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Marking Five Years of Supporting Firefighters — and Hunks on the Runway — ‘Red Hot’ Catches Fire

FIVE YEARS AFTER it launched, the annual “Red Hot Gala” supporting Houston firefighters is one of the, well, hottest tickets in the city’s social calendar. Created and co-chaired again this year by Alan and Elizabeth Stein to cover costs for equipment and training, Red Hot has raised more than $3.2 million since its inception, with some $625,000 coming in at this year’s 430-guest bash at the Royal Sonesta.

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In Celebration of King Tut Exhibit, HMNS Patrons Wine, Dine and Unwrap a Mummy

Mike Rathke & Hung L. Truong

Thomas Smith, Madison Woodward, Jane and Daniel Zilkha

HALLOWEEN MAY HAVE come and gone, but the Houston Museum of Natural Science is still in a spooky sort of mood, having just celebrated the opening of its King Tut exhibit with a Victorian-themed “mummy unwrapping” party for special patrons.

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Party Animals! Howl-O-Ween Bash Raises Nearly $1M for SPCA

Jacob Power & Wilson Parish

Brady & Zane Carruth, Brittany & Adam Clark

THE HOUSTON SPCA campus off Old Katy Road is state-of-the-art — and, it turns out, a great place to throw a party. Friday night’s annual Howl-O-Ween Ball took place at the organization’s open-air Equine Rescue Arena.

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