Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Tuesday, January 15, 2019
Palm Beach Landscapes: Art & Artifacts
Across the Nation• January 15, 2019.Palm Beach may still be disoriented from not having to navigate roadblocks, delays and detours during Christmas and New Year’s holidays. Apparently, the lack of annoyance may have bewildered the driver of a Ferrari that recently drove off the North End dock and into the channel. Purposely, according to the local police. Yet another, this [&he...
New York Lives
Social Diary• January 15, 2019.Cold out. In the high 20s last night in New York. New York Lives. I went over to the Museum of Natural History about six-thirty for a book signing reception for Karen LeFrak who has just published “Sleepover at the Museum.” I think it’s a mystery. It’s likely I’ll never read it. It’s published by […]...
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 […]...
Monday, January 14, 2019
Hanging out the ham
Party Pictures• January 14, 2019.The late international socialite and hostess Kitty Miller used to advise: “hang out the ham and they’ll all come running.” Meanwhile down in Palm Beach where many a Manhattan birdie has flown for the duration of ole man winter, Steven Stolman and Rich Wilkie did just that (sans the ham) throwing open the doors for […]...
Meanwhile, back in the neighborhood
Social Diary• January 14, 2019.Cold and sometimes sunny this past weekend in New York. Very cold last night, the kind that nips the tip of your nose; bundle up time. The weatherman sort of predicted snow which evidently blanketed the eastern states to the south of us but we got off with nary a flurry. Meanwhile, back in the […]...
Friday, January 11, 2019
A piece of the nabe
Social Diary• January 11, 2019.Sunny and cold, in the low 30s and lower at night, yesterday in New York. Snow forecast briefly but no snow. Thursday afternoon in the city. It was a beautiful sunset, looking northeast from my terrace, I caught this shot at about 5 o’clock yesterday afternoon. East End Avenue looking north from 83rd Street. It’s […]...
Jenny Dina Kirschner
House• January 11, 2019.Photographs by Jeff Hirsch After being something of a serial taker of college degrees (she has four), interior designer Jenny Kirschner quickly struck out on her own some twelve years ago and has managed to sustain a solid business along with being a mother of two daughters, PTA Leader and keeping up with some art […]...
Thursday, January 10, 2019
A real-life soap opera
Social Diary• January 10, 2019.A grey, colder, overcast day, yesterday in New York. Mainly overcast with temps in the low-40s and then the high to mid-30s in the evening. And the weatherman telling us snow may be coming this way. “How do I know what I think until I see what I say.” — E.M. Forster — via Joseph […]...
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 […]...
Wednesday, January 9, 2019
Mother Photographing Son 9,000 miles from home
Travel• January 9, 2019.When you haven’t seen your son for months, what’s 22 hours on a plane? Nothing. And when you get there, a 1,400-mile road trip across islands that were among the last to be inhabited by humans? Irresistible. My New York clothes stayed in my closet; I packed for the back of beyond. My son Peter […]...
Tuesday, January 8, 2019
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 […]...
Monday, January 7, 2019
Losing an original
Social Diary• January 7, 2019.Monday, January 7, 2019. A mild, not very cold weekend just past in New York with some rains on Saturday and mostly sunshine on Sunday with temps in the low 50s to mid-40s in the day to high 30s in night time. Today we are re-running a Diary first run five and a half years […]...
Friday, January 4, 2019
The party’s the thing …
Social Diary• January 4, 2019.Cold and occasionally sunny, yesterday in New York, with temperatures reaching up to the low 40s and falling later to the mid-30s. For some reason this has felt like a long week – in other words, not flying by. I imagine the town will be back on its frenetic schedule by Sunday night. In the […]...
Thursday, January 3, 2019
Out with the old, in with the new
Social Diary• January 3, 2019.Yesterday was cold in New York. Cold and grey. The city is still quiet. JH and I went down to Michael’s for a business lunch. It was Wednesday but it wasn’t the Wednesday you usually see at Michael’s. There were probably fifteen tables occupied. It looked like a holiday. Some of the staff could leave […]...
Wednesday, January 2, 2019
Elegant, young and full of promise …
Social Diary• January 2, 2019.Wednesday, January 2, 2018. The first day of the New Year in New York was warm — 60 degrees — and sunny. People were out strolling, walking their dogs on the Promenade by the river. That was after a New Year’s Eve of heavy, steady rains until about when the clock struck midnight. The city […]...
Monday, December 31, 2018
Our annual Christmas and Holiday card page
Social Diary• December 31, 2018.Monday, December 31, 2018. New Year’s Eve. It is very quiet here in New York as we bid farewell to the Old Year and hopefully welcome the New. The moment is a certain relief from the day-to-day changing world we are living in. JH and I are in the 19th (!) year of our digital […]...
Friday, December 28, 2018
A touch of class
Social Diary• December 28, 2018.Friday, December 28, 2018. Sunny yesterday, and in the low 40s, a mild cold. The last slice. A thoughtful friend gave me a gift certificate to Zabar’s. I went there with it yesterday afternoon. Not one to look for “sales” I accidentally came upon piled high boxes of pumpkin pies with a sale price of […]...
Gold Medal winners
Party Pictures• December 28, 2018.The National Institute of Social Sciences celebrated the 104th annual Gold Medal Dinner on Thursday, November 29 at a private club in New York City. This year, the organization honored Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman, philanthropist Geraldine Kunstadter, and Central Park Conservancy founder Elizabeth Barlow Rogers. National Institu...
Thursday, December 27, 2018
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 […]...
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