Though we last saw Liza Minnelli in Sex and the City 2—come back to the stage, Liza!—Judy Garland’s most lasting contribution to culture is still going strong. She’s releasing a live album of her January 1974 Live at the Winter Garden concert, which we can only hope will add a Grammy to her overburdened trophy Read More
Now that we’ve torn through Fifty Shades of Grey, we need a new book—preferably one we don’t need to put on our e-reader so no one will see the cover. Thank goodness for America’s queen of utterly respectable fiction, Toni Morrison, who’s reading and signing books tonight at Symphony Space. Her upcoming book, Home, tells Read More
At last night’s James Beard Awards for chefs, a spirit of camaraderie suffused the air like the steam from a stock pot.
Wolfgang Puck, when asked for whom he was rooting, replied: “Except myself, I don’t know! In a way, it’s just like the Oscars, with the movies. You root for this one, root for Read More
While the Met risks a drunken reveler knocking over a Renoir only for the best of events, the more forward-thinking folks at MoMA have a nice event space for your concert, party or bar mitzvah. Tonight, the Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation throws its second annual bash at the museum, complete with guided tours of the Read More
“It was all good,” said the tenor Jay Hunter Morris at the recent Tribeca Film Festival premiere of Wagner’s Dream. “I said yes to everything. The cameras aren’t the hardest part. The hardest part is singing Siegfried.”
Mr. Morris was discussing his role in Wagner’s Dream, a documentary about the production process of the Ring cycle at the Metropolitan Opera. Filmmaker Susan Froemke took her cameras through the planning of Robert Lepage’s complicated set and through the rehearsals at which Deborah Voigt and Mr. Morris learned their challenging roles. “There really were no limits,” Ms. Froemke told us. Read More
The event that launched a million style.comslideshows is back—2012’s Metropolitan Museum Costume Institute Ball is on! This year’s iteration of Vogue’s takeover of the Temple of Dendur celebrates an imagined series of conversations between Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada, with honorary chair (the ever-chic) Jeff Bezos. We guess the Amazon honcho/would-be next Steve Jobs Read More
A spring Sunday: a perfect preview of a long summer spent with our ultra-antsy kids—at least until they’re shipped off to camp! How to pass the time? (They want us to take them to The Avengers, but that seems a bit violent for young Clifford and Muffin.) We may as well imprint upon them early Read More
We couldn’t make it down to Churchill for the Derby—and after all the effort we put into finding the perfect hat! Well, with our fellow horse-racing aficionados trapped north of the Mason-Dixon, we’ll be taking in the race at the Plaza Hotel. Mint juleps—the Derby Day version of eggnog at Christmastime—will be provided. Just make Read More
So the Hole comeback didn’t take the world by storm, and Courtney Love’s own daughter recently announced she should be kicked off Twitter. Doesn’t matter: the rocker has still got it! That “it” is the capacity to keep herself in gossip columns and garner herself party invites—including to this year’s Creative Time gala, where she’ll Read More
Our feet are sore from all that skating (those skates pinch!), but thankfully our dancing shoes are forgiving. The National Dance Institute celebrates its 35th anniversary tonight, and we’d never pass up an opportunity to meet honorary chair Alec Baldwin. His voice … it’s so mayoral! The evening features a performance by the kids who Read More
