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OBSESSIONS. DECORATION. SALIENT FACTS. Bobby McAlpine Ray Booth Celerie Kemble Christopher Spitzmiller Mark D. Sikes A f t e r a y e a r hiatus due to you know what, Texas Design Week Houston i s s c h e d u l e d f o r M o n d a y through Friday, May 17 through May 21 — a week-long celebration of design with panel discussions, salon talks, book signings, product launches, and cocktails with some of the most recognized names in the design world. On the roster are Celerie Kemble, Mark D. Sikes, Christopher Spitzmiller, Lauren Rottet, and Paloma Contreras, along with Bobby McAlpine and Ray Booth as part of Design in Bloom, and more. Texas Design Week Houston tickets are on sale now. VIP Reserved Seat Tickets are $250 and include reserved seating for all five days at all events, as well as for reserved seating at the PaperCity Design Awards, Thursday, May 20, at The Fayez and Susan Sarofim House, sponsored by New Orleans A u c t i o n G a l l e r i e s . G e n e r a l admission tickets are $100 (non- reserved seating) for all five days. TEXAS DESIGN WEEK HOUSTON IS MAY 17-21, 2021 All TXDW events are ticketed. F o r t h e m o s t u p d a t e d , complete Texas Design Week Houston schedule, day by day, g o t o t e x a s d e s i g n w e e k . c o m . For sponsorship opportunities and advertising, email events@ texasdesignweek.com. Save the date for Texas Design Week Dallas September 20-24, 2021, with opening night of Kips Bay Decorator Show House Dallas on Thursday, September 23. much time with my incredible teenage daughter, Stella, wondering at life as it moved in slow motion." She also reached out to two of her best friends whom she's known since high school, Frank Hamlin and Greg Rhodes. She describes their early COVID Zoom chats as "moping, coping, and hoping." They reminisced about their teenage years: carefree days of driving, simply for the sake of driving, and listening to mixtapes they'd made for each other. After one of their virtual chats, her daughter remarked, "Listening to you guys talking about music … That's something, mom. You should consider doing a podcast." Leave it to a teenager to come up with something truly entrepreneurial. They booked time at a recording studio, and voilà! A podcast was launched. When searching for a name, the sound guy suggested, "You three kept saying, 'Such a good song.' That's your title." And now, their new series, "Such A Good Song," has launched. We asked Wrubel to conjure up a PaperCity playlist for our readers. Below is a sampling of what you'll find — close to three hours of seriously diggable tunes on her website and her Spotify. These are tracks best enjoyed over suppertime al fresco. We asked for her top 10, but she countered, "No, I'll tell you 11, since that's my favorite number. It's one louder on the volume control." Lucywrubel.com, Spotify DJ Lucy Wrubel and PaperCity SUPPERTIME al fresco. Billy Fong 1. Amo Amo's "Antidote" 2. Strabe's "Best Worst Year" 3. Dayglow's "Close to You" 4. Westerman's "Confirmation" 5. Kowloon's "Paradise" 6. Polo & Pan's "Feel Good" 7. Aaron Frazer's "Lover Girl" 8. Mt. Joy's "Rearrange Us" 9. Circa Waves & Alfie Templeman's "Lemonade" 10. The Avalanches & Rivers Cuomo's "Running Red Lights" 11. Khruangbin & Leon Bridges' "Texas Sun" SPIN, SPIN, LU CY (Continued from page 22) 24