Life really was a cabaret Tuesday afternoon as nearly 100 women and a few good men (including Dr. Loren Roth and the CLO's Van Kaplan) gathered to celebrate the 14th anniversary of Getting to the Point for Women, a relocation service headed by Ellen Roth that has helped hundreds of prominent women to call Pittsburgh home. Newcomers and longtime fixtures mingled at the Cabaret at Theater Square, where neon blue martini glasses lit the room and Roth changed onstage into a svelte "gown." Enjoying lunch and a cabaret sampler were her mother, Charlotte Himmel, visiting from Palm Beach, co-founder Jacqui Lazo, Holly Buffington, Shelly Lipton, Kristen McMahon, Hilda Fu, Pam Golden, Julie Langley, Katherine Henderson, Pat Siger and Judy Linaburg.

College Prowler Launch

One school, one guidebook written by the students who go there. That's the approach College Prowler takes, and it's become the kind of success story every young company dreams of. What began as a class project at CMU is now a hot business that publishes 200 guidebooks. Thursday the founders (Luke Skurman, Joe Rahimi, Omid Gohari, Christina Koshzow and Christopher Mason) and principals (including Glen Meakem) invited supporters to celebrate at a launch party held at The Andy Warhol Museum. Wishing them well were Tim and Jessica O'Brien, Andy Masich, Jeff Letwin, Linda Dickerson, Greg and Simin Curtis, Nancy and Madison Byrnes and city Councilman Bill Peduto.

Black Tie Bingo

Black tie and bingo do go hand-in-hand, particularly as presented by the Westmoreland Regional Hospital Foundation for Excela Health Westmoreland Hospice. The eighth such matchup Saturday, in a top hat and white feather boa-adorned Westmoreland Country Club, drew such enthusiastic players as event co-chairs Mary Catherine Motchar and Mary Clymer, Jennings Womack, Dave and Marie Gallatin, Terry and Debbie Reese (she won $600), Tina Wodzinski, Joe and Margaret Brennan, Pam and Dr. Angelo DeMezza, Jean Wilcox, Jim and Susan Antoniono and Ken and Linda Mroz.

-- Phyllis Pack