(2) Cool for summer: Nobody does summer better than Pulliam Pools and it is back with its second annual, fantastic Pool Partee Package, filled with everything you need to entertain outdoors. They pooled resources and put together a basket filled with outdoor dishes, cups, a beach towel, koozies and a fabulous table centerpiece.


Mr. B Gaetano Donizetti: A heartbroken Mr. B wrote the opera Lucia when he was spurned by a woman forced to marry a man she didn’t love. And as part of it’s grande Fort Worth Opera Festival (May 16-June 8), the Fort Worth Opera has decided to showcase Lucia. Fortunately for you, Mr. B wasn’t available to sing because he doesn’t know Italian, so FW Opera folks went with two of the industry’s hottest singers, Stephen Costello and Elizabeth Futral. Maestro Erin Madden Ramirez la de da’d her way to the ticket office and secured two orchestra level tickets to the May 25 matinee performance.


Run for Life: Mr. B has signed up to donate his organs when he dies -- some say he does every Wednesday with some crummy jokes. But seriously, B heard about LifeGift a few years back, which facilitates organ and tissue donations, and signed up to be a donor. Son NoBGood said it was cool as long as any leftover money was going to him. To raise awareness, LifeGift has its Second Chance Run this Saturday. There's a 5K Run/Walk and 1-Mile Fun Run/Walk and we have four registrations.

Learn me: Main Events’ loss is school kids’ gain. Sales Manager supreme Tammy Todd is leaving at the end of the month to get her teaching certificate. Sundance is a gas: Chesapeake Energy has secured the mineral lease rights for Sundance Square and will drill for natural gas under the 40 acres downtown from three pad sites. Modern diet: Got this missive – “I have changed my name to Toni Allison from Toni Booth. Congrats are in order! I tell people I lost 185 pounds…divorced, yea!”Toni also has been promoted from Public Education Specialist to Business & Community Development Coordinator at the city’s Business Assistance Center.

Another Chamber benefit: With the rising price of EVERYTHING except Mr. B’s Chamber pay (C’mon Miserly!), coupons are in vogue, even doubled in some places. You can double your Chamber fun by going to the website and printing off a coup from the new Member-To-Member Discount Coupon benefit. Check it out before you write that next check. Check out the listing of the members already participating at fortworthchamber.com under What's New. Feeling just Super…poor: Actually, Mr. B isn’t even receiving 39 cents an hour from the Chamber any more. Have decided to put it in escrow and save enough to join Roger the Dodger and Ross Jr. as one of 15 members in the new $1 Million Club of the North Texas Super Bowl committee. The committee is trying to get the new Cowboys Stadium as part of a regular Super Bowl site rotation.

Bell of the ball: Before your New Year’s Eve partying, you might think about an early celebration during the Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl at TCU’s Amon Carter Stadium. It will be played that day. Name change: High School Sports The Magazine was too general a name to trademark, so beginning in June, franchisees will be called Vype (varsity hype?). Sea-worthy: Before her “walk the stage” graduation ceremony last week, Brooke McNabb, a chemistry major with a 3.9 GPA, staged her own underwater graduation ceremony, receiving her honors regalia in the Texas Wesleyan pool. She had earned a minor in scuba. Scuba? At Texas Wesleyan? Brooke also played on the softball team and had a summer scuba internship in Grand Cayman.

At the top, bar none: Harris, Finley & Bogle¬ managing shareholder Roland Johnson has been elected to serve as president-elect during the 2008-09 bar year. He will serve as president during 2009-10. A Colonial idea: When are golf balls going to have GPS?