Don't know, but our guess is that a lot of people spent Monday in a recovery mode. It was that big of a party weekend.

        • Stars and Stripes Ball turned the Cincinnati Art Museum into a World War I canteen affair Saturday with Red Cross volunteers in drab skirts and clunky shoes, vintage posters and 250 guests told to dress “patriotic formal” by the sponsoring CAM Renaissance Society.

        Which poster collector Michael Hodesh took seriously, all duded up in Uncle Sam glad-rags. And heaven only knows how many women in red beaded gowns with flag scarves and men with flag ties. The $50-$60 admission goes to New York relief efforts.

        • Bachelors and bachelorettes — 14 of them — were for sale Sunday, when more than 200 showed up for another New York relief fund-raiser at the Crowne Plaza.

        Lively do, this, what with the hefty appetizer buffet, generous pour on the cocktails and sassy drag queens, wigs hairsprayed to the high-tension limit, mixin', minglin' and getting the crowd in a bidding mood.

        And lots of raffles. Organizer Johnny Stephenson, banquet coordinator at Rock Bottom Brewery, lined up $7,000 worth of gift certificates for the raffle.

        • The scene was more starched at the Hyatt Sunday, where the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion threw its 19th annual tribute dinner.

        Tribute being the key word, with four tireless civic activists honored for community service.: Joe Hale, Cinergy Foundation president, and wife Linda, plus arts patrons Alice and Harris Weston.

        Guests in Sunday-best business attire paid $250 — sometimes more with sponsorships and patron deals — for dinner, program and cocktail reception that was more about friends getting together than cocktails.

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