Lisa Skolnik

At the Chicago Architecture Foundation's Ruby Ball-named to mark its 40th birthday-the best outfits were red-hot to match. Foundation CEO Lynn Osmond parted the 1,000-strong sea of guests at Union...

WHAT: About Face Theater's "Loving Repeating: A Musical Tribute to Gertrude Stein" premiere/benefit at the MCA. Frank Galati is the show's adapter and director. COCKTAIL CHITCHAT ABOUT THE MUSICAL'S DANCING...

Brit designer James Dyson started the trend of redesigning the common vacuum cleaner with his show-stopping uprights. Now a class of new, high-performance machines packs punch-making a clean sweep of...

You got Morocco as a motif, you got the Aragon Ballroom, you got an authentic Mediterranean feast capped with mouth-watering Middle Eastern pastries baked by Shoshy Danino of Chef's A...

As promised, "Queer Eye's" Ted Allen's talk was "Off the Cuff" and sometimes over the top, but the 1,000 members and guests of the Hinsdale Junior Woman's Club devoured every...

Rising star DJ Spooky gave a sold-out crowd a lot to think about recently with "Rebirth of a Nation," his acclaimed multimedia remix of the racist 1915 classic "Birth of...

Fashion, design, food HOT: THE KARL LAGERFELD COLLECTION FOR WOMEN (AND MEN) AT H&M HOT: THE BENTLEY CONTINENTAL GT More oooohs and aaaahs than a Rolls. HOT: CALLING ON MOTOROLA...

Talk was heady at the Chicago Architecture Foundation's cocktail reception recently to kick off "Sustainable Communities: Learning from the Dutch Experience" at Illinois Institute of Technology. But underneath all the...

Romance, simply put, is that wonderful rush we get from love. It's a feeling that can take many forms--yearning, wonder, desire, exhilaration, excitement or suspense--and it can be aroused by...

Women had it easy at the Art Institute of Chicago's Architecture & Design Society benefit at The Casino--all they had to do was channel Holly Golightly, since the night was...