Diary Features

Guest Diary• August 29, 2019

Debbie’s Week at a Glance: The last blast of summer freedom

As the social season approaches its finale, Debbie takes in four events hosted by three people famous for perfection — Amanda Hearst, Audrey Gruss, and George Farias...

Mrs. Post’s Mar-a-Lago

Social History• August 28, 2019.

A look back on the creation of Mar-a-Lago by Marjorie Meriweather Post Hutton, the biggest, most fantastic house in Palm Beach built in the heyday of the Roaring Twenties, now the property of the President of the United States, as its owner intended... READ MORE

Vive le Fashion Week

Guest Diary• August 27, 2019.

The season is about to begin next week with the Museum of FIT’s annual Couture Council Luncheon. The What-To-Wear girls Karen Klopp and Hilary Dick checked out the boutique of this year’s Honoree Louboutin and found some great items from the new line... READ MORE

Schulenberg’s Page: New York in Disguise

Guest Diary• August 22, 2019.

Schulenberg’s New York: November ’72. Bob covers Richard Nixon’s very recent landslide election to the recent previous discovery of recombinant DNA and the operation of HBO as a pay TV service... READ MORE

Debbie’s Week Out East: Looking toward the end of the rainbow

Guest Diary• August 21, 2019.

Debbie’s week at a glance, Out East: her Girl Scout week supporting animal needs, cleaning up a beach; thinking about her spiritual path, attending the annual ARF benefit and looking toward the end of the rainbow... READ MORE

Growing Up Belvedere

Travel• August 20, 2019.

Paige Peterson takes us to her hometown with a photo tour of its history, Belvedere, California. A beauty you’ll remember... READ MORE

No Holds Barred: Once Upon a Time in a Movie Theater

Guest Diary• August 16, 2019.

No Holds Barred. Blair Sabol goes to a movie theater for the first time in 10 years (she watches at home now like a lot of us) to see Brad Pitt and Leo DiCaprio, and Al Pacino in the film everyone’s talking about... READ MORE

Debbie’s Week at a Glance: From Hollywood to the Hamptons

Guest Diary• August 15, 2019.

Debbie’s Week at a Glance. Debbie was still in L.A. soaking up the vibes, hitting the restaurants, loving the sun, seeing old friends and new, and finally returning to this coast where the Southampton weekend was on the quiet side, thankfully... READ MORE

Schulenberg’s Page: Bob goes to Washington

Guest Diary• August 15, 2019.

Schulenberg’s Page. Bob goes to Washington to survey the scene at the height of the Vietnam War... READ MORE

The New Attitude on Madison Avenue

Guest Diary• August 14, 2019.

The New Attitude on Madison Avenue. Barbara Hodes takes in some of the new shops that have opened branches uptown while keeping their space downtown, as well as from across the continent and across the sea... READ MORE

Marilyn: Her Life As an Actress. (What — you thought I was gonna let August go by without an MM column? Sillies!) Also, mourning a very special cat — Dude.

Guest Diary• August 9, 2019.

It’s August and Denis Ferrara is here to remind us of the greatest film legend of her age: Marilyn Monroe, who died suddenly on August 4th, 1962. People can still remember where they were when they heard the shocking news... READ MORE

Book It: A New York City Tour of Independent Bookstores

Guest Diary• August 9, 2019.

Barbara Hodes takes us on her special tour of bookstores in New York City, a book lovers paradise — uptown or downtown — “inspiration for your own luxury library.”... READ MORE

Schulenberg’s Page: Life in LA and NY in ’72

Guest Diary• August 8, 2019.

Schulenberg’s Page: Life in LA and NYC and sketchbook always at the ready and so many people to meet and learn about the world around him at that moment when everything was changing in 1972... READ MORE

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Debbie’s Week at a Glance: The last blast of summer freedom

Mrs. Post’s Mar-a-Lago

Vive le Fashion Week

Schulenberg’s Page: New York in Disguise

Debbie’s Week Out East: Looking toward the end of the rainbow

Growing Up Belvedere

No Holds Barred: Once Upon a Time in a Movie Theater

Debbie’s Week at a Glance: From Hollywood to the Hamptons

Schulenberg’s Page: Bob goes to Washington

The New Attitude on Madison Avenue

Marilyn: Her Life As an Actress. (What — you thought I was gonna let August go by without an MM column? Sillies!) Also, mourning a very special cat — Dude.

Book It: A New York City Tour of Independent Bookstores

Schulenberg’s Page: Life in LA and NY in ’72

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