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While the rest of the world was at Bloomingdale`s opening-night bash, the city`s music community was having its own spontaneous blowout at the Riveria nightclub in Uptown. Punk-rocker Iggy Pop...

If ya wanna dance dirty, ya gotta talk dirty, too. Here`s a guide to some of the dance craze`s dirtier moves from ''Dirty Dancing'' choreographer Kenny Ortega: The grind: The...

It`s an unusual way to get to Broadway, but Michael Flatley figures maybe he`ll get enough cash to stage his own production on the Great White Way if he rods...

It`s not so much for what she did that Ben Green-Field thinks of Aleka Armour, but for what she didn`t do. ''She was the first to stop wearing hats,'' says...

Chicago`s bon vivants and party press were out in full force at a recent Marshall Field`s department store bash that featured poets, cookies, photographers, fashion designers and Vanity Fair magazine...

What do the good ol` boys and girls do after a long night of pumping gas and serving up home-baked pies? They go bowling, of course. At least that`s what...

Marcello Mastroianni may be Italian, but you won`t catch him in a designer suit. ''I hate fashion,'' said the movie heartthrob during a one-day Chicago stopover last week to promote...

As if Chicago didn`t have enough characters in its city council already, how about this one: an aldermanic Eskimo. This winter you can bet the man making his way up...

The Chicago visitor, who grew up on a Downstate farm, had been invited to be an escort at the Oakbrook Polo Club Ball. But it didn`t make sense to him:...

Firecracker time again, and we like it hot. We`ve taken the temperature all over town for hot sellers now and hot prospects for later. The result: more than enough sparklers...