One of the main goals of the $25 million remodel of the hotel and dining room at the Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek was to refocus much of the restaurant toward the window-filled Veranda and the Mansion's outdoor patio with its manicured lawn sloping toward the creek.
The patio has spent decades woefully ignored.
On Friday, rock star and former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters made excellent use of the refurbished spot.
As lunch guests took their seats on the patio, they got to see the mastermind behind Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall concept albums, engaged in a competitive game of gin with a companion.
Sufficiently relaxed from his cards, Mr. Waters headed to Superpages.com Center at Fair Park (formerly Smirnoff Music Centre, formerly Coca-Cola Starplex), where he and his band performed the entire Dark Side of the Moon album.
Former White House press secretary Tony Snow has been signed to speak this fall at the Salvation Army's 2008 Doing the Most Good Luncheon.
Last week, luncheon chairman JoAnne Roosevelt gathered Salvation Army supporters at the Pump House, the Highland Park art space on the banks of Turtle Creek owned by art collectors Deedie and Rusty Rose.
Ms. Roosevelt informed the crowd that Mr. Snow would speak at the group's Nov. 20 luncheon at the Hilton Anatole.
From May 2006 until September 2007, Mr. Snow was President Bush's press secretary. Back in 1991, he served as director of speechwriting and deputy assistant to the president for media affairs for President George H.W. Bush.
For seven years, Mr. Snow was the host of Fox News Sunday.
White Stripes frontman Jack White must have felt like getting his mai tai on while in Dallas to play with his other band, the Raconteurs, at the House of Blues.
Jack turned up at the retro-cool Trader Vic's while he and the band were checked in upstairs at Hotel Palomar.
Former Miami Dolphins coach Don Shula is probably no fan of the Raconteurs, but the 77-year-old also made a weekend visit to Trader Vic's.
Whenever President Bush dines formally with visiting heads of state, former Dallasite Nancy Brinker is usually in a seat just behind him, often closer than the Secret Service.
That's because the former ambassador is now the nation's chief of protocol. Should the president start careening toward a faux pas, Nancy is on hand to right the ship.
But that's not what got her included in Time magazine's list of the "100 Most Influential People for 2008," in the May 12 issue.
In an essay penned by journalist Cokie Roberts, Nancy is cited for her founding of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation (now Susan G. Komen for the Cure) more than 25 years ago in Dallas.
Since 1983, the group has raised more than $1 billion for breast cancer research.
