Cristina Cuomo looked fresh and summery in a form-fitting mustard gown with crisp white accent. On-trend wedge sandals complete the look–and provide a peek at her pedicure! Ms. Cuomo had been hosting, along with her husband Chris, a celebration for the Seven Bar Foundation in Southampton–and her look is simple enough for a summer pool party and classic enough for a charity fundraiser. Read More
We’re extending our weekend—hey, summer Mondays are a thing, right?—so that we may jaunt Out East for a day to attend the Hamptons Golf Classic. Set in the verdant Hampton Hills Golf and Country Club, it’s to be hosted by New York Giants star Ahmad Bradshaw, after a brief tabloid imbroglio when Kardashian-in-law Scott Disick Read More
Thursday night’s Sunshine Cinema screening of Sarah Polley’s film Take This Waltz was sponsored by Forevermark and Crystal Head vodka. A romantic tale of infidelity and emotional rubble sponsored by diamonds and booze? By that same token, does there somewhere exist an all-you-can-eat pig roast underwritten by wet naps and burning shame? It all seemed a heartbreakingly serendipitous manifestation of the universe’s fuzzy feelings for humanity.
The film, Ms. Polley’s sophomore effort, tells the story of a young wife (Michelle Williams), lured away from her happy marriage to cookbook writer Seth Rogen by a rickshaw driver (Luke Kirby). We won’t spoil the ending for you, but Michelle Williams really is terrific, and we’re pretty sure there exists an entire market of people wanting to see Mr. Rogen emotionally decimated. Read More
It was an eclectic mix of (relative) youngsters at the James Hotel last night, where society fixture Kristian Laliberte hosted Refinery 29′s party for its 30 Under 30 list.
Like the assortment of goodies from Dylan’s Candy Bar available for noshing, this year’s list was a macédoine of hipsters; ranging from Saturday Night Live‘s John Mulaney to Solange Knowles, ostensible socialite Olivia Palermo, and artist Nick Poe. (None of whom, unfortunately, attended the party.)
After accepting a Stoli Vodka Hot “Firefighter” cocktail (nothing like spicy vodka to beat the heat), we sidled up to Mr. Laliberte to find out what, exactly, the criteria for the list was. And, ahem, why no journalists made the cut. Read More
Yesterday saw over one thousand concerts in the greater New York area, organized under the umbrella of Make Music NY, a rambling participatory music festival that spills over into this weekend. The sheer number of concerts means it’s more than any one news organization could ever hope to cover (and, in fact, interest in MMNY was so great that their website crashed yesterday due to too many visitors), but we did our best. We sent correspondents to four single-instrument “Mass Appeal” events, where musicians of any level could be involved in a group performance. Below the cut, we chat with players of the guitar, drums, bagpipes (complete with a dude in a kilt!) and the ukulele–the event for which was held in Williamsburg, natch. Read More
Last night, Ralph Lauren hosted the opening of the first RLX Golf shop on the top floor of his flagship store at 867 Madison Avenue, and celebrated the achievements of the world’s number one golfer, Luke Donald. Read More
Despite it being the definition of banal conversation, we couldn’t help ourselves this week. It was hot.
But the response to this week’s heat wave has been strangely optimistic. Perhaps when winter is no more than a chilly fall (Didn’t it only snow twice in New York this winter? Absurd.) it’s not a shock to the system. In fact, most of our celebrity cohorts welcomed the season change with a warm, sticky hug, all of them ready for three-day weekends and cold drinks with salted rims.
Answers to the question, “How are you coping with this weather?,” ranged from the practical (Ira Glass, noting anything is better than a Chicago winter), to the helpful (Jackie Joyner-Kersee, reminding you not to leave home without sunscreen), to the bizarre (Sarah Polley, singing the cooling praises of breastfeeding). Now, let’s see how Meredith Vieira, Arden Wohl, Greta Gerwig and others are dealing. Read More
Having already gorged ourselves on Pride at the Day Party—we’re so proud, our heads are spinning and we need a few Advil!—we’re opting out of today’s parade and heading to the relative calm of Randall’s Island. That’s where the weekend-long Governor’s Ball Music Festival is happening, with headliners including Modest Mouse and Devendra Banhart. (Yesterday Read More
It’s Pride Week! And though there’s less cause for celebration this year than last—as you may recall, the passage of gay marriage in New York state fell fortuitously right before the state’s LGBT community was to celebrate itself—New York’s festivities tend to put other cities’ to shame. Today, the party promoter Josh Wood is throwing Read More
Our friends who summer in Connecticut have been begging us to drop in, but there are so few galas there! What a drag! We finally split the difference and decided to come up for a couple of days so that we could check out the Litchfield County Antiques and Mid-Century Show, a weekend-long celebration of Read More
