He was a newspaper writer, a television personality, a public speaker, a book author, an event impresario and a Web publisher.
Ms. Joni, a 29-year-old event impresario who lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn, said it all started last year when she spontaneously skipped on her way to a manicure (to combat the cold) and noticed how good it felt.
The tastemaker and special-events impresario who grew up helping with Sunday supper at home in Harrisonburg, Va., now throws glamorous events for the likes of former Facebook president Sean Parker, designs glam New York restaurants and creates home furnishings for Pottery Barn.
One manager keen to support the event was Simon Fuller, the impresario behind the Spice Girls, David Beckham and Andy Murray.
Warnings have been sounded about next year's event by another fringe impresario, Anthony Alderson, the director of the Pleasance.
IN recent years festivals like American Realness and club-based events by the irrepressible impresario Earl Dax have sought to contextualize and historicize notions of queer performance and culture, and, and in less academic terms, to show just how fabulous contemporary art can be.
Litfaß, who was also an actor, poet, impresario, and events manager, but made most of his fortune as the "Reklamkönig" or advertising king, received immediate praise for bringing order to the streets, as well as the blessing of the city's chief of police with whom he shared the advertising profits.
After a White House screening and another event attended by Hillary Clinton, Colin Powell and John McCain, the impresario screened the movie for high-school students.
The event, organized by the Internet impresario Esther Dyson, is held at a resort near the foot of the McDowell Mountains, and it has become a sort of digital Renaissance Weekend.
According to Franco Zanetti, the journalist turned impresario behind the event, Vienna was the first European capital to hold a divorce fair two years ago.
That Saturday, he had underwritten a party at the polo matches in Bridgehampton at the urging of Noah Tepperberg, the night-life impresario producing the event.
