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| Spirit the Dog at "Sweet Adoptions" for The ASPCA hosted by Dylan's Candy Bar. |
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| Last Saturday morning Dylan Lauren of Dylan’s Candy Bar hosted a special event at her store to benefit the ASPCA and spread the word that pet adoption is your best option when looking for a new furry friend. The event featured some of the ASPCA’s cutest adoptable animals. 15% of the net sales were donated to the ASPCA and their mission. I’ll never understand how anyone can give up their pet, but they do. The dogs (and cats) have a difficult time understanding that too. LOVE is what they bring to your life, and teaching you about love, something that many of us can profit from. One member of our family (of three adopted dogs) came to us from the ASPCA last June. Jenny was nine years old, recovering from a variety of health problems and very wary of anything new in her life, although ten months later, she’s very healthy, a major tail-wagger and joy-giver; a real love dog. |
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| Author and Vogue Contributing Editor Billy Norwich, a long time friend of and collector of works by abstract botanical painter Dora Frost, hosted a reception for her first New York show in several years -- “Peonies” at Miguel Herrera’s 2/20 Gallery in Chelsea. Frost, whose lush botanical paintings are highly prized by many prominent collectors in New York, Palm Beach and The Hamptons, was overwhelmed by the turnout as friends flew up from Florida, drove down from Connecticut or hopped the Hampton Jitney as did Ann Madonia and daughter Susan. |
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| Guests crowd the sidewalks at Dora Frost’s opening in Chelsea |
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| Ann Carol Madonia, Susan Madonia, Consuelo Gonzalez, Tracey Tooker, and Bonnie Alsop |
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| Celestial by Dora Frost |
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| Friends such as Jean Shafiroff, Wilbur and Hilary Ross, Sally Phipps, Cooky Donaldson, Roger Van Voorhees, Brad Shaheen, Caryn Picker, Charlotte Smith, Jim Hyatt, film director Anna Wilding, interior designer Stef-Albert Bothma, the artist Colette and Broadway producers Ruben Brache and Pamela Laudenslager attended. So crowded was the gallery that some 60 guests mingled on the sidewalk while waitstaff from Pamela Willoughby and Bridget LeRoy’s new catering venture, La Vie Organic, poured Prosecco and served delectable hors d’oeuvres al fresco. |
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| They’re still talking about last week’s birthday dinner dance for Alison Mazzola, hosted by her friends Anne Hearst and Jay McInerney and George Farias. |
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| James Flynn, Amy Mazzola Flynn, Tad Mazzola, Sylvia Mazzola, John Mazzola, Alison Mazzola, and Christina Flynn |
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| Scott Nelson, Shelly Campbell, Katharina Otto-Bernstein, and Alex Papchristidis |
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| The ladies all wore red, the room was red, and DJ Tom Finn kept the dancing red hot. |
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| Last week, Christie’s Inaugural Green Auction: A Bid to Save the Earth raised $1.387 million on the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, to benefit major environmental NGOs: Conservation International, Oceana, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and the Central Park Conservancy. |
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| Joe Champa, David Rockefeller, Susan Cohn Rockefeller, and Dan Tishman |
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| The evening was hosted by David and Susan Cohn Rockefeller. More than 600 attended the event at Christie’s 20 Rockefeller Plaza headquarters. An after-party followed at Monkey Bar. Among the guests were Salma Hayek, Sam Waterson, Candice Bergen, Brian Williams, John McEnroe, Al Roker, Joyce Varvatos, Matt Lauer, Cornelia Guest, Doutzen Kroes, and Ted Danson. |
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| Photographs by PatrickMcMullan.com [1] | Click here [2] for NYSD Contents |