17th Annual Art Crawl

It's this Saturday November 21st! Can you believe DISHIES that it's been 17 years??? It's an event you absolutely don't want to miss! Participating is one of DISH'S favorite galleries...Blossom Street Gallery!

The Blossom Street Gallery has rented 1/2 of the Erie City Iron Works Buildings Main Gallery Hall and a 1500 sq ft warehouse studio space attached to the main hall. This is the 17th Annuael Houston Art Crawl. The event is down in the Warehouse district diagonally across from Last Concert Cafe downtown Houston.

The Blossom Street Galleries Artists include: Melissa Stubbs, Hazel Bartram Birchenough,Levi Rosen, Chicago Kim, Michelle Huff, Melinda Hamilton, Louren Reed Li, P.A.Mueller, Kristy Allmon, d.r.Jones, Dana Grace, Sam li, Carrie Gonzalez, Solomon Kane, Paula Hawkins, Patrick Talley, Alfredo Scaroina, Daniel B, Avi Moyal, Julia Abbott Koivumaa, Carol McKee, Marthann Masterson, Lori Betz, Larry Crawford, Duane Newel, Victoria Lewling, Adine Rotman, Rona Lesser, Toni Whitaker, Jonathon Michael Espinoza, Raul Gonzales, Susan Freeman, Monique, and capitol beverage will be distributing beer and wine $4 a glass!

The Blossom Street Gallery will be hosting an after party at 4809 Blossom Street Houston TX 77007 from 7pm until Midnight between Shepherd and Durham right by KICKS indoor Soccer Complex off Washington AVE.

Artists include; BIG MIKE, LEOSAPIEN, ALEX NOEL, BROWNCOAT, and LALOVA, Music by FLY GIRL T and DJ MESHAK!

You don't want to miss being a part of Blossom Street Gallery HISTORY!

Out and About

By Tammy Dowe

Tune In to Channel Your Inner Latina

Latina Voices, the locally produced, nationally recognized PBS television program, held a lunch fiesta for business and philanthropic leaders at Tony’s this week.  Show hosts and producers, Minerva Perez, Patricia Gras, and Sofia Adrogue wowed the crowd with a presentation and program demo that featured artists, sports heroes, and academia that the power-trio has interviewed during past episodes.

The Latina Voices virtual red carpet rolled from the valet stand directly into the Wine Celler at Tony’s where guests like Xerox veep Rogelio Marroquin held court with a bevy of brainy beauties, including Continental Airlines’ Chriselda Barrientes, the W Group’s Mayte Sera Weitzman and Fiesta Mart’s Corporate Relations head, Juanita Elizondo. 

Across the room, PBS station manager Jack Neal, chatted it up with Meredith Iler, Silver Eagle’s Roxann Neumann, Donna Vallone and Carliss Chatman.  The group dined divinely on a menu of Sopa Tomate, Snapper, and Praline Cheesecake that was so delish, one guest ate two slices.

Tootsies Role

Dana Kervin, Suzan Deison, and title insurance pro Mary Ann Reynolds joined Sonia Perez and other leading ladies at Tootsie’s last week as the Greater Houston Women’s Chamber announced its 2009 Hall of Fame Inductees.  Honorees include Margaret Alkek Williams, Zarine Boyce, Rose Cullen, Diedra Fontaine, Linda Lorelle, Gracie Saenz, Lyda Ann Thomas, Vu Thanh Thuy, Ileana Treviño, Martha Turner and Maxine Williams.  Each will be honored in November at a gala chaired by public relations darling Ellie Francisco and Susan Krohn.  Others on the scene that evening—Momentum Audi honcho, Jared Lang, alongside green energy guru turned handbag designer, Beth Younger, and Amy Schwab Lampi.

Flick Funding

Texas Film Commission Director Bob Hudgins held court downtown when he keynoted at the Business of the Arts luncheon, hosted jointly by The Houston Arts Alliance and the Greater Houston Partnership.  Hudgins and Partnership CEO, Jeff Moseley, lit the funding fire for Houston cinematic artists, and announced newly available state funds for local film, web and TV projects. 

The artful crowd included Houston Film Commission’s executive director Rick Ferguson, HAA’s Fabene Welch and Jonathon Glus, and Richard Lapin from the mayor’s top deck.  Also spotted buzzing about film were Franci Crane, art-lover Lauren Harrison, Ryland Holmes Peveto, and Richard Graber.

This the Trip....

Hey DISHIES...for those of you that are Texas music lovers and are old enough...do you remember that awesome band Sister 7?? Well you have absolutely heard of the lead singer Patrice Pike. She did that reality show where INXS was looking for a new lead singer....she should have won...anywho...

Patrice Pike is playing the inaugural Grace Foundation of Texas fundraising event from 6:30 – 10p.m.  on Saturday, November 21, 2009, at Warehouse Live! WOOOHOOOO!  The performance and event are designed to raise funds—and awareness—about Grace Foundation’s mission to end the cycle of teenage homelessness.

Now in its third year, The Grace Foundation awards scholarships to teens and young adults to help them leave homelessness and find a productive and more hopeful horizon.  The Grace Foundation of Texasis designed to respond to the financial gap that exists for teens and young adults who have survived childhood homelessness and have “aged-out” of the existing support systems available to them. Yes we are talking about kids that were in the adoption centers that never found homes. Did you know they are kicked out at aged 18? Left just to fend for themselves without financial support or the loving support of a family?

“The Grace Foundation has had proven success in shepherding our homeless neighbors in need onto a path of productivity and positive outcomes.  Grace is expanding out from Austin and going statewide, this time, starting in Houston.  We hope everyone will come November 21 to Warehouse Live in Houston to support Grace,” said Patrice Pike, co-founder of the Grace Foundation of Texas and host of the evening’s events.

Guess what DISHIES!! This is the first-ever Grace Foundation event held in Houston and YOU get to be a part of it! Ticket holders will be treated to Berryhill’s Tacos and signature cocktails from Tommy Bahama Rum during the private VIP show.  If that isn't cool enough...there will be an artist on hand to paint a mural of the event LIVE! Fine artist, Rolando Diaz, will be painting starting with a blank canvas, and finishing with a painting of the evening! That painting can go home with you because it will be auctioned off that night to benefit Grace Foundation.  A silent auction will feature resort trips, artisan-crafted jewelry, a guided raft trip with Pike, and more.

VIP tickets start at $50.00 and YES they are a tax deduction.  Advance VIP tickets that include access to reserved seating, VIP lounge, dinner, and complimentary cocktails can be reserved online at http://www.gracetexas.org/.  Tickets will be sold at the door, as well, but event hosts are recommending pre-sale to ensure VIP list and faster registration.  Media welcome—RSVP is required.

SEE YOU THERE DISHES!!! ROCK ON

 The Grace Foundation, launched in 2006 by Patrice Pike and Todd Young, targets teen and young adult homelessness and its relationship to poverty, health care, domestic abuse, drop-out risk, and the workforce/economy.  Grace has success and experience in serving those in immediate need of shelter, education direction, mentorship, health care, and safety.  

M2M Style Lounge!

Please help DISH in welcoming our newest advertiser M2M Style Lounge located one block off Westeihmer and Montrose! DISH just threw a HUGE party with them and another one is coming up! They have the best men's and women's clothing lines around if you want to be cute, hip, fun and not have to spend a lot of $ doing it!

CLICK HERE to read all about the specials they are having this month and CLICK HERE to follow them on Facebook!

Tears in the Heart of Texas

Military commanders, enlisted men, President Obama and others converged on the largest military base in the free world today to pay tribute to the 13 troops killed in last week's massacre at Fort Hood.

AP Photo Credit

Soldiers standing in the Texas sun during the roughly hour-long ceremony wore their black berets and dark sunglasses, which could not conceal the occasional tear that would roll down their cheeks. 

The President assured the crowd that the lives lost in the attack were not in vain.  "Every evening that the sun sets on a tranquil town, every dawn that a flag is unfurled, every moment that an American enjoys life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness ...that is their legacy," he said.  President Obama also said the accused shooter, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, will face justice.  "We are a nation of laws whose commitment to justice is so enduring that we would treat a gunman and give him due process just as surely as we will see he pays for his crimes," Mr. Obama said.

Addressing concerns that those of the Islamic faith should not be in the military, Obama said no faith "justifies these murderous and craven acts; no just and loving God looks upon them with favor."

Army Chief of Staff General George Casey quoted from the bible and said the soldiers killed in the massacre lived up to the ideals that mean so much to the United States Armed Forces.  Gen. Casey has said it would be a "bigger tragedy" if the diversity of the Army was hurt by last week's attack.

In the last 6 years, Fort Hood has held memorial services for 545 young men and women who were deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan.  President Obama is poised to send as many as nearly 40,000 additional troops to Afghanistan. 

- Story by DISH contributer Scott Braddock

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Highland Village Farmers Market gets the Kids Involved!

Highland Village one Houston’s many landmark shopping and dining destinations, is the now home to the new Highland Village Farmers Market as well! It's a Saturday market selling organic and sustainably grown products and Highland Village is calling on Houston’s students to give the new farmers market mascot a name. Isn't he cute?? And what a great and fun way to get the kids interested and involved in organic farming and eating! 

Here's how it works! Students, ages 5-11, who are enrolled in a Houston Elementary School are encouraged to put on their thinking caps and create a name for the Highland Village Farmers Market farmer boy mascot. Your child's submission should invlude their suggested name along with an explanation about their choice.

The winner will be announced at the Highland Village Farmers Market on December 5, 2009. The student with the winning name will be awarded a years worth of free Tasti D Lite. A WHOLE YEAR!!!! YUMMY!

But like all fun things there are rules....Entries must be submitted electronically by midnight on November 27^th OR postmarked by the 27^th if submitted by mail. 

You may email your Farmer Boy Name suggestion to shannon.price@hvcenter.com or by mail to Shannon Price, 4055 Westheimer Houston, TX 77027.

About Highland Village Farmers Market:

The Highland Village Farmers Market is the newest farmers market to Houston. Each Saturday between 8am and Noon, the Highland Village Farmers Market hosts 24 vendors who all use organic or sustainable methods of growing. A permanent covered structure (next to Jos. A Banks and across the street from Escalante’s Mexican Restaurant) houses vendors selling pastries, coffee, free range meats and eggs, and a plethora of produce and goat milk products.

Have fun Little DISHIES and good luck!

Pink Door Putting YOU in the Pink

Checking the DISH email this evening we noticed this note from Pink Door Non Profit President and Founded Courtney Cole. We want to share it with you because if you can give back in anyway to the community we at DISH believe you should so here is an opportunity for you!

As Pink Door is in the works of shooting a video for "The Main Event" that could quite possibly become a commercial for Pink Door in the future courtesy of the lovely Shawn Lindsey and the gorgeous Tanya Hayes, please join us Monday, November 9th at 5:45PM/6PM - meeting at the fountains at the reflection pool.  If you are not sure where that is, it is a lot easier than you think.  Once you park in the parking lot at Hermann (near ZaZa Hotel), there is a long reflection pool and path across from the parking lot.  You can walk along the path next to the long reflection pool, and we will be at the end where the fountains and a pointing momument are. 
 
Please bring as many friends and family as possible (please forward to friends/family!) - we are working to gather between 100-200 supporters total!  The more, the merrier!!
 
The shot will be one large group shot with everyone wearing a Pink Door T-Shirt.  T-Shirts will be available at the shoot for you to pick up compliments of Pink Door!
 
Please rsvp with your total head count?
 
We need as many friends, family, and supporters as possible - please rally everyone and see you next Monday, November 9th at 5:45PM/6PM at the end of the reflection pool where the fountains and monument are!!

CLICK HERE to rsvp! See you there DISHIES!

Houstonian Cesar Galindo Brings it Home

Most of his fans went to New York to support him on the runway during fashion week however designer and Houstonian Cesar Galindo was home this past week for a very private show.

Fred Smith hosted about 15 people at his beautiful home for the one on one experience. The Smith home is for sale by the way! The wine flowed while Cesar personally explained his Spring 2010 line for the exclusive group. In perfect addition to Galindo's line were Houston jewelry designer Baroness Elizabeth's one of a kind pieces.

Crowd Notables: Host Fred Smith, Rachel Brown, Joanne King Herring, Holly Waltrip, Susan Plank, Britney Tribble, Ursaline Hamilton, Courtney Hopson, Edward Sanchez, Todd Ramos, Debbie Festari, and DISH Publisher Lori Freese.

CLICK HERE for pictures.

Note: A Galindo birdy told DISH that Houston is working on it's own fashion week early next year! Keep an eye out!

Before You Vote!!!

Watch this video and read about those running! This is YOUR city, YOUR future. Make your choice intelligently!

DISH Dogs

Did you know that DISH's Dog Trainer is known nation wide?? She's trained Forrest Whitaker's dogs among many others and she's sent a letter to DISH and the other pups who's owners she trains! She's on an upcoming episode of a reality show...CLICK HERE for all of the info!