••• Unions are hiring non-members to protest for their causes. I was wondering how they’d get so many people to march on City Hall over and over and over. (Wall Street Journal)

••• Olivier Cheng Catering and Events will be involved in Chelsea Clinton’s upcoming wedding, “according to a person familiar with the matter.” But a rep for the company denied it. (Wall Street Journal)

••• “To avert a border war over its proposed Business Improvement District, Chinatown is making concessions to adjacent neighborhood groups such as the SoHo Alliance and the Lower East Side BID, as they too try to keep or expand their territories.” (Wall Street Journal)

••• “Photographer Javier Gomez is having a big few weeks. After selling four pieces at a one-night show at the INVEN.TORY boutique on Lafayette St., he’s having an open house at a new event space in Tribeca. On Wednesday, from 6 to 10 p.m., the Panama-born, New York-based Gomez will show work at 75 Murray St. in the Bogardus Mansion. A cast-iron building, the Bogardus is composed of event floors, a ballroom and speakeasy. Gomez’s work (left, “Moving Forward,” $2,500) is full of metaphor on urban life. “We’re so lost in technology, we forgot how to connect to each other and nature,” says the artist, who consistently donates proceeds to the Aid for AIDS charity. “My work makes people less afraid to be together.” (New York Daily News) Wait, the Bogardus what? The Bogardus Mansion? I love discovering stuff like this! Oh, it’s new, and it’s having an open house on July 21. RSVP to courtney@bogardusevents.com. I’ll try to dig around more in the meantime….

••• “[Il Matto] makes for an interesting evening, at least. But between very confused service and dishes that mainly don’t taste quite good enough to pull off their gimmicks, I can’t recommend it. Still, some people might get a kick out of the place—for best results, sit at the bar and try one of the surrealist cocktails (one comes with ‘tom yum gum’).” (Village Voice)