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Greeted by the blaring of Algerian music, 400 bleary-eyed volunteers gathered under a tent outside the Science Center early Saturday morning as they prepared to fan out across the greater Boston area for Harvard’s first University-wide “Day of Service.” The day’s early risers were treated to a breakfast of bagels and doughnuts, as well as an address from University President Drew G. Faust, before heading off to work on 28 different service projects, ranging from landscaping to preparing meals for the homeless. With participants from...
LONDON London Design Festival As part of Tent London, an event within the increasingly popular festival, 40 designers have created Corian pieces to mark 40 years of the material (Sept...
...last night Ralph Lauren topped them all with his elegant and spectacular 40th-anniversary show and black tie dinner in Central Park's Conservancy garden. To the strains of the score of My Fair Lady, guests - over 400 of them - floated down the garden stairs into a pristine white tent edged in crisp black. The structure could have been a harbinger of Lauren's Spring 2008 show which opened with a graphic black-and-white theme - a Lauren favorite. The designer touched on many of his favorite motifs in this sprawling show, including crisp menswear tailoring, sportif silhouettes (in this...
...1980s and '90s the showmanship tended to take over. At a time when Pavarotti was canceling more and more performances at the world's opera houses, he turned to solo concerts in such big venues as sports arenas, convention centers, even a circus tent. He issued a slew of commercial recordings, racking up sales that gave pop stars like Elton John a run for their money. He barnstormed with Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras as "The Three Tenors," favoring spectacular settings like the Baths of Caracalla in Rome, which in turn yielded still more recordings and TV specials. "I want...
...longtime business partner, Giancarlo Giammetti, entertained the likes of Uma Thurman, Silvio Berlusconi and Princess Caroline of Monaco throughout a three-day spectacle that included a dinner held on the ancient foundations of the Temple of Venus and a ball for 1000 guests in a 17,000 sq. ft. tent erected especially for the festivities in the Villa Borghese Gardens. The celebration, which Valentino Wednesday called "a moment of infinite magic and tremendous joy," was rumored to cost upwards of $10 million...