Things To Do in Dallas Tonight: May 18

I’m starting to hate Nancy just a little bit for posting the Eat This Now feature so early in the morning. It always looks so good that I’m hungry for lunch by 10 am. Someone fetch me that pork torta thing.

Now it’s confession time. I kind of like small children. I was an elementary school substitute teacher in another life, and didn’t absolutely hate it. I have adorable little blond cousins, one of whom is 10 years old and wears the same size shoe as me. Yeah, I know. But even if I didn’t already have a soft spot, I’d be up for attending the Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center’s “PJ for PJs” pool party this evening. The event, the brainchild of DCAC board member Wendy Moss, was such a success last year that they’re doing it again.

Here’s how it works. Show up at the swanky Hotel ZaZa rooftop lounge with a new pair of pajamas. It might be cloudy, but it’s plenty warm and not supposed to rain. Donate $30 to a good cause— the center provides counseling and assistance to victims of child abuse and their families. The jammies go directly to kids in need. Drink champagne (Perrier Jouët, the other PJ in the cutesy title, donates their bubbly). Maybe eat a little something. And then go home. Or proceed to dinner (I have a hankering for the Hare Krishna— egg whites stuffed with avocado, jack and feta cheese— from Buzzbrews) or another bar, where you can turn your midweek happy hour into a happy entire evening. Plus, you can revel in the fact that you’ve kind of done your good deed for the day. I say kind of, because obviously, you’re getting something out it, too. It’s not entirely selfless.

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