Shelby's Social Diary

Kentucky Derby fashion goes over the top at Mo's for Holly Rose Ribbon benefit bash

By Shelby Hodge

05.07.13 | 11:29 am

All eyes should have been on the flat screen TVs during Saturday afternoon's Run for the Roses but the Kentucky Derby crowd that turned out at Mo's . . . A Place for Steaks was so over ...

Shelby About Town

Houston invades! At Carnegie Hall, at the Kentucky Derby and at a wild, political bowling alley

By Shelby Hodge

05.08.12 | 3:53 pm

We suspect that Houston Symphony musicians, leadership and patrons are still beaming over the orchestra's lead performance Monday night at the Spring for Music festival at Carnegie Hall. With m ...

The South will imbibe again

Your best bets for a Kentucky Derby party: Where to find the best mint juleps in town

By Marcy de Luna, Sarah Rufca

05.05.12 | 7:37 am

Grab your hats and get ready to bet on the ponies . . . it’s derby time! And what's the Kentucky Derby without an iconic mint julep? The traditional beverage of Churchill Downs, nearl ...

On Kentucky Derby Saturday

The Procrastinator's Guide to Cinco de Mayo: A better drinking holiday than St. Patrick's Day

By Sarah Rufca

05.03.12 | 2:53 pm

When it comes to drinking holidays, can we all admit that Cinco de Mayo is better than St. Patrick's Day? The food is better, the beer stays a delightfully normal color, and I'll take a mar ...

Fifth Annual "Run for the Roses" Kentucky Derby Party Benefiting The Holly Rose Ribbon Foundation

Mo's......A Place for Steaks

05.05.12

The Fifth Annual "Run for The Roses" Kentucky Derby Party honoring Holly Harwood Skolkin and benefiting the Holly Rose Ribbon Foundation will feature complimentary mint juleps, derby-tini

Shelby's Social Diary

It might not have been Kentucky, but the hats at Mo's were fit for the running of the roses

By Shelby Hodge

05.10.11 | 7:32 am

Even from the street along Post Oak Boulevard, you could see the ladies in their over-sized hats preening on Saturday afternoon at the entry to Mo's . . . A Place for Steaks. The Rose Ribbon Fo ...

Shelby About Town

A birthday bash, a Foley's reunion & a luxury train trip to the Kentucky Derby draw Houston buzz

By Shelby Hodge

04.26.11 | 3:27 pm

As we all know, you can never have too many birthday celebrations and there are those who extend the Libra, Leo and Scorpio partying for at least a week or even a month. So it's no surprise tha ...

TATTERED JEANS

Wild mustangs, Underdog tennis champs & a snipped stallion — Things that make me cry from their heart

By Katie Oxford

06.10.10 | 9:22 am

I didn’t used to but now when I watch the Kentucky Derby, I cry. Not like, as Neil Young once described, “things coming out of my face” kind of cry. More on the quiet side. Ma ...

Watch the big race

Why not spend the Kentucky Derby with Molly Hatchet: That's Lookin at Lucky

By Joe Leydon

05.01.10 | 5:29 am

At Sam Houston Race Park today, you can be “Flirtin' With Disaster” after Lookin at Lucky. And no, we’re not talking about how you wager on the Run for the Roses. To celeb ...

Don't forget the beaten biscuits

Horse sense: How to throw the world's best Kentucky Derby party

By Caroline Gallay

04.30.10 | 6:07 pm

Urban Green's already had their's at Hermann Park, now you can throw your own Derby party at home. I put in a call to my personal Kentucky Derby authority, my mother, to ask about the n ...