Christmas is around the corner-and that means travel for lots of us. Where to go and what to do for the holidays? For lovers who like their holiday cheer warm and wonderful, there’s no place better than Florida. Forget the snow, and head to the Sunshine State with its beautiful beaches, hotels, restaurants, and sights, and take in all the glittery Christmas decorations-along with sun, sand, and ocean!

(Marilyn Anderson & Dennis Lanning)

What’s pink and green and full of love? With fantastic food, featured femmes, and fabulous fashions? The Susan G. Komen Los Angeles County 7th Annual “Fashion for the Cure” Gala, held at 2 Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills on Tuesday, October 23rd!

There’s no woman or man who wouldn’t love Santa to shimmy down the chimney with a MILUS watch! And it will be easy this year with the new MILUS showroom boutique on Rodeo Drive.

Day in and day out it seems that men and women face the challenge of finding great fashion that is comfortable and versatile. Yet many people shop based on a different factor – what will mask underarm sweat.

(Written by Elana Pruitt)

The two books below helped me put a face to a country I had only envisioned politically and, of course, negatively. However, reading Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns has enabled me to humanize this country. In the midst of all the turmoil in Afghanistan, there is still living…and loving…just as in any other country.

(By Lee L. Peoples)

After reading Paulina Porizkova’s novel, A Model Summer , I find it difficult to enjoy, as I previously did, the innocent-looking faces of the young models I encounter in the magazines and elsewhere; for fiction as we very well know is based on fact, and I shudder at the fact that to become a top model, young people often endure terrible trials and temptations.

(Reviewed By Lee L. Peoples)

When it comes to the holiday season, I immediately conjure up images of spending time with my family lighting the Chanukah candles, staying cozy indoors, and baking yummy chocolate brownies for my pals at work.

(Written by Elana Pruitt)

Christmas is the season where we’re under the gun to get things done quickly, and as the Target commercial so eloquently and beautifully sings, “Counting down, counting down.” In other words, hurry up! Buy those presents, shop, shop, shop. Don’t miss that deadline of Christmas Day.

(Written by Lisa Trimarchi)

Elina Katsioula-Beall is a certified kitchen designer and brings her classical Greek heritage and her set design experience to kitchen design. Elina received a Bachelor’s Degree in Art and Painting from the Athens Polytechnic Institute. And in the same way she designs spaces for characters of theatrical plays and films.

Odalys Nanin is the founder and producing artistic director of Macha Theatre and Films. She has appeared in soap operas, series, T.V. commercials, and at least 30 theatre productions in New York and Los Angeles. Nanin has a stellar reputation for writing, directing, and producing theatre in Los Angeles. She has also received three Drama-Logue Theatre Awards for direction, performance, and production of Vargas Llosa’s “La Chunga.” “Skin of Honey” is the fifth play she has written, and she produced it in 2007.