T here’s a scene in the film “Titanic” when Leonardo DiCaprio’s Jack Dawson whisks Kate Winslet’s Rose DeWitt-Bukater away from a formal, and somewhat stuffy dinner by whispering, “So, you wanna go to a real party?” They proceed to drink beer and line-dance below deck, to which Winslet’s character exclaims, “That was the most fun I’ve had in years!” between laughs.
Following vintage connoisseurs Brooke Wise and Natalie Lindsey on a random school night through Persa Place, a hidden enclave of creative businesses tucked behind Westheimer in former St. Anne Catholic School residences, feels a bit like that.
Cocktails in hand, Wise and Lindsey dart from a shindig at The Nat Note in mid-February — welcoming their friend, photographer and new Persa Place tenant Brooke Taelor to the block — down a brick-cobbled path. They scoop up stray party-goers as they weave under string lights…