NEXT week, Rizzoli will release "Preston Bailey Celebrations: Lush Flowers, Opulent Tables, Dramatic Spaces and Other Inspirations for Entertaining," a visual feast of extravagant events and the fourth book for Mr. Bailey, a celebrity event designer.
A New Yorker spokeswoman said that a hacker broke into a server containing e-mail addresses of those who had attended the festival, a movable feast of 47 events in 26 locations.
The Whole Shebang chocks up two full dinners, a cocktail party with heavy hors d'oeuvres, a feast of a tasting event, an exclusive bread-making class and the sustainable classroom series.
Mr. Mampel, who slides between Catalan, Spanish and French, with a dusting of English, started out catering and still prepares feasts for events.
Highlights include the Questa on Saturday and the Giglio Feast on Sunday; for full details of events and locations see: olmcfeast.com; free.
Come September, when Ms. Diaz looks out the window of her second-floor apartment, a pair of conjoined railroad flats for which she pays under $2,000 a month, she will see the glittering garlands that herald the Feast of San Gennaro, an annual event that Alexander Tisi, with long-ago neighbors, helped start in 1927.
Masses, feasts and the samba The Festival The principal day of the Festival of the Boa Morte, or Good Death, with a Mass, a parade and the samba de roda, is Aug. 15, Feast of the Assumption, with lesser events on Aug. 13 and 14.
Some form of music, entertainment or feasting usually accompanies the community-building and commerce of events.
Organisers are expecting about 150,000 people to attend the 10-day schedule of events, which includes sights, sounds, a feast and a night in the forest.
Christmas Eve, traditionally a seafood meal in many Italian-American households, has become a restaurant event, with Feast of the Seven Fishes dinners scheduled all over town.
