SOCIAL DIARY
Last night at the Park Avenue Armory for the Young Collectors Night benefiting East Side House Settlement; great crowd, great party and fascinating booths.

PARTY PICTURES
The New York Philharmonic hosted its first-ever Chinese New Year Gala concert; The Standard, New York and Veuve Clicquot Hosted A Midwinter's Night Skate Party; The Susan G. Komen Perfect Pink Party at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach.

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Washington Social Diary. Stephanie Green attends a "pre-speech" reception before President Obama's State of the Union Address at the Library of Congress; plus the Washington Ballet's annual Jete Society Dance Party; also a photo exhibition by French photographer Gerard Rondeau at the French Embassy.

HOUSE
While Sian is off in Burma, we're running a piece she and Lesley and Jeff did on the centenarian and world renowned ceramicist Eva Zeisel at her apartment. Ms. Zeisel died last year at 105.

SOCIAL DIARY
The town's starting to gear up for the season; big crowd getting ready for lift-off at yesterday lunch at Michael's; meanwhile reporting on another lunch for Oscar nominees Michelle Williams and Ken Branagh in Hollywood, and Ralph Lauren hosts Ellen Graham and her book "Talking Pictures" at the Worth Avenue store.

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Palm Beach Social Diary. Augustus Mayhew takes us on a quick spin of "Palm Beach Wildlife: Art Admirers, Ferrari Fanatics, Jet nuts and Social Lions.

SOCIAL DIARY
The Cinema Society's premiere screening of Madonna's "W.E." evokes several thoughts about the story of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, as well as the ongoing story of Madonna and her genius.

PARTY PICTURES
NYC Dance Alliance Foundation's first anniversary at The Joyce Theater; The Old Vic hosted a Gala evening, Old Vic New York; The Palm Beach Police Foundation's annual fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago.

DINING
NYSD Dining with Erin Frankel. Salt-baked beets with red grapefruit, drizzled with bitter aged vinegar is on the menu of ACME Bar & Grill on 9 Great Jones Street. You'll want it as soon as you see it. And everything else too.

SHOPPING DIARY
Fairchild Baldwin Handbag Collection from What2WearWhere.

SOCIAL DIARY
Yesterday morning's Celebration of the Life of Evelyn Lauder at Lincoln Center brought out more than two thousand invited guests.

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Charleston Social Diary. Ned Brown relaxes on a weekend partaking of the local papers and magazines and strolling the streets and lanes and parks in the mild winter weather.

GUEST DIARY
Jamee Gregory way out west in Santa Monica visiting her granddaughter and taking her on a tour of Noah's Ark at Skirball Cultural Center.

SOCIAL DIARY
Cold and snowy weekend in New York; the Thursday night gatherings at the Winter Antiques Show and The Chinese New Year's dinner at Doubles. And JH's snow pictures.

SOCIAL HISTORY
The Ellen Glendinning Frazer Archives part XI: Transitions, Departures, and Getaways, 1948; Palm Beach - Gulf Stream - Jamaica - Medway Plantation - Chestnut Hill - The Greenbrier.

GUEST DIARY
No Holds Barred. Blair Sabol goes to L.A. and it's "Awards Season," and so it goes and so she goes, and so will you ... read on:

SOCIAL DIARY
Busy night last night in New York with the opening night Preview of the Winter Antiques Show at the Park Avenue Armory, and the annual Chinese New Year dinner at Doubles as a guest of Jeanne Lawrence.

HOUSE
Sian and Lesley visit the chef Kurt Gutenbrunner, the force behind Wallse, Blaue Gans, and Cafe Sabarsky at the Neue Galerie. At his home, photographed by Jeffrey Hirsch.

PARTY PICTURES
Opening night of the Metro Show at the Metropolitan Pavilion; Opening Night of Richard III at BAM; The Olana Partnership's 2012 Frederic E. Church Award Gala at the New York Public Library; Launch of Janklow Arts Leadership Program at Syracuse University; Opening of "Opulent Vision," a group exhibition of fordProject.

SOCIAL DIARY
A Michael's lunch day with JH surveying the scene, plus Broadway and Hollywood's Marty Richards hosts a pow of a party in honor of his late wife Mary Lea at the Rubin Museum; and a screening and after-party by React To Film's showing of "Sing Your Song," the Susanne Rostock's docu-bio of Harry Belafonte.

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Miami Social Diary. Augustus Mayhew boards the megayacht SeaFair anchored at the Miami International Art Fair, and covers the scene from Bal Harbour to South Beach.

SOCIAL DIARY
Quiet in the social life of the city. Life on the planet right now comes through wide and bright and real in my reading these days and nights.

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Washington Social Diary. Stephanie Green goes to BET's 5th Annual BET Honors pre-dinner on the eve of the BET Honors Award Show, with First Lady Michelle Obama making a surprise appearance to pay tribute to Maya Angelou.

DINING
Erin Frankel dines at The Lion on 62 West 9th Street. You should too. It's a great menu and a great evening in the Village; Fedora on West 4th for the consistently good and homey; and The Windsor also on West 4th -- her home away from home.

SOCIAL DIARY
A booksigning at Wendy Sarasohn evokes the nostalgia and provokes a screed on Michael Gross' new book Unreal Estate.

PARTY PICTURES
Jazzed in January, New Yorkers Rebuilding New Orleans, a benefit for the Preservation Resource Center; Opening Night Arrivals, Curtain Call, and After Party for The Gershwins' "Porgy and Bess"; Lucasfilm and 20th Century Fox presented "Red Tails" at the Ziegfeld Theater; Opening reception for Elizabeth Thompson's "Stories from the Everglades" at the Leila Heller Gallery.

GUEST DIARY
Jill Krementz, NYSD's Associate Editor, covers Dana Schutz's opening at Gallery Met. Inspired by Wagner's Götterdämmerung (opening at the Met on January 27th), the exhibition has been curated by Dodie Kazanjian.

SOCIAL DIARY
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. A personal memory of Dr. Martin Luther King before we knew he was the man who made the difference for all of us.

GUEST DIARY
Revisiting Jill Krementz's 2010 coverage of Romare Bearden's The Block and Related Drawings at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Block is on view through March 4, 2012 as part of a centennial celebration of the artist's birth. In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. day, the Met is open today, Monday.

SOCIAL DIARY
The Queen's List of "Honours" was published on New Year's and included a longtime prominent New Yorker, Englishman, art historian and biographer, John Richardson, now Sir John Patrick Richardson.

HOUSE
Sian and Lesley visit the home and studio of artist/designer Tania Vartan, an American who has lived much of her adult life in Europe and is now living once again in New York. Photographed by Jeffrey Hirsch.

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Washington Social Diary. Stephanie Green attends a performance of Holland Taylor's portrayal of the late great Governor Ann Richards in her one woman show "Ann"; plus a luncheon for author Amanda Smith and her new biography of publisher Cissy Patterson.