Previous Winners
"Just a brief note to tell you how much my husband and I are enjoying the French Institute package. We're having so much fun.
Thank you, and NY Magazine."
Best, Elin Defrin
| Date | Prize | Winner(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 01/16/08 | Two Tickets to Karaoke Relapse with The Thermals at Studio B | Alexis Washam |
| 01/09/08 | Two Tickets to globalfest 2008 at Webster Hall | Michal McCarthy |
| 12/19/07 | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly merchandise including a copy of Jean-Dominique Bauby's memoirs, the film's soundtrack on CD, and a one-year membership to the MoMA (three winners) | Naomi Peled, Matt Wilstein, Rachel Tutera |
| 12/06/07 | Two tickets to New York X New York's Not Your Office Holiday Party featuring Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre and We Are Scientists | Shannon Heth |
| 11/27/07 | Two tickets to Cold War Kids at Webster Hall | B.Q. Nguyen |
| 11/08/07 | Two tickets to Vanessa Carlton at Joe's Pub | Kevin Lam |
| 11/05/07 | Two tickets to the Pennsylvania Ballet's Carmina Burana at City Center (three winners) | Dina Zuckerberg, Parisa Hagshenas, Andrea Barbakoff |
| 11/01/07 | Two tickets to Takeover BAM | Eng San Kho |
| 10/24/07 | Two tickets to Edward Albee's play Peter + Jerry | Amy Bush |
| 10/22/07 | Two tickets to see Sondre Lerche and a copy of the Dan In Real Life soundtrack (three winners) | Leslie Shiers, Jacque Schiller, Victor Glemauld |
| 10/18/07 | A copy of the new Coheed & Cambria CD, No World for Tomorrow (ten winners) | Ruth Heller, Kelly Aveen, Aliza Abbate, Caryn Havlik, Beth Perry, Jen Schulkind |
| 10/17/07 | Two tickets to New York X New York All Hallows Madness at Judson Church | Rebecca Ives |
| 10/15/07 | Two tickets to see Ozzy Osbourne and Rob Zombie at MSG (two winners) | Jane Rosenblum, Eileen Milan |
| 10/12/07 | Two tickets to see Justice at Terminal 5 | Nicholas Beck |
| 10/11/07 | Two tickets to the Benny Carter Centennial starring Wynton Marsalis at Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. | Howard Locker |
| 10/10/07 | Two tickets to Adam Rapp's new play, Bingo With Indians, at The Flea(three winners) | Teri Magel, Marisa Pellicci, Meg Scheding |
| 10/05/07 | Two tickets to Celebrity Autobiography at The Zipper Factory plus dinner before the show. | Farrah Pepper |
09/27/07 |
Two tickets to see The Decemberists at Terminal 5 | Erin Ardleigh |
| 9/21/2007 | Two tickets to see Architecture in Helsinki at Studio B | Sabrina How |
| 9/18/2007 | Two tickets to see Revolution at The Joyce Theatre (three winners) | Cris Breining, Simge Akbulut, Katy Higgins |
| 9/12/2007 | Two tickets to Walmartopia! (five winners) | Jillian Y. Jaques, Karen Shueh, Jeff Walker, Rachel Backoff, Michelle Berg |
| 9/6/2007 | Two tickets to see Bon Jovi with My Chemical Romance at the new Prudential Center (two winners) | Lisa Infantes, Alexandra Joseph |
| 8/31/2007 | Copy of Tina Brown's The Diana Chronicles (ten winners) | Linda Steinberg, Shelley Evans, Erica Pearson, Amy Clarke, Carey Purcell, Judy Nadler, Cassi Jensen, Deborah Markowitz |
| 8/30/2007 | Justin Timberlake's FutureSex/LoveShow T-shirts and Track Jackets (ten winners) | Rama Dadarkar, Christine Harada, Faye McGrath, Sonia Montalvo, Tamar Schwartz, Denise Gildea, Barbara Huber, Courtney O'Rourke, Sam Shubitz, Mariel Travis |
| 8/29/2007 | Two tickets to see Interpol at Madison Square Garden (two winners) | Noah Howard, Jingyi Wee |
| 8/23/2007 | Two tickets to see Arcade Fire and LCD Soundsystem at Randall's Island | Lauren O'Neill-Butler |
| 8/21/2007 | Two pairs of tickets to Oneida at P.S. 1's Warm Up (two winners) | Mary Couzens, Daisy Nam |
| 8/16/2007 | Two tickets to New York by New York: Scavenger Madness. | Edward Stern |
| 8/15/2007 | Two tickets to Lee "Scratch" Perry/Dub Is a Weapon. | Kerry McLean, Drew Caplin, John O'Marra, Julie Nusbaum |
| 8/11/2007 | Two tickets to see Paul van Dyk at Central Park. | Elena Lee, Harald Mootz, Farrah Pepper |
| 8/9/2007 | Two tickets to see Nickel Creek and Fiona Apple at Central Park. | Priya Bhupathi, Celeste Lee, Anna Starr, Kimberly Wong, Elizabeth McRae |
| 8/3/2007 | Two tickets to see Brightblack Morning Light aboard The Temptress. | Leslie Abelson |
| 8/1/2007 | Two tickets to Twist, part of the Midtown International Theatre Festival. | Malcolm Prince |
| 7/27/2007 | Passes to Devil Land, part of the New York Summer Play Festival. | Stevie Wong, Annette Shade, Marjorie Rosenthal |
| 7/26/2007 | Two tickets to a screening of No End in Sight at Film Forum. | Rita Gail Johnson |
| 7/20/2007 | Merchandise Prize packs including one pair of passes to the advanced screening of The Simpson's Movie (one Grand Prize Winner and Two Runners-Up) | Grand Prize: Fiona Torres Runner Up: Maria Scali, Anna Starr |
| 7/18/2007 | Two tickets to the Bard Summerscape Opera: Zemlinksy's Two One-Acts (one winner) | Tony Rodriguez |
| 7/15/2007 | Two tickets to the RocksOff Concert Cruise with Electric Six (one winner) | Julie Nussbaum |
| 7/13/2007 | Free passes to advance screening of Hairspray (twenty five winners) | Winners have been notified |
| 7/12/2007 | Copy of 1,000 Places to See Before You Die: In the USA and Canada by Patricia Schultz (five winners) | Frani Lieberman, Larisa Khodorkovskaya, Sally Dricks, Catehrine Quach, Caroline Coronado |
| 7/11/2007 | Two tickets in orchestra section to see Gypsy at the City Center (one winner) | Courtney Anderson |
| 7/8/2007 | Two tickets to see the Dispatch Benefit Concert at Webster Hall (one winner) | Jenny Foughner |
| 7/6/2007 | Two passes to New York by New York's Bad Art Auction with Zach Galifianakis and Band of Horses (one winner) | Hilary Greenbaum |
| 7/5/2007 | Copy of Grammy-award winning violinist Eugene Drucker's debut novel, The Savior (five winners) | Tiffany Coe, Elizabeth Duran, Erika Grijalva, Walter Lamb, Heidi Lee |
| 7/2/2007 | Two tickets to see Lady Sovereign at Spiegeltent (one winner) | Ivana Ng |
| 6/29/2007 | Two passes to see Samuel Fuller's White Dog at BAM's Afro-Punk festival (one winner) | Noah Howard |
| 6/28/2007 | Two passes to Rescue Dawn screening plus the movie soundtrack (25 winners) | Winners have been notified |
| 6/21/2007 | Two tickets in orchestra section to Neil LaBute's In A Dark Dark House (three winners) | Alexandra Carpio, Devond Davies, Alayne Faraone |
| 6/18/2007 | Two tickets to Battles at Studio B (one winner) | Anna Kuchma |
| 6/15/2007 | Flight of the Conchords Goodie Bag with DVD, t-shirt, poster, and more! (five winners) | Susanne Goldstone, Angela Lim, Rob Salviotti, Frederica Stines, Brett Wean |
| 6/02/2007 | Two tickets to 110 in the Shade at Studio 54 (one winner) | Jihyun Oh |
| 5/31/2007 | Two tickets to Kings of Leon at Roseland Ballroom, one copy of Because of the Times on CD, and one Vestal Watch (one winner) | Michelle Bellinger (NYC) |
| 5/27/2007 | Two tickets to Grey Gardens on Broadway (one winner) | Cuck Bussler |
| 5/23/2007 | Arctic Monkeys' Favourite Worst Nightmare CD and "Brianstorm" single on vinyl (five winners) | Karen Ferber (NYC), Ranjani Gopalarathinam (NYC), Tom Kane (White Plains) |
| 5/22/2007 | Miranday July's No One Belongs Here More Than You (four winners) | Steven Lederman, Roseann Brandes, Shelley Evans, Adriana Gelves |
| 5/16/2007 | Ten pairs of tickets to Alan Berliner's Wide Awake: Portrait of an Artist as an Insomniac at the Walter Reade Theater (five winners) | Arielle Bertman, Rene Catindig, Jerily Curcio, Steven Metzger, Elizabeth Duran, Heather Hayen, Allegra Kashmer, Margaret Lloyd, Marilyn Mayers, Madeline Sperilo |
| 5/14/2007 | Two season passes to the French Institutes spring/summer cultural and culinary programming (one winner) | Elin Defrin (Amenia, NY) |
| 5/10/2007 | Two tickets to the Many Moods of Miles Davis at Lincoln Center (one winner) | YiYeoun Kim (PA) |
| 5/09/2007 | One copy of The Good German, Letters From Iwo Jima, and The Fountain on DVD (five winners) | Stacey Barron (NY), Larisa Khodorkovskaya (NY), Beth Perty (NY), Haley Price (NY), Robert Salviotti (NY) |
| 5/08/2007 | Two tickets to a private preview screening of Mr. Brooks starring Kevin Costner and Demi Moore (100 guests) | Winners have been notified. |
| 5/07/2007 | Two series passes to Lee Marvin: The Coolest Lethal Weopan (one winner) | Jennifer Barba (NY) |
| 5/03/2007 | One copy of Walter Isaacson's Einstein: His Life and Universe (five winners) | Gary Boehr (NY), Anne Mani (NY), Whitney Moses (NY), Julie Nusbaum (NY), Raquel Parrilla (NY) |
| 5/02/2007 | Two tickets to Arcade Fire at the United Palace on May 7th, 2007 (one winner) | Catrinel Bartolomeu (NY) |
| 5/01/2007 | Two tickets to see Beirut at Bowery Ballroom on May 7th, 2007 (one winner) | Jasmine Moy (NY) |
| 4/27/2007 | Two tickets to see Modest Mouse at the Palace Theater on April 29th, 2007; plus a copy of their album We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank (one winner) | Dany Naierman (NY) |
| 4/28/2007 | A copy Haruki Murakami's After Dark (five winners) | Valerie Bedon, Shilpa Kanani, Charleen Barila, Monica Liu, Carmen Flores |
| 4/30/2007 | Two tickets to the Brooklyn Philharmonic's "The Road to Redemption" at BAM's Howard Gilman Opera House on May 12, 2007 (one winner) | Alden Miles |