Celebrities made their way on the red carpet to the stage set up in the new Oculus. The three-way hub inside the grand porte cochere is essentially a 360-degree water multimedia show all its own, pulsing to the beat of whatever rock-n-roll plays in the ostentatious lobby. Andrew Taggert of The Chainsmokers makes an appearance at the opening of Hard Rock Hollywood s Guitar Hotel. Photo by Jesse Scott Big-name attendees included Johnny Depp, Morgan Freeman, The Chainsmokers, Jeremy Piven, Miguel, Khloe Kardashian, Joe Manganiello, Joe Perry, Andy Cohen, Bella Thorne, Jesse McCartney, and Pete Wentz, among several others. After the celeb step-and-repeat, the party moved to the 13.5-acre pool lagoon, boasting a Bora Bora-style area featuring villas, waterfalls, palms for seemingly miles, stations stocked with tasty food, and li
Fossett was born in Richmond in November 1780, the son of Mary Hemings and an unknown father, possibly William Fossett, a free carpenter who worked intermittently at Monticello late in the 1770s. Mary Hemings, the oldest child of Elizabeth “Betty” Hemings, was at the time an enslaved domestic servant in the household of Governor Thomas Jefferson. Three months later she and her children were carried off by British troops during Benedict Arnold’s raid on the capital. After Cornwallis’s surrender at Yorktown in October 1781, Fossett and his family were brought back to Monticello, Jefferson’s residence in Albemarle County.
During Jefferson’s absence in France (1784–1789), Fossett lived in Charlottesville with his mother and siblings. She had been hired to a white merchant, Thomas Bell, by whom she had two children. Unable to marry legally, Bell and Mary Hemings, described by her grandson Robert Scott as a “bright mulatto,” lived as husband and wife, an arrangement open
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Boathouse at the Riverside Hotel 620 SE Fourth St., Fort Lauderdale 954-377-5494 This waterside spot in the heart of downtown Fort Lauderdale is not brand new. In fact, in March 2021, it will celebrate its three-year anniversary. Amid the pandemic, Boathouse at Riverside has become the go-to, open-air haven for unwinding as boats cruise by on the New River. In addition to its all-you-can-eat mussels for $25 every day, and a half-off daily happy hour from 4-6:30 p.m., it offers tapas-style dishes like gator tacos ($10), roasted honey Brussels sprouts ($7), and an assortment of rosemary-infused flatbreads ($8 to $10).