Philanthropy

Guests attending Carnegie Hall’s dinner gala faced striking stagehands who wanted love and respect after killing the opening night concert that was meant to precede the event.

At the first gala for the Museum of Mathematics, honoree Jim Simons puffed from an electronic cigarette as guests helped build a hyperbolic paraboloid.

The Congressional Gala for the Children’s Inn at the National Institutes of Health last night had less of Congress than in years past.