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A Frisky Night on the Town
After a somber but comforting function honoring a dear, departed friend, your social columnist socialized, professionally, as long as he could stand on Thursday.
Lauren Kelleher and Titus Dunham
My first intended stop was an Enfield home to finally experience the Trees for Pease party, to which I have been kindly, emphatically and repeatedly invited. Didn’t happen. No parking for blocks and blocks around the house. And I don’t give up easily.
Christopher Bargmann, Crisana Sanchez and Steve Gibson
So off to downtown. Parked in my sweet spot near the Bremond Block, so near to everything social, but hidden away.
Tobin Lim and Maureen Toribio
First event: A reception at Savoir Beds, a transformed bedding store on West Third Street. Beds for $80,000? Got ‘em. For much less, too, as well as pillows, neck rests and other sleep aids.
Yes, they enjoyed the beds
A toothsome, well-lubricated crowd was getting pretty frisky by the time I left. My thanks to David Whiteaker for turning me on to this small, carefree party. Appreciated. Lifted me out of a funk.
Sharon Miller, Dean Lofton and Stacy Davenport
Next came a Dean Lofton reception at Ruth’s Chris. Although a relative newcomer from South Carolina, Dean is an inveterate connector, so folks from the worlds of writing, public relations and music meshed there.
Louis Carnicle and Abbie Marriott
They listened to the rippling sounds of jazz trumpeter Jeff Lofton. Dean told a crunchy story about meeting Sonny Rollins backstage at Bass Concert Hall with Jeff, all thanks to an alert limo driver.
Joanna Duncan, Mary Latouf and Vanessa Lively
Folks were settling into their drinks, so I thought: CharityBash at the Parish or AceFest at the Belmont next? That’s when another night owl met me on the street, saying the CharityBash date auction was insanely crowded and hot — for good or ill — so I went the other way. (I heard later that CharityBash raised $90,000!)
Jessica Lovell and Jason Wadge
OK, so just what the heck is AceFest? Nobody on the Belmont’s upstairs terrace seemed to know. Really. I asked more than a dozen guests.
Deanna and Trenton
A little Internet search showed that AceFest is a way of bringing together folks from the movie industry in social settings. That’s good. But why do we need that, when there are scores of film-related parties in Austin every year? AceFest is up and running in NYC. We’ll see if it catches fire here.
Brandi Smith and Peter Armendariz
Talk about frisky, though. The proffered funky music, silly props and shiny wigs did not go unused by the movie gang, even if they weren’t exactly sure what they were celebrating.
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