By Daniel D'Addario and Elise Knutsen 6/27/12 11:33am

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Sigourney Weaver (Patrick McMullan)

Shindigger: Rainy Days and Mondays at the Red Lights and Political Animals Premieres

Cursing the heavens Monday, The Observer spent the day sitting inside, watching from our window as the urban dwellers below suffered the unwanted ablutions of a peripatetic summer storm.

What to do on such a waterlogged evening? We brainstormed two rainy-day pursuits and resolved to both before the day was through. A movie and a museum, it was to be, though not in traditional fashion. Read More

By Daniel D'Addario 5/02/12 8:30am

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To Do Wednesday: Central Concern

The preservation of the park (you know to which park we refer) is one of those grand old New York causes, like the opera or the ballet. This year’s Frederick Law Olmsted Awards Luncheon is for the ladies who do that sort of thing, with a co-chair list that reads like the Social Register and Read More