Tuesday, September 25, 2012

UN Week or Oyster Week? It's always a "week" in NYC

Whether it's hundreds of countries with diplomats for the annual UN General Assembly or 11 oyster restaurants, there is always a "week" going on in New York City.

This week, the two have merged.

Many meeting planners try to send corporate groups to cities when a special event is happening because it's a great option for after-hours entertainment.  In New York, special events are happening all the time, which provides meeting planners more flexibility to plan meetings for "off-season" periods to save money. 

And if you are curious who is hosting "Oyster Week", here are the 11 venues:

Grand Central Oyster Bar; Lure; Bluefin; Atlantic Grill - Upper East Side; Blue Water Grill; Ocean Grill; Atlantic Grill - Lincoln Center; Monument Lane; Ulysses Folk House; Wild Edibles; and the City Crab and Seafood Company.

Shackman Associates New York has helped corporate groups get exclusive access and amenities at leading venues like these and New York raw fish offerings are so plentiful and delicious, Oyster Week can really be any day of any week you want!

Friday, September 21, 2012

Christopher Columbus gets "Discovered"

Discovering Columbus, a new skyscraping exhibition by Japanese artist Tatzu Nishi, is open for visitors, and poised to be the talk of the city for months.

Nishi and the Public Art Fund have built a fully decorated living room — six stories up — around that very famous marble likeness of Christopher Columbus that sits in his namesake Circle.

The controversial exhibit opened on Thursday, September 20 and runs through Saturday, November 18
at Columbus Circle.

 

New on Broadway: Scarlett Johansson

Another Hollywood A-lister is on her way to Broadway.

Scarlett Johansson will play the role made famous by Elizabeth Talyor: sex-starved Maggie in “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.”

Previews begin December 18 and the show officially opens January 17, 2013 at the Richard Rodgers Theatre.  The production, which will be directed by Rob Ashford, marks Johansson’s second turn on Broadway. In 2010, she won a Featured Actress Tony Arthur Miller’s “A View from the Bridge.”