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Amazing Thanksgiving Package at Wyndham Virginia Crossings Hotel

Southern tradition, luxury accommodations and fine food and wine make Thanksgiving Weekend at the Wyndham Virginia Crossings Hotel an unbeatable value at just $69 per room night. The package, which includes breakfast for two, cocktails and more, is the perfect way to enjoy the scenic and historic attractions of the Richmond area, play a round at the adjacent The Crossings Golf Club, or get a start on holiday shopping in the delightful shops of Richmond and the area’s outlet stores. Guests can celebrate at the lavish Thanksgiving Dinner Buffet for just $42.95 per person, and throughout the weekend enjoy spectacular buffets and Sunday Brunch. There is one more thing I enjoy when I stay at the hotels. I always pay attention to the cosmetic products offered to guests and enjoy using them (check out cosmetic overwrappers and the latest packing options).

The Thanksgiving Dinner Feast will be served in the elegant Glen Restaurant, overlooking the terrace and grounds of the Wyndham Virginia Crossings. Seatings are from 2 pm until 4:30 pm. Reservations are required.

The Thanksgiving Weekend Package is $69 per room per night, from Wednesday, November, 25 – Saturday, November 28th and includes daily breakfast, a manager’s cocktail reception on Wednesday evening, live entertainment in the Yellow Tavern, holiday-themed movies in the ballroom, a self-guided tour of historic Henrico County and a special Black Friday Sale in The Crossings Golf Pro Shop. Service and taxes are additional as is the Thanksgiving Buffet Dinner.

Throughout the Thanksgiving Weekend, The Glen will be serving its famous buffets and Sunday Brunch, open to both guests and to the public. On Friday, November 27, it’s Prime Rib Buffet from 6pm – 9pm at $21.95 per person. On Saturday, November 28, the Seafood Buffet at $29.95 per person is offered, and the Sunday Brunch is $34.95 per person, served from 11 am – 2pm

Executive Chef Ivan Coleman plans a Thanksgiving Dinner Feast that combines Southern tradition, fresh local specialties from nearby farms and the bounty of the Chesapeake Bay. The Wyndham Virginia Crossings Hotel also partners with two area cheese makers, Caramont and Marshall Farms. Start with a savory Mushroom Soup, Steamed Prawns in an Old Bay Remoulade or Home Smoked Oysters. Entrees combine fine Southern cooking with Continental touches, such as White Bean Cassoulet with Local Surry Sausage, Pesto Accented Stuffing with Toasted Pine Nuts and Southern Fried Crispy Pork Cutlets with Cranberry Demi Glaze. Locally raised turkey and fine Virginia Ham from the Carvery are followed by an array of traditional pies, cake and cookies. (Note to editors: See complete menu below.)

To make Thanksgiving Dinner or Sunday Brunch reservations, call 804-727-1480. For Thanksgiving Weekend Package reservations, call: 888-444-6553 or go to www. wyndhamvirginiacrossings.com.

Thanksgiving Dinner Menu

SOUP DU JOUR

A Celebration of Mushrooms with Sherry and Cream

FALL HARVEST

Marshall Farms Natural Cheese Display with Artesian Crackers and Lavish

Fresh Fall Fruit Display

House Smoked Oysters with Barley and Scallions

Curried Couscous with Dried Fruit and Toasted Coconut

Traditional Steamed Prawns with Caper-Cocktail and Old Bay Remoulade

Spinach Salad with Walnuts, Bleu Cheese, Diced Pear, Grapes and Sherry Vinaigrette

Iceberg Wedges with Cheddar, Diced Tomato, Bacon, Petite English Cucumber and Roasted Garlic Ranch

HOLIDAY INSPIRATIONS

Freshly Buttered Haricot Verts with Carrot Slivers

Braised Swiss Chard with Bacon, Onions, Riesling and Butter

Home-Style Red Skin Mashed Potatoes

Root Vegetable Hash Brown Casserole with Nutmeg and Pumpkin Cream

White Bean Cassoulet with Local Surry Sausage

Pesto Accented Stuffing with Toasted Pine Nuts

Slow Roasted Dark Meat Turkey in Pan Gravy

Southern Fried Crispy Pork Cutlets with Cranberry Demi

Roasted Salmon with Caramont “Old Green Mountain” Chevre Sauce

Kalamata and Fresh Diced Tomato

CARVERY

Crusty Dinner Rolls with Butter

Classic Brown Sugar Glazed Ham with Pineapple Sauce

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Herb Crusted Turkey Breast with Giblet Gravy

DESSERTS

Caramel Apple Pie

Bourbon Pecan Pie

Apple and Rhubarb Crisp with Whipped Cream

Chocolate Spoon Lovin’ Cake

Pumpkin Pie Shooters

Chocolate Dipped Harvest Cookies

About The Wyndham Virginia Crossings Hotel & Conference Center

The Wyndham Virginia Crossings Hotel & Conference Center consists of 183 guest rooms, 23,000 square feet of meeting space and a 4,700 square foot ballroom. Meeting space meets the exacting standards of the International Association of Conference Centers. Wyndham Virginia Crossings also offers two popular restaurants, a fitness center, business center, and outdoor pool. Guests have access to an adjacent, separately owned 18-hole championship golf course, The Crossings Golf Club.

The property is located at the interchange of Interstates 95 and 295, just 12 miles north of the City of Richmond, 20 miles from Richmond International Airport, and 90 miles south of Washington, D.C.

Wyndham Hotels and Resorts, a subsidiary of Wyndham Worldwide Corporation (NYSE: WYN), offers upscale hotel and resort accommodations throughout the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Mexico and the Caribbean. All hotels are either franchised or managed by Wyndham Hotels and Resorts or an affiliate. Additional information is available at www.wyndhamworldwide.com. Wyndham Hotel Management, also a Wyndham Worldwide subsidiary, provides comprehensive hotel and resort management services to upscale hotels in North America. Wyndham Worldwide is based in Parsippany, N.J.

Wyndham Virginia Crossings Hotel and Conference Center
1000 Virginia Center Parkway
Glen Allen, Virginia 23059
Phone: 804.727.1400
Toll-Free: 888.444.6553
Fax: 804.262.2332
www.wyndhamvirginiacrossings.com

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Opera Ball Set for March 18

Spring Gala and Opera Ball. Event Description: New York City Opera will celebrate the opening of its 2010 Spring Season with a gala performance of Chabrier’s L’Étoile. The performance will be followed by a grand evening of dinner and waltzing to music performed by the New York City Opera Orchestra on the Promenade of the David H. Koch Theater. This glamorous evening will be formal attire, opera gloves and white-tie optional.  Emmanuel Chabrier’s ingenious L’Étoile is a lively opéra bouffe about disguises and mistaken identities. Acclaimed City Opera Director Mark Lamos creates a witty, stylish production inspired by Toulouse Lautrec to tell the story of a madcap king, an astrologer, and a hapless peddler. The cast will feature the great French tenor Jean-Paul Fouchécourt and the debuts of bourgeoning artists Julie Boulianne, Liza Forrester, and Dominic Armstrong. The revival is also notable for the return of the internationally renowned French conductor Emmanuel Plasson.  The Spring Gala will honor City Opera’s devoted Chairman Susan L. Baker for her outstanding dedication to the company in this role, for her strong leadership through challenging times, and for her great friendship to the Opera as both ardent advocate and generous supporter. Ms. Baker joined the City Opera Board in December 1999 and has served as Chairman of the Board since 2004. She also serves as Co-Chairman of the Board of Directors of The Collegiate Chorale and is a member of the Board of the Animal Medical Center, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the American Associates of the Royal Academy, and the International Friends of the Aix-en-Provence Festival. She also serves as a member of the Board of the Brooklyn Academy of Music Endowment Trust and a member of the OPERA America Investment Advisory Committee.  All proceeds from the Spring Gala support City Opera’s mission to create innovative productions of new and classic work, reach a wide audience with affordable ticket prices, and bring music into the lives of thousands of students each year through its acclaimed education programs in New York City public schools.  Beneficiary: New York City Opera Programming and Educational Activities Honoree: Susan L. Baker Co-Chairmen: Nomi Ghez and Michael Siegal (TBC)Grant and Jacqui Smith (TBC) Herbert and Svetlana Wachtell Underwriter Level: 5,000 Vice-Chairman Level: ,000 Benefit Tables: ,000, ,000, ,000, ,000 Benefit Tickets: ,000, ,500, ,500, ,000 Attire: Formal, opera gloves and white-tie optional For more information regarding the event or to purchase tickets, please call Alexis Kende at the New York City Opera Special Events Department at 212.870.5595. Time: 6 pm – Cocktails; 7 pm – Performance. Dinner & Waltzing immediately following the performance. Co-Chairs and Honorees (when applicable): Location: David H. Koch Theater, Lincoln Center. Ticket Price: Contact: Alexis Kende Email: akende@nycopera.com Phone: (212) 870-5595 Website: Click to Visit

 

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Ultimate Cocktails, Spirits & Wine Blast

 

On October 15, 2010, the founders of the Ultimate Beverage Challenge, F. Paul Pacult, Sue Woodley and David Talbot,hosted more than 1,600 of their closest friends and fans at their first ever ULTIMATE COCKTAILS, SPIRITS & WINE BLAST at the Marriott Marquis in New York City.

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The Ultimate Beverage Challenge/Ultimate Blast team: 
founders David Talbot, Sue Woodley, F. Paul Pacult 
with Assistant Judging Chairman Sean Ludford of BevX

The hotel’s grand ballroom was completely transformed into the city’s largest nightclub featuring spirits, wines and cocktails prepared by some of the best bartenders in town, find this Event Bartenders with the best expertise in party serving and jamming cocktails.

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The jazz band and the floor of Ultimate Cocktails, Spirits & Wine Blast

Guests entered an elegant, dramatically lit space to the sounds of a live jazz band and were free to roam the more than 55 tables and five cocktail lounges that featured tastings of more than 250 spirits, 95 cocktails and 60 wines.

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The Broker’s Gin table

Guests could choose from artisanal single malts, well-aged cognacs, single estate vintage wines or indulge in a Mai Tai or perfectly chilled Manhattan made by some of the city’s hottest mixologists (Jim Meehan/PDT and Ryan McGrale/Flatiron Lounge, Charlotte Voisey just to name a few)

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Meghan Balser from Pegu Club at the Remy Cointreau Lounge

And if you wanted to sit back with friends and share in some communal toasting, you didn’t have to go further than one offive ultra-swank lounges hosted by Chatham Imports, Diageo, Pernod Ricard, Rémy Cointreau or US-SINO Liquor Group,who presented a portfolio of Chinese spirits many of which have never been tasted in the United States.

MARK YOUR CALENDARS FOR NEXT YEAR’S ULTIMATE BLAST:
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2011
at the Marriott Marquis, New York City.

See more images here. 
Photos by: Michael Gold/TheCorporateImage 

 

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All Love. All Woodstock. June 25

The star-studded benefit will be held at the Bearsville Theater in Woodstock, New York and will also feature live performances by neo-country sensation Laura Cantrell, indie band Hank and Cupcakes, Daniel Cartier and a cadre of singers, performers and DJ’s from New York’s groovelicious Peace Bisquit, King Street Sounds, SeatoSun and Bigga Sounds. Comedian and renowned entertainer, Murray Hill, “the hardest working middle-aged man in show business,” will act as Master of Ceremonies and sling his signature shtick between performances. Other acts include a local ukulele girls group and The Paper Planets, one of the hottest young alternative reggae bands in the area. The night also promises several surprise guests and video performances, including a special appearance by rock band We Are Scientists. 

ALL LOVE, ALL WOODSTOCK will begin with cocktails and hors d’oeuvres at 7 p.m., followed by a live auction including celebrity swag and autographed memorabilia from actors and musicians like Lady Gaga, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard, Lucinda Williams and rock band Cobra Starship. Additional auction items will include a $1,000 package from the Woodstock Writers Festival that includes dinner with Julie and Julia author Julie Powell, a limited edition Katy Perry doll signed by the artist, a Herman Miller Aeron Chair, Clear Metals jewelry by Barbara Klar, Blondie tickets and backstage passes, VIP tickets to Broadway shows like Hair and South Pacific, private cooking lessons from Chef Robo, a Tony Kushner signed copy of Angels in America, and much more. 

All proceeds from the benefit will go to McMillen’s college education fund and the ACLU Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender and AIDS Project. Tickets are priced on a two-tiered basis: General Admission: $50, and VIP: $100, and are on sale now at AllLoveAllWoodstock.com

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Touch Foundation Fundraiser

 

On Tuesday, November 9th, over 300 young professionals came together at the hip Meatpacking club Griffin to raise funds for theTouch Foundation. Guests sipped specialty cocktails from Bulldog Gin and Avion Tequila while viewing a fashion preview presented by Fashionjunkii showcasing Ghanaian designer Aya Morrison’s first ready to wear collection, Lady Marmalade. The night raised over $11K dollars for the Touch Foundation, which will be used to help train Tanzanian doctors, nurses, and other health care professionals.

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The health care situation in sub-Saharan Africa has a devastating impact on the lives of the region’s people.
The Touch Foundation exists to confront this challenge.

Touch Foundation, Inc.
875 Third Avenue, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10022 
www.touchfoundation.org

 

 

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Ben Affleck at the Premiere of The Company Men

Not many celebrities outwardly applaud their sponsors. However, at last night’s “The Company Men” premiere, Ben Affleck literally applauded when Director John Wells gave a shout out to the night’s sponsor, DOBEL Tequila.company men

Ben with director John Wells

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John Stossel

Photos by
Stephen Lovekin
/Getty Images
for The Weinstein Company

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The after party was held at the Asellina in the Gansevoorthotel, featuring DOBEL “Vintage Sunrise” cocktails.

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Restaurant of the Week: Strand Hotel American Bistro

As you enter the lounge you cannot miss the swing, which you might whimsically take a ride on before checking in with the hostess for your table. There is a hideaway lounge-seating area to the left with a prominent wine display above, a long tall table for cocktails, and, as you continue back, an alabaster bar followed by two more lounge areas with a stand-alone fireplace in between them, framed by bookshelves. For intimate fireside talks, there is a built-in bench attached to the fireplace. To the left is an exotic saltwater fish tank which separates the lounge are from the dining area. As you walk through ten-foot tall French doors you enter the 54 seat dining room covered by a retractable roof, which will open to the sky during the warmer months.

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Chef de Cuisine Kelvin Fernandez,a C-CAP graduate

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Located in the newly unveiled Strand Hotel in the Fashion District, The Strand restaurant serves an American Bistro menu.

 

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Ultimate Blast

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On Friday, October 14, 2011 the founders of Ultimate Beverage Challenge, F. Paul Pacult, Sue Woodley and David Talbot, hosted close to 2,000 avid wine, spirits and cocktail enthusiasts at this year’s most exciting consumer, trade and media tasting event. Ultimate Blast transformed the Marriott Marquis' Broadway Ballroom into the city’s biggest cocktail lounge and nightclub, featuring hundreds of award-winning cocktails, spirits and wines.

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Photos by: Daniel Krieger

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9th Annual “A Taste of Greenwich House” On Monday, Mar. 14

 Monday, March 14, 20119th Annual “A Taste of Greenwich House” event. Top restaurants and chefs from around New York City will once again donate their time and talent to support an incredible variety of urban social service programs.

9th Annual “A Taste of Greenwich House” moves to a new venue: the 17,000 square-foot Metropolitan Pavilion double the size of last year’s venue.

Sara Moulton Good Morning America, as well as exclusive early access to all of the participating restaurants and specialty cocktails.

Betel; Henry Meer, City Hall; Harold Moore, Commerce; Steven Picker, Good; and Chris Siversen, Maritime Parc; Daniel Angerer, Klee, Brats, and the 

 

Board Chair, Dr. Elissa Kramer remarked, “A Taste of Greenwich House is a fantastic evening that highlights the amazing talents of our community. Through the contributions of each and every person who gives of themselves or their time, we are able to enhance our community with diverse programming to meet the many social needs of our neighbor New Yorkers and maintain the tradition of excellence in caring that Greenwich House has upheld for the past century.”

 

A Taste of Greenwich House * Metropolitan Pavilion * 125 W 18th Street (between 6th & 7th Avenues) * New York, NY

VIP Gourmet tickets: $250 (with name listing in the program), and VIP tickets: $200

General Admission: $125 per person in advance, $140 at the door. 

 

For tickets or sponsorship information please contact Yojiro Moro at YMoro@greenwichhouse.org or (212) 991-0003 x 403.  To purchase tickets online go to the Greenwich House Web site, www.greenwichhouse.org/taste2011.  If you are not able to attend, please consider a gift to help us help our neighbors: http://www.greenwichhouse.org/get_involved/donate.

  Located in historic Greenwich Village and Chelsea, Greenwich House continuously responds to current community needs with varied programs that provide special care to thousands of clients each day.  These programs include: serving daily hot meals at our thriving Senior Center, enriching the curriculum of NYC schools with music classes, hosting resident artists and learning the rich history of ceramic arts at the Greenwich House Pottery, treating abused children through counseling and prevention programs, providing clinical and therapeutic care through our HIV/AIDS service, offering drug-free counseling to substance abusers and their families and reaching home bound seniors in need of mental health and consultation services.

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Nat Sherman Hosts Esquire Black Book Bash

Last night men style aficionados gathered at the iconic Nat Sherman flagship store to celebrate the launch of the anticipated Esquire Big Black Book issue.
 
 

Jack Daniels and smokey lapsang souchong tea infused mini burgers and cigar-shapped churros roamed the room while guests enjoyed Gentlemen Jack specialty cocktails and the limited edition Nat Sherman cigars created specifically by the Sherman family for the occasion. The cigar featured a corojo wrap, Mexican binder and Honduran blend.

“Nat Sherman International truly embodies the essence of Esquire’s ‘Man at His Best,’ says Nat Sherman Executive VP Bill Sherman. “We feature a wide array of men’s style and luxury items that can satisfy the need for a lifestyle of comfort, luxury and sophistication, to create a unique experience centered around a branded furniture collection with the same attention to detail as a fine cigar."

 
 

Nat Sherman and Esquire magazine partnered up earlier this year to unveil the new Esquire Home Collection in a two-month showcase "Esquire Home @ Nat Sherman", which featured a selection of furniture pieces to create an ultimate gentlemen's emporium. The Esquire Home Collection is now on sale at ABC Carpet & Home.