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Shake It Like You Mean It: Local bar and restaurant vets team up for a fashionable fundraiser

Written by Eric Flowers Wednesday, 11 May 2011 10:31

If you’re like me, the whole right-wing effort to defund Planned Parenthood made you want to bang your head against your cubicle, or down a stiff cocktail. Well here’s your chance to make good on that notion (the cocktail that is, not head banging). Longtime collaborators Chris Lohrey and Erica Reilly are teaming up with local mixologist and Source columnist Columbine Quillen on a themed party that doubles as a fundraiser for the local Planned Parenthood offices.

The party is a throwback of sorts for Reilly and Lohrey who threw several of these events dubbed “red parties” dating back as far as 2003 at the Domino Room. They threw several subsequent parties at their former restaurant and nightclub, The Grove, usually around Valentine’s Day (hence the “red” theme, said Reilly.) The most recent iteration, which the organizers are calling Blush: The Red Party Continues, draws on two popular concepts that Lohrey, Reilly and Quillen have dabbled in recently — the pop-up restaurant and the cocktail-driven gathering. As fans of Lohrey’s and Reilly’s mobile kitchen, Spork, know, the pair have experimented with one-off dinners at Café Sintra, which happens to be the host for this Saturday night’s Blush party. Recently, old friends Reilly and Quillen teamed up on a playful, pop-up nightclub at the matte bar in Tin Pan Alley, which the two transformed into a “password required” speakeasy for a night.

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