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The most exotic birthday party ever? This wildly grand 40th stretched from India to Houston

By Shelby Hodge

04.29.13 | 2:16 pm

Not all of Nidhika Mehta's friends could join her in Jaipur, India, in March for the grand multi-day celebration of her 40th birthday. So a few of her BFFs joined together to provide the n ...


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Organizers promising big things and a fresh take on the Winter Ball honoring Women of Distinction

By Shelby Hodge

10.04.12 | 8:00 am

The second-floor couture area of Saks Fifth Avenue buzzed with excitement as the Channel 13 KTRK Women of Distinction were formally presented before a chichi gathering of 200. Dashing in his na ...


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Deepak Chopra inspires at the Galleria and more than $600,000 pours in to help starving kids

By Shelby Hodge

09.12.12 | 11:20 pm

With the words of physician and author Deepak Chopra filling the Westin Galleria Hotel ballroom with inspiration, the Akshaya Patra Foundation's second major fundraising push in Houst ...


Summer fixes

Best false eyelashes, self-tanners & lip looks: H-Town fashionistas reveal summer make-up faves

By Shelby Hodge

08.09.12 | 11:33 am

With at least eight more weeks of bewildering, swampy H-Town heat to endure before a single breath of fresh fall air, CultureMap surveyed a few fabulous femmes to learn what their summer beauty rou ...


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UNICEF World Ball brings together an international coterie of Houston philanthropists

By Shelby Hodge

04.11.12 | 3:26 pm

Houston's international profile was never more glowingly apparent than at the UNICEF World Ball during which the ballrom of the Hilton Americas Houston resonated with the lilting accents of lan ...


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Ashley Judd, Lyle Lovett and Dayle Haddon among celebs making moves on the Houston scene

By Shelby Hodge

03.27.12 | 4:16 pm

And you thought actress Ashley Judd was only about her new ABC series Missing and her life on the circuit with husband Dario Franchitti, Scottisch race car driver. Wrong. With a date to speak ...


Shelby About Town

Matt Schaub makes romance, the mayor makes a birthday party and the ladies celebrate Valentine's

By Shelby Hodge

02.17.12 | 3:11 pm

Nevermind the Ladies Who Lunch. How about the Gals Who Go for Tea? Several dozen leading ladies gathered at the Four Seasons Hotel on Valentine's Day for a launch of that downtown hotel's a ...


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The gowns, the glitz, the glory — the Museum of Fine Arts Ball generated a fashion frenzy

By Shelby Hodge

10.03.11 | 12:27 pm

While not as exciting as in years past,  the gowns were still eye-popping at the Museum of Fine Arts Grand Gala Ball. ...


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Six million dollars and scores of beaming ladies later, Best Dressed continues to enthrall

By Shelby Hodge

03.24.11 | 4:25 pm

Twenty-nine years after the Houston Chronicle launched its Best Dressed luncheon as an advertising lure for big-name fashion retailers, the event is still going strong, still raising serious money ...


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Houston fashion icon Diane Lokey Farb outdresses everyone in town

By Shelby Hodge

01.14.11 | 3:24 pm

We've long thought that there needed to be some super, superior, ultimate fashion award that would go to the tippy top of the city's best dressed ranks — an honor that would be given ...


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