Parties (Social)

November 2, 2016

For Election Night, the Champagne Loses Its Fizz

Way back before the primaries, when the coming presidential election seemed like just another quadrennial exercise of our nation’s democratic ideals and not a referendum on […]
October 19, 2016

Party Coverage: Scene City: Michael Kors, Anna Wintour, Kate Hudson and Blaine Trump at God’s Love We Deliver Gala

Party Coverage: Scene City By JACOB BERNSTEIN God’s Love We Deliver held its fall gala on Monday night at Spring Studios, but the elephant in the […]
October 6, 2016

Party Coverage: Scene City: Sarah Jessica Parker, Molly Shannon and Jerry Seinfeld at HBO’s Premiere of ‘Divorce’

Party Coverage: Scene City By ALEX WILLIAMS There was Sarah Jessica Parker (“Sex and the City”) huddling with Matthew Broderick (“Election”), as guests tucked into plates […]
September 15, 2016

Scene City: The Flashiest Parties of New York Fashion Week

Scene City By BEN DETRICK Equatorial mugginess, the scent of meatballs and thrashing mosh pits: The parties of New York Fashion Week took a populist turn […]
August 31, 2016

Scene City: Rihanna, Drake and DJ Khaled Party After the V.M.A.’s

Scene City By BEN DETRICK Without meat dresses or controversial interruptions, the MTV Video Music Awards, held Sunday at Madison Square Garden, lacked some of the […]
August 23, 2016

Day Out: Orchestrating the Past

Last Sunday at the twice-yearly Jazz Age Lawn Party on Governors Island, revelers bravely attempted to recreate 1920s cool in the face of hideous heat and […]
August 12, 2016

Defiant Toasts at the Gawker Wake

Since its beginning in 2002, Gawker has been a veritable schadenfreude machine, taking delight in deflating the egos of New York’s cultural elite, among other, perhaps […]
July 21, 2016

You Can Dance. You Can Jive, Geraldine Visco.

“I’m an extrovert,” said Geraldine Visco, wearing a bell-bottom body suit, gold chains, a pink cowboy hat, neon blue lipstick and little stars painted on her […]
June 9, 2016

Scene City: Meryl Streep’s Newest Role: Donald Trump (but Just for One Night)

June 7, 2016 Scene City By JACOB BERNSTEIN This Sunday, the Tony Awards will honor the best of Broadway and likely deliver many of the biggest […]
June 2, 2016

Is Lizzie Grubman a Changed ‘Party Girl’?

By BEN WIDDICOMBE June 1, 2016 It’s a year of anniversaries for Lizzie Grubman, the archetypal celebrity publicist known equally for making friends, enemies and headlines. Ten years […]