Have you ever wanted to launch a lemon basket on Sunset Boulevard? The entrepreneurial duo that founded Dolce Group, responsible for such bigwig joints as Dolce Enoteca and Geisha House just did. According to Eater L.A., The hospitality group, laden with celebrity investors including Aston Kutcher, Wilmer Valderrama, and Jaime Kennedy, chucked the location’s former haute spot Ketchup for a fresh new Lemon Basket.

Ephemeral, evanescent, transient, temporary, whichever word is appropriate to describe the new trend in retail pop-up boutiques. Tommy Hilfiger recently popped up a store in The Meat Packing District of New York City and now Chanel has launched what they refer to, as an ephemeral outpost in Cannes, presenting selections from the Spring-Summer 2011 Ready-to-Wear and elaborately bejeweled Paris-Byzance Collections in conjunction with the International Film Festival.

A picture of young Macauley Culkin, jaw dropped, hands to face draws an instant image from a scene in the 1990 blockbuster hit Home Alone. The movie focused on a mischievous boy left behind and forced to thwart two inept burglars from pillaging his parent’s home.

Native New Yorker Tommy Hilfiger recently sold his famous apparel company to Phillips-Van Heusen for a reported $3 billion and immediately got an itch to splurge.

Palatial details and indigenous architecture capture the essence of the newly built Leela on the shores of Lake Pichola in New Delhi, India. The extravagant entrance, leads to reception rooms with soaring cathedral ceilings, silver settees, splendidly open courtyards, and a wall of water imbuing the immediate sense of peace and serenity, exactly what a price tag of such magnitude should offer.

What could be better than a party in Manhattan? A rooftop party in Manhattan. That’s what Thompson Hotels can now offer. The hip boutique hospitality group adds itself to the list of sky-high party makers.