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Across the Nation• November 16, 2018

South Florida Social Diary: Indian Summer @ Palm Beach & Miami

During this past week the only more astronomical phenomena than the area’s high 80s-low 90s temperatures were Palm Beach County’s annual property tax assessments that arrived in the mail, especially […]...

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San Francisco Opera Celebrates its 96th Season

Across the Nation• November 9, 2018.
The San Francisco Opera opened its 2018–19 season with its annual weekend of celebratory affairs, including two sold-out galas—Opera Ball 2018: ¡Viva La Noche!and the BRAVO! CLUB Opening Night Gala, […]... READ MORE
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13th Annual Festival Napa Valley, Part II — The Galas

Across the Nation• October 25, 2018.
13TH ANNUAL FESTIVAL NAPA VALLEY OPENING WEEKEND 2018 Part II – THE GALAS Festival Napa Valley recently “uncorked” its 13th season. I made my annual pilgrimage, one of a delighted […]... READ MORE
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The Gilded Cage: Tragedy at Palm Beach

Palm Beach• September 27, 2018.
“Men who club women and drag them by their hair,” were simply “clumsy, old-fashioned and unchic,” declared society referee Igor Cassini in his August 1949 syndicated column Cavemen in the […]... READ MORE
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SAN FRANCISCO MOMA MODERN BALL 2018

Across the Nation• May 25, 2018.
SAN FRANCISCO MOMA MODERN BALL 2018 RAISES $4 MILLION The biannual Modern Ball at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)—always high on my must-attend list—was once again a spectacular […]... READ MORE
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Higher Ground: Tall Timbers revives Livingstons’ Florida plantation

Palm Beach• April 27, 2018.
In 1958 prominent New York architect-turned-naturalist Henry L. Beadel repurposed his 2,400-acre Tall Timbers hunting plantation into an ecological preserve to conduct conservation studies on the estate’s vegetation and wildlife. […]... READ MORE
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Palm Beach Social Diary: April on Palm Beach

Across the Nation• April 12, 2018.
This morning’s wave break had a slight curl, the water was bliss, and shorebirds were increasingly scarce. April’s humidity suggests Palm Beach’s seasonal hiatus is well underway, its charitable convergence […]... READ MORE
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Flower Power: Garden Parties at Palm Beach

Across the Nation• April 6, 2018.
The Palm Beach calendar is entering its seasonal lull as bridge foursomes go their separate directions and golfers tee off for Northern climes. Amid the final flurry of luncheons, teas […]... READ MORE
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Sarasota Social Diary: The Botanical Gardens and the Ringling

Across the Nation• March 27, 2018.
When Jane Holzer, or Baby Jane Holzer, as she is widely known, saw preparations for the exhibit: “Warhol: Flowers in the Factory” at Sarasota’s Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, she gave […]... READ MORE
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Horse Power: Red Hills International Horse Trials

Across the Nation• March 14, 2018.
The 20th Anniversary Red Hills International Horse Trials, a top-ranked Eventing competition, was held at the sublime 670-acre Elinor Klapp Phipps Park in Tallahassee. Red Hills offers a refreshing close-up […]... READ MORE
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Palm Beach Social Diary Jimmy Buffett headlines Everglades benefit + Hulitar estate auction @ Palm Beach

Palm Beach• February 20, 2018.
Palm Beach’s green thumbs were joined by a throng of Parrotheads to kick off their presidential weekend by celebrating The Everglades Foundation’s 25th Anniversary at The Breakers with a Margaritaville-styled gathering highlighted […]... READ MORE
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Palm Beach Social Diary Four Arts opens Fashioning Paper exhibition + Friends of the Uffizi Galleries reception

Palm Beach• February 2, 2018.
Palm Beach’s golf courses and tennis courts, its bridge tables and yoga mats, are SRO. Social calendars are round-the-clock Louboutin and Veuve Clicquot. Tesla owners have Superchargers at the ready […]... READ MORE
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Palm Beach Social Diary

Across the Nation• January 29, 2018.
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney exhibition opens at Norton Museum of Art Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney’s historical prominence is most often defined by her dynastic lineage and philanthropy, particularly as founder of the […]... READ MORE

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