Tuesday, March 10, 2020

No Holds Barred: This Too Shall Pass!

Guest Diary• March 10, 2020.

No Holds Barred. Blair Sabol lets loose with the survival threat of what everybody is talking (and thinking) about all over America and what she calls the “over-protection syndrome.”... READ MORE

Monday, March 9, 2020

It Might As Well Be Spring

Social Diary• March 9, 2020.

Daylight Savings, early Spring temps for a sunny Sunday with bad news all around but good news for the eye, and a dinner last night for Citymeals at Restaurant Daniel... READ MORE

I got rhythm, I got music

Party Pictures• March 9, 2020.

The Jewish Museum’s 34th Annual Purim Ball at The Pierre; A gathering in Palm Beach to celebrate "Working in Concert: Lincoln Center and New York Philharmonic Reimagine David Geffen Hall"; Opera Lafayette celebrated the New York opening of Leonore... READ MORE

Friday, March 6, 2020

What’s it like in New York?

Social Diary• March 6, 2020.

A sunny day in New York, a busy dinner hour at Sette Mezzo; a birthday recollection about a friend and colleague; and how it all came together... READ MORE

Oil Swells: The Standard Oil Crowd in Palm Beach

Social History• March 6, 2020.

Augustus Mayhew’s now classic history “Oil Swells: The Standard Oil Crowd in Palm Beach” around the turn of the 19th century to the 20th, when the new industry was comparable to the tech industry around the turn of the 20th to the 21st. La plus ca change ..... READ MORE

Thursday, March 5, 2020

Modernity, Conservation and Vision

Party Pictures• March 5, 2020.

LongHouse Reserve’s annual Winter Benefit; Lighthouse Guild's 12th Annual ’A Visionary Evening' Honoring Audrey and Martin Gruss; A reception in Wellington, FL in support of the Animal Medical Center... READ MORE

Schulenberg’s Page: Life in The Belly of the Beast

Guest Diary• March 5, 2020.

It’s this time of year, 1974, the peripatetic illustrator/artist is in town, working, lunching, dining, observing, meeting, eating and covering the city life, and always with sketchbook in hand... READ MORE

Wednesday, March 4, 2020

Photo Memoir

Social Diary• March 4, 2020.

While cleaning out a closet I found a cache of memories in photographs taken when we first started the the NYSD. A veritable Photo Memoir for this writer. ... READ MORE

Tuesday, March 3, 2020

Making it Personal: Messaging on Social Stationery, Not Social Media

Guest Diary• March 3, 2020.

Barbara Hodes highlights five purveyors of custom papers and stationery uptown and downtown, and online, too... READ MORE

Monday, March 2, 2020

Here, There and Almost Everywhere

Social Diary• March 2, 2020.

A beautiful sunny day in New York, despite the not-so-sunny news about the virus in our world, inspired us to find relief in beauty elsewhere surrounding us... READ MORE

Sunday, March 1, 2020

Seeing the forest for the trees

Social Diary• March 1, 2020.

A sunny Sunday, some heavenly advice from Gilda; a glamour girl’s centennial, and a really insightful portrait of a time and place in “Chanel’s Riviera”... READ MORE

What to Wear to the Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach’s annual Dinner Dance

Guest Diary• March 1, 2020.

Karen and Hilary help get the party started in Bradley Park as the Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach’s annual Dinner Dance sets the mood for swinging into spring... READ MORE

Friday, February 28, 2020

B. Smith

House• February 28, 2020.

We revisit our 2007 House interview with restaurateur, model, author, businesswoman and television host B. Smith, who lost her battle with early-onset Alzheimer's this past Saturday, February 22nd, 2020... READ MORE

Music, Art, Life

Party Pictures• February 28, 2020.

Opening Night Preview of the 17th Annual Palm Beach Show; A concert conducted by Maestro Iván Fischer and benefit dinner to follow for the Friends of The Budapest Festival Orchestra; Christine Schott Ledes and Jean Shafiroff hosted a philanthropic luncheon in Palm Beach... READ MORE

Thursday, February 27, 2020

Smoke and Mirrors

Social Diary• February 27, 2020.

Spent the better part of the day reading (quick read) Jesse Kornbluth’s new novel “JFK and Mary Meyer; A Love Story,” a quietly compelling story about an ill-fated affair between two ill-fated lives... READ MORE

Schulenberg’s Page: Blondes Have More Fun

Guest Diary• February 27, 2020.

That’s what he told his brunette girlfriend Mary after buying her a wig and sketching it in March of 1974... READ MORE

Tuesday, February 25, 2020

No Holds Barred: Toxic Chic

Guest Diary• February 25, 2020.

Blair Sabol considers “toxic chic,” that her “drug of choice” (fashion/shopping) no longer pacifies but instead addresses the natural changes in her life. ... READ MORE

Three days of spectacular revelry at the Carnevale Gala in Venice

Travel• February 25, 2020.

Mary Hilliard covers (and photographs) Save Venice’s Carnevale Gala, “All the World’s A Stage,” in Venice, Italy. Costume balls, exhibitions, dinners in ancient palazzos and a trip through the cultural treasures of Save Venice’s assistance... READ MORE

Monday, February 24, 2020

A hop, skip, and a jump

Social Diary• February 24, 2020.

The Spring social season is sprouting its beauty appropriately at last Wednesday’s annual Orchid Dinner at the Plaza benefiting the New York Botanical Garden; plus the Society of MSK Associates kicked off the 29th annual “Bunny Hop.”... READ MORE

Gathering in the Arabian desert for the Hegra Conference of Nobel Laureates

Travel• February 24, 2020.

Sharon Hoge is back from an incredible sojourn in Saudi Arabia where Nobel Laureates, Saudi nobles, business executives, and scientists assembled in an amazing desert region strategizing how to involve the lessons of heritage into future development... READ MORE

Scaring off the Monday Blues