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The A-list

Just in time for the NRA: etiquette advice for the reluctant party hostess
Donald Trump
Trump

With White House aspirant Donald Trump and more than 70,000 other visitors roaming Louisville next week for the annual NRA meeting, Boulevard thought yesterday’s installment of our favorite Courier-Journal feature couldn’t be more timely. We’re talking about advice column Annie’s Mailbox, which asked and answered the following:

Dear Annie,
What is the polite thing to do with a guest who carries a gun? I do not like guns in my house, but I have a friend who adamantly refuses to leave his gun at home when he comes here. Do people who carry a concealed weapon have an obligation to notify the host before entering their residence?

Signed, Pennsylvania

Dear Pennsylvania,
Yes. More importantly, it’s your house. You get to set the rules, and if you don’t want guns, say so. You can’t force him to be honest about having a concealed weapon, but you certainly can inform him of your preferences.

Trump has a permit to carry a concealed gun. In Kentucky, you can, too; here’s how. Plus, there’s no shortage of places to buy guns in the Louisville area, as this Google map shows.

Gun map

Photo, top: A Bersa concealed carry 40-caliber pistol: $319.95 at Gilbert’s Guns in Frankfort.

Dear Boulevard readers: What do you think? Please post your replies in the comments section, below.

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Derby quiz: It’s sometimes black, but mostly red — and always walked on

21c Museum Hotel rolled out a black one Derby Eve. But nearly every other celebrity-stocked venue opted for the traditional red (Mayor Greg Fischer‘s tweet is Exhibit A) — leaving Boulevard wondering about the history of red carpets. They date to 458 BC!

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“We have loyal people who come year after year and I have the pleasure of talking to people from all over the country and that is so much fun. Oklahoma, Texas, New York!”

— Wilma Barnstable, 83-year-old matriarch of the Barnstable family, in W magazine after Friday’s annual Barnstable-Brown Derby party.

Related: Both of Tiger Woods’ exes made the party rounds Derby weekend — and organizers were ordered to keep the two blondes apart (Fox News).

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New Derby sponsor Sentient was a winner right out of the gate

Boulevard noticed the jet-share company’s logo appeared prominently on winner Nyquist’s post-run blanket, as well as ball caps worn by the thoroughbred’s owner Paul Reddam and others during TV broadcasts and other news media.

Based in the Boston area, Sentient announced a multi-year agreement with Churchill Downs in February, under which the company would offer exclusive benefits to Derby and Kentucky Oaks guests.

How prominent was Sentient’s role? Look no further than this photo Boulevard took of today’s Courier-Journal sports section:

Sentient

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In hot-ticket Derby parties (and real estate), it’s all about location, location, location

Real estate kingpin Ryan Serhant, one of the stars of Bravo channel’s “Million Dollar Listing New York,” hit the black carpet (yes: black) last night at the invitation-only Vanity Fair Derby party at 21C Museum Hotel. The event drew 350 people, says WLKY.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BFG8NyoOE1B/?taken-by=ryanserhant

 

Of course, the hosts were there, too: fashionably-dressed hotel co-founders Steve Wilson (second from left), and Laura Lee Brown (second from right) . . .

 

. . . And Huffington Post editorial chief Howard Fineman had a birds-eye view:

Related: Vanity Fair recalls Louisville native Hunter S. Thompson‘s famously blurry-eyed account of his 1970 Derby tour. And The Courier-Journal has photos from that other Derby Eve party.

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This is whatever happened to Tinsley Mortimer
Tinsley Mortimer
Mortimer

On Derby Eve in 2012, headline-grabbing New York socialite Tinsley Mortimer promoted her debut novel, Southern Charm, during a book tour at the Galt House’s Xhale Salon-Spa. Once the most-photographed young woman in one of the world’s most status-conscious cities, she was by then 36 years old, and starting something of a second act as a writer, after her first one — celebutante, fashion designer, reality TV star — had crashed and burned.

Now, four years later, we’re learning her second act didn’t end very well, either. Read Town & Country‘s new “Inside the Downfall of Tinsley Mortimer.”