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OBSESSIONS. DECORATION. SALIENT FACTS. Clifton Club Kid's Meal T asteful Tidbit: If you're like me and did the whole Dry January thing, then the following months can't have enough vices. Clifton Club is one of our favorite boîtes for pre- or post-dinner cocktails, or just a nightcap with a nibble in one of the cozy banquettes. CC recently unveiled what we'll be ordering again and again: a Kid's Meal. Owner Greg Katz tells us some guests joked that he should recreate that meal in a box made famous by Mickey D's, but for lounge patrons. Inside, you'll find a mini smashburger, fries, a happy-hour cocktail, and in lieu of a toy, a cigarette. Social: Finally, we're nearing the finish line of our busiest social season. As I write this, I'm prepping for a week packed with two or three events a night, all in conjunction with the Dallas Art Fair. It's been a marathon, Buzz not just a sprint — in fact, it might be time to head to Dino's in Highland Park Village to get your Blahniks re-soled. But with everyone jetting off to the sunny shores of St. Barths or the lush greenery of Aspen at the start of June, our Smythson datebooks will soon be quite open until September. Here's what you should pull out some frocks for this month: Saturday, May 2, is Wish Night, benefiting Make-A-Wish North Texas at the Omni Dallas Hotel. Since 1980, the cause has granted countless life-changing wishes worldwide, bringing hope to children with critical illnesses. Join chairs Amy and Marty Brimmage for a black-tie evening that promises to be a memorable one … On Friday, May 8, we'll be at one of the biggest luncheons of the year: the TACA Silver Cup Awards Luncheon, also at the Omni Dallas Hotel. Co-chairs Lynn McBee and Terri West will honor Nancy Carlson and Andy Smith for their leadership and contributions to the arts in North Texas … On Saturday, May 9, we'll be at one of our city's more fashion-forward events, DIFFA Dallas' House of DIFFA Hotel Mystique, at the Sheraton Dallas Hotel. Design Industries H ave you noticed how people are obsessed with vinyl (records or LPs, for the initiated) these days? The retro phenom dates back pre-COVID, but I'm wondering if all the time we spent sheltering in place, deprived of our favorite clubs, made us more attuned to high fidelity. In fact, multiple rooms at the last Kips Bay Decorator Show House Dallas were designed as listening spaces. If you're ready to venture out of your own dedicated acoustic den, consider a visit downtown to Shyboy Hi- Fi, Dallas' first dedicated high-fidelity listening bar, brought to us by Headington Companies (CBD Provisions, Forty Five Ten, Tango Room, and Sassetta, among other concepts). Listening lounges are considered an alternative to nightclubs, and they're popping up around the world. Their roots trace back to Japanese jazz kissa bars, which revered the music itself, rather than using it as a backdrop for debauchery. For audiophiles, such lounges are communal and focus on well-designed interiors with comfortable seating instead of massive dance floors. Such is the case at Shyboy, where genre-spanning beats span house, jazz, reggae, disco, trip-hop, Japanese city pop, and other global sounds, depending on the night. Descend a dramatic staircase from street level to the subterranean enclave beneath The Drakestone, where the brutalist design is a brilliant adaptive reuse of a historic bank space by 5G Studio Collaborative. The Blue Room is a restored 1920s vault with an intimate bar and a cymatic sculpture, Lachlan Turczan's Optical Resonance (2023), which organically interprets the sounds of the room via waves of light on adjacent walls and ceilings. In the main room, tucked-away corners are set for elevated cocktails far beyond your customary South Beach vodka and Red Bull. Custom OJAS sound systems designed by Devon Turnbull make music the main event here — but don't get us wrong; Shyboy is not uncomfortably reverential. After all, the solo food item is a rotating menu of soft-serve flavors. Sure, you can sway to the beats in vintage Antwerp Six, but do so with an ice cream cone in hand. Shyboy has joined our rotation of hangout spots; it's the perfect spot for your clique to dress to impress the attendant (perhaps a not shy boy) behind the velvet ropes on Main Street. ShyBoy Hi-Fi, 1313 Main St., shyboyhifi.com. Billy Fong Foundation Fighting AIDS (DIFFA) raises and grants funds for organizations that fight HIV/AIDS by providing preventative education programs, treatment, and direct care to people living with HIV/AIDS. Following that evening, we'll begin packing for a much-needed summer waterfront respite. Billy Fong Shy-Fi The Blue Room at Shyboy Hi-Fi ANDREA BARBA DAN PADGETT 20