"The party scene in Davos is out of control."
Any Feed Me readers who are there should meet up.
Good morning everyone.
Last night I stopped into Granada Wines on Smith Street before going to dinner at Bedouin Tent (one of many great BYO restaurants on Atlantic). As I was walking out of the wine store, I clocked a palm leaf cross and prayer card above the door. At dinner, I googled when Lent started this year and was surprised to learn the first day is in less than a month. Unlike Punxsutawney Phil, the Catholic calendar doesn’t seem especially concerned with whether spring has actually arrived. It’s supposed to be 20°F next weekend.
Today’s letter includes: Mike Johnson’s dinner order at a London pub, the members fees at that new Brooklyn Heights country club, a scene report from Davos (thanks to the one and only Alex Heath), and BlackRock eggs.
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Friend of the Letter Ella Devi questioned a seemingly fake Renoir in Melania Trump’s office that is shown in the new trailer for MELANIA. While Renoir painted two versions of this painting, titled “La Loge” – an original, which is exhibited at the Courtauld, and a smaller canvas, which sold at Sotheby’s London in 2008 for $14.6 million – this appears to be a reproduction. Funnily enough, it is not the only fake Renoir Trump owns. I reached out to Julie Brener Davich, Puck’s former art columnist who now writes The Appraisal on Substack, to get her thoughts: