Everyone gets to see the excitement and glamour of the Emmys and some of the after-parties on TV. However, the fun starts WAY before that! In the week before all the big Hollywood Award Ceremonies, many of the nominees and other celebrities start partying hearty – at various events where they are invited to sample all kinds of products and services.

What a night! September 27 was an evening of fantastic music and lots of laughs when Michael McKean, Harry Shearer, and Christopher Guest took the stage at The Avalon in Hollywood.

Tatty Devine was created in 1999. It is a unique and quirky accessory line. Rosie Wolfenden and Harriet Vine are the brains behind the successful jewelry designs. The company is based in Great Britain, and the two designers have no formal training as jewelers. Harriet and Rose met at Chelsea School of Art back in 1996. They had planned to become artists, but Harriet found some leather samples on the way home from the pub one night. She proceeded to make some leather cuffs. She and Rosie sold them at Portabello and Spitalfields markets—and Tatty Devine was born.

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Handbag designer Merrell McGuinness received her inspiration in fashion from both women’s creative backgrounds and love of all things beautiful. Once she started designing her handbags, word spread quickly by word of mouth, and orders flooded in. Merrell, while holding down a full-time job, and maintaining a growing business, realized the need for a functional bag that still expressed a personal style.

The skin is the largest organ of the body. So for me, accessorizing certain areas of my skin with colorful ink seems to be an obvious part of expressing myself. But what about the social stigmas attached to the tattooed subculture of men and women? Or, the most commonly asked, “What will happen when you’re older?”

(Written by Elana Pruitt)

Trapped Inside the Story is so good I predict a best seller! Written by Leslie Cohen, it is the biography of Holocaust survivor Naomi Kalsky, born Sonya Hebenstreit..

Only with the help of the muse could the author pull off this manipulation of point of view from first person, with Calliope, the heroine, and later, Cal, the hero, as narrator, to third person omniscient: “I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974.”

(Reviewed By Lee L. Peoples)

Raechel Cunningham is a licensed aesthetician and the director at New York Laser & Aesthetics, located in the center of Manhattan. Raechel is a highly motivated aesthetician with extensive knowledge in the Skin Care industry. She is a graduate of Florida College of Natural Health, where she received an A.S. in Natural Health and obtained courses in both Aesthetics and Massage Therapy. Raechel has extensive experience in various Laser Treatments such as IPL, Laser Hair Removal, Laser Vascular Treatments, and Photo Facials.

September has always marked the beginning of a new year for me, not only because my birthday falls on the last day of the month, but also because it marks the end of summer and the beginning of the school year. Having raised three children into adulthood, I’ve been conditioned by long practice to be sensitive to the changes in the rhythms and routine that this time of year sparks.

(Written by Lisa A. Trimarchi)

I guess it’s true what they say, 40 is the new 20. 50 is the new 30 and 60 is the new forty. So why not create a modeling competition for women over 35. After all, we are all getting younger anyway! (Interview with casting director, Andrew Strauser.)