Anna Wintour’s Vogue snagged Magazine of the Year honors at the National Magazine Awards, also known as the “Ellies,” Monday night.

However, in a clear sign of the industry’s transition, digital publications were also scoring key awards and creating a lot of excitement as the American Society of Magazine Editors handed out 18 awards in 24 categories. The digital insurgents have not totally elbowed aside the traditional legacy winners just yet, but the ASME judges are clearly looking to open the door wider.

The biggest Ellie winners were print stalwarts: Adam Moss’ New York magazine and David Remnick’s New Yorker, which tied for the lead with three awards each. The event, held at the Marriott Marquis, was hosted by David Muir, anchor of ABC News’ “World News Tonight.”

The upstarts are clearly leaving their mark in an industry that is in a state of transition. Janice Min, president of Guggenheim Media, was on hand to accept the first-ever award won by The Hollywood Reporter — for general excellence in the special-interest magazine category.

Min pointed out that event was being held the same night as THR’s Oscar nominees party. “Winning this makes me feel much less ridiculous for not being there,” she said.

As Min’s thank-yous dragged on, music began playing to let her know she had reached the end of her allotted time. “Now I’m being played off. This really is the Oscars of magazines,” she quipped.

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“A Look Back at James Nachtwey’s Career” produced by Overland Entertainment.

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Vogue was named Magazine of the Year at Monday night’s National Magazine Awards dinner, the industry’s biggest event, while The New Yorker and New York tied for the night’s biggest haul, with three prizes apiece.

The New Yorker won for general interest, fiction, and essays and criticism, the latter award going to Roger Angell for his moving look at aging. Angell, 94, beat out Ta-Nehisi Coates’ much-lauded “The Case for Reparations,” in The Atlantic, to win his first National Magazine Award.

New York won for design, magazine section, and columns and commentary for the work of art critic Jerry Saltz.

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Directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck join Chase Sapphire cardmembers and VIP guests at exclusive celebration

Chase Sapphire Preferred Premiere Party during the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, January 24, at Chase Sapphire on Main. Mississippi Grindcast members Ryan Reynolds, Analeigh Tipton and Ben Mendelsohn attended the celebration and walked the “Sapphire blue” carpet with writers and directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck. Chase Sapphire cardmembers and VIP guests celebrated the film premiere alongside the all-star cast at Chase Sapphire on Main, an interactive suite located in the heart of Park City’s Main Street.

“We’re excited to host tonight’s Mississippi Grind Premiere Party. It’s one of several opportunities for Chase Sapphire cardmembers to mingle with film talent and enjoy behind-the-scenes access to this year’s most exciting films,” said Lisa Walker, general manager, Chase Sapphire Preferred. “Our five year partnership with the Sundance Film Festival has allowed us to provide the exceptional customer experiences our cardmembers expect, including outstanding service and access to film, travel and dining experiences.”

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What are normally ski shops, art galleries and boutiques on Park City’s Main Street have transformed into celebrity lounges during the first weekend of the Sundance Film Festival where celebrities load up on swag, from backpacks to boots.

Kevin Smith popped into Park City Live, a conglomeration of celebrity suites including Billboard’s Winterfest concert space (set to feature Iggy Azalea on Saturday night) and the Birchbox cosmetics center, where visitors could get makeovers and collect a slew of beauty samples.

The Village at the Lift also combines various lodges over several buildings. VIPs can recharge their electronics and sip coffee at the hippest McDonald’s ever, the temporary McCafe. Next door is a pop-up restaurant, the Stella Artois Cafe, serving food from the trendy Animal Restaurant in Los Angeles. The Tao nightclub is also part of the complex.

The Eddie Bauer suite boasts an indoor climbing wall, while the Chase Sapphire Preferred lounge offers drinks, bites and a chance to try Oculus virtual-reality technology.

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Do you have what it takes to go up against “Hell’s Kitchen” tormentor Gordon Ramsay? Could you take his ferocious temper and abusive screaming while you cooked? Would you dare give him back as good (or bad) as he venomously dishes out?

You will have that opportunity when Vegas Uncork’d by Bon Appetit returns to the Strip from April 23-26. Star chefs including Michael Mina, Masa Takayama, Jean-Georges Vongerichten and Guy Savoy will join Gordon. Julian Serrano also will debut his restaurant Lago at Bellagio.

“This is truly the only weekend each year when world-class chefs gather in one destination to host intimate dinners where they push culinary innovation and mix and mingle with their fans and peers,” said Adam Rapoport, Bon Appetit editor in chief. First-ever auto sponsor Buick will join returning sponsor Chase Sapphire Preferred for the feasting festival now in its ninth year.

Tickets go on sale today at VegasUncorked.com for perennial favorites the Grand Tasting at Caesars Palace and the returning Chef’s Counter: All-Star Feast at Aria. Additionally, there will be new events including Prime Time with Jean-Georges inside his Prime steakhouse at Bellagio; The House of Lago: An Italian-Style Brunch in Julian’s soon-to-open Lago; and In “Hell’s Kitchen” with Gordon at Caesars.

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It was 10:30 p.m. at the restaurant Harlow on East 56th Street, and Samantha Power, the United States ambassador to the United Nations, was making her way to her dinner table.

“There she is, there she is, there she is,” Ms. Power said, pointing toward Robin Roberts. “I haven’t had meaningful contact with her in 25 years.”

Ms. Power and Ms. Roberts were both honorees at Glamour magazine’s Women of the Year gala on Monday night. In the summer of 1989, Ms. Power was an 18-year-old intern at a CBS affiliate in Atlanta where Ms. Roberts was a sports broadcaster. At the time, Ms. Power said, she was a “crazy redhead sports junkie” who was determined to become a sportscaster before she got some advice from Ms. Roberts, the future ABC anchor.

“She encouraged me to branch out and live a little, and maybe not make up my mind,” Ms. Power said.

Really? “I remember her very well,” Ms. Roberts said, wearing a Gucci dress and enormous Alaïa heels. “And I do remember saying, ‘Get the heck out of here, you’re wasting your time, you need to be doing something else.’ ”

She added, “I knew she had it, but I didn’t know she’d be working for the president of the United States.”

These reunions, and the new relationships that were forged on Monday, are part of what this event is all about: bringing together female leaders, whether in fashion or policy, comedy or philanthropy. Earlier in the night, at a ceremony at Carnegie Hall, nine women (including Chelsea Clinton, Lupita Nyong’o, Mindy Kaling, Laverne Cox and Sarah Burton) and a group of girls were honored. The band Haim performed.

“This is my first night out as a mother,” Ms. Clinton said during her acceptance speech, six weeks after giving birth to her daughter, Charlotte. “I had started to somewhat wonder if I would ever wear a fancy dress or high-heeled shoes again. Or have adult conversations.”

A grinning Hillary Rodham Clinton sat a few rows deep.

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The “its” just keep coming.

Saturday afternoon and night, food lovers from across town and points way beyond will congregate for two sold-out walking tours hosted by Bon Appétit magazine’s droll restaurant editor, Andrew Knowlton, and co-hosted by the Nashville Convention and Visitors Corp.

Knowlton is no opportunistic carpetbagger, though. He grew up in Atlanta, suffered both brimstone and Nashville’s summer heat at David Lipscomb basketball camps and even ate at a certain meat-and-three when ol’ Jack Arnold was still carving up the roast beef.

More than that, Knowlton has come to know and appreciate our culinary landscape better than many outsiders and has been generous with the praise along the way. Using his magazine’s vaunted pulpit, he toured Nashville with Dan Auerbach of Nashville-based rock outfit the Black Keys and chef Tandy Wilson of City House and lauded our scene in 2012. That same year he added the Catbird Seat at No.5 to his list of best new restaurants, and in 2013, Rolf & Daughters made the cut at No.3.

“Back to back, that says something,” Knowlton acknowledges, recognizing that the fawning boon of Southern food has been spreading from city to city and that now seems to be Nashville’s time.

So it stood to reason to add Music City to Bon Appétit’s list of GrubCrawl locations to this year’s itinerary. While Nashville joins New York, San Francisco and Park City, Utah, this year, we have the distinction of selling out the fastest since the crawl began three years ago. That’s 240 tickets at $149 a pop in 48 hours.

“We wanted to include cities that people don’t immediately think of. I’ve been pushing to go down South,” says the writer, who also counts Springwater as one of his favorite stops, which is high cotton in my book. (Note: Springwater will not be on this tour.)

“For walking tours, we pick very carefully and really try to get people away from large hotel settings, where you’re elbowing each other for the last bite of bad tuna,” Knowlton says, adding that the participating restaurants take the tour seriously, so it’s “not just deviled eggs at one place.” Not there’s anything wrong with that in a Sunday supper kind of way.

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