- Jonathan Sanchez
A City Paper contributor for four years, Jonathan Sanchez will cover at least 12 parties of the 2008 festival season. He plans to eat many different types of cheese. There will be action shots of glamorous people holding cups of wine, and there will be the boldest-faced names you ever saw. Jonathan lives in Wagener Terriace with his wife Lauren and daughter Evelyn. He owns Blue Bicycle Books on King Street, and his website is beingsanchez.com.
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Darjeeling Unlimited
May 26, 2008 – 12:34 pm
Sunday, May 25, Party for Shantala Shivalingappa and Boston Ballet, Leslie Turner’s home, Society St.
“Well originally I guess we came here on a spiritual journey but that didn’t really pan out.”
– Owen Wilson as Francis Whitman in The Darjeeling Limited.
No such misguided pretensions last night, which skipped the Pray and went straight for Eat [...]
A Cinderella Story — Bedon’s Alley
May 24, 2008 – 5:41 pm
Friday, May 24, Bedon’s Alley. Party for La Cenerentola
“This crowd has gone deadly silent, a Cinderella story outta nowhere” – Carl Spackler, Caddyshack
The crazy thing about the Bedon’s Alley Party is the silence, deep down in the cemetery quiet of South of [...]
itinerary
May 23, 2008 – 11:55 am
Welcome back to the Spoleto Party Blog. I’m Jonathan Sanchez, your host, your consigliere, the Virgil to your Dante as we travel through these 12 circles of formaggio, maybe more, the next two weeks.
Friday, 5/23 at 9 pm – Bedon’s Alley Party
Sunday, 5/25 at 10 pm – Party for Boston Ballet and Shantala Shivalingappa [...]
Due Mondi
June 11, 2007 – 1:07 pm
The Spoleto Finale (Sunday, June 10, Middleton Place) is a festival of two worlds. Up front near the house, everyone listens to the music (although it’s acceptable for two ladies to have a quiet heart-to-heart).
In the back, where a rubber chicken swung from a tree (replacing the piñata), the scene is more [...]
See More Glass
June 9, 2007 – 11:04 am
Party for The Book of Longing, 178 Ashley Ave, Wycliffe House, Jeff and Wendy Gleim, hosts.
To cover parties you have to be strapped:
1. Tiny notepad.
2. Digital recorder, for quick observational asides: “Scott and Zelda passed out in the corner at 1 a.m., sleeping like innocent children.” “Don’t forget to get eggs on the way [...]
Georgia Peaches
June 8, 2007 – 1:45 pm
Thursday, June 7, 10:15 pm. 40 Society Street. Party for Swan Lake.
Marni Rothschild and fiancé Marcus Durlach’s singular singlehouse was already at full roar when the dancers came in.
With big coal-dark eyes and lean bodies, they headed straight for the silver cups of pomme frites, the deep-fat fryers sizzling like applause.
As the [...]
Gelato in Time
June 7, 2007 – 2:51 pm
Music in Time Party, Wed., June 6, hosted by Lynn Hanlin, Denise Barto and Annie Stone at 67 Meeting.
We’ve always loved this sign on 67 Meeting Street. (It used to say “Please admire…”)
There was much to enjoy and admire at this party at Lynn Hanlin’s house, tucked behind the Private Gardner’s.
We caught co-host Annie Stone’s earrings [...]
Shipwrecked
June 3, 2007 – 2:27 pm
Saturday, June 2. 10:30 p.m. 80 East Bay Street (wharf-side), party for The Island of Merlin, or The World Reversed. Hosted by Charlotte Sloan.
Rough night. Or at least it started out that way. I was on my phone, passing Great Wall Express (Romney and King), when I left this voicemail message:
“Yeah, the party is right [...]
This is Why We’re Hot
June 2, 2007 – 2:29 pm
An Open Letter to Joe Sanchez:
Hey little Brother, I’ll keep this brief. I know you are doing well in Atlanta. Only 27 and you own a house, do Olympic-distance triathlons, and are a big-shot engineer who goes to Leipzig a couple times a year, zooming down the autobahn in the company Audi. That being said…MOVE TO CHARLESTON. NOW. LIVE [...]
Blue Moon
June 1, 2007 – 11:31 am
Thursday, May 31, Party for Shen Wei Dance Arts and Major Bang. Home of Susan Bass and Tom Bradford, undisclosed location in the French Quarter
Serious cyclists, Bradford and Bass know about replenishment. The healthy spread last night included rice salad, rotisserie chicken confit, grape tomatoes, gourmet slaw, roasted almonds. A table was set aside exclusively for [...]
