“This is kind of the only big social event in town tonight,” The Observer’s tablemate remarked over lobster salads on the Metropolitan Opera House’s Grand Tier on New Year’s Eve. He was quite right: with many of the usual suspects hunkered down for the season in Palm Beach and Vail, a single elegant event—the Met Gala—was enough to accommodate all the brave souls left in town who preferred evening gowns and Champagne to pajamas and prosecco. Read More

“I wear a gown once a year, and this is the party,” Cristina Greeven Cuomo declared on Friday evening at the New York Botanical Garden’s Winter Wonderland Ball. Ms. Cuomo, group editor of Niche Media, chose well–in terms of both the gown, a perfectly figure-hugging, strapless, midnight-blue Luisa Beccaria number, and the party she wore Read More

New York social types would have been forgiven for extending their holiday weekends and staying in on Monday night–we’re confident that even today, some enviable leftovers still remain in Upper East Side fridges. But Manhattanites are a tireless bunch, and they showed up in droves to a cocktail party hosted by Marvin Hamlisch and his Read More

“She never says anything!” Kate Mulleavy said of her sister, Laura, wrapping up her acceptance speech for their shared Bill and Maria Bell Young Artist Award at the National Arts Awards on Monday evening. Kate wore a signature all-black outfit–cardigan, crocheted top, trousers and flats–to receive the award, which was presented by Sonic Youth co-founder Read More

The party-reporting business tends to make a person sensitive to hyperbole–so when we heard about “Night of Too Many Stars,” a live show and auction hosted by Comedy Central at the Beacon Theater on Saturday to benefit autism education, we were skeptical. But The Observer is happy to report that there were just enough stars Read More