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From the outset of imagining his next Houston steakhouse, Berg Hospitality Group founder and CEO Benjamin (Ben) Berg envisioned something spectacular. Something as glam as his jewel box of a restaurant Turner’s. But something larger, even more el…
Read MoreWhen Le Colonial owners Joe King and Rick Wahlstedt jet into Houston from their home bases (Chicago and New York, respectively), you know there is going to be a can’t-miss happening. The two arrived with team in tow to celebrate the completion of…
Read MoreWhat: The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Visionaries of the Year awards evening Where: River Oaks Country Club PC Moment: Previously known as the Man and Woman of the Year Campaign, the newly named fundraiser pitted 13 young professionals and their te…
Read MoreOf the dozen or so Juneteenth celebrations held throughout the Houston/Galveston area none was more memorable nor more sophisticated than the Juneteenth Jubilee. This dinner fête featured the talents of a dozen distinguished Black Houston-based chefs w…
Read MoreIt’s always a party at Bari in River Oaks District thanks to the glam entourage that regularly pours in for the killer bolognese, delish truffle pasta and so much more. So on the first anniversary of the decidedly Italian restaurant, owners and o…
Read MoreThat’s a wrap. Since April 1, PaperCity has covered 63 Houston society events, most of them nonprofit fundraisers. With publication of this article highlighting an additional 19 events that brings the grand total to 82 Houston party stories in th…
Read MoreSo much for those wrong-headed theories that beauty and brains don’t mix. The Arts of Healing’s recent “Women in Medicine” fashion event at Tootsies featured on the runway some 20 physicians and medical professional femmes who s…
Read MoreThere was laughter and there were tears when Rosie Carrabba, matriarch of the Carrabba restaurant family; her son Johnny Carrabba; Donna Lewis, the owner of Tootsies; and this scribe sat down on a recent morning to record an revealing and entertaining …
Read MoreFortunately, Mack Abbot of Greenwich, Connecticut was as enamored of Paris as his bride, Maggie Phillips of Dallas. Long before they met in New York in 2019, Maggie Phillips had dreamed of being wed in The American Cathedral in Paris, a historic 19th c…
Read MoreIn between the late spring rain showers, two of Houston’s leading park-focused groups independently took to the great outdoors for a bit of al fresco fundraising. Hermann Park Conservancy’s Urban Green Young Professionals gathered at Cherie…
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