SOCIAL DIARY
Beautiful day and evening in New York; an engagement party for Tessa and Tucker; a booksigning reception for Mary McFadden; A Legion d'Honneur for Paul LeClerc; and a poor lost dog.

PARTY PICTURES
American Ballet Theatre's 72nd Anniversary Season Opening Night Spring Gala; Orchestra of St. Luke's Annual Gift of Music Gala; 71st Annual Bal des Berceaux; J. McLaughlin hosted a "Sip and Shop" night to benefit Thinking Animals.

HOUSE
Sian visit furniture designer Tucker Robbins at his home in Midtown East. Photographed by Jeff Hirsch.

GUEST DIARY
Liz Smith: Sobriety Rules At Caron New York Gala, Honoring Clive Davis and Judy Collins ... Phil and Marlo Celebrate 32 years ... Ann Patchett's "State of Wonder" is ... a wonder!

SOCIAL DIARY
Yesterday's City Harvest luncheon with guest speaker Susan Fales-Hill was a big hit; and a curious conversation by Richard Turley in a new magazine called Vault.

GUEST DIARY
Liz Smith: Bandleader Peter Duchin Will Play the Wedding March With His Virginia Coleman. Also — "Hysteria" Grips Hugh Dancy, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Rupert Everett! (New York Screening Gives Off Good "Vibrations.")

SOCIAL HISTORY
Delia von Neuschatz interviews author Caroline Moorehead about her life, her books, and what drew her to her subjecs.

DINING
Jeanne Lawrence, our Shanghai Diarist, takes us on a tour of dumplings and other Shanghai cuisines.

SOCIAL DIARY
The Big One that brought out the art world last night at the Park Avenue Armory; "Tom Sachs Space Program Mars." A big hit running through June 17th.

GUEST DIARY
Liz Smith: DID The "Super Moon" Topple Greece and France? ... Great Women Gather For "The Gloria Awards" ... Michelle Pfeiffer Talks Trust, Vulnerability and Her Empty Nest.

PARTY PICTURES
The Perlman Music Program's Annual Spring Benefit; Announcement of 30th Fred & Adele Astaire Nominations; Youth America Grand Prix's "Ballerina Assoluta: A Tribute to Natalia Makarova"; Doubles' 36th Anniversary celebration; Fifth annual Animal Care Spring Fling.

GUEST DIARY
Erica Jong takes a look at (and a long view of) the best-selling sensation around (certain parts of town), E.L. James's Fifty Shades of Grey.

ART SET
The Art Set. A private viewing at the Moretti Fine Art Gallery's new exhibition of 17th-century Italian paintings, "Seicento Fiorentino: Sacred and Profane Allegories."

HOUSE
John Foreman discovers a lost world in the Bronx, when this week's Big Old Houses visits the Bartow-Pell Mansion in Pelham Bay Park.

SOCIAL HISTORY
No Holds Barred. Blair takes a trip to New York, picks up on the fashion messages (and displays), interviews Lisa Lampanelli at home and talks fashion, and finally meets Verdura in all its brilliant glory.

GUEST DIARY
Liz Smith: Joan Rivers Hates You. No, Not Kidding, She Really Does! (Her New Book Tells All.) Also: Dark Shadows — What is It? ... And Marilyn in the Nude, Still Controversial.

SHOPPING DIARY
20,000 pieces of new and like-new designer men's, women's and children's clothing, shoes, handbags, and accessories. All to benefit Jody's Couture for the Cancer Cure in Miami.

SOCIAL DIARY
Beautiful weekend for Mother's Day in New York; last night's final performance of "Gentleman Prefer Blondes" at the New York City Center; and the Duchess of Cambridge and the matter of her mother-in-law's death.

PARTY PICTURES
New York City Ballet's 2012 Spring Gala; The New York Women's Foundation Celebrating Women Breakfast; Orpheus Chamber Orchestra's Bach to Brazil at Jazz at Lincoln Center; ICAA's Annual Arthur Ross Awards For Excellence; Mount Sinai Medical Center's Crystal Party.

GUEST DIARY
Liz Smith. Rita Wilson's got a CD, "AM/FM;" Literacy Partners Gala coming up next Monday, with Bill Maher opening the show; Tom Hanks pays a debt; and Streisand's rep clears things up.

ACROSS THE WORLD
Palm Beach Social Diary, Augustus Mayhew reports on the sentencing of John Goodman in Palm Beach. Sixteen years.

SOCIAL DIARY
Sunshiny day in New York, celebrating the birth of another Great American, Irving Berlin, plus a busy social calendar, including lunch, dinner, the ballet and a great POSH sale at the Pierre; and a book party for Jay McInerney.

PARTY PICTURES
The New York Pops grand gala evening, 'Journey On'; Gray Matters at Columbia Spring Benefit Luncheon; The Jewish Museum's 19th annual Most Amazing New York Art & Design Tour; The Joyce Theater's Annual Spring Gala.

HOUSE
Sian and Lesley visit interior designer Gregg Gelman in his Soho loft, photographed by Jeff Hirsch.

GUEST DIARY
Liz Smith talks about Exercising the Right to Vote -- Dumbbells Want to Take It Away; and Revisiting 3 Broadway hits, Remembering Gerald Schoenfeld and admiring Peter Dinklage.

SHOPPING DIARY
Graduate with DVF from What2WearWhere.

SOCIAL DIARY
Remembering Fred Astaire on his 113th; the Michael's Lunch (or "let's make a deal"); a book party for Jeffrey Lewis in a Manhattan tower apartment of Judy and Archie Cox; plus much, much more ...

GUEST DIARY
Liz Smith talks to Jane Fonda bout herself, her life, her past, and her new film Peace, Love & Misunderstanding, about a mother and daughter totally at odds.

GUEST DIARY
Jill Krementz, NYSD's Associate Editor, covers The Costume Institute's "Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations." The Met's annual exhibition is curated by Andrew Bolton and Harold Koda.

DINING
Bits & Morsels with Erin Frankel who dines at Jungsik at 2 Harrison Street, a new breed of Korean, and Mehtaphor at 130 Duane Street in Tribeca combining Southeast Asian and Indian staples.

SOCIAL DIARY
Last night in New York, busy schedule including an opening exhibtion of gold jewelry at Tamsen Z, and Susan and John Gutfreund's cocktail reception for the American Committe of Masterpiece London.

PARTY PICTURES
9th annual Fountain House Symposium and Luncheon; NYU Langone Medical Center's annual Violet Ball; NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Gala; The American Academy in Rome's Tribute Dinner; God's Love We Deliver's Ninth Annual Authors in Kind literary luncheon; The 7th annual Castle Connolly Awards.

GUEST DIARY
Liz Smith. The subject is Johnny Depp and Tim Burton partnering again. Also Robert Hughes' Rome ... and is Babs "re-booting" the Funny Girl Score?

SHOPPING DIARY
Anita Sarko visits jewelry designer/maker Alex Soldier. If you are still stuck for that perfect and VERY special Mother's Day gift ...