Gary Budge has been appointed general manager of the historic 174-room Algonquin Hotel. Budge, a 38-year hospitality veteran, will be responsible for the supervision of the hotel’s employees, all service standards and the management of hotel operations. “I’m thrilled to join the Algonquin team,” Budge said. “I’m looking forward to being a part of its…
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Actors & Staged Reading at Ladies of the Corridor Party May 14
If you have not made up your mind if you want to attend our next big Dorothy Parker Society party, just read who will be attending. We have 4 fantastic actors who will be at the splashy party on May 14 to celebrate The Ladies of the Corridor coming back to bookstores. The party is…
Dining No Delight at Cafe Dorothy Parker
I came across this blog post about a restaurant named Dorothy Parker in Buenos Aires. I asked about it, and I learned it was located at the corner of Acune de Figueroa and Costa Rica. It went out of business… A good thing, as one commenter says: The one time I was there I ordered…
General Review of the Sex Situation
Here is a video of actress Annmarie LaRocca reading Dorothy Parker’s classic “General Review of the Sex Situation.” The video is part of I Blame Poetry’s online poems project.
A Literary Cocktail on Second Avenue
If you missed our perfomance at Mo Pitkin’s in October, here’s another chance! Potable Productions & We Three Productions present an encore performance of the “Third Edition” of THE POTABLE DOROTHY PARKER A Literary Cocktail A reading series featuring the works of Dorothy Parker with Katarina Boudreaux Celia Bressack Andy Horan & Stephanie Sellars as…
Cartoonist Party at Algonquin on April 30
Attention fans of cartoons: The Dorothy Parker Society is hosting an event at the Algonquin Hotel that will draw seven notable cartoonists to celebrate the publication of Sex and Sensibility: Ten Women Examine the Lunacy of Modern Love…in 200 Cartoons. Liza Donnelly, who has been a cartoonist at The New Yorker since 1982, edits the…