Friday, April 19, 2019
Thursday, April 18, 2019
Getting together with your neighbors, Manhattan style
Social Diary• April 18, 2019.A sunny and bright Wednesday in New York, lunch at Michael’s, a walk through the ever-changing, traffic jamming midtown; the film-making action (2 different projects) in the nabe both in the daytime and later in midevening; plus a look at Tuesday night’s book signing reception at John Rosselli’s Gallery for Bunny Williams and for the NYSD hou...
Fellowship and fun
Party Pictures• April 18, 2019.The New York Foundation for the Arts’ Hall of Fame Benefit; El Museo del Barrio's VIP opening; Doubles Club's annual Easter Egg hunt; Cocktails to celebrate the publication of “Betty Kuhner: The American Family Portrait” by Kate Kuhner and Steven Stolman...
Schulenberg’s Page, Spring of ’72
Guest Diary• April 18, 2019.Schulenberg’s Page, New York. It’s March 1972. The world is changing — Nixon, Agnew; anti-Vietnam War protests, Evil Knievel flies over cars, Albert Anastasia is shot while getting a shave in the Park Sheraton barbershop. Bob keeps drawing what he sees...
Wednesday, April 17, 2019
A hat, a fascinator or a hatinator? What to wear?
Guest Diary• April 17, 2019.Karen Klopp and Hilary Dick are looking forward to the Easter Weekend and recall the earlier more festive Easter holidays which are often reflected by the way people like to dress for the special occasion. Even Judy Garland and Fred Astaire!...
Tuesday, April 16, 2019
Monday, April 15, 2019
Memories that Matter
Party Pictures• April 15, 2019.Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation’s second annual Memories Matter benefit; Friends of the Budapest Festival Orchestra’s annual gala at Carnegie Hall; The Shed’s Founders Dinner at the new NYC arts center; Designers & Artisans Circle of the San Francisco Fall Show benefiting Enterprise for Youth was honored by Kohler...
Friday, April 12, 2019
Thursday, April 11, 2019
Schulenberg’s Page, New York, 1972
Guest Diary• April 11, 2019.Schulenberg’s Page. It was 1972 and President Nixon had announced that secret talks including a cease fire were underway with the North Vietnamese; New York was changing before our eyes, and Bob first learned about Silva Mind Control...
Wednesday, April 10, 2019
Tuesday, April 9, 2019
Couture & More
Party Pictures• April 9, 2019.The Couture Council at MFIT and Veronica Webb hosted a private visit to The Museum 's Azzedine Alaїa collection; The Couture Council's Third Annual Winter Luncheon; Ann and Bill Nitze opened their Georgetown house for a private chamber concert with The Knights. ...
Palm Beach Social Diary: Spring Splendor on Palm Beach
Across the Nation• April 9, 2019.T'is the Season no longer down among the sheltering palms of Palm Beach, winter residents are migrating north but Augustus Mayhew gives us a quick view of the annual Mounts Botanical Garden Spring Benefit at the home of Susanne and Douglas Durst, and a book signing at the Colony for Wendy Moonan and her new book on New York City rooms. ...
Monday, April 8, 2019
Sarasota Social Diary: Voyage to Paradise
Across the Nation• April 8, 2019.Down in sunny Sarasota, Geraldine Fabrikant was busy attending Sarasota Bay's Selby Gardens’ annual Orchid Ball, "Gauguin: Voyage to Paradise," declared a “triumph!”; also the Ringling School of Art and Design’s annual “Avant Garde” gala...
Friday, April 5, 2019
Philadelphia in Palm Beach, Part I
Social History• April 5, 2019.We are taking today off to continue to optimize the back end of the new site. In the meantime, please enjoy Part 1 of Augustus Mayhew’s series on Philadelphian Ellen Glendinning (first published on these pages in 2011), who kept an extensive diary where she recorded and photographed the life around her family and friends; a chronological scrapboo...
Thursday, April 4, 2019
Ready to burst
Social Diary• April 4, 2019.Beautiful early Spring day in New York yesterday, capping it off by attending “The Lehman Trilogy,” a play in three acts that you cannot look away from for even a moment. Plus a connoisseur of the mystery novel writes about her experience reading Linda Fairstein’s latest (this week), “Blood Oath.”...