Official Dorothy Parker Site Since 1998
The upcoming 2021 Parkerfest has given me the opportunity to look back at the events that the Dorothy Parker Society has held in the past, starting in 1999. After few hours of looking at old photos in the archives–people with cigarettes in hand indoors–and reviewing the “recaps” of past Parkerfest soirees–yes we chartered a yacht…
The Repeal Society is holding its 4th annual Repeal Day Party on Thursday, December 5, and they are having at New York Distilling Company, purveyors of Dorothy Parker Gin. The party is hosted by Miss Art Deco Dandy Dillinger and it will feature a special treat for Dorothy Park fans: the mink coat we raised…
This week is not only the 126th anniversary of Dorothy Parker’s birth, it is also the 20th anniversary of the Dorothy Parker Society. Lift your glass today for a toast. On August 28, 1999, a walking tour set out from the Upper West Side, beginning at 214 West Seventy-second Street (recently demolished childhood home of…
New York will remember the 125th anniversary of Dorothy Parker’s birthday with two events open to the public on Wednesday, August 22. She was born Dorothy Rothschild on Aug. 22, 1893, in Long Branch New Jersey. A walking tour of her Upper West Side neighborhood will be held from 3:00-5:00 p.m. Then the festivities transfer…
Several of the backers of the Kickstarter crowd funding campaign to purchase one of Dorothy Parker’s mink coats came together last weekend for a party at the Algonquin Round Table. These were the folks who pledged enough money to actually wear Mrs. Parker’s mink; model Dandy Dillinger was the first. It was an early morning…
The members and friends of the Dorothy Parker Society successfully funded the Kickstarter campaign to bring Dorothy Parker’s vintage mink coat back to Manhattan, where it belongs. These are the folks that backed the campaign. Some of them will actually be wearing the mink at a special backers party at the Algonquin Hotel Round Table…