EXPLORE is an Ohio lifestyle brand that runs house parties, taking a private house for a night rather than working from premises of its own. It has used two so far this season — Valley View House in the Cleveland suburbs, and The Wellington House about sixty miles south-west.

The nights are themed and the door changes with them. September's toga party takes couples, single women and single men; October's Halloween day party is couples and single women only. The brand sells a club membership alongside tickets, and the membership is priced to pay for itself at the door — its September flyer advertised a couple at around $45 as members against roughly $75 as non-members when this page was written, figures that are indications and are confirmed at the door.

Very little else is published. The site is a ticketing and social-networking front — its own rules page returns "custom page not found" — so the house rules, the addresses and the arrival details reach ticket holders rather than the open web. What the brand does put in writing, on the toga party's artwork, is the line "Consent is key, debauchery is encouraged".

Dates and membership are on the brand's own site. Browse our Ohio guide for the state's venues and other party brands.