Singles Swap Shoes, Pickup Lines At Zazz's Get-together for Charity

Jennifer Jurges knows how to pick a single man: by his shoes.

The 26-year-old Tinley Park woman Friday night threw her leftsandal (from a Greenwich Village shop) into a pile of shoes on thefloor of the China Club, 616 W. Fulton, drew out a shiny-black man'sshoe, then held it aloft waiting for the owner to claim it.

Jurges' approach?

"It looked like a businessman's shoe - well polished, black,kind of like a wingtip" but not as busy, Jurges said.

The shoe-matching game was one of many ways in which singlescould meet at the fourth annual All That Zazz Bash for singlessponsored by Sun-Times advice columnist Jeffrey Zaslow.

Jurges guessed right: The black shoe belonged to Dana Marzillo,30, of Palatine, whom she described as "cute and well dressed" andwith whom she carried on an animated conversation for some time.

With a big smile, Marzillo said, "We're eloping tonight," thendecided he wanted to know more about Jurges. "Let me see yournotes," he said to a reporter.

The party was a benefit for the Chicago Sun-Times Charity Trust.

"It's a congenial crowd," said North Sider Diana, 41. "Thereare a lot of nice people here." Earlier, she said friends "dragged"her to the party because it was "time to get out" after breaking up arelationship.

Other events included a dance contest and a competition seekingthe best flirting methods.

"Faint. It's very effective," advised John Panozzo, 44, ofTinley Park, who won a compact disc for his answer.

"The men who come here are here to meet women, and they areready for a relationship, marriage, kids," said Jodi, 36, of theNorth Side.

Activities continue today at Zazz's Singles Symposium, at theHyatt Regency Hotel, 151 E. Wacker, which will include talks titled"Sexual Etiquette in the '90s," "Cold Feet - Why Men Won't Commit"and "Letting Go and Moving On."