Wine Me, Dine Me:  Keeping up with the Joneses -- Adam and Caroline -- is not easy, but Grace Executive Chef Blaine Staniford and sommelier Ryan Tedder have delivered the “classics” part of the Jones’ Modern American Classics theme. And with swagger, too, according to rave reviews, and successful celebrity bartender and Women and Wine nights. There’s always plenty to cherish at the downtown eats beats and with this dinner for two, you’ll have your own night to cherish.       It’s a wrap: Not sure whether you eat this prize or it eats you. But it’s chocolate, so how could you go wrong. Artisan MedSpa, Laser and Wellness is taking the chocolate-is-good-for-you prescription to the ultimate. Its Chocolate Lovers Package includes a chocolate body wrap, Vichy shower rain bath and a chocolate facial. Wonder if that facial looks something like daughter MisBehavin’s face after eating chocolate cake at her first birthday soiree.   Tastefully done: Easter is arriving a little early this year and lasts a week. That would be Sharon Hardy-Easter and Hal Easter, chef and owner of All In Good Taste Catering. We hopped from table to table at their last affair, hoping for an eggstravagant giveaway. And lo and behold, a package of Dinners on Your Doorstep landed on the porch, right next to the Star-Telegram. This package includes four meals, two servings apiece, with salad and desserts. It’s packaged for refrigerator or freezer, lasts a week and is delivered.

PICTURE OF THE WEEK         Before the Mayor's State of the City address, the Chamber's Pennie Blossom (left) and Marilyn Gilbert (right) get up close and personal with a Burmese python and her handler Robin Ryan from the Fort Worth Zoo's Wild Wonders Outreach Program. Mayor Moncrief shared the agenda for the upcoming year with more than 1,100 guests. Get the mayor's full speech here.     Sponsored by

Tastefully done II: So, you’re guessing sunny skies and spring are upon us and you want to have an outdoor event, right? And you’ve invited Mr. B, right? But have you invited Cally Monson? You need to because she owns MMG Building & Construction Services and where else are you going to get the best port-a-potties in town, right? We were rightly impressed and Cally opened the door for us to give away two portable toilets for your weekend event use.

Welcome. Thanks for visiting: “I’m from a small town in Arkansas,” said John Porhamer, president of Cowtown Insurance Service. “It’s so small that the entering and leaving messages are on the same sign.”

A Patriot: Kudos to Mark Buechele at Lone Star Banners & Flags for providing the new pole and American flag adorning Patriot House, a shelter for homeless veterans.   Bowled over: New Chamber member International Bowling Museum & Hall of Fame reminded Summit Press’ Reagan Ferguson of his time in the gutter. Seems Reagan drove past a shuttered Don Carter Lanes off I-30 and “happened on” disposed bowling pins. Today, Reagan is the proud owner of two sets of pins and a home lane that is a faded piece of yellow tape on a barn floor currently buried under hay. “Now all I need is a monkey to set up the pins,” Reagan said.

Seeing the light: The CD released by Kyle Redd last week at a Stockyards saloon was recorded at Wavelight Studios.

Talk, talk, talk: Tarrant County is putting the “Community” into its Colleges. TCCD has just completed a zillion community summits and focus groups for more than 1,100 stakeholders at each of its five campuses, all facilitated by CrossGroup, a Fort Worth consulting group. The TCC Vision 2015 Team is comprised of more than 150 external and internal individuals to develop TCC’s five-year strategic plan. You can offer input at the TCC website until March 25. “It is progressing far beyond our (and their) expectations,” said Mark Cook of CrossGroup.

Great start: Star-Telegram columnist Bob Ray Sanders was published on the front page before he was hired as an employee. His letter to the editor about the Detroit riots while he was a student at North Texas State University (now UNT) was run as a front-page item.

Not horsin’ around: Polo? In Burleson? Yep, and lessons, too, from Robin Dutoit Sanchez, the director of Brushy Creek Polo Ranch. Robin’s father ran Willow Bend Polo Club in Plano for Norman Brinker, who was one of America’s top polo players when he wasn’t developing restaurant concepts.

Mortgages and marriages: So, Lizz Pulliam, VP, Director of Marketing for Community Bank, is going on and on and on about Jana Haynes, who is the new leader of the bank’s mortgage division, and how great Jana is and how great mortgage lending is and how great President Jimmy Campbell is…whew! OK, but Lizz, what about your wedding in Playa Del Carmen on St. Paddy’s Day? “Oh, that. Eight years ago, I swore I would never do it again, but St. Paddy's Day three years ago was our first 'official' date. Actually, I was a turtle about getting married; he says he knew right away.”

By the numbers: Super Bowl XLV at Dallas Cowboys Stadium in February 2011 will have 20,000 seats added and 10,000 standing room in the East Plaza watching on monitors. Total attendance of 110,000 at an average ticket price of more than $1,000 will be a record for attendance and revenue.

The eyes have it: Kathryn Black, spa coordinator for The Robert G. Anderson Medical Spa, was getting rave reviews for her eyelashes from the femmes at her Chamber event table. B promised not to tell, but what the hey--her secret is Latisse, which is prescription only.

Young punks: Mr. B is trying to get on the selection committee for the Business Press' 40-Under-40 honors because he heard committee members get custom-made Justin Boots and get to sip VIP martinis. “It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it,” Publisher Richard Dixon tipsy-emailed back. Just(in) case you missed the notice, nominations are due Friday.

He’s come a long way, baby: Tony Cope, head chef at Vidalia’s in the Renaissance Worthington, was a physics major at the University of Idaho. He actually talks the science of cooking. His career started at the campus cafeteria, food he looks back on and says he “would not have recommended.”   Starting to feel like real media: Newz-E-Letter has its first correction…yikes! In our haste last week to pat ourselves on the back and celebrate with beverages the great news from Site Selection magazine, our eyes were bleary when we (well, actually it was …, but she no longer works here) wrote a cutline for the Small Business of the Year winners. Technology Team partner Allen Green would have preferred to go by his real name, Allen Spinner, and Buzz Custom Fence’s Eric Schrader, who is comfortable in his own skin, probably could have done without being identified as his wife, Denise.

Just sayin’: Kudos to Becky Knox with Knox Real Estate, the 2009 Realtor of the Year as selected by the Greater Fort Worth Association of Realtors. The Spirit Award honor went to Jaci Coan of RE/MAX Trinity. Shout outs could go to their partner/husbands Larry and David, too, but we might get their names wrong.

Land rush: New Chamber member Patterson Equity Partners is that Mike Patterson, an attorney who won the huge bid to “own” and “sell” all those lots and homes on the Brazos River. 

No Buyers Remorse: Shelba and Steve Buyers of Buyers Barricades (road closed; go this way, not that way…) have a 40-pound pet skunk named Stinky. “A guy was going to prison,” Steve said, “and, well, he needed a home for Stinky. He’s got his own room at our house. When he is angry, he doesn’t spray; he just goes into a closet.”