12/27/07

Last-minute NYE Options

Unless your idea of a good New Year’s Eve involves aimless bar-hopping when cabs are scarce and clubs are overcrowded, stop dragging your feet and make your plans already. The events below still had tickets available as of late last week, and folks continue to post New Year’s Eve updates to the comments section of this blog. Get to it, people. And happy 2008...

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12/20/07

Matzo Ball Menu

For Jewish singles, Christmas Eve is one serious party night. Revelry and romance! No work the next day and no family obligations! (One drawback: It's also a night of dodging exes you met on JDate and thought you'd never see again. Good luck with that.) Whether: a) you're looking to meet a nice Jewish boy or girl; b) you aren't into the whole Christmas thing; or c) you just need a night off before all of the family togetherness the following day, one of these December 24th bashes, aka "matzo balls," should suit your party needs. 'Tis the season for schmoozing—and possibly meeting someone new to spend New Year's with...

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12/17/07

Celebrity Beat: Duran Duran, Lauren Conrad, Brody Jenner

Delays, refusals, and artful evasions: it's pretty much the theme of this past weekend's celebrity beat. Fortunately, a true LGS takes it all in stride—and still manages to turn up a few celebrity morsels. On Friday night, I chatted up Nick Rhodes and John Taylor of the seminal eighties new-wave band Duran Duran before the group's concert at the Chicago Theatre... PLUS: Lauren and Brody in town

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12/13/07

Gold-plated Bubbly, Celebrities Aplenty

As if we don't already spend enough on drinking, here comes a new record-breaking bottle, just in time for New Year's Eve: a three-liter jeroboam of 1995 Dom Pérignon, dipped in white gold, for a whopping $35,000. Only 17 such bottles will be sold in the United States; Chicago's single example will be housed at Manor—at least until some poor sucker drops the cash to impress a girl. At Tuesday's media and VIP party for the bottle's arrival...

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12/11/07

Girl, Interrupted

Our Last Girl Standing is taking a seat for a couple of days while she gets over a cold. She anticipates a full recovery by Thursday; check back then for the latest from the nightlife front.

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12/06/07

NYE: The Countdown

It's crunch time, people. If you haven't yet started making your New Year's Eve plans, get to it. Since I first posted about NYE parties in November, notices have been flooding my inbox and this blog's comments section. Bookmark that page and check back. Or simply decide on a bar, club, or restaurant, visit its Web site, and make your reservations, stat. Keep in mind: Most packages cover eats and drinks until midnight, so if you show up later on, in most instances, you'll just have to pay for cover and a cash bar (some neighborhood bars don't even charge a cover)...

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12/03/07

Jews and Brews

Despite the sloshy weather and falling ice, I got back to my roots Saturday night and attended the Heeb magazine storytelling event at the shiny-new Spertus Museum. (Question: How does a sign that reads "Caution: Falling Ice" do anything to keep you from getting hit by said ice? Apparently Krueck + Sexton, the architects behind the magnificent new Spertus facility, didn't think of everything when they designed those slanted glass panels.)

For those unfamiliar with Heeb, it's a hip, irreverent magazine for young Jewish types (like me). At Saturday's storytelling event, part of a nationwide series, comedians and writers got seven minutes...

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