By Dale King The youngster who grew up to become music icon Billie Holiday was born Eleanora Fagan in 1915. The daughter of an unwed teenage couple spent her youth living with her mother in a brothel, subjected to sexual abuse, squalid surroundings, rape and specters of rape. Woes — drug and alcohol abuse among them — refused to let go of her when she stepped out of the … [Read more...]
Archives for May 2021
Kips Bay’s Palm Beach house boasts sunny Florida design
For the fourth year, the Kips Bay Decorator Show House Palm Beach shows off the best of interior design with the best of interior designers locally and from around the country. The event, a season staple in New York City since 1973, benefits the Boys & Girls Clubs of Palm Beach County and the Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club and runs until May 9. The 4,400-sq.-ft. … [Read more...]
Without a clear villain, ‘Art Heist’ at Kravis comes up short
The Kravis Center has been understandably dark for the past 14 months, shuttered by the indoor social distancing requirements of the COVID-19 pandemic. If only it could find a show that fits the current health and safety criteria, the West Palm Beach arts complex could open its doors again. Maybe “open its doors” is the wrong term, for the center’s first glimmer of … [Read more...]