| WHO'S DOING WHAT 07.31.09 10:46 AM |
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Former Quintessentially Event Director Doran Moves to Bloomberg
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Holly Doran has been named head of global operations for Bloomberg L.P.’s new conference business, a division of Bloomberg Ventures. Based out of the company's New York headquarters, Doran and her 10-person team will be responsible for the production and logistics of global financial industry conferences. She begins her new position on August 3.
Doran most recently served as the managing director for Quintessentially Events, a job she started when the London-based firm opened its U.S. outpost last October. She recently planned an event for the opening night of the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas.
An event planner for more than 10 years, Doran worked at JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs before spending six years as the special events associate at Vogue, working on the Costume Institute gala and other projects. —Ricki Maybruch
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| 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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| NEWS 04.17.09 1:53 PM |
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People and Time Team Up for White House Correspondents Weekend Party
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FROM WASHINGTON
Cohosting, it appears, is the order of the day for media companies throwing parties before and after this year’s White House Correspondents' Association dinner Saturday, May 9, at the Hilton Washington.
Time Inc. publications Time and People will jointly host a cocktail reception Friday evening at Astor Terrace at the St. Regis. Expected to attend are some of the entertainers who will be at the People table the following night: Sting and his wife, Trudie Styler, along with Miranda Cosgrove, Kevin Bacon, Forest Whitaker, Jon Hamm, Eva Longoria Parker, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges, and Brooke Shields and her husband, Chris Henchy. Time has not released its dinner guest list.
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| THE SCOUT 07.14.08 5:39 PM |
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Invitations With Techie Surprises, Artistic Airs, and Green Ideas
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 | A flower-seed-laced invitation for the eco-friendly Smart ForTwo car debut.
Photo: Nick Ferrari for Bizbash |
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These recent invitations used new technology, eco-friendly materials, and flat-out fancy designs to get attention.
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| NEWS 04.29.08 2:36 PM |
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Correspondents Dinner Dubbed "Lame" by Time, "Hideous" by Rupert Everett
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As Washingtonians recuperate from the storm that was the White House Correspondents Association dinner weekend, media types have been quick to assess how it all went down, what was great, and what was not so great.
In an article titled "The Coolest D.C. Party is Still Lame," Time.com asserted that as hard as Washington tries, it will always be the dorky sibling to New York and L.A., saying, "So each year, nearly three thousand Beltway tribe members and their guests gather at the Washington Hilton ... to dine with the current president of the United States and pretend for a night that we actually belong to a cool crowd, a hip scene, an exclusive network of movers and shakers that everyone wants to join."
The piece went on to describe how the Secret Service closed down the men's room—possibly because the president was being held in an adjacent room—vetoing access to tuxedo-clad notables like Wolf Blitzer. (Variety confirmed the story, adding that Newt Gingrich, too, was barred.) All in all, "The dinner itself was an unspectacular spread of white wine, white fish, steak and cheese cake."
British actor Rupert Everett agreed, telling the Reliable Source that the evening was "one of the most hideous events I've ever been to."
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| EVENT REPORT 04.28.08 5:59 PM |
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Bloomberg Party Stages Interactive Art Installations in Drippy Tent
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FROM WASHINGTON
Bloomberg L.P.'s Saturday-night White House Correspondents Association dinner party—arguably the second-most coveted after-party in town, after Vanity Fair's shindig—had one thing nailed down this year: the element of surprise. With all parties involved sworn to secrecy in the weeks leading up to the event, the 950 guests (up from last year’s 500, and wrangled by Tammy Haddad and Margaret Carlson) barely knew what to expect.
Headed by Bloomberg event planners Raquel Tudela and Mia Sakai, along with C.E.O. Lex Fenwick, the party filled up a series of tents (all raised 12 feet off the ground) around the Costa Rican embassy. One major hiccup was the pouring rain that began just before the doors opened, causing the temporary setup to become riddled with leaks. Though planners scrambled to fix the problem, by opening time a few drippy spots, patches of soaked carpet, and a dozen or so water-catching trash cans lingered—and much of the postparty chatter and news coverage questioned its choice of location.
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