Sunday, October 6, 2019
Wednesday, October 2, 2019
Debbie’s Week at a Glance: Back to the (Hearst) Castle
Guest Diary• October 2, 2019.Debbie is out in California again, at the Annual Hearst Castle Preservation Foundation Weekend, a weekend event to raise funds to insure that the beautiful artifacts within the castle are preserved for the hundreds of thousands of annual visitors...
Tuesday, October 1, 2019
Sunday, September 29, 2019
Friday, September 27, 2019
JILL KREMENTZ PHOTO JOURNAL: Vija Celmins’ To Fix The Image in Memory at The Met Breuer
Guest Diary• September 27, 2019.Vija Celmins (born 1938) has been making paintings, drawings, prints, and sculpture for more than fifty years. Having immigrated to the United States from Latvia as a child, she began her career in Los Angeles in the 1960s and moved to New York in the early 1980s. While she is perhaps best known for distilling […]...
Wednesday, September 25, 2019
Women of valor, conviction, and joie de vivre
Party Pictures• September 25, 2019.The annual Pachanga lunch for the Casita Maria Center for Arts & Education's Fiesta Gala 2019; French Heritage Society pre-Gala party; newportFILM’s 10th Anniversary celebration; St. Francis Food Pantries and Shelter’s Seventeenth Annual Women of Valor Awards Tea...
Tuesday, September 24, 2019
Fashion is the passion
Social Diary• September 24, 2019.Fashion Week has come and gone but the fields of Manhattan are still rife with its treasures: A book party for GQ fashion stylist at the Polo Mansion; a visit with Susan Gutfreund as her great apartment has been sold and many treasures are being dispersed; and a walk up Madison viewing ensembles inspired by New York's iconic art deco architecture...
Monday, September 23, 2019
Jill Krementz attends the dress rehearsal for “Porgy & Bess,” prior to its much awaited opening this evening.
Guest Diary• September 23, 2019.Tonight: The Gershwins’ modern American masterpiece has its first Met performances in almost three decades, starring bass-baritone Eric Owens and soprano Angel Blue in the title roles. Director James Robinson’s stylish production transports audiences to Catfish Row, a setting vibrant with the music, dancing, emotion, and heartbreak of its inhab...
Friday, September 20, 2019
Chasing the Moon
Social Diary• September 20, 2019.Capping the week (although there’s still more to come), JH attends a private gathering for Lang Lang and his work; plus an evening featuring Lang Lang hosted by Chris Burch out East; And a reception hosted by Jackie Weld to announce the honorees for this year’s Casita Maria Gala...
“Hustlers” — The Latest “Empowerment” of Women? Really?! Also — Ken Burns’ “Country Music”…”The Deuce”…”Succession” and Carol Lynley
Guest Diary• September 20, 2019.“SHE’LL carelessly cut you and laugh while you’re bleeding,” sang Billy Joel on “She’s Always a Woman.” This lyric, if not the basic dreamy sentiment of Joel’s ballad, fits perfectly with the latest film in the genre of Women Gone Bad Because Times Are Tough and Men Are Pigs. I do mean “Hustlers,” starring Jennifer Lopez [&...

