Actress Emmy Rossum looked absolutely gorgeous draped in Piaget jewelry at the Los Angeles Opera’s White Night Season Opening Gala Sunday evening.

Last night Saks hosted a party in celebration of the new novel Hot Property, written by Michele, Samantha, and Sabrina Kleier – stars of the HGTV reality show Selling New York.

This year, Miami's Art Basel gets a little brighter with the addition of a colossal rose bed, soaring at over 20 feet high, over the beach front of the Sagamore Hotel. Artist Will Ryman's towering rose sculptures have been seen all over the US and across New York's Park Avenue. Set to "bloom" on November 27, the rose will remain on display though December 4, the last day of the celebrated Art Basel Fair.

Vacheron Constantin is famous among horological cognoscenti for being the oldest of the great Swiss watchmaking firms –in continuous operation since 1755, it's been active in the United States since 1832, and over the years it's counted among its fans the Wright Brothers (for whom the firm made the watch used to time the first powered flights in 1903) William James (brother of novelist Henry James) and financier Henry Graves, who owned a complicated Vacheron Constantin pocket watch which sold at a recent Christie's auction for the princely sum of $1,762,500 –over twice the maximum estimate.

The Pink Heals Tour has announced an official stop at the first annual “Strut Your Stuff For Cancer” fundraising event on October 6th as part of their national tour. The Pink Heals Tour, a movement celebrating women by raising money and awareness for the fight against Breast Cancer, will be steering their two signature pink fire trucks towards The Falls in honor of the charitable event.

Giftly is one of San Francisco’s latest innovative tech companies launched earlier this year, setting themselves apart with an innovate way to leverage social networks (think: Facebook and Yelp) to make gift-giving personal, smart, fun, and even quirky!

Yesterday was ZagatDay, meaning the 2012 little burgundy guide has been unveiled and is now available in bookstores. With that, the Top 12 Food winners in San Francisco as well.

The 63rd Annual Emmy Awards went off without a hitch, and post-show, especially for the night's winners, there was plenty to celebrate. Red carpets and limousines lined the streets from the Los Angeles Convention Center in Downtown LA to Mr. C's in Beverly Hills. Winners, nominees, and everyone in between sipped champagne and toasted yet another successful year of television entertainment.

After suffering a major fire last week, Bouchon Bakery will reopen its doors Thursday morning. The retail side will be open daily from 7am-12pm offering an abbreviated menu. Since the fire reportedly started in the bread over, no bread will be available, but select pastries sandwiches, salads, rillettes, soup and coffee will be available.

Burberry has embraced the idea that giving unrestricted access to consumers, in every way possible, is the way to get ahead in today's market. Burberry has gone live with its Burberry Spring Summer 2012 collection from Hyde Park. Well-dressed buyers or keen admirers from all over the world can now watch this collection live on digital platform. It will be streamed live online at Burberry.com as well as on the Burberry Facebook page. Twitter fans can also follow the Burberry Twitter account. The runway show can also be viewed on an iPad, iPhone and other mobile devices. Ardent shoppers can purchase stuff from the Runway collection immediately after the show at Burberry.com and it will be delivered within 8 weeks, about 3 months ahead of standard industry times. So fashionistas, it’s time to attend the fashion show, go through the collection and shop the latest trends too without leaving your couch! Fashion at your fingertips.

The Washington Square Bar & Grill was once the hottest place in San Francisco, and today, it's history. The artifacts from the place - menus, photographs, drawings, newsletters, jerseys from the house softball team called Les Lapins Sauvages, newspaper columnist Stanton Delaplane's typewriter, martini glasses, memories - have all been shipped to the San Francisco Public Library History Center. The trademark wooden WSB&G sign that graced the outside of the restaurant for more than 30 years is headed to the library. All will go on display eventually, next to other historical items.

Supermodel Iman and the fashion house Missoni will be the newest recipients of the Rodeo Drive Walk of Style Award.

The Walt Disney Company will announce a major licensing deal to bring the 20th Century Fox hit 'Avatar' to its theme parks.

Although he elected not to present his 2012 spring/summer collection in New York this season, Lebanonese fashion designer, Georges Chakra, has still been busy. Since 2001, when Chakra began presenting his haute couture collection at Paris Fashion Week, his creations have earned him a steadfast pool of aristocratic clients who swoon for their imaginative and elaborate detailing, utmost quality, and luxurious designs.

This Sunday September 25th, The Mandarin Oriental Miami, an exclusive member of The Haute Hotel Network, is offering guests an opportunity to extend their summer fun with a volleyball tournament and fabulous beach party.

Jaguar lead a pre-emptive strike during this year’s Paris Motor Show with the unveiling of their electric, super car, concept! Forget the mandatory, celebratory mandates set forth for the British automaker’s 75th anniversary. The reflective moment at hand is the fact that the C-X75 is the most ostentatious vehicle ever theorized and manifested by Jaguar since the XJ13!

The Tenderoin is filled with history - from San Francisco’s first adult entertainment theater, to studio where several of rock music’s greatest acts all recorded, and even the original Original Joe’s - landmarks abound.

About a year ago, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg kept his haters at bay with the announcement of an extremely generous $100 million gift to the Newark, NJ school system. Now the foundation that manages the donation has announced that the two-year program will also provide $10,000 grants directly to teachers or groups of teachers who create innovative classroom plans.