This Week: Cherry Blossoms, Chanel, Food Awards

Tonight, Condé Nast Traveler celebrates its Hot List with a party at Megu, and at Loft Eleven event designer David Tutera launches his new book, The Party Planner, published by Bulfinch Press. Thursday, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang opens at the Hilton Theatre, with an after-party at the Hilton New York produced by Tobak-Dantchik Events & Promotions. Also Thursday, a preview of the New York Antiquarian Book Fair benefits the New York Public Library; the fair opens to the public at the Park Avenue Armory on Friday and runs through Sunday. The TravelCom Travel Commerce conference and expo begins Thursday at the Marriott Marquis and ends Sunday.

On Friday, the scandal-battered James Beard Foundation kicks off a weekend of events—still big with the food crowd—with its food journalism awards, which will be presented at the Grand Hyatt. Then on Sunday night, Chefs Warehouse hosts a reception at Vento, and Bon Appetit’s Chefs’ Night Out party is at Ono. The big awards themselves are Monday at the Marriott Marquis.

On Saturday, Julianne Moore and Mariska Hargitay host the Revlon Run/Walk (one of our Top 100 Events), which starts in Times Square and concludes in Central Park. The Tribeca Film Festival enters its final weekend, with its family festival along Greenwich Street on Saturday. The film festival closes Sunday. Also over the weekend, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden celebrates spring and its collection of flowering Japanese cherry trees with its two-day Cherry Blossom Festival.

On Monday, the so-called “party of the year”—the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute benefit—will bring fashion and society types to revel amid the museum’s new Chanel exhibition (which opens to the public next Thursday). David Monn is designing the event—as we first reported—and Glorious Food is catering. The National Television Academy presents the Sports Emmy awards at Jazz at Lincoln Center, and in the Time Warner Center proper, Bacardi holds a fashion show to promote its Big Apple rum and to benefit City Harvest. The Fashion Avenue Market Expo, Accessories the Show, and Moda Manhattan fashion trade shows come to the Javits Center on Monday, and run through Wednesday. Tuesday, the Travel Industry Association of America brings its International Pow Wow travel convention to the Javits Center; it continues through next Saturday.
Posted 04.27.05