Local Highlight: “Jarcuterie” Around Town

as published by the Houston Chronicle Swift + Company’s “Jarcuterie” using The Fab Fete Brio Trio soufflé as the base and layered with a fan of apples and pears, cured meats, Marcona almonds, roasted red and yellow grape tomatoes, herbed mozzarella, olives, cheese straw, and baguette crisps. Last week, my friend and Houston Chronicle Food […]

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A Star is Born…Amanda Gorman, the 22-Year-Old That Has Taken the Country By Storm

A deeper dive into the youngest poet laureate in U.S. history and how her presence and style was a highlight of the Inauguration

Politics aside, I think it’s safe to say that Amanda Gorman was a star of the Inauguration as Poet Laureate. 22-year-old Amanda is the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history, and she was the first person to be named National Youth Poet Laureate. Truly incredible! Her poem The Hill We Climb was written after witnessing […]

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Shopping Small in Beauty

shop small in beauty

So far, 2021 has been some new mixed with a bit of old. We have a new administration in office(yesterday!) and with that will come new policies and a new direction for our country. However, COVID is still as prevalent as ever so I hope everyone is still social distancing, washing your hands and for […]

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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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New Year, New Beauty Resolutions!

Beauty resolutions

Happy New Year!  First, let me say that I hope you had a nice, relaxing and restful holiday.  Second, 2021 has already shown its ugly side so there are more lockdowns and more upheaval, which only means we need more self-care and stress management in the new year. I’m a silver lining kind of gal […]

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What’s New for the New Year in Our Current Favorite Type of Apparel

We've been living in a wardrobe of comfy athletic wear for almost a year now, and it's time to freshen it up!

January and a new year always brings about wanting to “get back in shape” or go back to the gym (or these days, working out from home) or going back to our healthy ways after an indulgent holiday season. This is usually the activewear departments’ Super Bowl! Well, it didn’t take a new year and […]

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Inside HER Studio….

First all-female pop-up art gallery in Rice Village elevates female artists

Inside Her studio

In this difficult year that is quickly moving to the rear view mirror in our lives, when we look back we do have some silver-lining moments and many of them surround women and their continued recognition, successes and inclusions in society. We do have our first female V.P. in Kamala Harris, first of many political […]

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