THE LAB:GALLERY Presents INTERSECTION February 10-March 2, 2012
The KTCollection Brings Valentine’s Day Relief to midtown at RS POP Shop
Posted on 06. Feb, 2012 by melissagonzalez in Events, RS Pop, fashion
Doors have popped open at RSPOP with the KTCollection!
Katie Thompson loves hunting down rich stones and bringing meaningful pieces from her travels to the New York City streets. And because KTCollection sells in locations all over the city, the jewelry reflects the trends of Manhattan while being amazingly easy to wear. And, don’t miss the fabulous costume line. Fun, bold, and festive jewelry that is all under $50 and is perfect for special occasions and statement pieces. Their philosophy is that costume jewelry is fabulous if you want a statement piece that is just plain fun. Though the costume jewelry is not hand crafted, KT carefully selects the perfect pieces to correspond with her handmade line.
Shop hours are from 10am-8pm seven days a week. Join us Wednesday February 8th from 6-8pm for our VIP opening reception with complementary wine while you shop and mingle with the designer. One lucky business card holder will win a $100 gift certificate. Stop by the shop when they first open between February 3rd and February 6th and get $10 off any purchase of $50 or more. Also, got a picture of your significant other or an amazing pick up line? Bring it by RS Pop Shop and get 10% OFF between February 10th and the 13th.
Check RS Pop Shop’s Facebook page throughout this 2 month period for updates on weekly “After-Work Wine Wednesday’s” or specials. See what’s got celebrities such as Drew Barrymore, Giselle Bundchen, Tori Spelling and Amy Adams swooning this winter!
The Quick 411
Who: The KTCollection
What: RS Pop Shop a revolving store front in Midtown
When: February 3nd- March 31st from 10am-8pm Daily
Where: 501 Lexington Avenue between 47th St and 48th St.
VIP Opening reception: Wednesday February 8th from 6-8pm, wine, raffles, and fun!
RSVP’s for opening reception and Press Inquiries can be sent to pr@lionesquemedia.com
THE LAB:MUSIC Dos Sonidos February 12th 2012
Posted on 03. Feb, 2012 by danikadruttman in Arts, Events
Duo Sonidos brings together the talents of violinist William Knuth and guitarist Adam Levin. The duo is at the vanguard of the guitar chamber music world, forging relationships with contemporary composers with the mission of expanding the duo repertoire. In November 2010 Duo Sonidos released their debut album Duo Sonidos, and subsequently, were awarded first prize at the 2010 Luys Milan International Chamber Music Competition in Valencia, Spain. Levin and Knuth have performed throughout the United States and Europe and have been honored as U.S. Fulbright Scholars in the field of music performance in Madrid, Spain and Vienna.
The mission of the New York City Classical Guitar Society is to provide a framework for the shared enjoyment and exploration of the classical guitar in New York City, and to promote awareness and appreciation of its heritage and influence across musical genres, bringing together performers, composers, supporting members of the guitar community, and the listening public in ways that enrich the experience of all.nyccgs.com
The Solarium at The Roger Smith Hotel
501 Lexington Ave, at 47th Street, New York NY 10017
Cross Street: 47th Street and Lexington Avenue
Subway: E, 6, V to 53rd and Lexington or 4, 5, 6, 7 to Grand Central
Tickets: $15 (paid at door, cash only)
Reservations: call 212.339.2092 or email rogersmitharts@rogersmith.com
Find more information about the series HERE
The series is co-sponsored by the New York City Classical Guitar Society.
Molly Barnes Art Discussions @RSHotel: Timothy Nye LIVE via USTREAM TODAY @ 12pm EST
Posted on 12. Jan, 2012 by Birdsong in Arts, Community, Events, Hotel
Roger Smith Hotel Presents
Molly Barnes Brown Bag Lunch Art Discussions
Timothy Nye owner of the Nyehaus Gallery in Chelsea and The Brown Gallery in L.A. will talk about the current Getty show Pacific Standard Time, the history of L.A. art from 1965 to 1980.
Streaming live video by Ustream
A Great Start to 2012! @RSHotel is what’s happening! @Chrisbrogan & Google+ @Harlanmack #Studio501 Popup Shop!
Posted on 08. Jan, 2012 by JohnKnowles in Community, Events, Hotel
I’d like to share with you some highlights from our first week of the New Year @RSHotel. There’s much to look forward to! On January 4th we met with Chris Brogan to talk about Google + for business! His book is a complete Business Guide to Google+, Today’s Hottest New Social Network!
On January 5th we celebrated the work of sculptor Harlan Mack at our first artist dinner for the 125 Window Gallery in the starlight ballroom.
Follow www.125windowgallery.tumblr.com for updates.
The third highlight of the week and major development of the year is the acquisition of a new space currently known as Studio 501 located between the RS Pop shop and the Lab Gallery. This space will activate new and exciting brand collaborations in 2012. Stay tuned for more details!
In thinking about this new space, I am not sure what to call it… What would you call this new popup space? What would you do with a time limited popup opportunity? Look forward to your feedback. Happy New Year!
Please share, comment and engage!
Thanks
John Knowles – Director of Digital
Marketing
@RShotel
@Pancity
Roger Smith Cookbook Conference Overview (video)
Posted on 22. Dec, 2011 by admin in Events, Hotel
The Roger Smith Hotel & Andrew F. Smith are thrilled to invite you to join us for the first ever Roger Smith Cookbook Conference February 9-11 in NYC.
“Everybody knows what a cookbook is — or do we? They’ve been around at least since the Middle Ages, dispensing information on something that all households formerly had to do at least three times a day. Whether written by pros or home cooks, they convey more about their begetters and users than can be reduced to teaspoons and tablespoons. Over and beyond advice on buying, preparing, and serving food for purposes of health, thrift, glamour, or pure pleasure, they can speak volumes about the societies and times that have produced them — including our own. Far-reaching change is underway within the genre as recipes migrate online, or into e-books and culinary apps. The future undoubtedly holds even greater changes in the entire economics of cookbook publishing.
This conference is planned as an eclectic gathering of those who publish, write, edit, agent, research, or simply buy and use cookbooks. Our object is to share as inclusive a range as possible of our very different learning experiences. Our explorations will take two broad overall directions: Track I: “Cookbooks Past and Present: Looking Beneath the Sauce-Splattered Page”; and Track II: Cookbook 2020: “The Future of the Cookbook.”
We hope you will enjoy the conference.”
Cathy Kaufman, Anne Mendelson, Adam Salomone, Bruce Shaw, and Andrew F. Smith
For tickets and more information visit http://cookbookconf.com
Music: Classical Guitar Concert with Jerome Mouffe January 8th, 2012
Posted on 21. Dec, 2011 by danikadruttman in Arts, Events, Hotel
Jerome Mouffe January 8th 2012, 4pm
Jerome Mouffe is a virtuoso guitarist from Belgium who has dazzled international audiences with his passionate and spontaneous playing. Jerome has toured extensively as a soloist and chamber musician throughout the Unites States and Western Europe. He released his debut CD, Capriccio, in 2009 on the VGo Recordings label. The album features early nineteenth century virtuoso Italian music. Jerome has a Masters Degree from the Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles in Belgium and a Postgraduate Diploma at the Universitat Mozarteum Salzburg, in Austria. He is currently a doctorate candidate at the New England Conservatory in Boston, under the direction of Eliot Fisk.
The Solarium at The Roger Smith Hotel
501 Lexington Ave, at 47th Street, New York NY 10017
Cross Street: 47th Street and Lexington Avenue
Subway: E, 6, V to 53rd and Lexington or 4, 5, 6, 7 to Grand Central
Tickets: $15 (paid at door, cash only)
Reservations: call 212.339.2092 or email rogersmitharts@rogersmith.com
Find more information about the series HERE
The series is co-sponsored by the New York City Classical Guitar Society.
Give the gift of New York! Win a free stay @RShotel. #Rogersrooms
Posted on 20. Dec, 2011 by JohnKnowles in Community, Events, Hotel
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In the week leading up to Christmas, Roger Smith will be putting on his Santa hat and giving away a series of #Rogersrooms. It’s a brilliant gift idea to give a 2 night stay at New York’s Roger Smith Hotel. The rules to win are as follows. In the comments section of this blog, tell us who deserves the gift of New York and why. Once you have posted your comment on the blog you must also post “Give the gift of New York! @RShotel #SantaContest #rogersrooms http://bit.ly/u0wWAt” to your twitter or to our facebook profile. 
We will be choosing 2 winners on Friday December 23th, just in time for Christmas.
In the wake of Santa Con, we are also giving away 1 room to the best Santa Costume Picture Submitted to twitter with “Give me my #Rogersroom @RShotel #Santacontest” in the body of the tweet.
Thanks ahead of time for participating. Happy Holidays
John Knowles, Director of Digital Marketing @RShotel
#TweetDrive inspires NYC’s Social Community to give back! ~ Harrison Kratz guest blog post
Posted on 20. Dec, 2011 by JohnKnowles in Community, Events, Hotel
On Tuesday Decemeber 13, social media professionals and community builders from the New York City area came together to give back and celebrate the holidays at the Lily’s in the Roger Smith Hotel for the New York City Tweet Drive.
The New York City Tweet Drive was part of Tweet Drive, a global social good campaign that brings together social media communities to collect toys for under-privileged children during the holiday season.
New York’s social media community came out in full force and showed what the holidays are all about – friends, family, drinks, giving back, and more than a few ridiculous Facebook photos.
Thanks to event partners such as HP, Community Managers Meetup, SCVNGR and popchips, New York rocked around the Christmas tree to the tune of over 100 toys collected for Toys for Tots’ Brooklyn chapter! In celebration, there may or may not have been some “Tebowing.”
As the organizer of Tweet Drive, I would just like to say thank you for making this an unforgettable night. While there are many things to do in the city during the holidays, you all chose to spend it with us to give back to a great cause.
Santa Con may have been last Saturday, but for one night at the Roger Smith Hotel, we all got to be our own version of Santa Claus.
This is a guest blog post from Harrison Kratz.
Bio: Harrison Kratz navigates New York City as the Community Manager at MBA@UNC, the new MBA online program from the University of North Carolina. He also sticks to his entrepreneurial roots as the founder of the global social good campaign, Tweet Drive.
On The Stage – December On/Off Broadway Guide by James Fox
Posted on 05. Dec, 2011 by Birdsong in Arts, Community, Events
December offers four new shows on Broadway which make great pre-holiday treats:
ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER features Harry Connick Jr in a reconceived version of the 1965 Alan Jay Lerner and Burton Lane musical. This new version replaces the kooky Daisy with David, a gay florist, as the patient of a psychiatrist who then falls in love with Melinda, 1940′s jazz singer who is now reincarnated as David, who falls in love with his psychiatrist making a complicated love triangle. Opens December 11, 2011 @ St. James Theatre, 246 West 44th St. www.onacleardaybroadway.com
BONNIE & CLYDE is a musical about the ill-fated lovers and outlaws who achieved folk hero status during the Great Depression. Featuring a non-traditional score combining rockabilly, blue and gospel music. @ Schoenfeld Theatre, 236 West 45th St.
www.bonnieandclydebroadway.com
www.bonnieandclydebroadway.com
LYSISTRATA JONES, is a boisterous new musical comedy based on Aristophanes’ classic Greek comedy. In the new twist Lysistrata Jones convinces all the girlfriends of the Athens University basketball team, who hasn’t won a game in 30 years, to “stop giving it up” to their boyfriends until they win a game. Opens December 14th @ Walter Kerr Theatre, 219 West 48 St., www.lysistratajones.com
Alicia Keys is the producer of Lydia R. Diamond’s new comedy STICK FLY which chronicles the interactions and revelations within a well-to-do black family summering in Martha’s Vineyard. The two adult sons bring their respective ladies (one black and one white) to meet their parents in this contemporary comedy of manners. @ Cort Theatre, 138 West 48 St.
Off Broadway: Two familiar shows are back in New York with a limited run as both closeDecember 30th: Anton Chekhov’s THE CHERRY ORCHARD centers on an aristocratic Russian woman and her family facing bankruptcy who refuse to sell their cherry orchard. Diane Wiest and John Turturro star in this production, that opens December 4th @ Classic Stage Company, 136 East 13th St.
For the entire family is the Emmy-winning musical of J.M. Barrie’s imperishable PETER PAN with former champion gymnast Cathy Rigby. Tickets are sure to go quick for this limited run @
Madison Square GardenOpening on December 14th, Seventh Avenue between 31st/33rd St.
Accessories Designer Collective Arrives for Holiday Fashion Relief at RSPOP
Posted on 30. Nov, 2011 by melissagonzalez in Events, Hotel, RS Pop, fashion
This December RS POP Shop is being transformed into a one-stop gift and accessories shopping destination with a collective of accessory brands teaming together to make this holiday season extra special. Buy unique gifts like Payal Luthra’s luxury neckwear, independent eyewear company Lumete’s wonder inspiring sunglasses or pick up a vintage inspired handbag with design elements symbolic of a classic pair of men’s oxfords by Zhao designs.
Doors open December 2nd, with shop hours of 11:00 am – 8:00 pm, seven days a week!
Join us Tuesday, December 6th, from 6:00 – 8:00 pm for our opening reception. Enjoy complementary wine while you shop and mingle with the designers and receive an extra 15% off your entire purchase. Also, take advantage of their gift-wrapping service throughout the month! For a small charge, the designers will beautifully gift wrap your purchases, complete with a polaroid gift card! Domestic shipping via UPS can be arranged in-store.
Here’s the skinny about each of the brands participating in the holiday accessories collective:
Payal Luthra designs luxury neckwear made of the finest Mongolian cashmere. Her fall collection combines refined cuts with an innovative use of draped folds and angled lines, with equestrian-inspired leather straps, gold buckle hardware, and patent leather bands that embellish the pieces with linear accents. Each piece can be worn in a variety of ways, giving the wearer creative options to brave the elements in elegant style.
LiiLii Zhao’s Italian leather handbag collection is inspired from artist Kara Walker cut out design process and infused with design elements from the classic black and white oxford shoe. The result is a beautiful vintage inspired handbag collection sure to make a statement and turn carrying everyday items into a fashionable expression of style. The Italian leather used to create these bags is also eco-friendly
Lumete is a New York based independent eyewear brand for women, by women. Lumete’s innovative handmade sunglasses are characterized by their sculptural detail and unexpected temple shapes. In addition to their creative use of fine, richly colored acetates, Lumete sunglasses stand out due to their striking symbolic ornamentation. The name Lumete is derived from lumen, meaning: light, and amulet, meaning: a precious object used for protection and luck. Inspired by Alchemy and Gnosticism, Lumete seeks to instill a sense of wonder into every piece they make.
Check multiple people off your holiday gift-giving lists this December at RS Pop Shop.
The Quick 411:
Who: Payal Luthra, Lumete, Zhao + more
What: Accessories Designers Collective
Where: RS POP Shop at the Roger Smith Hotel
501 Lexington Avenue (Between 47th and 48th St)
When: December 2nd- 31st 2011
VIP Opening Reception: December 6th 6:00-8:00pm
RSVP to pr@lionesquemedia.com
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