Escalating its aggressive push for a quieter spring break, Miami Beach declared a three-night curfew beginning on Friday, citing the large crowds it expects over what has usually been the peak weekend of the season. The curfew will run from midnight through 6 a.m. each night until Monday, Alina T. Hudak, the city manager, announced […]
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Inside the 2024 Vanity Fair Oscars Party
“This is made of success — not everyone can have it,” the actress and comedian Tiffany Haddish said Sunday night, as she held the train on her dress and danced her way through the crowd inside the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills. At around 11 p.m., hundreds of people were […]
Read MoreMiami Beach Is Done With Spring Breakers: ‘It’s Not Us. It’s You.’
More than two decades ago, Wayne Jones traveled to Daytona Beach, then Florida’s spring break mecca, not to party but to study. His bosses at the Miami Beach Police Department, where he was a young officer, wanted to know how Daytona managed its famously rowdy crowds. Maybe Miami Beach, which had its own unruly scene […]
Read MoreLas Vegas Pregames the Super Bowl With a Host of Parties
Music blared as the Baltimore Ravens wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. had a conversation across a barricade. Close by were Machine Gun Kelly, the platinum-blond musician, and his partner, the actor Megan Fox. Outside the 45,000-square-foot, strobe-light-filled tent near the Las Vegas Strip, a man climbed a life-size statue of an elephant. Other partyers cheered […]
Read MoreReality, Art and Peloton Stars Party at the Whitney
She had already trained for three hours earlier in the day, but that didn’t stop Robin Arzón, the Peloton instructor, from hitting the dance floor Tuesday evening in the cavernous lobby of the Whitney Museum of American Art in Manhattan. The occasion was the Art Party, the institution’s second-largest annual fund-raiser, thrown by its young […]
Read MoreThe Cast of ‘Feud: Capote vs. the Swans’ Celebrates Their Premiere at the Plaza
On Tuesday night, actresses, producers and television executives, many draped in black and white feathered gowns, trickled into the Plaza Hotel to celebrate the premiere of FX’s “Feud: Capote vs. the Swans,” a limited series starting on Jan. 31. The show focuses on the schism between the novelist Truman Capote, played by Tom Hollander, and […]
Read MoreSundance Film Festival Kicks Off With Jodie Foster, Robert Downey Jr, and More
On Thursday night, the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, which is celebrating its 40th edition this year, was bustling. Banners hung on snowy Main Street, Leon Bridges was performing at a new music venue and the Eccles Theatre was packed for one of the opening films: “Freaky Tales.” And around 7 p.m., some […]
Read MoreA Japanese Holiday Feast, By Way of California
The chef Sylvan Mishima Brackett’s San Francisco izakaya, Rintaro, will turn 10 next year, and in a city crowded with good places to eat, and a state with access to spectacular ingredients year-round, it still stands out. The restaurant’s courtyard, hidden from the street behind a nondescript door, is filled with fragrant fruit trees (including […]
Read MoreJohn Terzian Has Been Hiding Celebrities Since 2007
Going out, once a hallmark of celebrity status, took a hit this past year. Amid entertainment industry strikes and global turmoil, it seemed like many of the folks who formerly sought to see and be seen threw on sweats and stayed in. That is, unless you crossed the velvet rope separating the plebeian world from […]
Read MoreThe Top Trends From Openings, Galas and Parties in 2023
The Covid-19 public health emergency officially expired in the United States in May, and it seemed the celebrations were nonstop. Night after night, a cohort of shiny (and often deep-pocketed) city dwellers escaped into lavish, invite-only parties, galas and benefits that gleamed like 2019. These elaborate fever dreams were made all the more feverish and […]
Read MoreMy Evening at Reading Rhythms, a Party for Bookish Introverts
“You just made a rookie mistake,” the young woman told me. It had been under three minutes since I’d arrived at FourFiveSix, a bar in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. A mistake at a bar in under three minutes was a personal record. “What did I do?” I asked. The woman laughed. “You chose a backless seat.” This […]
Read MoreSam Smith, Mark Ronson and Cat Power Hit Holiday Parties in New York
Holiday parties are a fixture in New York City, and there were plenty to choose from this week. Highlights included David Barton and Susanne Bartsch hosting a toy drive at Gym U NYC in Chelsea, and Gabriela Hearst and Yola Mezcal holding an event at Café Carlyle. Collecting Toys at Gym U On Thursday night, […]
Read MoreThree Canapé Recipes for Your Next Holiday Party
The French chef Yann Nury wants you to remember that the winter holidays will be over soon. Roasts will be sliced, served and forgotten; Champagne will be drunk. And, if you choose to serve canapés, each one you make, no matter how labor-intensive, will be gone in a single bite. “Enjoy the specific moments,” Nury, […]
Read MoreThe Best Way to Cook Steak for Holiday Parties
There’s an undeniable urge to roar — or at least growl — when setting a thick steak into a ripping hot pan. Hearing the hard hiss of the sizzling fat is satisfaction enough, but then the smell of charred meat follows fast, and it’s pure pleasure from there. And no cut delivers a bigger cooking […]
Read MoreA Holiday Punch Recipe With a Festive, Flavorful Base
Holiday party drinks can take many forms: punch bowls, batched cocktails, a bathtub of bubbles, a tray of shots. What unifies them is a festal shared experience for guests to gather around. This year, keep the communal theme, but drop the one-drink-fits-all approach. “To me, hosting parties is really about making everyone happy,” said Estelle […]
Read MoreA Holiday Punch Recipe With a Festive, Flavorful Base
Holiday party drinks can take many forms: punch bowls, batched cocktails, a bathtub of bubbles, a tray of shots. What unifies them is a festal shared experience for guests to gather around. This year, keep the communal theme, but drop the one-drink-fits-all approach. “To me, hosting parties is really about making everyone happy,” said Estelle […]
Read MoreLos Angeles Pays Tribute to the Born X Raised Founder Chris Printup
“I was inspired by Miami and Sour Patch Kids Watermelon,” said Cliftun, a musician and artist who was in a vibrant pink and green ensemble with some elegant fur. He added, “Spanto always commented on how I always came with crazy fur, so this is for my guy.” Spanto was the nickname for Chris Printup, […]
Read MoreA Brunch for Both the Living and the Dead
Stepping into the courtyard of Bombera, the acclaimed Mexican restaurant in Oakland, Calif., always feels like arriving at a party. Papel picado in marigold orange and saffron yellow flutters overhead, seemingly waving guests into the space, an airy former firehouse. But the restaurant reaches its full splendor in the fall, when the dining room is […]
Read MoreA Hundred People to Know and a Toast to Elmhurst’s Frontline Workers
On Tuesday night, at a candlelit event space near Penn Station in Manhattan, Mayor David Holt of Oklahoma City leaned over and introduced himself to Lily Gladstone, a star of Martin Scorsese’s new film, “Killers of the Flower Moon.” Victor J. Glover Jr., the first Black astronaut on the International Space Station for an extended […]
Read MoreFall Is on the Menu for Australia’s State Dinner. The B-52s Are Not.
The fourth state dinner hosted by the Biden administration, to honor Anthony Albanese, the prime minister of Australia, will feature a menu of fall vegetables, a backdrop of florals and a selection of instrumental music performed by military bands. “Nurturing our partnerships and relationships with our allies is critically important, especially in these tumultuous times,” […]
Read MoreHow to be Human
The really good confidants — the people we go to when we are troubled — are more like coaches than philosopher kings. They take in your story, accept it, but prod you to clarify what it is you really want, or to name the baggage you left out of your clean tale. They’re not here […]
Read MoreA Grown-Up Slumber Party at an English Country Hotel
For Eiesha Bharti Pasricha, the artistic director of the London members’ club Maison Estelle, entertaining is sacrosanct. Growing up in an Indian family in New Delhi — her father is the businessman Sunil Bharti Mittal — she understood early on that hospitality was not just a nicety but a cultural value to be upheld. “Hosting […]
Read MoreInside New York’s Least Competitive Bowling League
The noise of the onlookers rose to a crescendo of screams as the ball hurtled toward the pins: Strike! A triumphant player spun around, grinning at the crowd. She and more than 50 others had come on a recent Sunday afternoon to the Manhattan location of the Gutter, a dimly lit venue on the Lower […]
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