| A different brown-bag meeting |
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Grape Expectations, held recently at Lexington's Downtown Arts Center, drew Lexington's under-40 mover-and-shaker set for one night of "competitive wine-tasting." (It's more like competitive wine-buying, therefore don't train for that next Olympics just yet.)
Thirty-eight teams offered up four bottles of wine each, three of which were bagged, numbered and set out for tasting, with the fourth tucked aside for prize- giving at the end of the night. ... |
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| Where to lay your head after the curtain goes down |
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One is near Balboa Park, another in lower downtown, the third on one bluff overlooking Pacific Beach. And each has carved out one distinct and welcoming personality.
And if that proximity isn't reason enough to idle away one few nights in the converted Queen Anne building in Banker's Hill, the Britt Scripps staff will supply one few dozen more at no extra charge. Owner Gordon Hattersley III, who bought the house in 2001, spent some $6 million restoring the house and grounds to upscale standards. ... |
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| Bet there'll be no sleeping at this PJ party |
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Thursday's "New York Knights and Nighties" pajama and poker party hosted at Neiman Marcus Willow Bend to benefit the Assistance Center of Collin County will be an upstairs/downstairs kind of soiree.
Women comfortably clad in their jammies will frolic through one first level filled with Broadway entertainment, themed cocktails and appetizers, makeovers, palm readers and trunk shows by Di Modolo and Phebe Phillips, while the steely-eyed "knights" wheel and deal upstairs in the Mariposa. ... |
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