She found him funny, and enthusiastic whether cooking dinner or building furniture.
Several nights later, Ellen was hosting a small dinner with her building's superintendent and his wife when the conversation turned to the inky realm of the supernatural.
A pianist, a cellist and a violinist play downstairs in the four-story, skylighted building; dinner is served on big, handsome blue-and-white plates; and shellfish, the house specialty, are delivered directly from Nha Trang on the South China Sea several times a week.
One afternoon, right before the dinner rush, the building's sewage system went haywire and somehow it backed up on itself.
The Westmont is home to large numbers of young Orthodox Jews, and because pressing elevator buttons is forbidden on the Sabbath, which begins Friday evening, the many young people who had been invited to dinners in the building were hiking up multiple flights to reach their destinations.
GrubWithUs, a startup best known for organizing buy-in dinners with overarching themes (TechCrunch fans!) or at least one particularly interesting person at the table, is playing with the idea of building dinners for the most interesting person of all: you.
"I was sitting with my kids having dinner and suddenly the building was just dancing in the air," said Majida Ameer, who ran out of her building in the capital's Salihiya district with her three children.
That night, Lang Lang, his parents, a few guests, and Eschenbach took a room at the Palm Springs club, tucked away in a posh apartment building, for dinner.
On the island, a reception will begin at 7 15 in the main building, with dinner and dancing at 8 15.
GEORGIA WALL and CARTER BALES.; April 23: The Paris Review had an awards dinner at the Puck Building honoring Norman Mailer.
