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Sunday, September 13, 2009
2009 Fortunate 500: Music
2009 FORTUNATE 500
MUSIC
For a previously posted micro-profile of Rose Reyes, go here.
Susan Antone. Antone’s, Help Clifford Help Kids
Ed Bailey. KLRU, ‘Austin City Limits,’ Texas Hill Country Wine & Food Festival
Marcia Ball. Health Alliance of Austin Musicians, Sweet Home New Orleans, Charity Partners of Austin, ‘Peace, Love & BBQ’
John Bernadoni. The John Bernardoni Production Group
Suzanna Choffel. suzannachoffel.com, Austin Music Foundation
Amy Corbin and Charles Attal. C3, Stubb’s BBQ, Austin City Limits Festival
Melissa and Kevin Connor. ME Television, KUT
David Cotton. Saxon Pub, CottonAustin, Threadgill’s
Dave Dart. Dart Music International
Ihor Gowda. Star Making Machinery
Sara Hickman. The Roots Agency
Charlie Jones. C3, Stubb’s BBQ, Austin City Limits Festival
Andy Langer. KGSR, Esquire
Terry Lickona. ‘Austin City Limits’
Dean and Jeff Lofton. I Buy Austin, jefflofton.com
Griff Lundberg. Cactus Cafe
Martie and Gareth Maguire. Dixie Chicks
Harold McMillan. DiverseArts
Marsha Milam. Solar Power Concerts, Milam & Company
Casey Monahan. Texas Music Office
James Moody. Transmission Entertainment, Fun Fun Fun Fest, Mohawk, Club DeVille, Red 7
Nakia. ‘Water to Wine’
Tim Neece. UT Performing Arts Center
Tim O’Connor. Direct Events, Austin Music Hall, La Zona Roza
Paul Oveisi. Momo’s, Austin Music Commission
Bob Schneider. Bob Schneider Music, ‘Tarantula’
Shawn Sides and Graham Reynolds. Golden Arm Trio, Rude Mechanicals
Nada and Hartt Stearns. One World Theatre
Roland Swenson. South by Southwest
Stephen Tatton. Launch787, Sea Change Records, SureFire Media + Promotion
Greg Vendetti. GV Evolutions, GV Music Enterprises, GregVendetti.com
Charlie Walker. C3, Stubb’s BBQ, Austin City Limits Festival
Steve Wertheimer. Continental Club
Annetta and James White. Broken Spoke
Graham Williams. Transmission Entertainment, Fun Fun Fun Fest, Mohawk, Club DeVille, Red 7, Lambert’s
Eddie Wilson. Threadgill’s
COMPLETE 2009 FORTUNATE 500 LISTS:
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Ballet Fête+ at the Austonian
Every year, anticipation builds …
Stephen Mills and Becky Beaver
To see how Ballet Austin will top its previous Fête …
Matt Duncan and Ena Sharma
Some pretty amazing folks have organized the annual fundraiser in the past …
Mary Margaret Farabee and Nancy Scanlan
But this year, celebrity lawyer Becky Beaver and her team outdid them all …
Ben and Joanie Bentzin
First, dinner guests were ferried by construction elevators to the 33rd floor of the unfinished Austonian condo tower …
Brent Hasty, Maria Groten and Eric Groten
Where the views were stupefying. I mean, I couldn’t recognize certain parts of downtown Austin, so high up were we. And there were another 20 unfinished floors above us …
Suzanne Winkelman and Carmen Tawil
Then there were the floral arrangements — always a Fête eye-opener — this year from new florists Mandarin Flower Co. The couple used black and white calla lilies to suggest tutus for “Swan Lake” …
Lee Walker and Michelle Westling
When guests stopped ogling the view and the flowers and greeting one another — it was the highest concentration of Fortunate 500 All-Stars anywhere — we found our tables …
Michael Pungello, Oliver Everette and Kevin Smothers
These were arranged in a doughnut shape around the central structural well, so everyone had splendid views of the city, but nobody could see two-thirds of the other guests. So we were linked up via video screens …
Shannon and Tony Casati
This didn’t work that well for the auction, with poor Evan Smith wandering among the guests with a microphone. Smith didn’t give up, and even pumped up bids for an Italian vacation to $23,000 …
Becky and Damon Holditch
We munched on tiny steaks and crab cakes provided by chef Elmar Prambs — who had another function over at the Four Seasons going simultaneously …
Doug Kaminski and Judy Wenum
I spent the most time with Melanie and Ben Barnes, also with Stephen Mills and Brent Hasty. I enjoyed priceless stories from Ben, who knows more about realpolitik than anyone else in Texas. (He says we are losing out on big projects because of red-state leadership.) He also introduced an idea for a presidential ballet that merits close attention.
Jim Smith, Jare Smith and Cliff Redd
Also met up with Jack and Carla McDonald, Amy and Kirk Rudy, Steven Tomlinson and Eugene Sepulveda, Karen Landa and Dale Dewey, Nancy Scanlan and John Watson, Dave Shaw, Mary Margaret and Ray Farabee, Cookie Ruiz, Nina and Frank Seely, Stephen Moser (looking fantabulous!), John Riedie, Linda Ball and Forrest Preece, Sarah and Ernest Butler, Kathy Panoff, Charles Duggan, Dr. John Hogg and David Garza, David Wyatt, Lauren Tuttle, Kristen Chen, Taylor Perkins, Lance Avery Morgan, Kevin Smothers and Michael Pungello, Oliver Everette, Cliff Redd and Rick Johnson, Larry Connelly and James Armstrong, Shannon and Tony Casati, Joanie and Ben Bentzin … And those just off the top of my head. For others, see Eugene’s Community Matters blog …
Sofia Avila and Victoria Avila (in charge of the amazing decor)
We all shuttled downstairs for the after-parties — one on the 10th floor with cabaret singer Mandy Lauderdale, and another, the Fête-ish, on the ground floor, which included hundreds of additional guests already progressing to a party climax as the two forces met …
Berry Crowley and Melanie Barnes
I saw some sexy dancing, ate a few sexy chocolates and consumed a sexy sazerac before making my departure …
Carla and Jack McDonald
One last note: By attending the Fête and the earlier Night of the Child (could do so because they were a block apart), I completely missed the the Bob “Daddy-O” Wade career celebration at the Museum of Popular Culture and the Horton Foote tribute at the Public Library Foundation gala …
Odette Perez and Nichole Wright (I’m supposed to mention Neiman Marcus)
I’m fond of artist Wade. And those of you who know my deep affection for the late playwright Foote realize this was heart-wrenching. (In fact, I spent my very first gala ever sitting next to Mr. Foote, starstruck but, luckily, not tongue-tied.) …
And look who was out, in top form!
Somebody has got to set up a master social calendar. We go weeks without a major event, then pack three or four biggies into one night? And these were just three of the invitations I received for Saturday. Please, somebody …
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2009 Fortunate 500: Movies
2009 FORTUNATE 500
MOVIES
For a previous posted micro-profile of Janet and John Pierson, go here.
Paul Alvarado-Dykstra. Fantastic Fest, Texas Motion Picture Alliance
Connie Britton. ‘Friday Night Lights,’ ‘Women in Trouble,’ ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’
Elizabeth Avellan. ‘Shorts,’ ‘Santos,’ Troublemaker Studios, Texas Motion Picture Alliance
Louis Black. Austin Chronicle, South by Southwest
Gary Bond. Austin Film Office, Austin Film Commission
Sandra Bullock and Jesse James. Bess Bistro, Walton’s Fancy and Staple, South Austin Speed Shop, ‘The Proposal,’ ‘All About Steve’
Kat Candler. Candler Productions, University of Texas
Kathryn and Kyle Chandler. ‘Friday Night Lights,’ ‘Morning,’ Beyond the Lights Celebrity Golf Tournament
Ashley Chiles. Ladyflash
Cole Dabney. Austin Film Critics, Coleandbobby.com
Marc English. Austin Film Society, Marc English Design
Caroline Frick. Texas Film Archives
Hector Galan. ‘The Music of America,’ ‘The Big Squeeze,’ ‘The War’
Dana Glover. Median Films, ‘Jollenbach’
Kyle Henry and Carlos Treviño. ‘Beeswax,’ Rude Mechs, ‘University, Inc.’
Tamara and Bob Hudgins. Texas Film Commission, Chisholm Trail Community Foundation
Mike Judge. ‘The Goode Family,’ Austin Film Society
Taylor Kitsch. ‘Friday Night Lights,’ ‘Wolverine’
Harry Knowles. Ain’t It Cool News, Fantastic Fest, Butt-numb-a-thon
Richard Linklater. Austin Film Society, ‘Inning by Inning,’ ‘Me and Orson Welles’
Suzanne and Tim McCanlies. ‘The Two Bobs’
Henri Mazza. Alamo Drafthouse
Barbara Morgan. Austin Film Festival
Mark Mueller. Voodoo Cowboy, Mueller Law
Chale Nafus. Austin Film Society
Masashi Niwano. Austin Asian American Film Festival
Karen Olsson and Andrew Bujalski. ‘Beeswax,’ Texas Monthly, ‘Waterloo’
Jesse Plemons. ‘Friday Night Lights,’ Greater Austin Walk for Autism, Beyond the Lights Charity Golf Tournament
PJ Raval. ‘Trouble the Water,’ ‘Trinidad,’ ‘The Two Bobs’
Robert Rodriguez. ‘Shorts,’ Austin Film Society, Troublemaker Studios
Tom Schatz. UT Film Institute
Paul Stekler. Austin Film Society, University of Texas
Agnes Varnum. Austin Film Society, Doc It Out
Janell Vela-Smith. Fighting Stunts Association, Spiderwood Studios
Anne Walker-McBay. ‘The Two Bobs’
Tommy G. Warren. Spiderwood Studios
Tara Wood. Wood Entertainment, ‘Waco’
David and Nathan Zellner. ‘Goliath’
COMPLETE 2009 FORTUNATE 500 LISTS:
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Night of the Child Gala at the Four Seasons
There’s almost no way to have a bad time at the Four Seasons …
Amanda Dudley, Jessica Gerard and Ann Davis
Which is why it remains a top destination for Austin galas …
Daniel and Julia Mercado
On a night crammed with social options, I spent part of Sunday evening at Night of the Child …
Ashleigh and Greg Wilkes
It raises money for A World for Children. It’s a group — new to me — that provides services for children in foster care …
Lacie Ritchie and Ellen Troxclair
The gimmick of the gala were gowns from St. Thomas boutique, auctioned through sealed bids with minimums starting at $89 …
Sharon Willis, Monica Burcham and Haythem Dawlett
Considering that the priciest outfit — lace-like coat worn here by fave model Bobbie Ragsdale — whatever you bid would be a bargain …
While the silent auction in the lobby seemed normal — how many signed Longhorn footballs or jerseys can we bid on? — the gown display was a bit innovative …
Bobbie Ragsdale, Heather Shaw
Models circulated through all the corridors, wearing identifying numbers as well as the apparel …
Oscar Laimez and Monika Sunholz
Since many of the female guests were also suitably gussied up, it was sometimes hard telling the models from the would-be purchasers …
Andy and Alissa Hutton
I love charity events where I know almost no one. (It means the universe of social givers continues to expand.) …
Summer Burns and Nate Paul
And here, I just knew the pros — models, auctioneers, photographers, waiters — the usual Four Seasons gang.
Jim and Julie Lavender
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