Ah, New Years resolutions. They’re on all our minds now, and while we’d rather not be trite and go with the old standby (I vow to cut out chocolate and lose weight this year), a resolution that focuses on the way we eat isn’t a bad idea. Let’s get off the scale, move away from the mirror, and focus on what we’re eating and cooking.

It’s no secret that spending a successful New Year’s Eve in LA requires some major planning. One could almost argue you’d need a travel agent just to book your trip from Santa Monica to Hollywood. Using that organizational might for a bit of travel may just be in your best interest – not to mention, do you really want to risk counting down to 2010 in your car again?

It’s December 22nd, do you know where you’ll be on New Years Eve? Here, we’ve rounded up the most haute 5 parties and dinners LA has to offer this year. Talk about ushering in 2010 in style!

Close your eyes and picture exactly what you’d love wear for New Year’s in a perfect world… Still can’t decide? These four outfits will help you ring in the year in style!

The end of the year always calls for a little look back at all we accomplished (and all the trouble we got into) in the months that came before. But this time, we’re starting a whole new decade! Get ready to look back before you count down…

There’s never been a better reason to revisit the 1940s than The Tar Pit… Heavily employing selective memory, there’s little talk of the war and lots of chatter about booze – ahh the good ol’ days!

Making sure you’re headed to the right part of town to satisfy your most carnal need, shopping, we’ve rounded up the 5 most haute areas in which you can do the most damage to your checking account. Just watch out for those paparazzi.

Assuming you like your friends enough to get them better gifts than Perez Hilton’s newest book, we’d like to point you in the direction of some unique and beautiful jewelry sure to maintain your status as most popular in town.

Natives to LA may not be experts on the seasons, but we can admit there’s something really beautiful and transformational about them – we can appreciate them in other ways such as photographs, stories from frozen friends back east, and via Vivaldi’s timeless “Four Seasons.”