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Getting red wine out of white linen
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The crisp and elegant Hank Stewart.
What do you do when your glass of Bordeaux and your white linen trousers meet unhappily?
We asked poet, author and activist Hank Stewart his advice the other day, given his upcoming three-day bash, the 2008 White Linen Affair. The event features a slew of activities, including a jazz-poetry café night, dance lessons, a writers’ workshop, a brunch, a comedy show, talent auction and even some workout time.
“I’m having a ball,” said the Emmy award-winning Stewart, who performs with the R&B-jazz ensemble 5 Men on a Stool.
The White Linen Affair, July 25-27 at the Hilton Atlanta Hotel, benefits the Stewart Foundation, a youth empowerment organization. Organizers expect another full house, and prominent guests like U.S. Reps. Hank Johnson and John Lewis, State Rep. Tyrone Brooks, the Rev. Joseph Lowery and actors Malik Yoba and Cee Cee Makaela.
The White Linen idea was launched in 2001, when Stewart held a party for the release of a poetry CD and suggested everyone show up looking crisp and elegant. Friends urged Stewart to continue the event, and it’s grown over the years while the sartorial guidelines have been tweaked somewhat. (This year’s look is white linen with a hint of lime.)
So seriously, should your look and your libation collide, how do you get rid of the damage?
“You don’t,” Steward laughed. “You hope you don’t spill anything on yourself until the end of the evening when it doesn’t really matter.”
Tix are $40, see www.hankstewart.net.
From left, Jose and Nikolle Reyes, Fia and Dana Durrett and Kristen and David Ware. Photo by Fernando Decillis.
Hope for Rwanda
Metaleap Design and Paste magazine hosted a June 27 party in their Decatur offices to benefit the nonprofit organization 100 Days.
The group is raising money to build the Good Shepherd Hospital for Children in Rwanda, a country that’s been ravaged by genocide and AIDS. Nearly 200 came out for sips and nibbles provided by Yellowtail, The Brick Store, and Taqueria Del Sol, with DJ Little Jen spinning her magic and rock group The Ming Dynasty entertaining.
Photog Fernando Decillis organized group shots spelling out the night’s theme, Hope. Party people included José & Nikolle Reyes, Fringe Atlanta founders and Metaleap Design owners; Fia and Dana Durrett, Fringe Atlanta founders (Fia is also a violinist for Emory University’s chamber music ensemble, The Vega Quartet) and architects Kristen and David Ware, owners of Ware & Associates.
Also, Kelli Sasser, Ann Magruder, Jim Cox, Linda Cox, Tang Lund, Lisa Brown, Marlon Brown with 100 Days.
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