The Knockturnal attended the premiere of HBO’s DTF St. Louis, held at the Director’s Guild of America in Los Angeles.
The Knockturnal spoke to filmmaker Sabrina Jaglom and curator of Hope Runs High, Taylor Purdee, about the NYC limited screening run of the 4K restoration of the late actor-director Henry Jaglom’s fourth feature, Can She Bake a Cherry Pie? (1983).
On February 15, W Hoboken partnered with Modern Day Wife to host the latest installment of the What She Said Speaker Series—an inspiring celebration spotlighting women across fashion, beauty, wellness, and business.
As part of the 2026 Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels Festival in New York, we had the opportunity to step inside Lucinda Childs’ repertory. On February 26 and 27, at the New York Center for Creativity & Dance, a professional workshop dedicated to Radial Courses offered a rare chance to embody the technical rigor of Childs’ minimalist language. Led by Kyle Gerry, currently dancing with the Lucinda Childs Dance Company, the three-hour session revealed that what appears spare from the audience demands extraordinary mental and physical calibration from within.
On Thursday night, The Plaza Hotel’s Grand Ballroom bloomed into a vertical city of orchids as the New York Botanical Garden hosted its 2026 Orchid Dinner in celebration of The Orchid Show: Mr. Flower Fantastic’s Concrete Jungle. Under the Plaza’s crystal chandeliers and iconic gilded ceilings, the room filled with a cross-section of New York: Martha Stewart in composed elegance, Alex Newell radiant and commanding, Plant Kween in full botanical glamour, alongside design leaders, philanthropists, collectors, and downtown creatives.
The Knockturnal exclusively spoke to executive producers Roy Lee and Steven Schneider of the upcoming horror film “undertone” during the 2026 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.
Last Wednesday, I took the F train downtown to see the third iteration of DENNIS, written by Aidan La Poche. Currently circulating like gossip through every Paloma Wool–clad Lower East Side Gen Z’er, it not only takes on the topic of AI, but also explores therapy culture, brain rot, and the particular seduction of being understood by something that isn’t human.
Held in the Chelsea Mercantile, Recollect, hosted by Nolan Feng and Silver Chang, marked its inaugural Lunar New Year dinner salon. Conceived around the Fire Horse Year, the gathering positioned Lunar New Year as both cultural preservation and contemporary authorship, bringing together a cross-disciplinary community of artists, designers, technologists, and friends to experience what celebration looks like when heritage is carried into metropolitan life. The evening centered on intentional hosting, ritual participation, and collective alignment, brought to life through thoughtful partnerships with Rémy Martin, West Elm, Maison Detto, Hudson Wilder, and 25hours NYC.
It is nearly impossible to open social media without seeing something about Heated Rivalry. From viral posts to nonstop commentary about the hottest moments, the hockey-driven HBO drama has taken over timelines everywhere. The series had quickly become one of television’s most talked-about breakout hits — and among its compelling ensemble is Ksenia Daniele Kharlamova, one of the show’s female protagonists whose performance has resonated strongly with fans.
As the final shows of New York Fashion Week wrapped in Manhattan, the energy carried across the Hudson to W Hoboken, where Modern Day Wife brought back it’s annual “What She Said” speaker series for a standout closing-week celebration.