Best Party Staffer

"There's nothing worse than throwing a dinner party and then working the graveyard shift to clean the spinach dip off your Lenox. Next time, consider hiring Beck-n-Call Event Services, 15635 Falls Road, 410-472-2526. Owner Tammie Monaco, the former director of catering at The Brass Elephant, will provide servers and bartenders for your romantic dinner for two or that 150-person wedding in your tented backyard. Monaco's resume is star-studded—in her college years, she spent summers in the Hamptons at the beck and call of Kim Basinger and Alec Baldwin (in, uh, happier times), Rudy Giuliani, and Jimmy Buffett." (August, page 216)