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What an Auction Guarantee Means for a Benefit
An auction guarantee sets a minimum for a benefit's headline lots before bidding starts. amfAR's 2024 Cannes gala reached $16 million, per a Hollywood Reporter recap.
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Big Law Firms Move Into Sports Marketing and Networking Events
Law firms are borrowing the gala playbook: sponsorships, athlete interviews and hospitality, all aimed at winning sports business.
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Galas in Boston: How the City's Signature Charity Nights Work
What a Boston charity gala costs to attend, what the evening actually involves, and where the money goes.
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Booking Concert Tickets Without the Chaos: Presales, Verified Fans and Resale
A calm, step-by-step guide to getting a fair-price seat when everyone else is refreshing the same page.
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How Celebrity Stylists Build the Looks That Define a Red Carpet Season
Behind every red carpet moment stands a stylist with a plan. Here is how the looks of the season are actually built, from team to fittings.
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Aaron Sorkin to Receive Newport Beach Film Festival's Maverick Award
A career retrospective, a live podcast taping, and a free ticket — the festival's honor for the writer of The Social Network doubles as an awards-season platform.
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Events and Affairs — Event Planning Basics: From Idea to Sold-Out Night
Budget, venue and promotion, in that order — a first-timer's map of how a gathering becomes a night people pay to attend.
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Celebrity Jeopardy SNL — Celebrity Jeopardy: The SNL Sketch That Refuses to Die
Fifty years of game-show parody, one contemptuous host, and the famous guests who keep coming back to be humiliated on purpose.
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Gala Attire — What to Wear to a Gala: Black-Tie, White-Tie and Creative-Formal, Decoded
The dress code on the invitation is a set of instructions, not a suggestion. Here is what each one actually asks of a guest.
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Luxury Vinyl Plank Flooring: When It Beats Hardwood and What Installation Really Costs
The name borrows from the vocabulary of indulgence. The material is a layered photograph. Here is how to judge it on its merits.