Lincoln Center has been wrapped in faux grass. Eliot captured a ballerina rehearsing on the new grounds. Just another day in NYC.

Photos by Eliot Hess

If you know Eliot, you know he always wanted to sleep in his old private office ever since the building was turned into a hotel. Our company, HWH PR, occupied the entire 12th floor of 1414 Sixth Avenue for 25 years. Eliot office’s was on the south east side corner of 58th St.

Yesterday, his wish came true. The hotel managed to give us the exact room that was Eliot’s office. I thought the whole thing was nonsense until we entered the room. Eliot had the best private room at HWH, and it still holds true as a hotel room. The windows look down on Central Park and 58th Street. It feels like we are in the center of NYC. See for yourself.

Steps from Central Park, 1 Hotel Central Park is an urban retreat inspired by nature. Designed using reclaimed materials, it is a very unique design.

Attention Bob Dylan Fans

The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University will unveil “Retrospectrum,” a collection of Bob Dylan’s artwork that premiered at the Modern Art Museum Shanghai in 2019.

This will take place on November 30th, the week of Art Basel in Miami.

The Associated Press reports that the show will include more than 120 paintings, drawings, and sculptures by the artist, musician, writer, Nobel Prize winner, and whiskey seller. The exhibition will also feature displays about his musical and literary accomplishments. Until the pandemic hit, Dylan had been on the so-called Never Ending Tour—a series of more than 3,000 shows that he began in 1988. Perhaps the concert halt has provided more time for making art.

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May 11, 2021

Melinda and Bill

The first time I met Bill Gates, and pretty much the only time, was in Arizona. We were on Esther Dyson’s tech boondoggle in 1995. Fred pointed him out. He was wearing green striped sweat knee socks that I wore as a teenager in camp with Clark ankle wallabies, polyester, slightly beige knee-length shorts with a side belt attached to the pants. On top, he has an oversized, burgundy crumpled like it had been in a laundry pile with a few stains here and there. Nerdy? I think so.

The rest of the time, like all of us in the tech world, we had watched with awe and fascination when Bill Gates married Linda and began the next journey with a partner. You could see the transformation quite quickly as he became more human and put himself together better—a more sophisticated geek.

Everyone knew how smart Linda was; otherwise, it would have never worked. As she blossomed, she started to notice that many women are feeling what she is feeling. Why are women still second fiddles? I love her voice for women and how she has used the foundation to make a world social impact with a slant towards social progress.

Fred and I have been together for forty years. We became adults together. We have both worked hard at finding common interests. Lucky for us our interests connect on almost everything. As two driven, passionate humans who live together, especially when one of them has become so successful, it isn’t always easy to shine.

Every relationship is an endless dance. It makes me sad to see that they couldn’t figure out how to keep dancing after all this time together.

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Eliot caught a speedboat doing donuts

The outside of a museum is becoming just as important as what’s inside. Architectural Digest shows the world why architects are just as important as artists.

https://www.architecturaldigest.com/gallery/22-interesting-museum-buildings-around-the-world/amp

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Happy Mother’s Day. A special shout out to Whitney and Fredrick for their good wishes. We will see you soon.

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Congratulations Dawn McCall, Our Good Friend

Former Top Media Executive and US Diplomat Takes Gold Medal in the State of Georgia Culinary Championship

Dawn L. McCall Competes In The National Competition This June

Martin, Georgia —Dawn L. McCall, a hometown girl who later became the President of Discovery Networks International and then a high ranking official in the U.S. Department of State, Washington, DC has been crowned the Gold Medalist in The Skills USA Culinary Arts Championship for the state of Georgia. The national competition will take place this summer. McCall was born in Toccoa, GA and raised in Marietta, GA.

The Skills USA Culinary Arts Championship is a career competition event showcasing the best career and technical education students in the nation. She will head to nationals in June 2021. Contestants work from a market basket format and create their own menus based on fundamental cooking techniques.

The Culinary Arts competition encompasses both hot and cold food preparation and presentation. Contestants demonstrate their knowledge and skills through the production of a four-course menu in a full-day competition. The contestants are evaluated on organization, knife skills, cooking techniques, creative presentation, sanitation and food safety techniques, and above all, the quality and flavor of the prepared items.

Dawn enrolled in January 2020 at the Georgia Technical College in theCulinary Arts program and will receive the Culinary Arts Associate of Applied Science Degree in August 2021. McCall received a BA in Journalism from the University of Georgia.

View At Your own Risk

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Tonight we participated in a ceremony at Temple Emanu-El, Miami Beach, FL. in memory of the 45 Holy Souls who died in Meron. Thank you Rabbi Marc Philippe, Rebbetzin Valerie, Douglas Hirsch, and the entire team for their service.

Getting Ready For NYC

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