Featured Parties

When watching ABC’s What Would You Do? program, it’s hard to imagine host John Quiñones in the fields of South Texas as a migrant worker living in poverty. But that was the early life of the nationally acclaimed television news corresponden…

Houston Children’s Charity co-founder, CEO and fundraiser extraordinaire Laura Ward likes to say that no one can ever surprise her and that she is never speechless. That might have been true previously. But during HCC’s 25th anniversary lun…

Less than six months after its “make-up” Grand Gala Ball, held in June, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston called the caterer, booked the florist, hired a band and sent out invitations for a second Grand Gala Ball, which was held last weekend…

For many in the Hilton Americas-Houston ballroom, it was shocking to learn that all three of the chairs of the Crime Stoppers gala had been victims of dangerous crimes. Their experiences and the rash of increased crimes in Houston committed by individu…

Buffalo Bayou Preservation president Anne Olson was unperturbed by the chilly weather, carrying her jacket on her arm while greeting supporters, most clad in warm coats, to the annual “Connecting Houston” gala. The outdoor dinner affair for…

Miranda Lambert famously sang that little girls are made of “Gunpowder and lead.” After meeting the 2021 National Cowgirl Hall of Fame inductees, we would add courage, grit, talent and tenacity. Lambert headlined the list of new inductees a…

The swans glided into Tony’s midday Thursday for a stunning luncheon that celebrated, in many ways, the best of Houston. The cadre of women, all dressed to the nines, and sprinkling of well-suited men had come for one of Tony’s swell meals …

Pardon the cliché but Scenic Houston and the Houston Quality of Life Coalition are birds of a feather, yes, flocking together. So it was a muy simpatico evening at River Oaks Country Club when the former honored Dick Weekley, a founding member of the l…

As Houston charities and nonprofits curate benefits to make up for a year of lost happenings and empty coffers, one art group went all out for its gala, presenting a night like no other. Cue The Big Bang! This evening was not for the faint of heart, th…

Maybe not as over-the-top as the Orange Show Gala, but not as understated as the following night’s Zoo Ball, the Houston SPCA Howl-O-Ween Ball did its share of contributing to the fundraising fun while rollicking and raising more than $1 million….