Football, Food and Fundraising
September is one of my favorite times of year. It brings with it dove season, evening temperatures in the 60s, and, of course … the sights and sounds of the great Texas pastime — football.
If a national study were conducted, I’m convinced it would show that hearing the NFL theme song for the first time in September improves the mood of nearly every patriotic, red-blooded Texan. I can’t remember a time when there has been more pre-season excitement.
Texas Football magazine predicts the Aledo Bearcats will repeat as state champions and win the 2010 Class 4A, Division II state title, TCU is ranked seventh in the country and predicted to go to its second BCS bowl game, and Tony Romo has promised us to take our Tarrant County Cowboys to Super Bowl XLV.
Another reason to be excited about this month is the final round of the Fort Worth, Texas magazine Top Chef challenge.
The winner will be named the area’s Top Chef for 2010, be featured on the cover of our October issue and be interviewed live on CBS 11. The final four chefs advancing in the first two challenges in July and August will face off against each other to showcase their culinary skills on Thursday, Sept. 9.
Tickets are still available and can be purchased at the new Morrison appliance showroom on Bryant Irvin Road in Fort Worth. Coverage of the second round of the competition begins on page 84.
Finally, after you’ve dropped the kids off at school one day this month and find yourself with a void in your day, stop by our 2010 Dream Home Remodel on Colonial Parkway.
This elegant home is one of the most recognizable dwellings in Fort Worth. Mary and Thomas Bates, through Glendarroch Homes — owned by their sons Tom and Tim Bates — stripped the house to the studs, doubled it in size and then rebuilt it into a family centered place for their seven — yes, seven — grandsons, as well as the rest of the family.
Although this is a Fort Worth, Texas magazine project, it took the assistance of numerous participating vendors to complete the renovation, and, no one worked harder or contributed more than the design firm Dorian’s Interior Design.
Many show houses, while almost always beautiful, can be sterile and disconnected because they exist to showcase the wares of many different designers. This house is different. Dorian’s, working closely with the Bates, incorporated existing and new furniture and a unified theme throughout to make this not a show house but a show home.
The beneficiary for all ticket sales this year is Cook Children’s Medical Center, through Jewel Charity. Admission is $10. If you aren’t already a subscriber to Fort Worth, Texas magazine, you may buy a subscription for $20 and the tour is free. (We’ll donate $10 of that to Cook Children’s, and you get a year of the city’s premier magazine.) The dates of the tour are Sept. 2 – 26, 2010. Our extended coverage of the 2010 Dream Remodel begins on page 48.
Ahhhh….the September good life. Put your feet up, have a cold one and turn up the TV.
Hal A. Brown
Publisher
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