All posts by Roz Pactor

About Roz Pactor

I am a fashion and marketing consultant and blogger based in Houston, Texas. With more than three decades of experience in fashion retailing that has spanned Foley’s, Neiman Marcus and Bloomingdale’s NYC, I have earned a reputation for delivering expertise, energy and enthusiasm to my roster of clients. I have remained closely connected with designer women’s fashion as well as the misses, teens, men’s and children’s apparel and accessories markets from coast to coast.

Electrifying Design….A Century of Lighting

First large scale exhibition in the United States Debuts at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston

As someone that has always appreciated lighting as a category of design that always completes the finishing touch and adds a level of drama to any room, I was particularly interested in visiting the MFA’s exhibit that has been opening this week in the Law Building of the Museum complex. I am certainly not alone […]

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Berg Hospitality Partners With Ancorian on Exciting New Concepts Coming to the Heights

Benjamin Berg's New Partnership in the Heights Will Bring Two New Ventures to West 11th Street

Berg hospitality news

Berg Hospitality Group is expanding into the Heights area through a new collaboration with Ancorian, a leading regional investment and development firm. Both Houston-based, Berg and Ancorian plan to create two new vibrant and unique restaurant concepts on West 11th Street. “To have two outposts in one of Houston’s most dynamic and fastest growing neighborhoods is […]

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American Heart Keeps The Heart of Houston Strong With Its Virtual Event

Annual Heart Ball Reimagined Raising $1.5 Million to Fund Life-Saving Mission

Heart Ball 2021

As someone who has made the AHA’s annual Heart Ball a regular calendar entry for myself, I could not resist it this year either. However, as so many events have transitioned this past year, the Heart Ball which was reimagined as AHA’s first virtual gala, Heart of Houston, was viewed by me in my own […]

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Eating for a Healthy Ticker….

......How to feed your heart the right way during Heart Month and always

Eating for a Healthy Ticker

It’s February, Heart Month and the focus here at MRG is on all things “heart-y”! Today our special guest, Catherine Kruppa, Nutritionist and overall Health Coach to so many of us, at her Advice For Eating,(which just celebrated it’s 10th year in the business that Catherine began after many years at The Houstonian. She is […]

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Local Foods Opening in Rice Village Benjy’s Space

With Chef Dwen Menu and Artisinal Items

Local Foods Opening

For those of us that have spent much of our adult life in or around the Rice Village, the news of the closing of Benjy’s in the Village was almost more than I could bare! It was my first hip, edgy restaurant that I went to and I loved all the food, the flourless chocolate […]

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February Heart Month is Here and Kicks Off With Wear Red Day This Friday

A new addition this February is the launch of Woman of Impact....Local Nominees Leading the Next Generation of Go Red For Women Ambassadors

Heart Month

For those of you that know me you know that my true passion in life has been to find a cure for Heart disease, dominant in my family. This is the No. 1 killer of all Americans, specifically looking at women. Through out the month, the American Heart Association’s “Heart to Heart: Why Losing One […]

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MFAH Announces The Much Anticipated Two New Restaurants Coming This Spring to the Kinder Building

A lovely and much needed addition to Museum District dining

When the magnificent Rich and Nancy Kinder Building opened in November 2020, we were all in awe of this spectacular building and the works of art within it. However, there was also a buzz going on at the press previews as we saw the empty spaces that were soon to become (2) restaurants. I was […]

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Stunning Oyster-Focused Waterfront Restaurant, Pier 6 Seafood & Oyster House, Now Open

Take a look at the restaurant and its owners that are making "tide-to-table" a new buzz in dining local

Pier 6

As we made our treck (which is nothing by the way, just shy of an hour) down to the bay area to visit this new hot restaurant that I kept hearing about and that my own kids, the chicken people, Nicole & Michael, had visited three times already. It was for me a trip down […]

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It’s 2021…..This Year Choose a Healthy Lifestyle Not a Diet

Lifestyle not diet

Each January millions of American’s New Year’s Resolutions include a diet.  Unfortunately, most “diets” are restrictive, omit nutritious food groups and are hard to sustain.  In 2021 let us shift our paradigm.  Instead of a diet, aim to improve your lifestyle for long lasting benefits.  What does this look like?  Make 3-5 goals aimed at […]

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