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Across the Nation• January 13, 2020

Palm Beach Social Diary: PBSD @ The Breakers + @ The Gardens

A quick lookback of the Breakers’ private pier of yesteryear, often a quick seaplane jump to Havana, back then; plus the Palm Beach Gardens Conservancy’s 2000 Ann Norton Award honoring the Mary Alice Fortin Foundation. Augustus Mayhew reports...

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Palm Beach Social Diary: Palm Beach Now & Then

Across the Nation• December 18, 2019.
Augustus Mayhew covers the holidays in PB with a benefit dinner for the Gentlemen of the Garden at Casa Phippsberger under a full moon; plus a trip through the Looking Glass at the once, now lost El Mirasol and its relationship to Santa Barbara... READ MORE
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Palm Beach Social Diary: Art + RR @ PB + Orty’s Party + Spellbound

Across the Nation• December 9, 2019.
Palm Beach Social Diary. Beth Rudin DeWoody and Firooz Zahedi hosted an exhibition at The Bunker, an invitational highlight of the Palm Beach New Wave Art Wknd, part of Miami’s Art Basel, plus a little history of Rolls Royce in PB; a birthday celebration for Orator “Orty” Woodward, plus some PB architectural history... READ MORE
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Palm Beach Social Diary: Past Pleasures at Palm Beach

Across the Nation• December 4, 2019.
Palm Beach Social Diary. Augustus Mayhew reports the activities going on down there under the sheltering palms like last month’s 3rd annual Sculpture in Motion Exhibitions. "Vroom" was his appropriate word for it. And then there was “Alternative Reality: Venice & Palm Beach" photo show at the Jennifer Garrigues gallery on Peruvian... READ MORE
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SAN FRANCISCO OPERA’S 97TH OPENING GALA

Across the Nation• November 22, 2019.
Los Angeles has the Oscar’s Red Carpet, New York has the Met Ball, and San Francisco has its Opera opening galas that are their equal in glamour and excitement. For many, it is a tradition to attend the prestigious Opera Gala that opens the San Francisco fall social season and is one of the West […]... READ MORE
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Quid Pro Status Quo Vadis at Palm Beach

Across the Nation• November 19, 2019.
According to Augustus Mayhew, the Palm Beach season has begun its annual philanthropic and social convergence amid streets cluttered with even more than ever concrete trucks and bulldozers... READ MORE
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LA JOLLA MUSIC SOCIETY’S NEW HOME: THE CONRAD PREBYS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

Across the Nation• September 23, 2019.
Jeanne Lawrence returns to her once home, La Jolla, to attend the opening of the La Jolla Music Society’s new home, the Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center... READ MORE
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Palm Beach Social Diary: Garden Gold at Palm Beach

Across the Nation• April 30, 2019.
Palm Beach Social Diary: Garden Gold at Palm Beach. Augustus Mayhew attends the Garden Club of Palm Beach’s Gold Leaf, a GCA Flower Show at The Society of the Four Arts. Ribbons, certificates, trophies, and just plain Beauty... READ MORE
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Palm Beach Social Diary: 2019 GOG A GOGO Spring Disco Ball

Across the Nation• April 25, 2019.
Down in Palm Beach, the season may be over but the beat goes on at the GOG (Gentlemen of the Garden) A GOGO Disco Ball hosted by Bob Eigelberger and Susie Phipps Cochran plus a tour of Eigelberger’s work in real estate development and preservation; and a look at Casa Phippsberger... READ MORE
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SAN FRANCISCO SOCIAL DIARY

Across the Nation• April 23, 2019.
Jeanne Lawrence out in San Francisco attends the California Pacific Medical Center (CPMC) Foundation’s grand gala featuring bountiful buffets, music performances throughout, and interactive exhibitions that introduced attendees to the Van Ness Campus’s advanced medical technology and personal touches... READ MORE
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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. ... READ MORE
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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... READ MORE
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Historic Charleston Foundation’s Festival of Houses & Gardens

Across the Nation• April 3, 2019.
Stephanie Green makes her way down south for Historic Charleston Foundation's Festival of Houses & Gardens just as the wisteria, camellias, and azaleas were bursting with vibrancy... READ MORE

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