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Class of Nashville
At 96, Green Hills' Most Persuasive Civic Voice Is Still Making the Case for the Ballot
Frances Edwards is 96, and she lives at Blakeford Senior Life in Green Hills. She is still asking her neighbors to register and turn out bef…
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Icons of Palm Beach
Damien Hirst Turns to Cashmere, and the Season's Knitwear Gets an Artist's Hand
Damien Hirst has designed a cashmere line with Barrie, the knitwear house. For the island, cashmere is the sweater over the shoulders on a c…
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Class of Nashville
Three Nights of Costumes and Country at Friends In Low Places
Friends In Low Places is giving Halloween a full weekend. Its Halloweekend runs three nights, starting Thursday, at the lower end of Broadwa…
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Class of Florida
A Rye Negroni for the Host Willing to Go Past the Easy Pour
The Mane of Needles starts from the Negroni, swaps in rye whiskey and finishes with a sharper, spikier bite than the classic. It isn't the e…
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Class of Florida
Three New Omakase Counters for Your Next Trip North
Anyone who goes up to New York once the Florida heat breaks will have three new omakase rooms to choose from, all opening in Midtown before …
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Class of Nashville
Friends In Low Places Sets a Costumed Stage for Halloween on Broadway
Friends In Low Places is turning Halloween into a three-night run it's calling Halloweekend, beginning Thursday. Visitors to downtown Nashvi…
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Class of Florida
Fall Turns Red, Even Where the Leaves Don't
This season's menswear has settled on red, from brick-toned rust to deep wine, and the menswear designers have arrived at a point the people…
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Class of Florida
A 5.9-Carat Emerald, and 284 Stones to Keep It Company
A new high-jewelry set has arrived: a necklace and matching earrings named Victoria Falls, built around a single emerald of 5.9 carats. That…
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Class of Florida
A Rye Negroni Called Mane of Needles Asks a Little More of Florida's Home Bartenders
The Mane of Needles takes the Negroni, a drink most people can mix half-asleep, and builds it on rye whiskey, which gives it a sharper, spik…
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Class of Florida
Three New Omakase Counters in Midtown Before the Season Turns South
Midtown is getting three new high-end omakase restaurants this autumn, all opening within the same few months. That raises a fair question: …
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Icons of Palm Beach
On the Island, a Senior Year Conversation Worth Having: Eight Admissions Assumptions, Set Straight
Town & Country held its first gathering on the college question, and the panel it brought together set out to correct eight widely held beli…
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Icons of Palm Beach
Sheila Johnson, in Command of the Third Chapter
Town & Country has turned its attention to Sheila Johnson and finds her well into a third act, and running it with real mastery. The phrase …
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Icons of Palm Beach
For the Beach Bag: The Scientist Heroines of Ali Hazelwood, Taken in Sequence
There's now a guide to reading Ali Hazelwood's romance novels from the first one onward. The case for starting at the beginning is the heroi…
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Icons of Palm Beach
For the Pampered Companion, a Stroller Worth Its Place on Worth Avenue
Town & Country's editors have tested the field and named one dog stroller the best in its class, the benchmark the others get measured again…
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Class of Nashville
Music Row's Week Was Busy in the Front Offices
The industry's weekly ledger is out, and the news this time is in the corner offices as much as on the charts. Executives changed desks acro…
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Icons of Palm Beach
Sylvester Stallone Writes Down the Lean Years in His New Memoir, The Steps
Sylvester Stallone has written a memoir called The Steps, and it covers the years before anyone knew his name. He writes about the many time…
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Class of Florida
From DeMille to Jolie to Madonna: One Los Feliz Address, Three Marquee Names
Madonna has bought Angelina Jolie's Los Angeles estate in Los Feliz for a little under $25 million. The property covers two acres, and its e…
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Class of Florida
A Macan With a Fuel Tank, Penciled In for 2028
Porsche is planning to bring a combustion-engine Macan back into its range, with 2028 as the target year. For Florida owners, that means a g…
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Icons of Palm Beach
Joseph Zada Wins the Part of Haymitch Abernathy
Out of thousands of young actors who tried for it, Joseph Zada is the one who will play Haymitch Abernathy in *The Hunger Games: Sunrise on …
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Icons of Palm Beach
Tom Cruise, Digger, and the Art of Wanting It Gracefully
Here on the island, it is understood that the hardest thing to do well is to want something without letting it show. Tom Cruise, the star of…
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Icons of Palm Beach
Before the Fame, the Lion Cages: Stallone Looks Back on the Climb in "The Steps"
Sylvester Stallone has written a memoir, and he has called it *The Steps*. It's about the stretch of his life before the fame: many years wh…
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Class of Florida
Casino Royale Dressing, Ready for a Palm Beach December
Turnbull & Asser has released a new menswear collection inspired by James Bond, and by Casino Royale in particular. It's being offered as an…
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Class of Florida
The Twelve-Cylinder Aston Has a Long Runway Ahead
Aston Martin plans to keep building cars with eight- and twelve-cylinder engines all the way to 2035, and it has moved its first battery-ele…
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Class of Florida
Julia Child's Cambridge House Is for Sale at $6.5 Million, but the Kitchen Stays at the Smithsonian
A note to readers who spend the season between Worth Avenue and Fifth Avenue South: a house in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is now for sale for…
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Class of Florida
Reposado, by Way of the Orchard: Cazcanes Puts Its Tequila in Fruit-Seasoned Barrels
Cazcanes has released a set of reposado tequilas, and each one rested in a barrel that had earlier held a liqueur made from stone fruit, wit…
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Class of Florida
Tyler Perry's Beverly Hills Estate, Once Home to the Sussexes, Comes to Market at $57 Million
Our readers know the West Coast story already: everyone in Beverly Hills lives close to someone famous, and in Palm Beach nobody admits to n…
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Class of Nashville
Ella Langley Holds the Top Spot on Radio for Another Week
For a second straight week, Ella Langley's single sits at No. 1 on MusicRow's radio chart. Getting to the top of a radio chart is hard, and …
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Class of Nashville
Kameron Marlowe Puts His Own Name on Record Number Three
Kameron Marlowe has a new full-length record coming. It's his third, and he's named it after himself. It arrives January 22, released throug…
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Class of Nashville
Wynonna Calls Her New Record Both Her Toughest Work and Her Finest
After more than forty years of recording, Wynonna has made a new album, and she says it is the most demanding project of her career and also…
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Class of Nashville
Music and Money Shake Hands Again: BMI and Studio Bank Sign On for More
The songwriters' organization BMI and Studio Bank are carrying their arrangement forward, continuing a relationship that first took shape in…
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Class of Nashville
The Swon Brothers Put Their Names to a New Label Deal
The Swon Brothers have a new label home: the duo is now on the Adrian James Records roster. In this town a signing is how talent shows its i…
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Class of Nashville
Ten Years On, Triple Tigers Is Still an Independent Label With Platinum on the Wall
Triple Tigers Records has reached its tenth year as an independent label, with chart successes and records certified Platinum several times …
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Class of Nashville
"Neon Moon" Gets Another Honor: Brooks & Dunn Pick Up Two RIAA Certifications
Brooks & Dunn have two more certifications from the Recording Industry Association of America. One of the songs being honored is "Neon Moon.…
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Class of Florida
Voutilainen and Journe Lead Phillips New York's Biggest Online Watch Sale Yet
Phillips New York has put together its fall watch auction, and two names lead the catalog: Kari Voutilainen and F.P.Journe. By value, it is …
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Class of Florida
For Orlando Bloom, the Driver's Seat Is Where His Head Clears
Orlando Bloom turned up when Porsche Design unveiled its Concours project, and he used the moment to talk about what the marque means to him…
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Class of Florida
A Room at the Frick, Scaled Down for Palm Beach
Eittem has partnered with New York's Frick Collection on a new set of accessories, and some of the inspiration came from one room inside the…
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Class of Nashville
Josh Ross Marks His Second No. 1 With the People Who Got Him There
On Sept. 30, Josh Ross toasted a song that reached the top of the chart, his second to get there, at a party in Nashville. The guest list wa…
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Class of Nashville
The Red Clay Strays Have More Thanks to Give, and a New Year to Give It In
The Red Clay Strays will keep the "Grateful Tour" going into 2027, with a new run of dates now on the calendar. The fresh stretch opens on J…
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Icons of Palm Beach
Before the Season Turns: Town & Country's Autumn Edit for the Outdoors
Town & Country's editors have put together their favorite things for autumn days outdoors, for anyone spending the weeks before the season i…
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Icons of Palm Beach
Fifteen New Tables in Manhattan Before the Island Calls Us Home
Town & Country has named fifteen newly opened New York restaurants worth booking this autumn. It's a long list for a short window, the weeks…
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Icons of Palm Beach
Mr. and Mrs. Carbone Take the Seagram Building, With Benson Boone at the Microphone
Mario Carbone and Cait Bailey Carbone are now married, and the two of them celebrated it in New York at the Seagram Building. Their party wa…
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Icons of Palm Beach
Shuffle Along Is Back on Stage, With a Party to Match
Shuffle Along, one of the great names in Broadway history, has come back in concert form, and seats were hard to get. Its return was marked …
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Class of Nashville
Thistle and Rye Pours Pink for October
Thistle and Rye has given its bar and dining room over to a menu called Rosé and Rye, and every item on it is pink. It marks the month set a…
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Class of Nashville
Pink Gets an Early Start at the Conrad on Sunday
The Conrad Nashville will open its doors on a Sunday morning for Power in Pink, a wellness gathering held for Breast Cancer Awareness Month.…
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Class of Nashville
Blue Aster Sets the Thanksgiving Table, Three Courses at a Fixed Price
Blue Aster is serving a three-course prix fixe for Thanksgiving, on the holiday itself, Thursday. A set menu suits the day: nobody has to th…
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Class of Nashville
Thistle and Rye Gives Its Songwriter Night a Holiday Turn
Thistle and Rye is bringing the season into its regular songwriter night with a Holiday Writers' Round. The series already comes around once…
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Class of Nashville
Four Courses, One Table: Christmas Eve Belongs at Blue Aster
Blue Aster is serving a four-course dinner on Christmas Eve, which falls on a Thursday this year. In a season of crowded parties and rushed …
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Class of Nashville
Nominations Open for the Country Radio Hall of Fame Class of 2027
The Country Radio Hall of Fame has started taking nominations for the group it will honor in 2027. Nashville gives most of its attention to …
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Class of Nashville
December's Must-See Bill: Stapleton, King and Dunn Turn Out for Ronnie Bowman
Chris Stapleton, Marcus King and Ronnie Dunn are among the artists who will perform this December at a special evening honoring Ronnie Bowma…
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Class of Nashville
Sleight of Hand, Served at the Table: Virgin Hotels Nashville Books Three October Evenings
For three nights this October, Virgin Hotels Nashville is putting a magician within arm's reach of your dinner plate. The series is called M…
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Class of Nashville
Sasha Alex Sloan, Songwriter Who Won't Pick Just One Road
In a new conversation with MusicRow, the trade paper this town reads for the business of the song, Sasha Alex Sloan talks about how she writ…
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Class of Nashville
The Songwriter of the Year Steps Into the Circle
Blake Pendergrass, who was recently named Songwriter of the Year by the Nashville Songwriters Association International, has now played the …
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Class of Nashville
A Three-Way Tie at the Top of Today's Singles Stack
MusicRow's DISClaimer column, its regular round of reviews of new singles, couldn't settle on a single Disc of the Day this time and gave th…
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Class of Nashville
Two Years In, Cafe Babu Throws Itself a Party
Cafe Babu is turning two, and it's marking the occasion with a celebration that runs the whole of Sunday, start to finish. In a city where n…
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Class of Florida
Michael Jordan's Ferrari Beat Its Top Estimate by More Than Double
The forecast for Michael Jordan's Ferrari 550 Maranello topped out at $1.3 million. The final price was $2.7 million, a new record. That is …
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Class of Florida
A Hollywood Hills House From 1927, Kept the Way It Was Built, Now Asks $8 Million
Ross Cassidy, an interior designer, has put their 1927 house in the Hollywood Hills on the market at $8 million. The house is in the Spanish…
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Icons of Palm Beach
Vanity Fair Opens a Screening Room Ahead of the Awards Season
Vanity Fair has introduced the Screening Room, a new series built around the pictures expected to compete for the 2026 awards. The guest lis…
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Icons of Palm Beach
Before the Season, a Head Start on a New MacBook or Apple Watch
Apple markdowns are already showing up ahead of October's Prime Day, and the Apple Watch and the MacBook are both on the early list. Orderin…
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Icons of Palm Beach
The Sheer Flat Finds Its Ambassador in the Duchess of Sussex
The Duchess of Sussex appears in new campaign photographs for her label's holiday countdown calendar, and she's wearing a ballet flat in sat…
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Icons of Palm Beach
A River Voyage Planned Around Painting, Music, the Past and the Cellar
AmaWaterways is rethinking how a voyage by river should be spent. It is building the time on board around four interests: painting, music, h…
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