Wit’s End and the Dorothy Parker Society invite you to celebrate the Social Life of the Jazz Age with Hot Jazz from The Hot Sardines! Saturday, Feb. 25, 7pm-Midnight Flute Midtown, 205 West 54th Street, near Broadway Come in your finest 1920s & 1930s vintage or vintage inspired evening attire and celebrate in style with…
Ten Year Lunch Screens with Director at MoMa
Every February, The Museum of Modern Art presents Oscar’s Docs, an annual collaboration between the Academy Film Archive and MoMA’s Department of Film Oscar winners in the categories of Best Documentary Feature and Best Documentary Short Subject. This February, they will screen Aviva Slesin’s Academy Award winning documentary, The Ten Year Lunch: The Wit and…
Edna Ferber in Hall of Fame with Dorothy Parker
Edna Ferber will join Dorothy Parker in the New York Writers Hall of Fame, it was announced last night at the Forbes Gallery on Fifth Avenue. Ferber will join 13 other writers, four living, the others deceased, in the Class of 2012. A gala on June 5 at the Princeton Club will honor all inductees….
Behind the Scenes for Launch of Dorothy Parker American Gin
This year saw two honors bestowed upon Dorothy Parker. First, she was inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame in April. We are happy to announce the second honor: a new distillery named its first batch of spirits Dorothy Parker American Gin in November. For the first time, readers can peruse Parker…
NoirFest Coming to Santa Monica Jan. 14
We got a message from DPS member Helen K. Garber in Los Angeles about NoirFest Santa Monica 2012. She is a photographer. It sounds just like what you’d expect from a Noir event, and would be good for Los Angeles area fans. The reception takes place during Photo LA weekend, when the international photographic community…
Excuse My Dust But Dorothy Parker House Will Come Down
Tuesday night I attended the monthly meeting of Community Board 7, which covers the Upper West Side. The reason I was there was to speak to oppose the demolition of Dorothy Parker’s childhood home at 214 West 72nd Street. As a previous post explained, the building was damaged by construction of a giant building on…