If you’re part of the Hollywood elite, it’s guaranteed that you’ll want the crème de la crème of amenities during awards season. Haute Living has gone undercover to cherry pick these very spots for you so that this time next year you’ll be in very good company come Oscar week.

Picking five of the hautest locale s in any city isn’t easy, but Haute Living likes a challenge. In this issue, we’ve selected the best spots in Los Ang eles to go for a romantic meal, where to bite into a juicy hamburger and the hautest pools to take a dip in any time of the year. For the full reviews of our top 5 choices, head over to www.hauteliving.com/los-angeles

Haute British shoe line Charlotte Olympia is finally heading to LA. Designer Charlotte Olympia Dellal will debut her new Rodeo Drive boutique with a very special love letter to Los Angeles in early May.

Peninsula Hotel developer Bo Zarnegin has put his 1.2 acre A. Quincy Jones-designed estate on the market for $15.5 million. The five bedroom property in Beverly Hills has been on the market since 2009.

Saint Angelina is back! That would be Angelina Jolie, who is campaigning for yet another worthy cause. The A-list actress is now campaigning to end rape in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Picking five of the hautest locale s in any city isn’t easy, but Haute Living likes a challenge. In this issue, we’ve selected the best spots in Los Ang eles to go for a romantic meal, where to bite into a juicy hamburger and the hautest pools to take a dip in any time of the year. For the full reviews of our top 5 choices, head over to www.hauteliving.com/los-angeles

Picking five of the hautest locale s in any city isn’t easy, but Haute Living likes a challenge. In this issue, we’ve selected the best spots in Los Ang eles to go for a romantic meal, where to bite into a juicy hamburger and the hautest pools to take a dip in any time of the year. For the full reviews of our top 5 choices, head over to www.hauteliving.com/los-angeles

Al Gore’s commitment to the environment hasn’t gone unnoticed: the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability feted the former Vice President at their second annual gala. Gore and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Lyn Lear were honored at a ceremony held at the Beverly Hills home of Jeanne and Anthony N. Pritzker on March 5th.

Diamonds were definitely a girl’s best friend on Feb. 19, when Hollywood’s hottest stars stepped out in Beverly Hills to fete Elizabeth Taylor’s rare collection of Bvlgari baubles. Julianne Moore turned heads wearing the $6.1 million emerald and diamond pendant that Richard Burton gave to Taylor as a wedding gift, while other actresses wore modern-day pieces from the Italian jewelry house.