David Patrick Columbia, Author at New York Social Diary

Revisiting and returning to the collection of a friend

Social Diary• January 21, 2022.

Looking at the life of a friend, Pierre Durand, who died last year and whose estate is going up for auction at Christie’s next Thursday, January 27t... READ MORE

Pulling back the curtains

Social Diary• January 18, 2022.

Snowless January so far, but Broadway’s re-opening; and Peggy got quarantined at a friends’ villa in Umbria, and how she just made it out of the c... READ MORE

Striving to be colorblind

Social Diary• January 17, 2022.

Thinking of Dr. King on this day and on many other days in these times... READ MORE

Hollywood Lives, Part II, Women in Charge

Social Diary• January 12, 2022.

Women in Charge; always a good story... READ MORE

Hollywood Lives, Part I

Social Diary• January 11, 2022.

Hollywood women, before (the liberation) and after (now)... READ MORE

Easy to get carried away

Social Diary• January 10, 2022.

Every mother’s dilemma when it comes to the favorite son. Even with the Windsors... READ MORE

Change in the weather; change in the sea …

Social Diary• January 7, 2022.

And the beat goes on! it says in the lyric, and so it is in the last Diary for the first week of the New Year!... READ MORE

Steppin’ in Society, Part II

Social Diary• January 6, 2022.

Part II with Steppin’ in Society in a faster world of publicity and glamour ripe for scandals and on to the new world of today... READ MORE

Steppin’ in Society, Part I

Social Diary• January 5, 2022.

On a cold and quiet January weekday in New York, we’re re-running another New York when it was hotter and hardly quiet... READ MORE

Remembering Arlene Dahl

Social Diary• January 4, 2022.

A tribute to a Star from the days when 80 million Americans went to the movies every week!... READ MORE

Our 21st annual holiday Diary

Social Diary• January 1, 2022.

This is it; the moment we’ve all been waiting for, like it or not; with a display of a holiday message that reminds of the best of it, and maybe mor... READ MORE

Welcome back, Sardi’s

Social Diary• December 27, 2021.

The news of Sardi’s restaurant reopening after 648 days revives memories of the legendary theatre world it has hosted over the decades... READ MORE

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Social Diary• December 21, 2021.

Heading up to the holiday we’re looking around the town, to see what’s on people’s minds; for gift-giving and plans for celebrating... READ MORE

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