Things to Do in Glenn Heights

Snapped Together's hand-built photo booths, armed with professional-grade cameras, lighting, and printers, spit out crisp, vivid photo strips within seconds while oozing retro charm. Its open-air booths made with mahogany and brushed aluminum channel the photo booths of yesteryear but without all the nasty chemicals and posing for days to get one picture. Staffers transport these open-air models—as well as traditional booths—to a cornucopia of events and stand by to help add photogenic pizzazz to weddings, birthday parties, and charitable fundraisers. After shindigs, hosts can bring home a flash drive brimming with images, a memento almost as priceless as a contact lens used by Ansel Adams.

Shecky's Girls Night Out makes planning a social outing between friends easy with its dozens of fashion, jewelry, and beauty product displays and samples to peruse. Having started as a published guide to New York City nightlife, Shecky's now stages stylish shindigs across the country and has garnered nationwide notice from media outlets—including Bloomberg News —for its ladies-only soirees. Drawing on its roots as a party-planning brain trust, Shecky’s relies on a talented staff to augment vendor wares with complimentary snacks and cocktails, goody bags, and makeovers. Take a peek at one of Shecky’s past events, where, like the locker room at a WNBA game, men are conspicuously absent.

Years before founding In Home Wine Tasting 4 You, Jeannine Jiral was just a girl of 5, living in small-town Texas, watching her family ferment various fruits into homemade alcohol. From those days she knows how much skill it takes to make a delectable drink. Now she puts that knowledge to use, helming In Home Wine Tasting 4 You's knowledgeable servers as they pour flights of quality wine suited to each patron's taste and style.

Before hosting custom parties, patrons fill out a questionnaire to declare their white and red preferences and ability to play Stairway to Heaven on half-full glasses. Then personnel supply the libations, including wine, beer, or a combination of the two, as well as tasting notes, food-pairing suggestions, and tips for hosting future tasting parties. Through its partnership with The Wine Therapist, In Home Wine Tasting 4 You also outfits clients with wine-drinking accessories such as tumblers, glasses, and cheese boards, and can host tastings for those who don't want to throw a party in their own home or who have recently misplaced their pet cobra.

The McKinney Avenue Contemporary (The MAC to its friends) opened its vibrant purple doors in 1994 to fill a local void in venues for new and emerging visual artists. Committed to facilitating arts in the community since its inception, the nonprofit welcomes one and all to view the exhibits, lectures, and readings with only a small suggested donation. The gallery space also encourages homegrown talent in the annual Membership Exhibition, which invites patrons to tap their inner artist or simply take the oven mitt off their Van Gogh–possessed hand. Exhibits from professional artists rotate on a monthly basis and, not including member exhibitions, the gallery has displayed more than 275 individuals in its 18-year history. For evenings lit by the spotlight, the organization's resident troupe of players, Kitchen Dog Theater, puts on roughly five shows per season, touching on classic plays and new, contest-winning scripts.