Swifty’s Restaurant on the Upper East Side celebrated the start of summer with a colorful Art Show, titled Water Works, by renowned painter and mixed media artist Elizabeth Nagle. With water as the predominant theme in her exhibition of 12 pieces, Nagle, through the use of color and form, aims...
Tech start-ups are the next frontier in Celebrity side projects. Now more than ever celebrities aim to parlay their fame and success into long-term wealth within the business world.  Some of today’s biggest tech start-ups are heavily backed by the rich and famous. The Honest Company: Hollywood super star Jessica Alba launched e-commerce site The...
Patrick McMullan, Kipton Cronkite and Consuelo Vanderbilt Costin hosted a fun night of music, art and design at The Catherine Townhouse in chic Chelsea last week. On sale for the bargain price of $7 mil, the multi-family townhouse was on display as well as Iconic photographs by Patrick McMullan, and...
Not even the threat of a torrential downpour deterred devotees of the Boys & Girls Club of Bellport from its Annual Beach Ball Fundraiser. As always, the humble and generous Queen of Wall Street's Alexandra Lebenthal and husband Jay Diamond hosted over 550 people at their amazing bay front home...
'Real Housewives of New York City' Ramona Singer struts her stuff at The 19th Annual Hamptons Heart Ball recently. Singer, who's single and separated from cheating hubby Mario on this current season, has shown a softer and more tender side of herself. However, don't get it twisted, she still brings...
It's been a great week for attorney Arthur L. Aidala. First he became engaged to to his law partner Marianne E. Bertuna, and then the next night was inducted as the 100th President of the Brooklyn Bar Association at the New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge Hotel. Born and bred...
The Womanity Foundation celebrated its 10th anniversary with a dinner and panel discussion at Le Cirque, in New York City. Ambassador Paul Seger sat with Sharon Bush, who's former brother-in-law Jeb is now running for President. During split pea risotto, seared salmon and chocolate molten cake, we learned that Womanity, the Geneva-based...
Jean Shafiroff along with husband Martin hosted The French Heritage Society' Pre Summer Solstice Cocktail kickoff event to a room full of 100 guests. The philanthropic couple welcomed us into their home to learn more about the work the Society does throughout the year, and to raise awareness of the...
Last Saturday was super exciting watching the historic Belmont Stakes at luxury jewelry store de GRISOGONO on swank Madison Ave. Well known for its international, jet-set clientele, de GRISOGONO, founded by Fawaz Gruosi in 1993 in Geneva, prides itself of creating innovative, one-of-a-kind pieces with dynamic gemstones including amethysts and...
Get your apples ready, online school is in session and Dustin Hoffman, Serena Williams and James Patterson are teaching. They will teach their craft online with the launch of new company MasterClass, a new San Francisco-based company – making it possible for anyone to learn directly from the world’s best. In...