Tonight sometime between 6 and 8 pm, come to Saint Ann Court, the new office development from Harwood International. Why tweak your dinner plans? To learn about Arzu Studio Hope, a "social business enterprise" that helps women worldwide. You'll see gorgeous rugs — distributed in Dallas by BKM Total Office of Texas — handmade by Afghan women weavers, and you'll hear why Arzu founder an...

Kudos to Decorative Center Houston owner Charles Cohen, who continues to support important contemporary art at his design mecca. Last night's cocktail fête at DCH toasted Stars of Design in eight categories including blue-chip gallerist Meredith Long (earning Lifetime Achievement honors) and visualists painter Aaron Parazette, photog Keith Carter and bauble-maker Melissa Borrell. The third-a...

What The Phantom of the Opera and Les Misérables were to my generation, Wicked became to the next. See for yourself what all the uproar is about — or revisit this reinvention of Oz yourself, when the national tour of Wicked returns to the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts June 30 through July 25.This triple-Tony-winning musical arose from the best-selling 1995 novel by Gregory ...

The stars are certainly big and bright at this year’s Curtain Call event, which celebrates 70 years of Dallas Summer Musicals. Top of the bill is Broadway sensation Sutton Foster, who originated the roles of Fiona in Shrek: The Musical; Inga in Young Frankenstein; and Millie in Thoroughly Modern Millie. Joining her will be the legendary Mitzi Gaynor, Cathy Rigby and Ben Vereen, as well...

If you can’t read the name “Frau Blücher” without hearing horses neigh, this is the musical for you. Gexa Energy Broadway Across America — Houston is bringing Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein to town May 25 through June 6 at the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts. You’re probably familiar with Brooks’ smash-hit 1974 film of the same title, shot ...

Each year, Theatre Under The Stars honors musical theater excellence in area high schools with the Tommy Tune Awards. Forty-four productions were in contention for the 2010 honors; 34 Houston-based theater professionals evaluated 161 nominations before announcing the winners.Episcopal High School’s production of The Drowsy Chaperone earned six awards: best musical, best leading actress...

My little design-y heart leapt when I opened the May Elle Decor: There, on page 189, was the "chic prison cell" (as she calls it) apartment of my design-y neighbor Alice Cottrell. You may know Alice from her incredible interior for the restaurant Local in Deep Ellum (one of the best in town, I think) or for the sexy, modern residential spaces that she and design partner Rick Rozas concoct for som...

Executive chef Aaron Neeley at the Hotel ZaZa has just put out his new spring menu and there isn’t a new addition I wouldn’t highly recommend. Well thought out, and executed, Neeley has taken on classic dishes and given them a contemporary, yet playful tweak. On staff since the museum district hotel’s opening four years ago, Neeley was elevated within the last year and a ha...

As Auntie Mame would say, grab the maps and the martinis (we'll add "and moving boxes and packing tape"). Briggs-Freeman is opening almost 200 homes (!) this weekend, an extravaganza that will make even the most jaded house-hunter jump for joy. We're talking estates, town houses, Devonshire, Bluffview, you name it — all open for your perusal on Saturday and Sunday. Will it be the chateau on...

It seems like the American way–everyone’s struggling to keep up with the proverbial Joneses. If you’ve ever found yourself tempted by the notion when you see the fun new flick, THE JONESES you won’t want so much as keep up with these wealthy, pretty, seemingly perfect neighbors, as you’ll want to BE them. Demi Moore and David Duchovny star as Kate and Steve Jone...