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...Diane Schlamadinger, 38, asks incredulously as she eyes a display of fancy chocolates in yellows, greens and pinks. She samples a dark truffle that oozes ganache, and she moans with delight. Schlamadinger and her cousin Natalie Ruiz, 21, have wandered into the new Ethel's Chocolate Lounge in their Chicago neighborhood. The pair ooh and ah over the plush pink furniture and giggle about the writing on the walls ("Is it a tryst if it's with a truffle?") before settling into chairs on the brick patio with two iced mocha drinks. "Oh, my gosh," Schlamadinger sighs happily. "I love...
...style establishments like Manhattan's La Maison du Chocolat, where a cup of Guayaquil or Caracas hot cocoa sets you back $7, to the more mass-market Ethel's Chocolate Lounges, created by Mars Inc., the U.S.'s No. 2 candy vendor. Mars has launched three Ethel's in Chicago this year and plans on three more by the end of summer. Indiana-based South Bend Chocolate Co. has opened seven Chocolate Cafés in Indiana, Ohio and Michigan in the past two years, and Vosges, a Chicago-based truffle company, has established four Haut-Chocolat Purple Houses...
...younger and younger,? Berry said, even back then, before the ?86 team reenergized the Nation big time. ?Very few are left who remember Black Jack Wilson and Fritz Ostermueller from the ?30s. Whatever . . . The club is prospering. There has been serious talk of starting a BLOHARDS chapter in Chicago-there are plenty of Red Sox fans there. Most of them don?t recall Irene Hennessey, but they root for the Sox. That?s what counts...
...steel executive, Roberts grew up in Long Beach, Ind., outside Chicago and attended La Lumiere, a Catholic boys’ boarding school nearby. By the time he arrived at Harvard in the fall of 1973, he had developed a passion for history...
What about other mayors? A Notebook survey found that the mayors of Chicago, Washington, Philadelphia and New Orleans do not have listed phone numbers. But Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, elected to the city council in 1983, has kept his number listed ever since. The mayors of Minneapolis, Minn., and San Antonio, Texas, can be found in the phone book, and so can the top executives of smaller towns like Topeka, Kans., and Fargo, N.D. If you ring Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin, you just may get her mother, Ruth White, who calmly refers irate callers to city hall. Says White...