Robert Hormats Vice chairman, Goldman Sachs International

WOULDN'T MISS The "Beyond Babylon" exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art: "I collect Babylonian cuneiform tablets, an early form of business contracts, so I am eager to see this show."  
ALSO ON THE CALENDAR The National Portrait Gallery's Lincoln exhibit, "One Life"; foreign affairs expert Fareed Zakaria's new book, The Post-American World; and Thomas Friedman's Hot, Flat and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution.


Phil Marineau Former president and C.E.O., Levi Strauss
WOULDN'T MISS Breakfast at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where Marineau has a home. In November, poet Valerie Martínez will speak.  
ALSO ON THE CALENDAR The "Native Couture" exhibit at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture in Santa Fe. The show underscores the impact of Native American styles on contemporary fashion.


Howard Rubenstein President, Rubenstein Associates
WOULDN'T MISS Lorin Maazel's final concerts conducting the New York Philharmonic, including Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.
ALSO ON THE CALENDAR  A trip to the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, recently opened in Troy, New York. The Metropolitan Opera's 125th anniversary season.

 
Stephen Hanson Founder, B.R. Guest Restaurants
WOULDN'T MISS Performances of Madame Butterfly and La Traviata at the Metropolitan Opera, where Hanson is a season ticket holder and patron. The New York City Marathon on November 2.
ALSO ON THE CALENDAR The Contemporary Art auctions at Phillips de Pury Auction House, November 13 and 14. Float Night at Isabella's (Hanson's restaurant on New York's Upper West Side). "The evening before Thanksgiving, guests get the perfect view to watch the balloons for the parade get blown up—my kids love it." The Elizabeth Peyton exhibit at New York's New Museum.

Andrew Rasiej Founder, Personal Democracy Forum
WOULDN'T MISS The opening of the new Bond film, Quantum of Solace, on November 14.
ALSO ON THE CALENDAR Super Diamond, the Neil Diamond cover band, which will perform in New York on October 31 and November 1. Cate Blanchett in A Street Car Named Desire at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. "Seeing her in film is great. Seeing her onstage is sublime."