SPOLETO BUZZ BLOG

As we creep up on the final weekend of the festival, the City Paper office is all atwitter with talk of the annual Spoleto Soirée, which we’re lucky enough to sponsor each year with Spoleto and which each year turns out to be the party of the Spoleto season. This year’s version goes down Saturday night, and since it’s paired with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago’s performance that night, we’re going with a Windy City theme. Big city flair Chicago-style highlights this year’s showdown, with signature drinks from Bacardi, Budweiser Select beer, wine from Maso Canali and DaVinci and authentic Chi-Town food. The Gaillard Exhibition Hall will be outfitted like a Prohibition-era speakeasy, with the Joe Clark Big Band providing the entertainment. Tickets are still available, but going fast, so if you want to go — and trust me, you do — you’d better move quick. They’re $75 each, which covers all you can drink and eat, plus an entire evening’s worth of fun. Get ’em at the Gaillard box office or online asap.