Events
The 10th Annual Waxman Luncheon
The 10th Annual Waxman Luncheon, benefiting the Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation (SWCRF), took place in New York City at a new venue, Riverpark. The fundraising event featured a live, thrilling fashion show by legendary designer, Josie Natori, showcasing the Spring 2024 collection. This year’s honoree was Barney Cohen, Managing Director and Wealth Partner at J.P. Morgan Wealth Management, was recognized for his commitment to supporting collaborative cancer research.
Waxman Luncheon Chairs included: Chairs Marion N. Waxman, Jani Gerard, and Erica Linden-Fineberg; Co-Chairs Dina Koutroumanis, Nancy Litman, Lauren Silvers, and Helen Vaysman. The Committee included Karen Giberson, Leena Gurevich, Orital Karelic, Regina Kravitz, Norah Lawlor, Lorri Scott, Jean Shafiroff, and Bettina Waxman.
Notable Attendees included: Barney Cohen, Rachelle Cohen , Josie Natori, Dr. Samuel Waxman, Marion Waxman, Jani Gerard, Kobi Halperin, Helen Vaysman, Ruth Rozenholcabend, Alyssa Klein, Nancy Litman, Lauren Silvers, Brooke Herman Zarkowsky, Jean Shafiroff, Maria Fishel, Mariebel Lieberman, and Ann Liguori.
More than 150 guests attended the affair and helped raise nearly $175,000 to support crucial SWCRF initiatives such as the International Network on Aging and Cancer and the Women’s Cancer Research Program.
Josie Natori, Samuel Waxman
In addition to the fashion presentation, guests were treated to an exciting live auction and had the opportunity to win a Mikimoto Akoya Cultured Pearl and Diamond Pendant valued at $16,000, donated by Mikimoto.
J.P. Morgan was the Luncheon sponson and in-kind donors included Mikimoto, Natori, Palm Bay International, Neuhaus Chocolates, Kobi Halperin, Arlotta Cashmere, Fendi, Movdo Group, Inc., Sachin & Babi, Jimmy Choo, Jil Sander, Chloé, Carlos Falchi, Maximilian, and many more. Flowers provided courtesy of ByRobin Event Design and Management Group.
Since 1976, SWCRF has invested more than $120 million towards collaborative, cross-institutional research, supporting more than 200 investigators around the world.
The SWCRF philosophy of collaboration has led to breakthrough discoveries such as a treatment for acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL), developed in collaboration with researchers at the Shanghai Institute of Hematology that improved the survival rate to 95% (APL had an 80% fatality rate). Most recently, research funded by SWCRF led to an FDA approved medication shown to reduce lung cancer tumors by up to 50% by targeting the KRAS protein, helped develop an innovative two-drug therapy to better treat brain tumors which are often difficult to target, and studies exploring how aging impacts the spread of ovarian cancer in older patients. Several other studies are in clinical trials.
Photos by BFA / Rupert Ramsay
We are so pleased to announce our guest this week is Peter Filichia theater journalist/playwright, critic and one of the most knowledgeable people on the planet on musical theatre. Join us Wednesday June 5th at 3pm.
This year Mr. Filichia will receive a 2024 Theatre World Special Award for his quarter of a century service to the organization. Filichia annually hosts this event and currently heads the selection committee of the Theatre World Awards. Filichia is also the former New York-based theater critic for The Star-Ledger and New Jersey’s television station News 12, as well as for The Asbury Park Press . He also wrote a regular column, “Peter Filichia’s Diary,” for the website TheaterMania.com from November 2001 until October 2011, and previously for the website BroadwayOnLine.
At the beginning of his career, Filichia was a columnist for Seventeen and wrote books for teenagers. He currently has two weekly columns at Masterworks Broadway and Kritzerland, and also writes regular entries for the Music Theatre International Marquee blog.
He is the author of the books Let’s Put on a Musical!: How to Choose the Right Show for Your School, Community or Professional Theater, Broadway Musicals: the Biggest Hit and the Biggest Flop of the Season, 1959 to 2009, Broadway MVPs 1960-2010: The Most Valuable Players of the Past 50 Seasons, Strippers, Showgirls and Sharks: A Very Opinionated History of the Broadway Musicals that Did Not Win the Tony Award, and The Great Parade: Broadway’s Astonishing, Never-to-Be-Forgotten 1963-1964 Season.
He served four terms as president and chairman of the nominating committee of the Drama Desk and is on the nominating selection committee. He also is on the nominating committee for the Lucille Lortel Awards.
Filichia has become a playwright with the work Adam’s Gifts, a loose contemporary adaptation of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. His play “God Shows Up”, is a satire of televangelism and his adaptation of Molière’s The Bourgeois Gentleman was presented at the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival.
He has also written the liner notes for many Broadway cast albums, especially reissues of such recordings as Jesus Christ Superstar, Fade Out – Fade In, Subways are for Sleeping, Ankles Aweigh, Redhead, Parade (Jerry Herman), Sweet Charity (Film Soundtrack), Prettybelle, Wish You Were Here and the Roundabout Theatre revival cast recording of 110 In The Shade. Filichia is also the critic-in-residence for the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. He has served on an assessment panel for the NEA and is the musical theater judge for the ASCAP Awards program. He has appeared on television with Sally Jessy Raphaël, Phil Donahue, and on Saturday Night Live. He hosted with Matthew Murray the live theatre discussion show Bitch or Brag About Broadway at New York’s 45th Street Theatre.
Since March 2009, he has been on the panel of reviewers heard on the podcast “This Week on Broadway” produced and hosted by James Marino from BroadwayRadio.com.
A fan of baseball and baseball statistics, Filichia claims to have seen 11,000 performances in the theater as of October 1, 2017.
“Live From The Hotel Edison Times Square Chronicles Presents ”, is a show filmed at the iconic Hotel Edison, before a live audience. To see our past episodes; First episode click here second episode click here, third episode click here, fourth episode click here, fifth episode click here, sixth episode here, seventh episode here, eighth episode here, ninth episode here, tenth episode here, eleventh episode here, our twelfth episode here, thirteenth episode here, fourteenth here, fifteenth here and 16th here.
Powerhouse for the Arts, Harlem School of the Arts, LongHouse Reserve, MTA Arts, the Trust for Governors Island, and Barbara Tober celebrated the launch of a new report, The Economic Power of Public Art by CODAworx. This is the first-of-its-kind analysis of public art as a multi-billion dollar industry.
Guests at the luncheon celebration included Carrie Rebora Barratt Director at LongHouse Reserve, Sandra Bloodworth MTA Arts and Design, Yaling Chen Deputy Director MTA Arts and Design, Machine Dazzle Artist, Stephanie Dockery from Bloomberg Philanthropies, Anita Durst Founder and Director of Chashama, Daniel Finch Senior Program Manager at the Public Art Fund, Anthony Haden-Guest Critic, Cheryl Hageman MTA Deputy Director for Arts and Design, Mike Knight Co-Founder at Customer Analytics, Helen Little Philanthropist, Clare Newman President and CEO at Trust for Governors Island, Tim Rodgers Director at Museum of Arts and Design, Debra Simon Art Consultant for Amtrak Arts, Sharon Tepper Director of Infrastructure Planning at Amtrak, Kay Unger Pitman CEO of Kay Unger Design, Karyn Williams, Noelle Xie, Michael Wang, and Michelle Yun Mapplethorpe Vice President of Global Artistic Programs at Asia Society.
CODAworx connects artists, art projects, and commissioners to facilitate public art designs. Its website is the largest database of public art projects with over 13,000 commissions. Their annual conference, CODAsummit, brings hundreds of artists and art commissioners together to discuss and learn about the latest social and economic advancements in public art. Furthermore, the annual CODAawards recognizes outstanding integrations of commissioned art into public spaces, with entries from around the world. Research and public art news is included in their monthly CODAmagazine, as well as their newest publication, The Economic Power of Public Art, with more to come.
“The galleries, auction houses, and museums get a lot of attention, and their numbers are reported – but it is important for people to realize the value of public art,” said Barbara Tober. Brittni Collins, Director of Public Art at Powerhouse Arts, noted “This report brilliantly makes the intangible tangible, mapping the ambitious public art projects across the country, demonstrating the profound impact to the wider economy.”
“Very few people are aware of public art as an industry. Public art as a whole has not been documented and, as a result, nobody knows about it. In 2023, $4.4 billion were awarded in commissions, of which $1.8 billion went to fabricators, suppliers, and service providers to the public art industry.” CODAworx Founder and CEO, Toni Sikes, explained “These commissions go from $25,000 murals to $10 million bridge projects. 41% of these commissions are public art agencies and government bodies. The remaining 59% is made up of private commissioners, hospitals, hotels, corporations, nonprofits, and real estate developers.” continued Toni Sikes.
CODAworx statistics also include experiential art, such as street art, light sculptures, and projection installations. Andrew Salzbrun, Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer of BLINK, a biannual, four day art festival that celebrates experiential art, describing a town struggling with tourism and safety. “Back in 2009, our neighborhood Over-The-Rhine was voted the most dangerous in the country. Over the last three BLINK’s, it’s gone from that to being voted the top city in the U.S. for street art by USA Today, as well as a 700 million dollar investment in economic development.” CODAsummit, CODAworx’s annual public art conference, will be held during the BLINK festival this coming October.
For more information about CODAworx, please visit https://www.codaworx.com/
To order your own copy of The Economic Power of Public Art, please visit https://www.codaworx.com/economic-power-of-public-art/#purchase
“Live From The Hotel Edison Times Square Chronicles Presents”, is filmed live every Wednesday from 5 – 6 now in the conference room at the Hotel Edison.
In this episode T2C’s publisher and owner Suzanna Bowling talks with Ashley Griffin and Danny Gardner. These two are staring in a limited three-week engagement of The Opposite of Love presented by NewYorkRep May 28 through June 15 at Royal Family Performing Arts Space (145 W. 46th Street, NYC). Opening night is Thursday May 30 at 7PM. Tickets are now on sale at EventBrite.com.
We are so proud because the show and our guests are now featured on the TV screens in the lobby and the hotel rooms.
I am so grateful to my guests Ashley Griffin and Danny Gardner.
Danny Gardner, Suzanna Bowling, Ashley Griffin and Rommel Gopez
Thank-you Magda Katz for videoing and creating the content to go live, Rommel Gopez and The Hotel Edison for their kindness and hospitality.
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This morning Ellen’s Stardust Diner, 1650 Broadway at 51st Street kicked off its month-long partnership for June, with special performances by Broadway stars Corey Mach, Anastacia McCleskey, and Jelani Remy.
Proceeds from the diner’s rainbow cake, rainbow milkshake, and co-branded merchandise will go towards God’s Love We Deliver.
Ellen Hart, Owner of Ellen’s Stardust Diner and Stephen Covello, Chief Philanthropy Officer, God’s Love We Deliver welcome a month filled with love, acceptance, and, above all, PRIDE, by supporting God’s Love We Deliver, a NYC-based nonprofit that plans to cook and home-deliver more than 4.3 million medically tailored meals to New Yorkers living with severe and chronic illness just this year. From June 1 to June 30, 2024, guests can order two menu items, Ellen’s rainbow cake and rainbow milkshake, as well as purchase co-branded merchandise – all while showing their “pride” and raising awareness for an important cause. With each purchase of the cake, milkshake, or t-shirt, Ellen’s Stardust Diner will donate 20% of the proceeds to God’s Love We Deliver.
Stephen Covello, Ellen Hart, Owner of Ellen’s Stardust Diner and
Jelani Remy, Actor in Broadway’s Back to the Future The Musical entertained with Frankie Valli’s “Can’t Take My Eyes off You”. Click here to see his performance.
Jelani Remy, Ellen Hart, Anastacia McCleskey and Corey Mach
Anastacia McCleskey, Singer/Actress in Broadway’s Suffs sang “I Didn’t Plan It” from Waitress. Click here to see her performance.
With its earliest roots as an AIDS support organization, God’s Love We Deliver has evolved to serve the broader needs of the chronically ill, including individuals impacted by HIV/AIDS. Since its founding 39 years ago, the organization proudly serves over 4 million meals each year and more than 15,000 meals each weekday, a number that will continue to grow with the engagement of volunteers and donations from supporters like Ellen’s Stardust Diner who comprise 65% of all funding. At God’s Love We Deliver, each meal is handcrafted with love, always made with quality ingredients, and delivered with personalized care when New Yorkers need it most.
Ellen’s Stardust Diner is open 365 days a year from 7 am to midnight. For more information, visit www.ellensstardustdiner.com. Follow on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok.
The award-winning Southampton Inn invited hotel guests, seasonal visitors and residents to a celebration at the most desirable location in the heart of Southampton New York, kicking off the Hamptons summer season at the 2024 Annual Memorial Day Weekend Barbeque.
Guests celebrated the holiday al fresco at the pool patio surrounded by several acres of manicured lawns and private gardens, where they enjoyed a buffet of signature burgers, platters of traditional salads and tasty holiday classics prepared by the team at Claude’s Restaurant. The pool patio bar kept all the participants hydrated with a wide selection of chilled refreshments to sip under the sun.
Notable attendees included: Shane Moan, Dede Gotthelf, Terry Moan, Philip Gotthelf, Eddie Moan, Alice Thomson, Southampton Village Mayor William Manger jr., NYS Assemblywoman Rebecca Seawright, Consuelo Vanderbilt, Catherine Larsen, Eric Lerner, William Sullivan, Dan Kadison, Si-Yeon Kim, Tijana Ibrahimovic, Olga Ferrara, Elana Gibbs and Jean Shafiroff.
Visit the Inn this summer in one of 90 renovated and comfortably furnished guestrooms, with 16 specifically designed for pets to enjoy with their owners. A weekend of pure relaxation awaits as each room is prepared with Matouk Linens over Tempur-Pedic® mattresses. Guestrooms also feature complimentary Wi-Fi internet access, flat screen TV, small refrigerators and guest-controlled air conditioning and heating. Other features of the property include a library with fireplace, flexible indoor meeting spaces such as conference rooms, ballroom and a games room for children of all ages, and newly renovated eatery Claude’s Restaurant, which offers a delicious, locally sourced all-day menu.
Make the most of your summer getaway with on-site amenities and experiences. Every inch of the Southampton Inn’s several acres of lawn space appeals to guests needs. The beautiful grounds of the Inn consist of several acres of manicured lawns and gardens. Amenities on the property include a 50-foot heated outdoor pool, all-weather tennis and pickle board court and shuffleboard.
The friendly and efficient staff at the Southampton Inn can assist busy travelers with a selection of exciting local excursions such as restaurant reservations, tours at art galleries, studios and the Southampton Historical Museum. The Inn also partners with local organizations to offer tickets to charity events and galas.
This Summer 2024 (through Labor Day), the Southampton Inn provides guests with a complimentary beach shuttle service to Coopers Beach – rated by Dr. Beach as the 2024 best beach on the continental USA.
Other local activities available for Guests to enjoy include indulgence of the finest wines at vineyards, and listening to concerts weekly at Agawam Park, Avram Hall and the Cultural Center. Sporting activities such as access to Golf tee times, surfing, kiteboarding plus tennis lessons, fishing and boating expeditions, plus hiking trips at nature conservancies are just a few experiences that Southampton has to offer; all carefully selected for Southampton Inn guests.
For more information, please visit: www.southamptoninn.com
Photo by Lisa Tamburini
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