The family of Sean Bell gathered, as they had done on three previous occasions, to mark a birthday never reached.
"An Evening With Roy Haynes" opened Jazz at Lincoln Center's new season, and marked a birthday: Mr. Haynes turned 85 in March, which doesn't make much sense at all.
The L'Impero that you visit for an anniversary celebration tonight won't be precisely the same L'Impero that your parents visit to mark a birthday just a month from now.
"Personally, they'll spend as little as they can get away with," he said, referring to the women who ask him to send bouquets to friends as thank-yous for a dinner party or to mark a birthday.
Another (short) overseas holiday, I confess, this time in Sicily, to mark a milestone birthday of my wife.
When Nancy MacIntyre co-founded Fingerprint Digital in 2010 and sought funding for the children's app platform, some of the prospective investors she met apparently were unaccustomed to fielding pitches from women who had just marked a 50th birthday.
Top drawer talent Cartoonists and artists such as Posy Simmonds and Steve Bell, who have etched their names into history through the pages of the Guardian, are joing forces with Quentin Blake, Gerald Scarfe and Paula Rego to mark an unconventional birthday this September for the Campaign for Drawing.
One such bass-based venture, Argonaut Sounds, have now been running their foray into reggae, dub and dancehall culture for a decade, which they mark with a birthday party featuring live performances, free CDs, posters and memorabilia, soundtracked by the DJs' top picks from the past decade.
Numbering about 400, they regularly came together for birthdays, weddings and other celebrations, like quinceañeras, coming-of-age events that mark a girl's 15th birthday.
Mr. Hoffman, a helicopter pilot himself, was unruffled by the recent crash, though a group of British visitors, taking a flight to mark a friend's 50th birthday, admitted some discomfort.
Today's Fourth of July holiday, our country's birthday, marks a new beginning for undocumented Americans like me.
