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Friday, October 23, 2009
Marathon Kids’ Heroes for Health at Whole Foods Plaza
How proud can you be of your city …
MK founder Kay Morris and Joy Authur
When it supports an efficient, forward-thinking, Austin-based, but national organization like Marathon Kids, which inspires hundreds of thousands of children to run and eat in healthy ways …
Ross Moody (whose family foundation just gave $2.5 million to KLRU for new “Austin City Limits” equipment) and Amy Skudlarczyk
And leaders such as state Sen. Kirk Watson, honoree at the Heroes for Health reception at Whole Foods Plaza, who help make such things happen …
MK board director Shannon Moody and state Sen. Kirk Watson
Leadership continued by former Mayor Will Wynn and state Rep. Mark Strama — also at the event …
Lisa and Jeremy Thiel
And powerful business folks like Susan and Michael Dell, John Mackey and Paul Carrozza, who give Marathon Kids their full financial support …
Heather and Wade Hodges
It all came together on a flawless night at the plaza, which is fast becoming the venue of choice for such health-oriented events.
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Paggi House First Anniversary Party
Once, it was hidden, quiet, old-fashioned and romantic …
Pablo Aguilar, Angela So and Kevin Yang
Now, it’s expansive, lively, new-fashioned and romantic (in a different way) …
Ginger Leigh, Dr. Kris Kreck and Bridget Ramey
At heart, the Paggi House remains one of Austin’s oldest, best-loved traditions housed inside one its most ancient buildings …
Discovery Gerdes and Amanda Wagoner
The new incarnation, however, is just a year old, which is why regulars and newcomers were nipping at the bubbly early Thursday evening, before attacking the appetizers …
Beverly Dale and KT Nelson
Not me. I still had five more parties to attend.
Everett and Elizabeth Keating
I was pleased to meet a tech-savvy radiologist (Dr. Kris Kreck); a pair of San Francisco dance mavens (Beverly Dale and KT Nelson, who will compete in Ballet Austin’s New American Talent next spring) and two readers, transplants from San Francisco (Jan and Ted Freimuth) who kindly praised my writing and did me the ultimate honor of comparing my work to Herb Caen’s (whom Ted met on the street one day, Bloody Mary in hand, waiting for marching band to play for his birthday).
Alas my pictures of this last pair all came out with shuttered eyelids.
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Austin Film Festival Opening Party at Mohawk
They used to call them “Chamber of Commerce Days” …
Claudia Blanchette and Amanda Garcia
When the weather was so unblemished, out-of-towners long to linger. Perhaps to spend money, I suppose …
Michael Torres and Stephanie Hunt
Instead, let’s call them “Open Austin Days,” when we extend our collective hands to participants in an event like the Austin Film Festival …
Leslie Carlisle, Terrence Michael and TS Morgan
That’s what happened at Mohawk on Thursday, as festival badge-holders, from home and abroad, left behind panel discussions and movie premieres to engage each other in free-wheeling conversation for an hour or so …
Laura Kinkaid and Andrew Lee
The food stayed upstairs on the terrace, nearer the azure sky. So did the guests. A curious few filtered down to hear the lively band even to dance. But industry talk and nibbles ruled the roost.
Walter Bell and Denise Pischinger
One vegetarian visitor asked for a recommendation on Congress Avenue near the Paramount Theatre. I scratched my head and pointed him toward Manuel’s, Annies and a few other spots on that main stem.
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