The Shindigger

Why Georgina Bloomberg Stays Out of Politics, and Fabiola Beracasa and Moby’s Best Dog Stories, at the Humane Society Gala

The Humane Society is not a hypocritical organization — and so the cuisine served at its benefit gala Wednesday night was, fittingly, vegan. (Munching on seitan chops, The Observer barely missed the meat and cream.) The event packed 525 animal lovers, including Topper Mortimer, Prince Dimitri of Yugoslavia, Hunt Slonem, Sharon Bush, and co-chairs Amanda Read More

Rhett Bloomberg’s Upstate Tara

Here in gray, paved-over Gotham, we’ve come to know Michael Bloomberg the tycoon, bon vivant, philanthropist and Mayor. But there’s another side of the man, familiar only to the few who have visited a Westchester estate called Gotham North: Michael Bloomberg, country squire. That’s the one whose own sanitation department shovels horse manure, whose builders Read More