By the Grace of Mr. B: Women & Wine nights, celebrity bartenders, outstanding food. Fort Worth has been Grace(d) downtown with a restaurant that quickly has become a happenin’ place, thanks to hosts Caroline and Adam Jones. There are great steaks and seafood, and Grace even has Buffetted its menu with Berkshire Baby Back Ribs and Berkshire Pork. Here’s your chance to invest with this dinner for two.   Drive for show: We’re just a month or so away from the plethora of putts that nonprofits will promote to raise money for their causes. None of the courses is a finer escape for bogies and burgers than what Alison Wise and Hawks Creek Golf Club provide. Alison has a round of four with carts any Monday-Thursday to test drive your cart for the causes.   No sticky mess: Michael Bloomberg may be The Business Press’ King of Date Night columnist, but Mr. B (stands for baking) is a kitchen whiz now that he has a set of Reata at Home Bakeware. It includes a 9-inch round pan, a loaf pan and 6-cup muffin pan. The meatloaf is to die for, and you won’t have a stroke cleaning the non-stick, silicone surface. The Micallef family, which owns Reata Restaurant and a local manufacturer of silicone products, combined to create the kitchen products. You, too, can cook like B if you win this set.

PICTURE OF THE WEEK         It was a full house at the Small Business Council breakfast last week. Members came to hear Mike Dunlap with AuldridgeGriffin, PC explain a variety of tax issues that impact small businesses, including the franchise tax and changes in tax code. Kevin Feldman and Linda Marshall Feldman, CPM, of Cowtown Investors, LLC, were learning a lot until Mr. B squeezed between tables and spilled water on Linda’s daytimer.     Sponsored by

Is this HD color? Sue Johnson of Printing Plus is colored with excitement because of her new digital printer. It’s so technical and … and … and digital that she went to Chicago to learn to use it expertly. She’s back from the Windy City, but blowing this great offer past us: 1000 free 4-color, one-sided, one-name business cards.

Paying the bills: Wow, UTA-Fort Worth is sponsoring ALL the young pros events for VisionFW, but not Newz-E-Letter. Can we claim age discrimination? And Suez Energy is sponsoring the Sept. 21 Annual Golf Tournament at Ridglea CC. Mr. B loves him some Eakita Minor and is going to be her designated (cart) driver.   Kingston Trio: Mr. B thought Stephenie, Deryk and Justin of Dean Kingston were first-rate cuties. But they’re second-, third- and fourth-stringers now that Bentley is around. He’s a dark-haired weenie dog and really lovable. Mr. B also likes him some of those Dean Kingston shorts and tees.

Non-taxing discussion: CPA Michael Dunlap’s tax seminar to Chamber members last week? … Priceless. Check out the photos here. First the jokes from the AuldridgeGriffin partner:

• There are 3 kinds of accountants—those that can count and those that can’t.
• An extroverted accountant is one that stares at your shoes instead of his own.
• THE IRS spells theirs.
• AMT, the Alternative Minimum Tax aka Added Misery Tax.

And some tips:

• Unemployment wages are now tax exempt on the first $2,400.
• First-time homebuyer credit of $8,000 expires Dec. 1.
• If your business lost money in 2008 and had gross receipts under $15 million, your carryback loss is now five years.
• You can deduct a guard dog as a business expense security. Not sure if you can deduct that Shi-tzu if you have a home-based business.

Just wondering: Is there any recourse if you are sunbathing au natural in the backyard while Google Earth is doing its mapping?   Catting around: Cats outnumber dogs, 81.7 million to 72 million, according to a 2007 survey by the American Veterinary Medical Association. Texas has 693,805 felines.

Teach old dog new tricks? Jessica Cates of TCU Career Services explores internship opportunities for TCU students. Mr. B could reeeeeally teach those interns. Mr. B makes 39 cents an hour. Interns start at about $8 an hour. On second thought, maybe interns could reeeeeally teach Mr. B. Even Chamber has a TCU intern…guy named Cade McCloud. Sounds like western gunslinger. Says he wants to learn how to write Newz-E-Letters. Uh-oh, could be a duel!

Kitchen duty: Cheryl Carey has brought her good will to Affairs to Cater, where she will peel carrots, do marketing and business development, and gain weight as a taste tester.

Rope burned: Steve Leaman of Leaman Container broke his finger and needed surgery when he let go of the rope too late while swinging over a creek.

’70s in style: Ask Mike Roundtree of roundtree adverting + marketing if you can see the “hippie” picture on his diving certification card.

This is a true tale: Mr. B has been known to embellish, but nothing is as good as the real thing. GM Luis at Ferre Restaurant has come up with Dine On Us Mondays every Monday through September. FREE FOOD. You get an appetizer and an entrée, a $25 value. This is a true story.

Leisurely lunch? When the weather cools, maybe Molly, the downtown trolley service that has been extended until November, could offer sandwich service. Call it: Rides and Rolls.    Surprise, surprise: Norris Conference Centers, which took over the AMC Sundance theaters location, is more than just conference rooms. It has a wedding/banquet room that can seat up to 300. It also has a dance floor.

Smooth move: Dannon Company again has given a $30K grant to the Tarrant Area Food Bank for a children’s nutritional education program. Would expect the Cliff Notes to say yogurt smoothie is healthier than a milkshake.

: Next time (first time?) you need a Japanese translator, you might ask Tyler Trahant for help. It was his minor in college. On American soil, he and partner Richard Minker (Minker/Trahant) have visited more than 1,200 self storage facilities. How do you say “such excitement” in Japanese? 

A little pick-me-up: On his 39 cents an hour pay, Mr. B can’t afford high-energy drinks. When he needs a quick burst, he hurries over to see Stephanie Shah at CSL Plasma outside La Gran Plaza for a little infusion. Then it’s lunch across the highway at Zorro’s. Am-Bass-Adorables will be with Stephanie next Thursday for a ribbon cutting and it should a blood-curdling affair. Check out the photos at the Chamber website.

This is slick: Chesapeake Energy has a museum-quality model display of natural gas drilling operations and equipment on display at the Fort Worth Central Library through September 7. You can experience natural gas drilling operations up-close—for free--and maybe negotiate your very own lease deal.

He took flight: Jason Turner of Turner Wealth Management went to flight school at Emory Riddle College in Daytona Beach to be near the ocean. Unable to land a pilot’s job with a large airline, he fled to financial management. He went solo in 2007. Can you say CRASH? One payment platform he offers is based on performance – if you don’t make money, he doesn’t make money.   Explains his intensity: TCU football coach Gary Patterson says “defensive coaches don’t get as many head coach opportunities as offensive coaches. “Offensive guys are taller, leaner, better looking and sweat less.” Patterson, a defensive specialist, says TCU “has an opportunity this year” to be very good. He says his personal goal is to have his “most wanted” picture on the post office walls throughout Utah, where rivals BYU and Utah reside. Go to the Chamber member directory and type in TCU Athletics for discounts on season tickets. See photos from the Membership Luncheon at TCU.