SOCIAL DIARY Busy autumn day including lunch at Michael's with Nina; Juan-Pablo Molyneux's book party; and Donald Trump at the Pierre while in the ballroom the inaugural Hope Rising Benefit was hosted by the Newhouse family for AFTD.
BEAUTY NYSD Beauty. Delia von Neuschatz interviews Dr. Gerald Imber about his newly-launched Youth Corridor Clinic "to help you look virtually the same between 35 - 60."
GUEST DIARY LIZ SMITH and Denis Ferrara: If Brad and Angie Can't Make It Work, Can Mere Mortals? Ask Paul Rudnick! A New "Wizard of Oz" For a New, Hopeful Young Audience at the Harlem Prep Elementary School.
SOCIAL DIARY Beautiful early autumn, overcast and breezy; a busy lunch at Michael's, a birthday party at night, and last Tuesday's Acquisitions Fund luncheon at the Frick.
GUEST DIARY Schulenberg's Page. New York, Part LXXIX. Back to making the rounds, sketchbook taking it all in including a couple of visits with his new friend, now fifty years later, his old friend DPC.
GUEST DIARY LIZ SMITH and Denis Ferrara: Who is "The King of Liechtenstein"? — Kurt Russell? Lin-Manuel Miranda? James Marsden? Joe Scarborough? Donald Trump? Justin Bieber?
PARTY PICTURES Women's Committee of the Central Park Conservancy's Annual Fall Luncheon; Delphine and Reed Krakoff hosted a reception and dinner to celebrate Yayoi Kusama's Dots Obsession at Glass House; A cocktail party in Greenwich for Theatre Forward.
ACROSS THE WORLD Boca Raton Social Diary. Augustus Mayhew takes us on a tour of the Art and the special story of A.E. Backus and Florida's "Highwaymen" painters, now showcased in the Ritter Gallery at Florida Atlantic University.
GUEST DIARY LIZ SMITH and Denis Ferrara: Boy Vs. Adult. The Debate Happened. The Earth Continues On Its Axis.
SOCIAL DIARY More beautiful autumn weather; anticipation of the first "Debate" was surprised by the nature of the debaters; plus the Opening Night gala of the 175th season of the New York Philharmonic; the Friars honoring Martin Scorcese, and Bomb Magazine hosts a reading in Bridgehampton.
HOUSE Big Old Houses: We re-visit with John Foreman, Alexander Hamilton's house, The Grange in Washington Heights, built in 1802 and lived in for two summers with his family until his ill-fated duel with Aaron Burr.
GUEST DIARY LIZ SMITH and Denis Ferrara: The Day After The Debate. Let's Just Be Silly Today!
SOCIAL DIARY The first autumn weekend, cooler and sunny. Dinner with friends Friday and Saturday night; talk about tonight's "Debate" and who's what; plus big numbers on Truman Capote's ashes and memories therein.
PARTY PICTURES Book party for Tony Cointreau's "A Gift of Love ..."; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston's #mfaNOW Overnight Launch Party; The Denver Art Museum's VIP opening gala for "Shock Wave: Japanese Fashion Design, 1980s–90s"; Anthony Pratt fetes Eudoxie Bridges & Hannah Godefa.
GUEST DIARY LIZ SMITH and Denis Ferrara: Honor and Good Sense? (Good Luck!) ... Naomi Campbell Divas Onward ... Pedal to the Metal for Queen Elizabeth ... TV Stars Descend on The Paley Center in October.
SOCIAL DIARY A Celebrating the beginning of our 17th year on the internet, New York Social Diary is publishing the very first posting we made on September 21, 2000, with many many thanks to our readership.
PARTY PICTURES New York City Ballet's 2016 Fall Gala, "Celebrating Five Years of Ballet & Fashion"; MAD at Michael's; Tuesday's Children hosted its "Roots of Resilience Gala."
BEAUTY Beauty Spotlight with Emmy award-winning journalist, television producer and CBS 2 news anchor, Kristine Johnson.
GUEST DIARY LIZ SMITH and Denis Ferrara: Jared Leto ... Andy Warhol ... Gerald McRaney ... Toni Basil ... Joan Jett ... Betty Buckley ... Molly Pope. And please, do as Andrew Sullivan commands — Put Down That Phone!
SOCIAL DIARY A beautiful sunny day with a luncheon hosted by Shirley Lord for Amy Astley the new editor-in-chief of Architectural Digest, and a big book signing party for Bunny Williams and her new book "A House By the Sea" at John Rosselli's gallery on East 61st Street. Then home before dark.
GUEST DIARY Schulenberg's Page, Part LXXVIII. Bob shows up at DPC's apartment in New York with his camera and his sketchbook, and then off to others recording his day as he goes along and the world opens up for him.
GUEST DIARY LIZ SMITH and Denis Ferrara: Edward Albee and Other Writers I Have Known.
SOCIAL DIARY An evening at the New York City Ballet's annual fall gala at Lincoln Center; the recent trip of the American Friends of Paris Opera Ballet for the presentation of Alexei Ratmansky's "The Sleeping Beauty"; plus last week's opening of the Museum of Arts and Design's Crochet Coral Reef; TOXIC Seas.
PARTY PICTURES Cocktails and shopping for Same Sky; Opening reception at FIAF for Edgar Degas' Little Dancer; All-star chefs salute culinary icon Roger Vergé.
GUEST DIARY LIZ SMITH and Denis Ferrara: Wednesday's Rap: Warren Beatty ... Bette Midler ... Stevie Nicks ... Mariah Carey ... Rosie's Theater Kids and more "Eternity" Musings.
PARTY PICTURES New Yorkers For Children hosted their Annual Fall Gala celebrating its 20th anniversary benefiting youth in foster care in New York City. Bill Farrelland company was there to take it all in.
HOUSE Big Old Houses. With John we re-visit the Morris-Jumel mansion in Washington Heights, the home for more than a half century of Eliza Jumel -- who married Aaron Burr and entertained DeWitt Clinton, Joseph Bonaparte and Thomas Jefferson -- and outlived them all.
GUEST DIARY LIZ SMITH and Denis Ferrara: Renee Zellweger — We Love Her, and We Love her New "Baby" ... More Stars for Chita Rivera's Big November Night ... Another Winner From Ken Burns ... Re-Thinking "From Here to Eternity."
SOCIAL DIARY Saturday night dining in midtown when the explosion occurred. A look at the Bergdorf Goodman windows; and more photos from Thursday night's Quest 400 party.
BEAUTY Real common sense fall beauty tips to help your leftover-from-summer overexposed and congested skin and dry, brittle, even burnt hair. As if that's not incentive enough, the ultimate beauty product giveaway.
GUEST DIARY LIZ SMITH and Denis Ferrara: Monday's Frenzy of Renown: Taylor Swift ... Lupita Nyong'o ... Bruce Springsteen ... Chevy Chase ... The Statue of Liberty and Criterion's Remastered "Valley of The Dolls."
