Notes on a Party

Archive for the ‘DJ + Music’ Category

Mad Tea Party by Zelda Fitzgerald

If I had to choose one season in the Fashion Calendar, I would live in resort. It’s essentially a collection designed for a lifestyle of leisure. Assuming, of course, that you have somewhere fabulous to go on vacation. Last Thursday I was given a little taste of the good life…
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Jesse Malin
June 1, 2007 | DJ + Music

The Highline might just be the most rockin’ neighborhood in NYC. Fresh off the Bowie curated arts festival, the area has a new 700-person music venue owned and operated by the family behind the B.B. King Blues Club and Blue Note Jazz Club. The Highline Ballroom (431 West 16th Street,…
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DB Woodside and Red Rope Founder Eddie Shieh

Movie night with friends sounds like a pretty simple party to plan. Rent flick. Buy popcorn. Gather friends. It’s another story if you are advertising executive turned filmmaker Eddie Shieh. Fresh off the festival circuit (screening at over 20 international festivals and counting), Shieh began fielding requests from friends who…
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David Bowie
May 11, 2007 | Celebrity, DJ + Music

This week in New York, the buzz is all Bowie. As the inaugural curator of the H&M High Line Festival (May 9th -19th), David Bowie has become our city’s personal guide to the coolest line-up of music, film, comedy and visual art performance. The artists that he has chosen to…
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iPod Nano

Scrolling through someone’s iPod library is a little like rifling through their drawers…..you are bound to find something unexpected. As a professional event planner, you would assume that I have an extensive collection of music neatly organized into lists for every occasion but it is quite the opposite. While I…
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Photo by Sammy Davis Jr.
March 10, 2007 | DJ + Music, Photo + Video

 Last night, I drank dirty martinis with The Rat Pack…. Vanity Fair, Ports 1961 and the Accompanied Literary Society hosted a party to celebrate the launch of, “Photo by Sammy Davis, Jr.,” a book of previously unpublished images by the legendary entertainer. The Ports 1961 showroom was transformed into a…
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