Keith Girard

Mary Carillo, Julie Foudy Co-Host Women in Sports Gala

Former tennis player Mary Carillo and Olympic soccer standout Julie Foudy hosted the 34th “Salute to Women in Sports” at Cipriani Wall Street last night (Oct. 16), an event that honors 50 top female athletes for their accomplishments inside and outside of their sports. Swimmer Diana Nyad, just one month after her record-breaking Cuba-to-Florida swim, was one of the women honored with a special tribute award....
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Vanessa Hudgens Spices Up ULTA Beauty Cancer Event

Vanessa Hudgens hosted the 2013 ULTA Beauty “Donate With a Kiss” event in New York City last night (Oct. 2) along with Miss USA Erin Brady to raise funds for The Breast Cancer Research Foundation. Vanessa, 24, looked alluring in a vintage dress with alice + olivia by Stacey Bendet shoes and an Edie Parker clutch, according to the event....
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Sarah Jessica Parker Hosts Fall 2013 New York City Ballet Gala

Sarah Jessica Parker hosted the New York City Ballet 2013 Fall Gala last night, an annual event that usually draws an over abundance of celebrities to one of the city’s signature events. Parker, 48, wore a strapless, billowing silk dress, with a pink bodice and cream skirt at the David H Koch Theater at Lincoln Center....
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James J. Kaufman Novels Explore Themes of Honesty, Integrity

In his follow-up novel to “The Collectibles,” James J. Kaufman has delved even deeper into the meaning of life, the importance of honesty, the nature of love and the power of relationships. The 74-year-old former attorney, judge and, chief executive of the charitable “Imaging The World” foundation has called book two of his trilogy, “The Concealers.”...

Artist Revealed Behind Masterfully Faked Pollocks, Koonings, Rothkos

Pei-Shen Qian, described as a struggling Chinese artist, is the master forger behind one of the biggest scams to sweep the New York City art scene in years, involving more than 80 bogus paintings by modern masters. Alleged works by Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko and Robert Motherwell, were actually painted by the 73-year-old immigrant artist in the garage of his Queens home. Few details about the investigation are known. What is known is mostly contained in a new grand jury indictment of alleged scam mastermind Glafira Rosales, 57. She was arraigned today (Aug 19) in federal court in Manhattan....
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Freer Gallery Hosts Chinese Martial Arts, 3-D Technology Gala

The Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. will transform into a cultural hot spot for the final “Asia After Dark” after-hours event, featuring a night of exploration and discovery into Chinese martial arts and 3-D printing technology. Guests can explore 3-D scanning and printing with experts from the Smithsonian’s digitization program unit and participate in the creation of a 10-foot-tall replica statue of the Freer’s renowned “Cosmological Buddha.”...
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Stars, Guests Gather for Percy Jackson After-Party at 75 Main

Logan Lerman, Alexandra Daddario and Stanley Tucci, stars of the new movie “Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters,” joined friends for an after-party following the movie’s Hamptons premiere on Sunday (July 28). Among those spotted in the crowd were actor Richard Gere and wife Carey Lowell, Matthew Broderick and son James Wilke Broderick, Star Jones, Richard and Cricket Burns, Michael and Laurie Gelman, Kristine Johnson, Nanette Lepore and Barbara and Meredith Ostrom....
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LPGA Pro Golfer Cristie Kerr Hosts Hamptons Golf Classic

Cristie Kerr, the 2007 U.S. Women’s Open Champion and 16-time LPGA winner, hosted the 9th Annual Hamptons Golf Classic, a day-long charity golf tournament at the Hampton Hills Golf & Country Club. Real estate brokers Susan and Matthew Breitenbach were honored and The Diamonds in the Rough Foundation was the beneficiary....

Keith Girard

Keith Girard has four decades of experience as an award-winning reporter, editor-in-chief, and senior media executive. Keith’s career began in Washington, D.C., where he was a reporter for The Washington Post and a contributing editor for Regardie's and Washingtonian magazines. He also worked as a writer/producer in CNN's Washington Bureau and has written one book on the U.S. Marines in the Gulf War.