| EVENT REPORT 12.03.08 2:10 PM |
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Rock Hall of Fame Annex Opens With Carnival, Debbie Harry
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 | Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Annex opening
Photo: Alison Whittington for BizBash |
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Museum openings aren't typically rowdy affairs—at least in New York. But last night, to celebrate the opening of its new local outpost, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame hosted a noisy, crowded party where guests snacked on funnel cakes, tagged bars with graffiti, and head-banged along to some rock 'n' roll tunes. Approximately 2,500 guests (double the expected turnout) toured the new Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Annex before heading upstairs to the main event, a fete produced by Relevent in collaboration with Running Subway Productions and Alison Brod Public Relations. Overseeing the affair for the foundation was Joel Peresman, president and C.E.O. of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation.
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| NEWS 10.31.08 7:00 AM |
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Holiday Party Hemorrhage Continues With Barclays Capital and CitiGroup
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Investment firm Barclays Capital won't be celebrating the holidays this year. Executive committee member and chief operating officer Rich Ricci broke the news yesterday in a letter to the company’s staff, republished on Wall Street blog Dealbreaker.
Ricci praised the company’s resilience in the rough economy and its handling of the Lehman Brothers acquisition, but insisted there’s no way to celebrate as a firm or by department. “In the current difficult environment for our industry and for the economy as a whole, which affects not just financial services firms but our clients as well,” Ricci wrote, “it is not appropriate for us to do anything that might be seen as inappropriate by any of our stakeholders.”
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| EVENT REPORT 09.09.08 1:00 PM |
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Fashion Rocks Showcases Kohl's at Pre-Party, Refurnishes Rainbow Room for After-Party
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 | Pussycat Dolls at Fashion Rocks pre-party
Photo: Marion Curtis/Star Tracks |
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Fashion Rocks, Condé Nast's annual fashion show and concert, returned to Radio City Music Hall for its taping Friday night. The show itself, which airs tonight on CBS, involved a revolving stage, a lot of feathers for Rihanna, and some Motown tribute performances from Beyoncé, Justin Timberlake, Kid Rock, and Mary J. Blige. Adding to the hoopla, Condé Nast held a pre-party on Thursday night and a packed after-party immediately following the Friday night taping.
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| VENUE NEWS 08.14.08 12:23 PM |
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Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Outpost Heading to SoHo
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 | Mayor Bloomberg sat in an item that will appear in the museum: Bruce Springsteen's 1957 Chevy.
Photo: Julienne Schaer/NYC & Company |
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Cleveland's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is branching out. At a press conference yesterday, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Billy Joel, Clive Davis, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and Museum C.E.O. Terry Stewart, and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation C.E.O. Joel Peresman announced that come November, SoHo will be home to a permanent annex of the music museum. To be located at 76 Mercer Street, the 25,000-square-foot facility is the first effort from the museum to build its presence outside of Cleveland.
"Establishing outposts like these is becoming a strategy of other major institutions," said Stewart in the official press release. "These projects allow museums to extend their reach, but also provide space to travel exhibits and allow curators to display some of our priceless artifacts for the first time ouside of Cleveland."
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| NEWS 07.29.08 8:00 AM |
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With Plenty of Sponsors, Lollapalooza Set to Take Over Chicago This Weekend
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FROM CHICAGO
The current incarnation of Lollapalooza, the brainchild of Jane's Addiction frontman Perry Farrell, along with Austin, Texas-based promoters C3 Presents and the William Morris Agency, will once again set up shop in Chicago's Grant Park this Friday through Sunday. The fourth-annual Chicago-only festival encompasses 120 acts (including Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails, and Kanye West) performing on eight sponsored stages, as well as various environments, lounges, and activities scattered throughout the park.
Lollapalooza 2008 incorporates several new elements this year, including Perry's, named for Farrell, an open-air electronica stage featuring live DJ sets each day at 2 p.m., and Lederhosen's Biergarten, a beer hall situated near Buckingham Fountain. Both Green Street (a destination space educating festival-goers about Lolla's eco-friendly initiatives) and Kidzapalooza (featuring a stage, "School of Rock" Jam Tent, a recording studio, and special performances) are returning this year.
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| EVENT REPORT 06.02.08 10:57 AM |
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Prom Props Fill BAM for Sundance Series Opening
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 | BAM's prom party setup
Photo: Alison Whittington for BizBash |
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With paper crowns, plastic tiaras, balloons, and corsages, the guests coming out of the Brooklyn Academy of Music Thursday night looked more like they had been to prom than to a film screening. And that was the idea behind the kick-off party for the Sundance Institute at BAM, a 10-day-long line up of indie films, shorts, performances, and art from the Park City, Utah, nonprofit's January festival. BAM's special events department created the motif to tie into the opening night screening of American Teen, a documentary following the lives of high school seniors in Warsaw, Indiana.
The screening packed the Howard Gilman Opera House with a lively audience, and afterwards many (BAM estimated that about 1,200 guests attended) flooded the lobby and the upstairs Lepercq Space for chips and dip, cookies, beer, and some dancing. On-hand to introduce the series were BAM president Karen Brooks Hopkins, Sundance Institute executive director Ken Brecher, American Teen director Nanette Burstein, Brooklyn borough president Marty Markowitz, and this year's chairs of the BAM Cinema Club, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard.
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Sundance Institute, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Citi, The New York Times, Brooklyn Brewery, Saaga 1763 Vodka |
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