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Guest Diary• February 15, 2019

Love & Resistance: Stonewall 50

Last night, on Valentine’s Day, the New York Public Library hosted a big cocktail party to celebrate the opening of Love & Resistance: Stonewall 50, a new exhibition commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. The event drew a large and diverse crowd, spanning generations of New Yorkers from the LGBTQ community and more. […]...

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What to Wear Where: Won’t you be my Valentine?

Guest Diary• February 6, 2019.
Hearts and flowers, romance and ribbons, saints and angels — massacres, whippings, sacrifice and sinners, all in the name of love, love, love! Many legends surround the origins of the clearly carnal celebration known as St. Valentine’s Day. In ancient Rome they feted the feast of Lupercalia, with the high priest sacrificing goat and dog. [&hell... READ MORE
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Schulenberg’s Page: New York, Part CLXXXIX

Guest Diary• January 31, 2019.
1970 was certainly turning out to be competitive with the Sixties as to excitement! Underground Weatherman bombings were continuing along with Anti-War protests and general feelings of hostility toward Nixon’s government! But not by everyone. Vice President Agnew kept inciting The (so-called) Silent Majority to protests against the liberal anti w... READ MORE
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Schulenberg’s Page: New York, Part CLXXXVIII

Guest Diary• January 24, 2019.
August, 1970, a full hot summer —  just to remind you what that might be like! The Fillmore East was at its finest with Jimi Hendrix having started the year, 1970, with performances New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day, the same day President Nixon signed the Environmental Policy Act into Law! The musical, Mame closed after a long run an... READ MORE
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Rules and More Rules

Guest Diary• January 21, 2019.
Monday, January 21, 2019. The great snowstorm over the weekend passed by New York on its way northeast, leaving us with a steady, cold rain on Saturday night. Sunday clear, grey, cold Sunday with temperatures dropping into the single digits by late night. Today is Martin Luther King Day. He was only 39 when his […]... READ MORE
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Schulenberg’s Page: New York, Part CLXXXVII

Guest Diary• January 17, 2019.
If you are somewhere where it’s extremely cold, let me take your mind off of it for a bit and take you to some of the hotter days in Manhattan during the summer of 1970 — starting in August. For some reason I never really liked air conditioning in my apartment.  Fortunately for me, there […]... READ MORE
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What to Wear Where to Palm Beach Island Hospice Foundation’s 36th annual runway fashion show

Guest Diary• January 15, 2019.
Get ready for one of the most fashionable and glamorous gathering of philanthropists feteing in Palm Beach. On January 19th, the best and the brightest will flock to the Flagler Museum in support of Palm Beach Island Hospice Foundation, where the stage will be set for an exhilarating evening of fashion and fabulous festivities. Over 35 […]... READ MORE
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Schulenberg’s Page: New York, Part CLXXXVI

Guest Diary• January 10, 2019.
After an absence due to device/internet/21st century problems I’ve been absent but I’m back now so Happy New Year! As I’d mentioned previously, on Thanksgiving, 1969 Paul Bartel was telling me about an idea he had for a feature film.  It was a quirky plot dealing with Doug and Mary Klein, a married couple who […]... READ MORE
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No Holds Barred: Gone to the dogs!

Guest Diary• January 8, 2019.
The handwriting seems to be on every wall (if not THE border wall), collapse is now the norm.  Washington is always on the verge of decline but look at the other cultural headliners. Hollywood has been in an overall slump for a while, and the Oscars can’t even find a host, let alone any interest […]... READ MORE
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American Lady: The Life of Susan Mary Alsop

Guest Diary• December 27, 2018.
Susan Mary Alsop (1918-2004) was a society beauty who morphed into a great saloniste and hostess, but the best reason I found to read this 193-page biography is that it chronicles a low-battery marriage, a torrid romance with a married womanizer and, after the deaths of her husband and lover, a second marriage to a […]... READ MORE
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A personal appreciation of Marion “Oatsie” Charles

Guest Diary• December 26, 2018.
Back in the fall of 2007, British actor and writer Stephen Fry arrived in Newport, Rhode Island, camera crew in tow. His destination was The Whim, a former eight-car garage and adjacent manager’s cottage that Oatsie Charles had combined into a residence in the late 1960s. At one point, the conversation, which was being recorded […]... READ MORE
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Schulenberg’s Page: New York, Part CLII

Guest Diary• December 18, 2018.
Schulenberg’s Page, New York, Part CLII. It’s 1969 and we’ve got a new President (Nixon) who has a new adviser (Kissinger), protests... READ MORE
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What to Wear Where to a Debutante Ball

Guest Diary• December 17, 2018.
At this time of year some of us have ginger plum fairies dancing in our heads,  the young among us listen for the prancing of each little hoof, and the rest of us are dashing through the snow for last minute shopping, whilst an intimate group of young women are engaged in a time-honored tradition, […]... READ MORE

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