Linguini for lunch: Thoroughly Modern Dena, chef de new ’do at Café Modern, regularly entices social media friends with her 11 a.m. messages of what’s up for lunch at the Modern Art Museum. It’s not fair, especially during Lent. Fortunately, this lunch for four famished friends is good until the end of the year. May we heartily recommend the Spaghetti Puttanesca.
Surf’s Up: If you’re older than 50, you might remember the anthem to Mr. B’s father, Sloop John B, a song on The Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds album, arguably one of the best albums of all time…if you’re over 50, of course. Jim Austin, who used to be Jim Austin before he was 50, but is now jimaustinonline.com (who is doing his branding?), is a Beach Boys fan and he’s willing to share two seats to his suite March 20 when the band shuffles onstage at Nokia Live. VIP parking, too.
Location, location, location: The real estate we’re talkin’ ’bout is Facebook. Got to be there and got to look good. When we mentioned last week that Tammy Graham was hosting a Facebook reception at her Locations Photography, the “Like this” buttons went crazy. So much so that Tammy has hit the reply button and sent us our own Facebook image party, with wine and cheese for up to 25 people. Each of your guests can have an image shot to get a new face to face the masses.
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Carroll Payne with Paradigm Financial Group talks with Star-Telegram publisher Gary Wortel after last Friday’s Gold/Preferred member breakfast, where Wortel spoke to the group about the status of the newspaper industry and answered a number of questions about a columnist’s freedom of speech. In the background, Suzy Williams with Fort Worth Opera Association chats with Mike Brasovan, THG Energy Solutions.
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Burma Shave: If you’ve got a favorite spot on the old Route 66 from Chicago to L.A., Kraig Parker probably has a song to get you there. Parker, one of the better Elvis impersonators, returns to Bass Performance Hall March 26-28 to perform a multi-media musical journey along the Route with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra. Bodacious Barb and Trish the Terrific arranged a pair of opening night tickets.
Life of a tortured working mother: One recent morning, Business Press real estate reporter Aleshia Howe found a wooden Thomas the Train in her boot while she was getting dressed. Her reaction, as would any normal mother: “Thanks, Max. As soon as your shoes are big enough, I’m going to put MY things in there! See how you like that.... :)”
Alfred Thaddeus Crane Pennyworth: Mr. B can’t wait to meet Steve McMahan, owner of Molly Maid. The company provides maids and butlers. Don’t think we’ve ever had a butler for a Newz-E-Letter giveaway. (BTW, the aforementioned Alfred was Batman’s butler.)
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Mooned in Miami: After nearly five years, Boss Miserly Mistress must not be happy with Mr. B. Miserly was in Miami to learn, prepare and steal ideas for our Super Bowl shenanigans next February and she brought back gifts for all Chamber workers—Gucci purses, Panasonic big screen TVs, iPods and iPads, etc. She brought Mr. B “bottled sunshine” and a classified ad page listing the job openings in Miami.
Mulch on this: Sherry Callahan of Harvest Landscape was talking about specializing in “proper bed work,” so Mr. B asked if she recommended 300 or 600 thread, and cotton or cotton sateen.
It’s phat-ter: Ellen Prater moved from being a techie to a sales account manager for Logix. Her reward? A business card on thicker paper. Next promotion gets her glossy card stock.
A brave new world: Geeksters, gawkers and three grackles attended last week’s Chamber seminar on technology. What we learned:
- There has been an update to Mr. B’s 1999 Nokia cell phone.
- Something called “cloudy computing” is here, so check it out.
- Speedier and smaller electronics are on the way, which probably will hold true in 2022, too.
- Apps will be a super huge business and profitable because no packaging, no shipping and three billion customers await you 24/7.
- No more printed newspapers and school books.
- And a prediction: We will become members of online libraries for our books, movies and music.
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All in the family: Barry Hall has been volunteering with the Miss Texas Pageant organization for 48 years. His daughter, the Chamber’s Lydia Hall, volunteered for 23 years and her son, Kenneth, has volunteered for 16 years.
Opportunity knocks: During last month’s State of the City luncheon, Fort Worth Mayor Mike Moncrief (3M) said the Trinity River Vision project is our modern-day Alliance Airport. “It’s the key to weathering future bear markets.”
Opportunity knocked: Keep an eye out for Sarah Brace, 18, daughter of Dawn Brace of Navis Pack & Ship. The March primary was her first chance to cast a vote, but she pulled some other levers, too. Sarah has been voted a precinct ‘Delegate’ for the Senatorial District Convention this Saturday. Mom was voted precinct Secretary.
They’re Cookin’! Cooksey Communications is a Blue Ribbon Small Business Award winner and one of 75 national finalists in the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Small Business of the Year competition.
Advice: Yikes! Son NoBGood officially is a certified stockbroker. His first tip? Buy Lehman Brothers.
We want answers! How could Texas finish second to Ohio, and North Texas finish third among metro areas, in Site Selection magazine’s annual rankings of new “corporate facilities”? Someone on the selection committee must have been sleeping during the tour of JerryWorld, which has got to be as big as Ohio itsownself.
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Screen saver: Pepper L Specialties has an eGrips-type promotional thingamajigee that sticks to the back of your fancy fone AND also serves as a wipe cloth for the screen.
Un-comfort-able interviews: Pat Lang, franchise owner for Comfort Keepers, sort of an in-home medical assistant, says he hires one out of 300 he interviews. THAT is a tough interview.
Stop-and-go traffic: Will Adley of Adley Transportation says business was so slow in February he thought he was a nonprofit. His company did manage to make 370 deliveries in the snow Valentine’s Day weekend for Glenda and Joe Diaz of Edible Arrangements. He’s planning on 700 deliveries for them for Mother’s Day.
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