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T. Boone Pickens jets into Houston as a star sports anchor, Lynn Wyatt & Olympians play waiters at Tony's

By Shelby Hodge

04.30.13 | 5:15 pm

Ah, the mayhem that erupts when Joan Schnitzer-Levy corrals a few dozen of her friends to don aprons and wait tables in a star-studded effort to raise funds for ESCAPE Family Resource Center. Just ...


Bid often, bid high

Rodeo wine auction breaks records with top wine fetching $215,000, total take surpassing $1.5 million

By Shelby Hodge

03.03.13 | 1:34 pm

The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Wine Sales Committee knows how to prime the pump when softening up big buyers at the Champion Wine Auction and Dinner. Saturday night, they succeeded in convinc ...


Shelby About Town

A&M's R.C. Slocum earns honors, Buffalo Bayou Park moves ahead, Saks' Zmyslo bids Houston adieu

By Shelby Hodge

02.02.13 | 11:16 am

You don't often think of R.C. Slocum, the winningest coach in Texas A&M history, as a Horatio Alger sort of guy. But the man who started his climb to professional success on an athletic sch ...


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A wild men's-only Alley dinner includes sportscaster Bob Allen's untold tales

By Shelby Hodge

10.27.12 | 3:02 pm

They feasted on lobster, lamb, quail, sausage and more at the Coronado Club — manly fare that was only fitting for the Alley Theatre's annual men-only Wild Things dinner. With Jonatha ...


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This party's for the dogs: Big police guns, an NBC star and very important pooches turn out in force

By Shelby Hodge

09.27.12 | 12:44 pm

K9s4COPS founder Kristi Schiller rounded up a glam posse of high-dollar donors, politicos and law enforcement officials for a rocking fundraiser at El Real Tex-Mex. More than 300 joined the party i ...


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$211,000 for one wine? It's part of record $1.4 million take for Rodeo wine auction

By Shelby Hodge

03.05.12 | 12:56 pm

In recent weeks, H-town's big spenders have been spewing money into charity coffers with the force of a South Texas gusher. Just look at Saturday night's Rodeo Uncorked! Champion Wine Aucti ...


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Big dogs for the big guns: The fledgling K9s4Cops non-profit barks up $500,000

By Shelby Hodge

11.04.11 | 4:34 pm

It's a wonder the various pooches weren't howling with glee at the success of the first K9s4Cops benefit evening. The night closed with $500,000 in the till, a windfall of funds that will h ...


I Need a Tip Drill

Houston-based Energy XXI makes $1 billion ExxonMobil acquisition

By Caroline Gallay

11.22.10 | 4:47 pm

John Schiller, founder of up-and-coming energy company Energy XXI, has made a $1 billion acquisition of most of ExxonMobil's oil fields in the Gulf of Mexico. The move gives his c ...


Is this one for REAL?

Real Housewives producers scout Houston for Texas Rancher Wives

By Shelby Hodge

11.17.10 | 5:19 pm

When the successful LA producers of The Real Housewives of New York, Supernanny, Basketball Wives and NFL Wives e-mailed looking for subjects for a new Texas-based pilot, we figured that we had bet ...


Shelby About Town

La Griglia rocks, Strip House rolls as party action covers the social spectrum

By Shelby Hodge

09.10.10 | 11:43 am

Year-round, La Griglia holds its own as a popular midday watering hole for the city cognoscenti. But on Wednesday, it was positively ground zero for socializing.   Packed to the rafters wi ...


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