 9:00 AM Rules for the Recovery I enjoyed Tina Brown’s Daily Beast post about the death of Robert Isabell, “Farewell to the King of Parties” (July 12), up until the end, when she did the obligatory linking of his passing to the end of the proverbial big party. “Our revels now are ended!” her piece ends (without Shakespeare’s attribution, by the way). Maybe it’s a result of having sat in that Vanity Fair top seat; from there everything else is downhill. Remember Graydon Carter after 9/11,  eclaring “the end of the age of irony”? Now he can be found most nights monkeying around the Monkey Bar, his second high-priced and low-access bôite, and, well, isn’t that just a little bit ironic? MORE >> RELATED TOPICS Tina Brown, Robert Isabell 09.11.09 7:57 PM I'm Flabbergasted By Fashion's Fabulous Night Out, Despite My Torn Plastic Bag Anna Wintour and Michael Kors bravely faced the masses at the Macy's Queens Center. Photo: Julienne Schaer FROM NEW YORK My editors, and no doubt you readers, will be glad to know that I am going to skip the obligatory themed intro and get right into the meat of Fashion’s Night Out, the shopping bonanza organized for the night of September 10 by Vogue, NYC & Company, and the Council of Fashion Designers of America to get people out in stores and buying again. MORE >> 09.02.09 4:17 PM Where the Wild Things Are, Part II: At the "Too Popular" Surf Lodge, in the Axe Lounge, and on Booze Buses Lilybugs to the rescue! Photo: Eli Gormezano FROM NEW YORK It’s a long drive to Montauk from the “regular” Hamptons, but the Clam Bar in Napeague makes the perfect pit stop for tuna “bits” and BlackBerrying. I was on my way to see the hotspot Surf Lodge and wanted to check in with the general manager, who had nicely emailed and called me confirming my property tour, when I hit a publicity roadblock by the name of Shelby Meade of Fresh and Clean Media. It had taken us a week to get anyone from the place to even return a message, so I wasn’t surprised by the reverse logic of getting the PR people active after the appointment was booked. See, they are very busy at the Surf Lodge. Opened last year by the same team behind Cain Luxe nightclub in the city, the place was filled to the rafters every weekend with Montauk hipsters and press-hungry celebrities like Molly Sims and Michelle Trachtenberg. This year, I thought the heat had cooled enough to risk a visit, but I was wrong. MORE >> 08.27.09 8:00 AM Where the Wild Things Are: In the Hamptons, Spending $600 on Rosé Networking at Day & Night, Southampton's new all-day drink 'n' dance party Photo: Steven B. Ekerovich/Courtesy of Day & Night FROM NEW YORK Just as we civilians were getting comfortable with the knowledge that our planet, our solar system, our galaxy was just a speck of dust on an elephant’s ear in a giant jungle, word came that there were (possibly) other vast hidden dimensions, whole universes slicing through ours; imperceivable but nonetheless real and equally incalculable in size and complexity. Well, I for one was not surprised, because I have always sensed that there were whole other strange new worlds among us, invisible but to the trained eye. In fact, I kept hearing about one right under my nose, here in the Hamptons; a world where the recession didn’t exist, where excess was still en vogue (if no longer in the pages of Vogue) and where $595 rehoboams of Bertaud Belieu Côtes de Provence rosé can’t be iced fast enough. MORE >> 08.04.09 4:05 PM Super Saturday Shows No Signs of Slowing, Not Being Super Southampton Hospital's Summer Party suggested period attire. Photo: Blanche Williamson FROM NEW YORK Like almost everyone else, Super Saturday designer/donor Carmen Marc Valvo laments the summer of 2009’s weird weather. Over brunch served at his elaborately landscaped Bridgehampton home, he mourned, “The roses didn’t even bother to bloom.” I nodded. But secretly I had been thanking the gods for the lack of heat this summer. (Is global warming over? Are the icebergs getting bigger?) You see, I am what In Style associate publisher Ron Prince called “a schvitzer.” That’s Yiddish for a person who sweats in excess. I was standing inside at Super Saturday 12, praising the forced cool air, when an event worker assured me apocryphally, “We’ve always had air conditioned tents.” MORE >> RELATED TOPICS Super Saturday, Southampton Hospital Foundation 07.28.09 12:49 PM Wacky Watermill Center Still Draws Dress-to-Impressers The Watermill Center has all sorts of education and community programs, many involving children. Photo: Alice and Chris for BizBash FROM NEW YORK The gardens and grounds surrounding the Watermill Center were positively crawling with photographers, camera crews, and commentators during the cocktails preceding the annual summer benefit held on Saturday. But unlike most other Hamptons gangbangs, they weren't all packed together, clamoring for Kelly Ripa’s attention. In fact, while I asked Rufus Wainwright about his second annual concert here ("Last Song of Summer" with Norah Jones on August 29), I sensed photogs whizzing behind me, unawares. That’s because there were tons of crazy and (mostly) interesting art performances and installations to shoot. This year’s theme, “Inferno,” was especially fruitful, yielding: MORE >> RELATED TOPICS Watermill Center, James Beard Foundation MORE NEWS Search for Suppliers Activities/Experiences Catering/Food Services Decor/Design/Flowers Entertainment Event Planning & Marketing/Meeting Planning/PR Event Production/Audiovisual Services Gifts/Premiums/Awards Industry Resources Invitations/Name Tags Photography/Videography Planning Tools/Software Rentals/Props Security/Fire Services/Insurance Signage/Banners/Printing Special Effects Staffing Trade Show Services Transportation/Parking Services Search for Venues By Type All Types Activity Venues Ballrooms (All Venues) Banquet Halls Bars/Clubs/Lounges Boats/Yachts Casinos Conference Centers, Convention Centers & Auditoriums Entertainment Venues/Performance Spaces Golf Courses/Clubs Hotels Independent Event Spaces Lofts/Photo Studios/Raw Spaces Mansions/Houses Movie Studios/Sound Stages Museums/Cultural Spaces Outdoor Spaces Private Clubs Quick Trips Religious Spaces Resorts Restaurants Retail Venues Spas/Relaxation Places Stadiums/Arenas Terraces/Roofs/Gardens (All Venues) By Neighborhood/Location All Neighborhoods Miami-Dade County (Greater Miami Area and the Beaches) Broward County (Greater Hollywood/Ft. 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