- 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.
Spoleto Buzz- Eargasms
Category Archives: The Back Channel
Buh-Bye
June 10, 2008 – 10:59 am
Spoleto Festival USA Finale. Sunday, June 10, 2008. Middleton Place.
It was warm on Sunday. I had shade envy — walking around to shoot various picnics I kept wondering if other people’s spots weren’t cooler.
With the warm day and the concert not on the Great Lawn for the first time in ten years, only one lone couple was [...]
No-Cro, Ho!
June 8, 2008 – 3:16 pm
Saturday, June 7.
Having conquered Upper King and Cannonborough, the party juggernaut rolled north of the crosstown Saturday night for two Piccolo Finale satellites.
5 pm. Home of Tyler and Michelle Smyth, Ashley Ave.
We got here a little late for this one but that freed up the hosts to give us a tour, white sangria in [...]
Ficcolo
June 7, 2008 – 2:35 pm
Update on Lou Reed. Laurie Andersons’s manager came in the bookstore yesterday (she bought a copy of Critter Jitters by Kalyn Oyer, a Write of Summer camper since 2003). Without me even mentioning that he had been a little standoffish during the party on Wednesday, she offered that he was in a terrible mood because [...]
Dropping a Little NYC
June 6, 2008 – 4:03 pm
Thursday, June 6. 10:30 pm. Party for the Carolina Chocolate Drops. Sugar Bakeshop, Bill Bowick and David Bouffard. 59½ Cannon St.
You could call it the Zoolander Effect. Take two stylish guys from New York, put them in a transitional neighborhood and add pastries, chocolatinis and champagne and the result is some hip and really, really [...]
Wine and Beer!
June 5, 2008 – 4:09 pm
Wednesday, June 5. Party for Homeland and The Great War. Home of Susan Bass and Tom Bradford, undisclosed French Quarter location.
Laurie Anderson stood alone in the middle of the room, brandishing a large knife and asking if anybody wanted a piece.
Susan Bass and Lynn Hanlin had just brought out a giant chocolate cake in [...]
More Than This
June 1, 2008 – 6:24 pm
Had Saturday night (relatively) off from party coverage so here’s some news from the streets and cafes:
Celebrity Spotting #1: On King Street Thursday night I spotted “30 Rock”/Piccolo Fringe’s Paul Scheer and Jack McBrayer walking by St. Matthew’s Lutheran. I freaked and honked the horn. My wife got all over me. She recognized them from somewhere, [...]
Wabi-sabi
May 31, 2008 – 1:54 pm
Fri., May 30, Spoleto SCENE Party for Monkey: Journey to the West. Church Street home of James and Dolly Small.
Hosts: Elin Cate & Harry Waikart, Justin Harris, Caroline Nuttall, Elizabeth & Stokes Player, Mary Ramsay, Jackie & Neil Thomson and Taylor Webb.
Last year this reporter caught hell for comparing Spoleto SCENE’s Soiree to [...]
Oedipus and the Mamas Boys
May 30, 2008 – 11:49 pm
Thursday, May 29 party for The Burial at Thebes and the break/s. Church Street home of John and Shea Kuhn.
Sprawled out on a couple of couches in the family room, Mark Bamuthi Joseph, beatboxer Tommy Shepherd (a.k.a. Soulati), DJ Excess and the crew of the break/s, were watching the Lakers finish off the Spurs in [...]
Party Like It’s 1927
May 27, 2008 – 5:07 pm
Monday, Mar. 26. Party for Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea. Church St. Home of Celeste and Charles Patrick.
The young members of the 1927 theatre company had been remiss about checking in with their families while on tour (came here from Korea, next show is Singapore), but fortunately someone back in London [...]
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 [...]
