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  1. Class of Nashville

    Five Years In, William Beckmann's Holiday Run Is Now a Tradition of Its Own

    William Beckmann is taking his Las Posadas Tour out for the fifth consecutive year, marking the season the way he has come to prefer. The Me…

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  2. Class of Nashville

    The Operator Behind Results Global Takes a Turn in Music Row's Spotlight

    Jackie Campbell, who shares the top job at Results Global and runs its day-to-day operations, is the latest Nashville executive to sit for M…

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  3. Class of Florida

    The Most Palm Beach Thing About BMW's Armored 7 Series Is That You'd Never Know

    BMW has built a prototype 7 Series with armor in it, and the whole idea is that no one looking at the car would guess. The sedan keeps its o…

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  4. Class of Florida

    Jane Fonda Was Only a Tenant, but the Whitley Heights House Still Carries Her Name at $2 Million

    A house in Whitley Heights, up in the Hollywood Hills, has come to market asking $2 million, and its most famous occupant never held the dee…

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  5. Class of Nashville

    The Lights Stay On: TVA Readies a 2.5-Gigawatt Expansion

    The utility that keeps Nashville's studios humming and its hillside kitchens lit is preparing to grow. The Tennessee Valley Authority intend…

    1 MIN READ
  6. Class of Florida

    Up Front on Delta, the Bourbon Is Now Blanton's

    Delta has reworked what it serves in Delta One, the carrier's top cabin, from the plates to the wine list to the bar cart. Among the new arr…

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  7. Class of Florida

    Twenty-Five Years In, Peter Millar Reaches for the Soft Stuff

    Peter Millar is marking its first twenty-five years in business the way a Naples golfer marks a cool January morning: with cashmere. The bra…

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  8. Class of Florida

    The Ferrari That Could Sell for Nearly Six Times Its Sticker

    A 2022 Ferrari Daytona SP3 heads to the block on October 31 under the RM Sotheby's banner, and the estimate attached to it runs to $13 milli…

    1 MIN READ
  9. Class of Florida

    The Dells Are Letting Boston Go, and the Opening Number Is $6.5 Million

    Michael and Susan Dell have put their penthouse atop Boston's Millennium Tower on the auction block. Bidding is set to open at $6.5 million,…

    1 MIN READ
  10. Icons of Palm Beach

    A Century On, Pooh Keeps a New York Address

    The bear turns one hundred this year, and the place that claims him is not an English wood but the New York Public Library. Town & Country h…

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  11. Class of Nashville

    Clear Your Friday for Zach Bryan: Eight New Songs Arrive Under a Title That Stops You Cold

    Zach Bryan has a fresh collection of eight songs on the way, and it lands this Friday. He is calling it Young Manhood and Other Donatable Or…

    1 MIN READ
  12. Class of Nashville

    Downtown Gets a Permanent Address for Alan Jackson

    The Alan Jackson Museum is now open in downtown Nashville. For a city that usually keeps its stars moving between Green Hills offices and th…

    1 MIN READ
  13. Class of Florida

    Coconut Grove Puts Six Bedrooms and a Full-Circle Terrace on the Market for $14 Million

    The listing of the week comes from Mr. C Residences Coconut Grove, where a condo with six bedrooms is asking $14 million. The apartment runs…

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  14. Class of Florida

    Messi and Alcaraz Now Share a Shipyard

    The world's most famous soccer player has taken delivery of an 88-foot Sunreef catamaran, the builder's Ultima 88. He will not have the mode…

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  15. Class of Florida

    On Alki Beach, the House Wears Its Neighbors on the Outside

    Out on Alki Beach in West Seattle, a residence has put the native creatures of its own shoreline across its exterior, in a painted mural tha…

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  16. Icons of Palm Beach

    The Best Lip Work on the Island Is the Kind Nobody Can Spot

    Town & Country has assembled a primer on the mouth, and its governing principle is one the North End has always understood: an overcorrected…

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  17. Icons of Palm Beach

    Twelve Seasons In, Adam Brody Still Talks About His Wife Like a Newlywed

    Adam Brody, forty-six, has given Vanity Fair an account of his marriage to Leighton Meester, the two having wed in 2014. It is the kind of d…

    1 MIN READ
  18. Icons of Palm Beach

    The Man Behind the Frames Opens His Doors in Los Angeles

    Jérôme Mage, the designer whose Jacques Marie Mage sunglasses have earned a devoted and faintly obsessive following, has let Vanity Fair int…

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  19. Class of Florida

    A Hall of Famer's Former Address Hits the Market at $35 Million

    The house Jerry Rice once called home is for sale, and the asking price is $35 million. The estate sits in Atherton, in the Bay Area, and wa…

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  20. Class of Nashville

    Country Radio's Finest Take Their Bow

    The 2026 CMA Broadcast Awards have named their winners, recognizing the people who put country music on the air and keep it there. These are…

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  21. Class of Nashville

    Bluey Takes the Stage at TPAC, and the Smallest Patrons Get Their Weekend

    The Tennessee Performing Arts Center hands its stage to a blue heeler this weekend. Bluey's Big Play runs Saturday and Sunday, a two-day eng…

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  22. Class of Florida

    This Season's Most Serious Jewelry Room Isn't on Worth Avenue. It's in Arkansas.

    An Arkansas museum has handed its galleries over to the archive of a famous jewelry maker, and the pieces stay up until next March. These ar…

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  23. Class of Florida

    Palm Beach Would Know This House on Sight: A 1920s Spanish Colonial in Los Angeles Asks $17 Million

    Anyone who has driven the lanes between Worth Avenue and the lake will recognize the vocabulary at once: stucco, tile, arches, and the kind …

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  24. Class of Florida

    A Modigliani You Can Walk Around, at a Price Even Palm Beach Would Notice

    Phillips is bringing a Modigliani sculpture to the block with an estimate that reaches $35 million. Sculpture by Modigliani is not a thing o…

    1 MIN READ
  25. Class of Florida

    The Chef Who Tells Time Three Ways

    Eric Ripert has opened the watch box, and Robb Report brought a camera along. In an installment of its newly launched on-camera series, the …

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  26. Class of Nashville

    A New Honor Gets Its First Name, and It's The War And Treaty

    The Origins Vanguard Award has never been handed to anyone before. When it is given for the first time, it goes to The War And Treaty. An ho…

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  27. Class of Nashville

    Luke Bryan Comes Home With Thirty-Five-Plus Dates Behind Him

    Luke Bryan has closed out the Word On The Street Tour, a run that passed the 35-date mark before its final night. For a city that measures i…

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  28. Class of Nashville

    Parker McCollum Turns Down the Volume for an Acoustic Album on MCA

    Parker McCollum has put out an acoustic record titled Live From Sound City, released through MCA. It is a stripped-back outing, the kind tha…

    1 MIN READ
  29. Class of Nashville

    Who Will Love This Song? Nashville Can Now Ask Before the Release Date

    Rocketship, an artificial-intelligence tool built to tell a writer or a label which listeners a track is likely to reach before it ever goes…

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  30. Class of Nashville

    Music Row's Publishing Houses Get Their Issue of the Year

    MusicRow has put out its 2026 Publisher edition in print, the magazine's annual turn toward the publishing side of the Nashville music busin…

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  31. Icons of Palm Beach

    Manhattan Has a New Girl, and She Takes Her Martini Dirty

    For anyone who keeps an apartment in the city between seasons, Vanity Fair has filed the latest word on which downtown type currently holds …

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  32. Icons of Palm Beach

    Keri Russell Makes the Case for Deco Diamonds

    Keri Russell arrived at the fourth-season premiere of The Diplomat wearing earrings of Art Deco design, set with diamonds, and they were the…

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  33. Icons of Palm Beach

    Out of Range, and Glad of It

    The newest thing worth wanting is a spot where the phone simply gives up, no bars, no network, nothing to refresh. Vanity Fair reports a gro…

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  34. Class of Florida

    Two Rooms, One Pollock, $2 Million: The Manhattan Listing Florida Will Read Twice

    A pair of rooms in Manhattan's West Village has come on the market asking $2 million, and the selling point is not square footage. Jackson P…

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  35. Class of Nashville

    Jingle Ball Is Coming Back to Nashville This Season

    The River's annual holiday concert has a 2026 edition on the books, with Capital One attached as presenting sponsor. For the city's pop crow…

    1 MIN READ
  36. Icons of Palm Beach

    Brown Denim Makes Its Case for the Season

    Town & Country's editors have settled on a single pair of jeans this autumn, and the color is brown rather than the blue everyone assumes. T…

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  37. Icons of Palm Beach

    Before the Screen, a Bartender Worth Crossing Town For

    Long before Moonlighting put him in living rooms and Die Hard put him everywhere else, Bruce Willis was the draw at Cafe Central on the Uppe…

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  38. Icons of Palm Beach

    Where the Bars Finally Drop to None

    Vanity Fair has gone looking for the rarest luxury left: a spot the signal simply cannot reach, with no network, no connection, and no chanc…

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  39. Class of Florida

    Kim Jones Is Putting His Own Name Back on the Label, and Refusing to Pick a Rack

    Kim Jones is reviving the house that carries his own name, and the second act arrives with a looser brief. Rather than sorting clothes into …

    1 MIN READ
  40. Class of Florida

    The McEnroes Are Keeping One Paradise Cove House. The Other Can Be Yours for $35 Million.

    John McEnroe and Patty Smyth have put one of their two Malibu beachfront homes on the market, asking $35 million. The house sits in Paradise…

    1 MIN READ
  41. Class of Florida

    Sirena Put the Owner's Private Terrace Where Nobody Thinks to Look: Up Front

    Sirena's new 138-foot Sirena 42 keeps its best outdoor space at the forward end of the boat, a private terrace for the owner that climbs acr…

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  42. Class of Nashville

    Nashville SC Keeps Its Record Chase Alive

    Nashville SC is still tracking toward an MLS record, and the pace has not slipped. In a city that has long measured itself by what happens o…

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  43. Class of Nashville

    Wynonna Takes The Hard Truth to the Cameras

    Wynonna has a new record out. It is called The Hard Truth, and she marked its release last week with a pair of television appearances. For a…

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  44. Class of Nashville

    Christian Music's Biggest Night Belongs to Wickham, Lake and Queen

    The Gospel Music Association handed out its 57th annual Dove Awards, and three names came away carrying the evening: Phil Wickham, Brandon L…

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  45. Class of Nashville

    Miranda Lambert Takes Her Music to Amazon's Screen

    Amazon Music has premiered Songline Live, a filmed program built around Miranda Lambert and something she did only recently. For a Green Hil…

    1 MIN READ
  46. Class of Nashville

    Kameron Marlowe Takes His New Show on the Road This February

    Kameron Marlowe has a national run booked for February, a headlining outing he is calling the Take You Down With Me Tour. The itinerary keep…

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  47. Class of Nashville

    Two Columns, One Name: John Morgan Puts "Kid Myself" at the Top

    In this town the writers and the singers are usually two different sets of people, and the rooms where they work are a few blocks apart. Joh…

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  48. Class of Nashville

    Matt Jenkins Cracks the Twenty Names Nashville's Publishers Watch Most

    The writer Matt Jenkins now sits among the twenty highest-ranked names on MusicRow's songwriter rankings, the industry tally that Green Hill…

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  49. Class of Nashville

    Music Row Lends Its Voices to a Record Built Around The Chosen

    A new album drawing its inspiration from The Chosen is on the way, and the lineup leans on Nashville talent. Lady A and Tyler Hubbard are am…

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  50. Class of Nashville

    The River Is Bringing Jingle Ball Back to Nashville This Season

    Nashville's pop station, 107.5 The River, has confirmed a 2026 edition of its annual holiday concert, Jingle Ball, with Capital One attached…

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  51. Class of Florida

    A Pink Diamond That Stayed Out of Sight for Seventy Years Is Expected to Command $18 Million

    A pink diamond weighing 24 carats, set in a ring, is expected to sell for about $18 million. For more than seven decades it has been held pr…

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  52. Icons of Palm Beach

    The Real Ben Affleck, Too Genuine for His Own Account

    Ben Affleck, the Oscar winner, says Instagram has banned him twice, and in both cases the charge was impersonating Ben Affleck. He told it o…

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  53. Icons of Palm Beach

    Zizou Bergs Stops Hoping and Starts Believing

    On the courts of the North End, every serious player knows the moment when a match against a better opponent stops being an honor and become…

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  54. Icons of Palm Beach

    Daniel Boulud Opens Another Door in Manhattan

    Readers who spend part of the year in New York have one more reservation to think about. Daniel Boulud has opened a new restaurant in the ci…

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  55. Class of Florida

    A Lake Worth Alternative, With Fewer Neighbors: Two Dozen Cottages on Lake Keowee

    Old Edwards Reserve has unveiled Laurel Village, a set of 24 cottages on the shores of Lake Keowee in South Carolina. Twenty-four is a numbe…

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  56. Class of Florida

    Fifty Years of Defining Luxury, and Florida Still Can't Agree on It

    Robb Report has turned fifty, and it is marking the occasion with an anniversary issue that looks back at what luxury has meant since the ma…

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  57. Class of Florida

    Automakers Are Running Out of Words Before Florida Runs Out of Driveways

    According to Robb Report, carmakers are finding it harder and harder to come up with a good name for a new model. Most of the strong words s…

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  58. Icons of Palm Beach

    A Breakfast Tray That Gives Back: As Ever Joins the Malala Fund

    The duchess's As Ever has found a cause worth stocking up for. To mark the day set aside each year for girls, the sales from its preserves a…

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  59. Icons of Palm Beach

    J.Crew and '47 Bring Some Campus Loyalty to the Island This Season

    J.Crew has joined forces with '47 on a new collaboration, and it is built around the pride of alma mater. The pieces are cut for autumn and …

    1 MIN READ
  60. Class of Nashville

    Two Films, One Halloween Night: Nashville's Spare & Scare Sets the Season's Screen

    A pair of films on one Halloween night is the plan behind Spare & Scare. It's an old-fashioned idea: pull up a seat, stay for both features,…

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