I figured I could get through to dinner without issue and I was wrong.
Now, she helps her daughter sift through all the daily messages, of which there can be hundreds, and discusses over the dinner table issues like mailing autographs to Facebook followers who donated $10 to the Cystic Fibrosis Walk, the current charity the younger Ms. Cinkle is promoting.
Once upon a time, you could meet a couple of your counterparts in some pleasant seaside town, forge a union or divide a continent over dinner, and then issue a grateful public with a photograph and a communiqué for them to stick in their history books.
Without reverting to standard-issue dinner jackets, Mr. Geller managed clothes that looked elegant and seductive, almost vampiric.
Ms. Oka's husband, Jun Makihara, is chairman of an internet venture capital firm called Neoteny, and had issued dinner invitations to associates who were in New York for the private summit at the Waldorf.
When I attend dinner parties, however, the issue of food is often the hot topic of the night, and even hotter, the opinions surrounding the right and wrong way to eat.
When Health magazine promoted "Your New Favorite Dinners" in its December issue, there was just one problem: the dinners weren't exactly new.
The mash-up of art, food and culture celebrated the publication of its second issue, "TV Dinners," this past weekend with a dinner at Jack Hanley Gallery in TriBeCa.
Dinner is also an issue of perception.
Like the man who came to dinner, the term limits issue doesn't go away.
