Last Thursday evening, I attended an event at Todd Oldham; Spiaggia’s James Beard-winning chef-partner, Tony Mantuano; and restaurateur Larry Levy. The trio had gathered, along with about 350 tastemakers, to toast – remotely – their new effort, the Le Passage(as if the two proms I attended in high school weren’t enough). Thebash was full of … Read more
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There comes a time in every party girl’s life when getting all dolled up for restaurant and bar openings, charity fundraisers, and B-list-celeb-studded parties gets a little, well, stale. Some nights I’d rather watch the Grey’s Anatomy finale (tonight!) than attend another overcrowded, over-Botoxed event, where the weightiest conversation topic is Paris Hilton’s jail time. … Read more
River East Arts Center. I repeat: 25 hot bachelors – well, except for a few no-shows, like the Bulls’ Chris Duhon, who was too busy losing to the Pistons to attend the party. How could that be bad? (If you missed the bash, don’t fret. Summer Lovin’, Chicago’s annual singles event co-sponsored by The Auxiliary … Read more
It started with my college beau: Before we began our tumultuousfive-year relationship, we were friends first. It made dating easy,because we shared a group of friends, but it also made breaking up(like, 29 times) brutal, because we shared a group of friends. Once therelationship was finally, finally over, he became my ghost ofrelationships past. I … Read more
It’s a rite of passage: You get the guy, then the ring, and, in the weeks leading up to the main event, you get a night of revelry, usually including a stripper and a trolley. What, like guys should have the fun? Saturday night I attended a friend’s bachelorette party – a double, actually, for … Read more
