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OUT AND ABOUT CULTURE FIX SNAPS STARS, SHAKESPEARE AT PUBLIC THEATER’S GALA by Emily Laermer and Miriam Kreinin Souccar CAREER BUILDERS WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27 Business experts gather to host YOUR BIZ MOJO. The event will teach attendees how to attract business and remove obstacles, how to create better relationships with clients and how to use social media to build rapport. Speakers include life and business coach Joe Nunziata, trainer Wendi Caplan-Carroll and public relations expert Robert Smith. The event will take place from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the Open Center, 22 E. 30th St., between Madison and Fifth avenues. The event is free. To register, visit www.yourbizmojo.com. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27 The New York Tech Meetup will host the first event in its CONVERSATIONS WITH WOMEN IN TECH series. The speakers will focus on the current state of women within the technology industry. The series is part of a partnership program with Nasdaq OMX. Speakers include New York Tech Meetup Managing Director Jessica Lawrence, Buyosphere founder and Chief Executive Tara Hunt and Change the Ratio founder Rachel Sklar. The event will take place at Nasdaq’s MarketSite building at 4 Times Square, at 7 p.m. Tickets cost $20. There are an equal number of tickets for men and women. For more information and to register, visit www.nytmwomenintech.eventbrite.com. buck ennis buck ennis MONDAY, JUNE 25 An exhibit of VASILY KANDINSKY’s work from 1911 to 1913 will open at the Guggenheim Museum. The museum’s holdings include more than 150 Kandinsky works. Also featured in the show, which will be ongoing at the museum, will be works by Robert Delaunay and Franz Marc. If you are at the Guggenheim later, pop over to RINEKE DIJKSTRA: A RETROSPECTIVE, which runs from June 29 through Oct. 8. It features more than 70 photographs and five video installations by the Dutch artist. Museum tickets are $22 for adults and can be purchased at the museum, 1071 Fifth Ave. Contact (212) 423-3500 or visitorinfo@guggenheim.org. THURSDAY, JUNE 28 Trumpet player Jeremy Pelt will be performing as part of the final installment in the Brooklyn Museum’s annual neighborhood concert series, JAZZ: BROOKLYN’S BEAT. The event takes place at 7 p.m. at the museum’s Martha A. and Robert S. Rubin Pavilion, 200 Eastern Parkway. Tickets are $12 for general admission; $8 for students, seniors and cultural colleagues; and free for members. Buy tickets via www.museumtix.com or the membership hotline, (718) 501-6326. steve and anita shevett OSKAR EUSTIS, artistic director of the Public Theater, with CHELSEA CLINTON, at the nonprofit’s June 18 gala celebrating 50 years of the Delacorte Theater, home of Shakespeare in the Park. As You Like It opened June 21. JULIANNA MARGULIES and LAURA LINNEY at the Public Theater gala, which featured a reading of Romeo and Juliet with Kevin Kline and Meryl Streep. The event raised a record $2.1 million. DON’T MISS GOTHAM DANCE FESTIVAL TUESDAY, JUNE 26 Lincoln Center’s 24th season of its MIDSUMMER NIGHT SWING series opens with a tribute to Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald by the Nelson Riddle Orchestra. The event will begin at 6:30 p.m. with a fox-trot lesson. The live music and dancing will begin at 7:30 p.m. Other events in the series will occur Tuesdays through Saturdays until July 14, except July 4. Tickets are $17 for one evening, $80 for six nights and $160 for the full season. Tickets can be purchased at the box office of Alice Tully Hall and Avery Fisher Hall on Broadway and West 65th Street, through CenterCharge at (212) 721-6500 or online at www.midsummernightswing.org. ANGEL INVESTOR ESTHER DYSON spoke at Crain’s June 18 event honoring its six Top Entrepreneurs of 2012. The winners included Laura Geller, president of Laura Geller Makeup, and Tony Shure and Colin McCabe, co-founders of Chop’t Creative Salad Co. PHILANTHROPIST AGNES GUND warned of the precarious state of the city’s cultural institutions at Crain’s Arts & Culture Breakfast on June 14. OPENING THURSDAY, JUNE 28 The Whitney Museum of American Art will launch its SIGNS & SYMBOLS exhibit as part of its multiyear series to reassess the museum’s collection in anticipation of its move to its new downtown building. The exhibit, which runs through Oct. 28, will include Will Barnet, Forrest Bess, Charles Seliger, Mark Tobey and others. FUNDRAISERS THURSDAY, JUNE 28 The Delancey Underground and CharLES are hosting a LOWLINE FUNDRAISER for the green-space project inspired by the High Line. The event includes an open bar with draft beer, house wine, well liquor and moo juice, plus a selection of appetizers. The fundraiser starts at 6:30 p.m. at Bondi Room, 153 Rivington St. Tickets are $40 at the door. For more information, visit www.delanceyunderground.org. THURSDAY, JUNE 28 Sneakers for Success is hosting its first annual fundraiser, SOLE CONNECTIONS. The event will include art and music showcases, along with a screening of Doin’ It in the Park: Pick-Up Basketball, NYC. It will also include food and raffles. The fundraiser is at 5 p.m. at Open Road Rooftop, 350 Grand St. Tickets start at $5. To purchase tickets or to get more information, visit www.sneakers4success.org. MARK YOUR CALENDAR SUNDAY EVENINGS, BEGINNING JULY 8 The Museum of Modern Art will host its SUMMERGARDEN 2012 concerts at the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden. Performers include members and alumni of the New Juilliard Ensemble and Jazz at Lincoln Center. The concerts occur on four weekends. The Sculpture Garden opens at 7 p.m., and concerts begin at 8 p.m. Admission is free. 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Crains New York - June 25, 2012
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In the Boroughs
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The Insider
Business People
Alair Townsend
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Real Estate Deals
Crain’s Fast 50
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