--Host Jon Stewart. Pretty funny, no? Loved that he brought "Once" singer/star Marketa Irglova back out on stage to give a speech after the orchestra previously cut her off.

--Tilda Swinton of "Michael Clayton" winning the wide-open Best Supporting Actress race. Not to brag, but we did call it!

--OK, we didn't predict Marion Cotillard winning Best Actress for "La Vie En Rose." We'll make it up to you, we swear.

--Katherine Heigl admitted to being really nervous on stage. Do you appreciate her honesty, or is that kind of embarrassing? We're on the fence.

--Wow, big night for "The Bourne Ultimatum" in the sound-related categories! We were just waiting for someone to congratulate Matt Damon on his newfound happiness with Sarah Silverman …

--Is anyone else continually amazed at how different Daniel Day-Lewis is in real life, compared to his onscreen personas? Wild.

--The best movie won Best Picture. If you haven't seen "No Country for Old Men," it's time to change that.

Recap the show with red carpet photos, a complete list of winners and lots, lots more: http://chicago.metromix.com/movies/producer_guide/chicago-oscars-guide/288517/content

I’ve been eyeing Thai Urban Kitchen -- that Pan-Asian spot in Ogilvie Transportation Center from the owners of Lakeview’s Sura -- for months now, but I’m usually too busy making a mad dash to catch my train home to the West 'burbs to stop in. Finally, I got around to making dinner plans there, thinking it the perfect meeting ground for a group of girlfriends – a mix of city dwellers and suburbanites who commute downtown for work.

The evening started off on a weird enough note when our flustered server approached the table and candidly admitted how stressed out he was. We theorized that his blood pressure must be through the roof when the dining room was, you know, more than 10 percent full as it was that night. When a manager stopped by to help my vegan friend navigate menu options, we were dumbfounded when he asked her, “Can you eat seafood?” Biology lesson No. 1: Fish are animals too. When our server returned—remarking again about his stressed-out-ness—it seemed to take twice as long for him to input our orders into his PDA than it would have with a plain old pen and paper. But here’s to technology, right?

The cocktails were fine, the sushi was fine—but the oddity of the experience stuck with me the entire train ride home. Considering the lack of dining options near Ogilvie, though, we’ll probably be back. When you’re facing that lonely two-hour wait after missing a weekend Metra train, sushi and a martini beats McDonald’s by a mile.

Even if they ultimately disappoint, movies like "Vantage Point" make you hungry to know what's really going on. Viewers were certainly hungry for answers over the weekend, helping the irritating thriller earn $24 million to top the box office. It was by far the biggest new release of the week, considering Michel Gondry's goofy "Be Kind Rewind" placed seventh with $4.1 million and the sort-of OK teen movie "Charlie Bartlett" took in only $1.8 million. Yes, that's even less than the new Larry the Cable Guy movie, "Witless Protection," which still only drew $2.2 million. Ouch.

Did you feel manipulated by the constant cliffhangers in "Vantage Point"? Or were you busy catching up on Oscar-nominated flicks?