Unless you’ve been living in a hole, you knew that once the Next craze calmed down with a few weeks under it’s belt, the obvious next logical Grant Achatz obsession would be the much anticipated opening of Aviary. With no tickets and no reservations, the line started forming at noon for the 6 pm cocktail lounge’s first night and was more reasonable today with the Easter holiday.

Sample sales are not just about a designer’s way of getting rid of exorbitant merchandise and fashionistas indulging in good buys. Instead, we view sample sales as places to to find items that may not be available anywhere else.

What are you doing for the royal wedding on April 29? There are plenty of exciting events happening right here in Miami that will make you feel just as high and mighty as Prince William and Kate Middleton.

This Saturday, April 30, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Neiman Marcus Scottsdale will be hosting the most fabulous picnic ever at its "Spring Into Summer" event. Get ready for this indoor-outdoor, all-store party, which will include music, refreshments, hot dogs, snow cones, and gifts with purchases, and the chance to win prizes.

Mets' third baseman David Wright should be feeling pretty feeling lucky right about now after the team's fourth straight win over the weekend. Perhaps he's also feeling lucky about recently putting his Flatiron District penthouse on the market.

Brunch might be an obvious choice when it comes to Mother's Day. Been there, done that, right? You may have had a brunch to celebrate mom's special day, but you definitely haven't done it like this. The Island Hotel is blending brunch with a BBQ -- you read that right -- for a Mother's Day that she won't soon forget.

Classics are classics for a reason. The Jaeger LeCoultre Reverso watch has been putting the haute in haute horlogerie (high watchmaking) for 80 years. Ironically, though the Reverso is now known as a timepiece that sets the benchmark for elegance in luxury men's dress watches, it started out as one of the first watches ever designed for a specific sport–polo.

The contemporary jewel-box effect that designer Roberto Baciocchi has infused into the newly renovated Prada store at Hong Kong’s International Finance Centre is sure to make shoppers curious of the treasures that lie in wait behind the shiny glass walls.

FENDI Casa, the home design collection for the international luxury label FENDI, has once again partnered with Trump Towers at their Sunny Isles Beach location. Following the success of their alliance at Trump’s Soho hotel, FENDI Casa was invited to bestow their creativity on one of the grandest units at the prestigious Miami Beach location as they furnished and accessorized a model-unit on the thirty-ninth floor of Tower Three.

A true West Coast meets East Coast of art, street culture & celebrity. MOCA Los Angeles under the guidance of Director Jeffrey Deitch had one of the city's largest openings last week for "Art in the Streets." A timeline of street art, graffiti and installations from the '70s to the present including pieces from Banksy, Shepard Fairey, Keith Haring all the way to Neckface & André (of Le Baron and Paul & Andre nightclubs.)

Leave it to Prada to create "made-to-order" customizable eyewear. Letters along with numbers, hearts, stars, skulls and other symbols will be available to turn your favorite pair of glasses into a personal pair.

Not only can you prance the halls of royalty, feast on fancy victuals and such, and rest your heads like kings and queens, now you can relish in the skin-pampering luxuries of The Spa at Ellenborough Park in Cotswold.

Never to be replicated 22+ acre sancuary in the heart of the Monterey Peninsula, Jacks Peak! With utmost privacy and views of only flora and fauna and sea! Exquisite architecture of Redwood, glass and concrete! Ocean views to Carmel AND Monterey Bay, a rarity!

It’s no surprise that someone born on an island and raised near the beaches of Miami would be inspired to create one of the hottest swimsuit lines in the industry. Luli Fama, co-owned by Lourdes and her brother-in-law Augusto Hanimian, launched their first sun-seeking collection in 1993, just three years after they first met. In 2003 Luli Fama was established and now the luxurious line includes cover-ups, embellished and Caribbean-inspired monokinis and bikinis bearing the signature ruched-back bottoms, and recently dresses.

Friday, April 29, 2011 will be a stellar night to stargaze at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los Angeles, CA a where the 18th Annual Race to Erase MS event co-chaired by Nancy Davis and Tommy Hilfiger will be held.

Come preview the new whimsical collection from jewelry designer Gerard Yosca at Henri Bendel’s on Fifth Avenue. The famed department store will host another trunk show for the innovative artist starting tomorrow, April 26, 2011 from 11 a.m. to noon.

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On Sunday, May 1, from 3 to 5 p.m., world-renowned chef Barbara Fenzl will host a special class paying tribute to the legendary Julia Child and Simone Beck, Fenzl's personal friends and authors of the famed "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" cookbook.