For those in the Western Hemisphere looking for something unfamiliar but relatively close, there's a new player in town: a week-long soiree on the Caribbean island of Hispanola in the Dominican Republic.
Obviously, we're talking about Splash House, and the first of two weekend-long summertime soirees is fast approaching on June 13-14.
Described as a "full-scale, long-running" show, the high-tech soiree will later be "roll[ed] out across the USA and … globally".
During last Thursday's Game 2, voices in the Stadium bleachers were chanting, "We Want Pedro!" And that was long before he ignited Saturday's soirees by flinging a head-high fastball that buzzed Yankees outfielder Karim Garcia on the shoulder.
Wolf, a very chilled 30-year-old Texan with a long, blond ponytail, describes his upscale soirees, which include a chauffeur-driven limo to and from his private restaurant for five-course meals, as "curated cannabis experiences".
Since Mr. Stein began as editor last April, his office has been a place where publishers and authors drop by at the end of a workday for gossip and a drink, where guests wander in during packed Paris Review soirees and where, not long ago, the employees of a creative marketing firm downstairs gathered for an impromptu late-night party.
The estate where the festival now stands became the summer home of the Yale School of Music 70 years ago, but long before that it had hosted glittering soirees at which the gentry mingled with figures like the pianist Ignace Jan Paderewski, the tenor Enrico Caruso and Sibelius.
The Biscayne lady has long been ground zero for Miami Music Week's seafaring soirees.
By the end, you can't help feeling that Ms. Thompson's guest list — which M L self-consciously calls the "cast" of her soiree — is unwieldy, and that the evening has dragged on too long.
I remember cream cheese in celery, with a sprinkling of paprika, served at my dad and stepmum's "soirees" in the 70s, where people danced to Slade in long tartan dresses.
(Mr. Plimpton had long since co-opted his neighbors by giving them standing invites to all his soirees).
