2000 – Page 7 – Jae-Ha Kim

Are you in the mood for a little romance?

July 7, 2000October 23, 2013 Jae-Ha Kim

You think romance and you think of New Year’s Eve and Valentine’s Day, right? Fuggedaboudit. They’re long gone. But summertime’s here and that’s even better. Think about it. There’s no one pressure-cooker day on which to pin all your romantic hopes and dreams, and you don’t have to stroll arm-in-arm swaddled in down-stuffed outerwear. There are plenty of ways to spend an enchanted, summer evening in the Chicago area, whether it’s dining at a top-notch restaurant, gazing at the stars from the city’s most awesome vantage point or slow dancing with your sweetheart.

Motion slickness

June 25, 2000August 23, 2022 Jae-Ha Kim

Sure, Britney, Christina, ‘N Sync and the Backstreet Boys look pretty cool dancing around onstage at their concerts. But let’s face it–so could you if you had a personal choreographer showing you how to position every part of your body.

Fall footwear gets soft touch

June 22, 2000September 2, 2022 Jae-Ha Kim

Feminine fashion has returned. This fall, pack away your clunky boots and platform heels. The ultra-casual look is being replaced by prettier, more delicate designs.

Trouble afoot?

June 22, 2000September 2, 2022 Jae-Ha Kim

After building an empire as a celebrity shoe designer, Steve Madden finds himself in a precarious situation, teetering like someone in the platform shoes that earned him fame and $163 million in sales for his company in 1999.

“Alien Adventure”

June 21, 2000July 26, 2023 Jae-Ha Kim

The animated Imax 3-D film “Alien Adventure” is about a lot of things, but plot isn’t one of them. Sure, it has a premise: A small tribe of space gypsies called the Glagoliths roam the universe in search of a new home. The leader of the Glags – a sadistic Jabba the Hutt type – sends out a team to evaluate a potential new home. But instead of landing in a real city, the soldiers encounter “Adventure Planet” – a high-tech amusement park not yet open to the public.

Once again, Oprah graces cover of O

June 21, 2000September 2, 2022 Jae-Ha Kim

You know that old adage, “Don’t fix it if it ain’t broken?” Well, O, The Oprah Magazine and Real Simple aren’t listening. Just a few months after their splashy debuts, the well-received, very high-profile lifestyle magazines are replacing their top editors.

There’s something about Harry Potter

June 21, 2000August 9, 2011 Jae-Ha Kim

Come July 8, 12-year-old Allie Greenberg will be one of the first kids in Chicago to own the new Harry Potter book. Allie, who’ll be in seventh grade at the University of Chicago Lab School this fall, put her name on the pre-order list at Barbara’s Bookstore in Old Town, oh, a year ago.

Whitney Houston drug intervention reportedly fails

June 8, 2000August 17, 2022 Jae-Ha Kim

Whitney Houston ignored the pleas of her mother, friends and drug specialists who hoped that an intervention last summer would persuade the singer to seek professional treatment, US Weekly reports in an issue hitting newsstands Friday.

A group grope run by basic instincts

June 8, 2000July 29, 2022 Jae-Ha Kim

Richard Hatch walked around naked, caught a lot of fish and got on a lot of people’s nerves before winning the million-dollar prize on “Survivor.” And Chicago’s gay community is loving all of the attention being lavished on a man one of his cast mates referred to as “Darth Gaydar.”

Leather the look at MTV awards

June 8, 2000June 16, 2023 Jae-Ha Kim

How fetching was Janet Jackson in her floor-length black leather dress? After she presented Keanu Reeves with his MTV Movie Award for best male performance Saturday, the actor paused in the middle of his acceptance speech to stare at her in awe and utter, “God . . . beautiful.”