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All-Star Soiree Celebrates Reagan Bregman’s Stylish New Jewelry Venture

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All-Star Soiree Celebrates Reagan Bregman’s Stylish New Jewelry Venture

Daniella Correa Rodriguez, Iris Shaftel, Reagan Bregman, Kara McCullers

AN ALL-STAR crowd hit Tanglewood’s Shaftel Diamonds for a luxe launch party toasting Reagan Bregman’s new jewelry line, With Love.

Nearly 100 fashionistas, beauty queens and ballplayers joined the Astros wife in celebration. Guests were welcomed withspicy “Reaggie Ritas,” served on the rocks by El Tiempo Cantina, which they sipped to the soundtrack of DJ Nicholas Yapp. Meanwhile, Chef Rey served up grilled shrimp and white chocolate covered strawberries.

With Love features elevated everyday pieces designed to last, all inspired by Reagan’s own on-the-go lifestyle, which calls for versatile and high quality yet affordable pieces that anyone could wear with ease.

Spotted in the crowd were Alex Bregman, Jeremy Peña, Kara McCullers, Daniella Correa, Taylor Kessler, Phyllis Mandola, Elizabeth Landry and Jasmine Nguyen.

Alex Bregman, Reagan Bregman, Iris Shaftel, Danny Shaftel

Stacy Epps, Madison Kinley, Jasmine Nguyen, Danielle Dubois

Ashley Kanzler, Julia Morales Clark, Samantha Scott, Esther Firova, Melissa Baker

Kathryn Swain, Molly Johnson Stone

Olivia Brady, Cheryl Brady

Vasiliqi Turlla, Reagan Bregman, Alexandra Rich

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SummerJazz Festival Offers Vibrant, Accessible — and Air-Conditioned — Musical Programming

Mwenso Carnegie Squad

WITH SUMMER FAR from over, DACAMERA continues to roll out some of the hottest musical programming to be enjoyed here — and anywhere else in the South for that matter — with Houston SUMMERJAZZ 2023 (Aug. 17-20). The series highlights the breadth of contemporary jazz, with nods to the music’s Cuban, pan-African, funk, pop, and soul connections. This year’s festival includes performances by the Spanish Harlem Orchestra (Aug. 17), vocalist Gretchen Parlato in her first Houston appearance (Aug. 18), and crowd-pleasing global artists Mwenso & The Shakes (Aug. 19), whose members come from Sierra Leone, London, South Africa, Greenwich Village, Madagascar, France, Jamaica and Hawaii. (Jazz is, indeed, “global” music.) All Houston SUMMERJAZZ concerts take place in the Wortham Center’s Cullen Theater.

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Making ‘Room for Everybody,’ Gretchen Parlato Brings Her Multi-Genre Brand of Jazz to Houston

BEGINNING THIS THURSDAY, Aug. 17, DACAMERA’s Houston SUMMERJAZZ festival presents a concise, three-night program of jazz in a myriad of contemporary forms, with the Spanish Harlem Orchestra (Aug. 17) illuminating its historical connections to Cuba and Puerto Rico, and internationalists Mwenso and The Shakes (Aug. 19) extolling the music’s pan-African, funk, and pop potential. In between those two hits, on Friday, Aug. 18, all of these tributaries and more will be explored in a set by two-time Grammy-nominated vocalist Gretchen Parlato, making her first appearance in Houston.

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