Patron, party, patrimony : notes on the cultural history of the Kirghiz epic tradition / Daniel Prior.
Other events, which require advance purchase, will include lunch, $20 (members, $15) and a patron party on June 5, from 5 to 7 p.m., $140 (members, $125).
Tiffany & Co. in Pasadena was the setting for the Pacific Asia Museum's patron party on Sept. 22, spotlighting the plans for the museum's annual "Festival of the Autumn Moon" benefit that will be held Oct. 15.
Admission is $500 for the benefactors' tea at 4 P.M., for which Charlotte Ford will be the host, and $250 for the patrons' party in the Tiffany Room, decorated by the fashion designer Mary McFadden, at 6 to 9 P.M.
So when the lights flickered back early Friday evening in the East Village, SoHo, Chelsea and elsewhere, bars were open practically within seconds, with patrons partying at the (aptly named) Electric Room at the Dream Downtown hotel past 3 a.m.
Both lavatories used to feature working radios, but after several extended patron dance parties, the staff decided to cut the cord.
And lucky patrons have partied with the fuzzy Red Sox mascot Wally, as well as Boston royalty like Bill Simmons, the ESPN scribe, and Theo Epstein, the former Sox general manager.
There are also £5,000 and £2,000 a year clubs and you become a party patron for just £1,200.
That became clear in February, when a police chief fell out with his Party patron, Bo Xilai, and fled to the American Consulate, with a career's worth of knowledge about murder and embezzlement at the highest ranks of the Party.
Fighting back qualms about a double-edged message, top officials have also publicly endorsed a gripping new feature film that portrays the noble stand of a fictional city mayor against the corruption all around him -- vice that engulfs his brother, his party patron and even his wife.
The relationship between Kurdish and Shia forces in the area, meanwhile, is uneasy, even though Iran is the main patron of both parties.
