Guest blogger Joey Jalleo shares insider notes from his whirlwind party weekend in Vegas for nightlife impresario and restaurateur Amy Sacco's celebrity filled birthday bash. When the Queen of New York Nightlife invites you to a party, you have no choice but to attend. When the party happens to be her 40th birthday blowout at The Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, you start ...

Sometimes it's not enough just to talk the talk. On Monday night at Scott Harrison's charity: ball, celebrity co-hosts Adrian Grenier and Jessica Stam showed their commitment to raising money for freshwater wells in Africa by literally walking the walk. To help guests better understand the arduous task of transporting water (which many African women and children endure daily), Tripp Mixx Productions created the Water Walk. ...

To some, Scott Harrison led an enviable life filled with A-list parties, exclusive access to New York nightlife and a rolodex filled with the city's most beautiful people. But, the former party promoter and celebrity event planner was left wanting more. In 2004, Harrison left behind his indulgent lifestyle and traveled to Africa to help the most impoverished people on Earth. What ...

For Julie Panebianco and Topaz Page-Green, the term power lunch may have been redefined. Concerned about the growing number of impoverished children that went hungry at school every day, the friends joined forces in 2005 to create The Lunchbox Auction to raise money for two hunger relief organizations. Celebrities, designers, musicians and artists were asked to design personalized lunchbox art to be donated to an online auction to ...

When the invitation arrived to spend the weekend in Antigua at a 3-day celebration hosted by Gordon "Butch" Stewart, Chairman of the Sandals Resorts, I was intrigued. Just how did a self-made, Jamaican billionaire entrepreneur (who started his career selling air conditioners) know so much about romance that he earned the moniker, "Cupid of the Caribbean?" To find out I attended the launch of Stewart's newest resort, the $70 million, ...

If you were a girl growing up in the 80's, you were most definitely a fan of Duran Duran. In my group of friends, you were either madly in love with lead singer Simon Le Bon or bassist John Taylor. Given my longtime "appreciation" for the band, I could hardly pass up an invitation to meet them at a private party (organized by Epic ...

This week in New York, the buzz is all Bowie. As the inaugural curator of the H&M High Line Festival (May 9th -19th), David Bowie has become our city's personal guide to the coolest line-up of music, film, comedy and visual art performance. The artists that he has chosen to showcase are as eclectic as Bowie himself from Brit comedian Ricky Gervais ("The Office") ...