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1 month ago | 
thedigitalparty.com | Melissa Karlberg |Daisy Prince
Empowering communities through the power of women. The room of United Way of New York City’s 19th annual Power of Women to Make a Difference Awards Luncheon (sponsored by JPMorgan Chase and hosted by Women United) was calm before over 500 impressive New Yorkers were due to arrive. Rows of dark blue tables complete with pink, yellow, and green flowers in the center made it seem like the space was covered with water lilies.
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Jun 21, 2024 | 
thedigitalparty.com | Melissa Karlberg |Carole Dixon
You’ll be surprised to learn the lengths some A-Listers go to to look their best. While the world has embraced Hygge and ice-cold plunge baths, it takes more than sub-zero temperatures to keep Hollywood A-listers in red-carpet-ready shape. Here are a few treatments that push the envelope beyond the vampire facial (a favorite of Kim Kardashian) or a vaginal steaming. (We’re looking at you, Gwyneth.)Beyond ColonicsSpeaking of Ms. Paltrow, you can forget colonics—so last decade.
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May 10, 2024 | 
thedigitalparty.com | Melissa Karlberg
How good is this three-star Michelin marvel? Democrats and Republicans are willing to put aside their differences when they pick up their forks. Three Michelin stars . . . in a restaurant in the middle of nowhere. But for decades, the Inn at Little Washington has drawn the chauffeured swells of DC to the Shenandoah foothills to revel in French haute cuisine and pray at the altar of its high priestess/inspiration Julia Child.
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Apr 12, 2024 | 
thedigitalparty.com | Melissa Karlberg
The show Cheers got it right: we all like to go where everybody knows our name. But how much more do we want our favorite restaurant to know about us? The moment you go to dinner and order the shrimp scampi, you think you are judging the restaurant. But guess what? The restaurant is judging you right back.
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Dec 8, 2023 | 
thedigitalparty.com | Ben Dreyfus |Melissa Karlberg
It’s that time of year, when thousands of faux—and, er, festive—Santas roam the streets and earn their place on the Naughty List.
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Oct 27, 2023 | 
thedigitalparty.com | Melissa Karlberg
Want to know what you were like before you were, well, you? Try a past life regression therapy session. An attractive woman in dangly earrings and a Bohemian black midi dress handed me a soft lavender blanket to snuggle under. “I want you to feel comfortable,” she said. I think she was trying to make the whole experience more “therapeutic” and less spooky. But then, I am a fan of the supernatural. Who needs to dwell in the scientifically provable all the time?
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Oct 20, 2023 | 
thedigitalparty.com | Melissa Karlberg
Wherein our writer in Marrakesh feasted with some of the most beautiful animals on the planetFans have credited Madonna with many peak moments in their lives—and now, if they happen to be traveling to Marrakesh, they can add one more: dinner in a stable surrounded by ten of the most elegant horses in the world. Back in 2018, the singer was staying at the Selman Marrakech, one of the poshest hotels in the city, for her 60th birthday.
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Sep 15, 2023 | 
thedigitalparty.com | Melissa Karlberg |Madeline Weinfield
The recently renovated Casa Pestagua hotel—a modern take on colonial Caribbean design. Back when Gabriel García Márquez was a law student at the Universidad de Cartagena, the would-be Nobel Prize-winning writer was a frequent inhabitant of the smoke-filled bars of the old city’s walled center. While many of Márquez’s former drinking establishments have long since shuttered their doors, Cartagena still feels alive with the creative energy from which Márquez drank.
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Jul 28, 2023 | 
thedigitalparty.com | Melissa Karlberg
Food & DrinkThe Southampton favorite has a new owner—but your schnitzels are safe. Dateline: Southampton, New York. Welcome to the heartland of Range Rovers and rosé. Let’s be honest: when you hear about a facelift in the Hamptons, the last thing that comes to mind is a restaurant. The question is who, not where.
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Jun 23, 2023 | 
thedigitalparty.com | Melissa Karlberg
Hot SpotThe beloved diner—where Logan Roy allegedly promised Kendall the succession—has been serving modest grub to its elite clientele for close to a century. Bridgehampton, New York was originally settled in 1656 and remained an agrarian society for the next few hundred years. It has since evolved into a high society enclave of the super wealthy and well-connected, with a median home price of $3.4 million and a cost-of-living index four times the national average.
