The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater turns 50 years old this year and to celebrate they have a summer of fantastic events planned. In October the Library of Congress’s Aliey archive exhibit ” Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater: 50 years as Cultural Ambassador to the World” opens at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, in LA and will be on view through March of 2009. During that time there will also be a few anniversary books, a Limited Edition Movado timepiece, a celebratory 2009 calendar, and an Ailey Barbie Doll. The following events will also be taking place:

June 3-8: The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater performs its spring season at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (www.bam.org or here for details)

August 5-12: Ailey will hold FREE dance classes and performances throughout New York City.

September 7- October 19: The company’s international tour makes stops in Israel, Turkey, Romania, Greece, Spain, and Italy.

December 3: The 50th Anniversary opening-night gala performance and party take place, with the 50th anniversary season at New York City Center continuing through January 4, 2009.

For more details visit www.alvinailey.org

Source: Town and Country Magazine

So excited that two of my favorite pubs have travel issues out this month. See both for fabulous Jet-Set inspired articles! Frank 151 can be picked up at Wish and other locations in Little Five and Skirt Magazine is available all over Atlanta. Feel free to hit up their respective websites for more information.

Skirt Magazine

Frank151 

Hello all,

Been out of town for a week+

Posts will resume on Tuesday.

-Bless, Z

Well i’m sold. If the weather is nice you’ll probably be catching me at the Botanical Garden in for cocktails and flowers every Thursday during the month of May. May’s theme is Magnolias and Mimosas, love it. Here are the details:

Cocktails in the Garden

Date: Every Thursday night, May - September
Time: 6 - 10 p.m.

The Atlanta Botanical Garden 1345 Piedmont Ave. NE Atlanta, GA 30309

Every Thursday night from May - September cocktails are paired with a featured flower or plant highlighting different and unique locations in the Garden. Guests mix and mingle to the Garden DJ’s best beats as one of the city’s hottest restaurants provides light tastings. Admission is $12 for non-members and free for Garden members.

The Garden also has a ton of other events going on click here for a list of them and more information.

The New York Photo Festival goes down May 14-18 in D.U.M.B.O NY (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass) below you will find more info, website, ticket info…the whole bit.

NEW YORK PHOTO FESTIVAL 2008
The First International Photography Festival in the United States

 Photography, one of the most important visual media of our lives, has been surprisingly uncelebrated, particularly in the United States. New York City, home to the most influential commercial and fine art photography community, has lacked—until now—a large-scale event dedicated to photography.

powerHouse Books and VII Photo Agency have joined forces to launch the new, annual New York Photo Festival, the first international-level festival of photography to be based in the U.S.

The inaugural New York Photo Festival (May 14–May 18, 2008) promises to deliver a dynamic, high-quality event in what is arguably the photographic capital of the world. The festival will celebrate both contemporary photography and the creative, inspirational talents of the people who produce this work.

The New York Photo Festival will be headquartered in DUMBO, an off-the-beaten-track, but easily accessible neighborhood on the Brooklyn waterfront between the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges.”

Click here for tickets and VIP passes.

I just want to send a huge congratulations out to all of the graduates that are finishing up this and next week! I know this is such an exciting time for all of you. Long ago I was given a journal with a famous Mark Twain quote inscribed in it which I have shared below, this quote continues to inspire me and truly is a matra for life. I encourage you all to live your best life as you go forward into this new chapter.

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

Bless, Z

The Georgia O’keeffe and The Women of the Stieglits Circle is still running at the High Museum in Atlanta through May 4th, I plan on checking it out tomorrow but i’m sure the show is fabulous, as I have seen much of O’Keeffe’s work before. Here is the lowdown on the show from the website.

“This exhibition places the iconic work of Georgia O’Keeffe in the fresh context of artistic predecessors in the circle of her husband, the photographer Alfred Stieglitz. The work of O’Keeffe and her contemporaries laid the groundwork for the idea that women artists possessed a powerful creativity equal to that of men, and their stunning images convinced Alfred Stieglitz and his New York audiences that women could reveal a new and uniquely feminine perspective on modern experience. Each of the artists represented in this exhibition at one time embodied Stieglitz’s philosophy of the woman modernist, through their lives and their distinctive forms of artistic expression.”

Georgia O’Keeffe and the Women of the Stieglitz Circle
Through May 4, 2008
Special Exhibitions Galleries, Wieland Pavilion

*$2 off adult admission when you purchase through the website.

From 1962 to 1972 adman George Lois created some of the most iconic magazine cover art of his era. Thirty-one of them are part of a new exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. A show of his covers is taking place April 25- March 31, Please check it out if you are in town.

“Lois changed the face of magazine design with his ninety-two covers for Esquire magazine. He stripped the cover down to a graphically concise yet conceptually potent image that ventured beyond the mere illustration of a feature article.”

George Lois: The Esquire Covers
April 25, 2008–March 31, 2009

The Philip Johnson Architecture and Design Galleries, third floor

And Dubai keeps growing…

“Kuait-Based property developer Abyaar has teamed up with top international fashion designer Christian Lacroix to establish a luxury residential tower on Dubai’s Jumeirah beach. The 38-unit tower will include a Lacroix-designed façade, expansive lobby and luxury interiors, Abyaar said in a statement on Wednesday.

Marzooq Al Rashdan, managing director at Abyaar, said the firm had approached the French designer and established a long-term partnership that would involve similar developments around the region and internationally.”

More

Delta Air Lines just announced a fare sale for spring travel from Atlanta. Fares start at $49, and you can travel all the way through Nov. 12. Travel on Tuesday, Wednesday or Saturday to find the lowest fares. Sample of some of the best fares we saw (each way):

• Atlanta-Savannah … $49
• Atlanta-Washington, D.C. … $79
• Atlanta-St. Louis … $79
• Atlanta-Newark … $89
• Atlanta-Pittsburgh … $89
• Atlanta-New York City … $99
• Atlanta-Los Angeles … $129
• Atlanta-San Francisco … $129

Fares require a 10-day advance purchase, and must be booked by May 6.

Click here for more cities and to book.

ALSO

here is an amazing fare from Orbitz that lets you fly to Puerto Rico from Atlanta this spring for just $198 roundtrip. Normally one would expect to pay nearly twice as much on this route.

This deal is good for travel through May. Fly Monday-Thursday to get the best price.

Click here to book this deal on Orbitz. Use Option #3 on the Orbitz Flexible Date search to display a large number of fares at once, making it easy to locate the best deal.

Note: The final price will include approximately $40-$60 in taxes.