Serving Up a Memorable Meal: Scarpetta NYC’s Tasting Menu
He’s wowed Los Angeles, he’s charmed Miami, not to mention Toronto and Las Vegas, but where it all began for chef Scott Conant and his burgeoning Scarpetta restaurant empire is in New York City. After having dined extraordinarily well many times at the Los Angeles– actually, Beverly Hills location, and once earlier this year in Miami at the Fontainebleau hotel, we were excited to finally step through the doors at...
Furniture, Phones and Toilets–Three Good Reasons to Party
Beverly Blvd. just east of Robertson was the place to be on Thursday night as three separate events slowed traffic to a crawl and brought out hundreds of people. The biggest party was at the brand-new Restoration Hardware flagship store, right around the corner from the Starbucks. The home furnishings store is reportedly closing its locations that sell lower-priced merchandise and focusing on a higher-end concept like the one...
True Blood’s Alan Ball Called it an Obscene Party, and He Meant That in a Good Way
When we last left Sookie Stackhouse on “True Blood,” she had disappeared in a fairy flash. As season four of the hit HBO series begins anew, we find out exactly what happened to her. And part of it was pretty, before of course, it turned True Bloodian. Okay, there will be some spoilers here. Sookie, now single after breaking up with Bill Compton, spent time with her fairy godmother in an idyllic place where time stands still and where...
Rob Lowe and the Stories He (used to) Only Tell His Friends
And what friends they are. We opened the cover of the book with a pretty picture of Lowe on the cover – and what other kind of picture is there, judging also by his recent cover pose in Vanity Fair? Perhaps not expecting much, we were immediately riveted by Lowe’s description of growing up in Malibu in the 1970s in a dysfunctional family with neighbors and friends like brothers Emilio Estevez and Charlie Sheen and their...
What do Annette Bening and Katie Holmes Have in Common, Aside from Star Husbands?
Warren Beatty was there, Tom Cruise wasn’t as their illustrious wives took center stage at the Women in Film 2011 Crystal + Lucy Awards in Beverly Hills. Hosted by Melissa McCarthy of “Bridesmaids” and the CBS hit show “Mike and Molly,” the gala event honored Annette Benning with the Crystal Award, Katie Holmes received the MaxMara Face of the Future Award, CBS Entertainment president Nina Tassler, “How I...
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