VANCOUVER, British Columbia

Coast Plaza Hotel & Suites – The Coast Plaza Hotel is a terrific, no-compromise pick for a Vancouver holiday. Experts at making you feel at home, they provide all the amenities expected of a top-flight hotel.

Salt Tasting Room – This unique charcuterie in Gastown is located on a street called “Blood Alley.” That alone should make it worth visiting. Once inside, you realize you have found a place unlike any other.

Capones Restaurant & Live Jazz Club – Capones
is a long narrow restaurant with the feel of a New York cabaret. Extraordinary mural lined walls, mirrors and a brick bar contribute to a warm ambience, ideal for casual dining.

La Terraza – On our last night in Vancouver, it was raining hard. But we couldn’t let that stop us from going out for a romantic dinner at La Terrazza Restaurant, located in Yaletown.

The Yale Hotel – After dinner, we headed out for some music. We love the BLUES—and lucky for us, not too far away was Vancouver’s biggest and best blues club. No longer a hotel, the Yale has become a mainstay for rhythm and blues bands and their followers from around the world.

Stanley Park, Granville Island, and much more.

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.

Marilyn Anderson’s write-up and reviews on the recent Broadway Musicals that originated as movies. You’ll read about:

Legally Blonde The Musical – entertains at full throttle pink!

The Color Purple – presented by Oprah Winfrey and starring Fantasia!

Grey Gardens – a riches-to-rags story!

The New Mel Brooks Musical YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN – It’s ALIVE and on Broadway!

….and much more!

Forget the big impersonal hotels. Treat yourself to a more intimate hotel where they treat you special. Where you’re a name, not just a room number. Where the emphasis is on providing distinctive amenities and unique surroundings. Where it’s not just a room for the night. After all, you’re special. You deserve it!

(Marilyn Anderson & Dennis Lanning)

The second annual Hot In Hollywood Fundraising Event packed a huge crowd at the Henry Fonda Music Box Theater in Hollywood on Saturday, August 18. The hottest television actors from the shows “Ugly Betty,” “Heroes,” “Crossing Jordan,” “ER,” “House,” “The Office,” and more were on hand to entertain, sing, and perform comedy skits for the occasion.

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.

What would happen if Sleeping Beauty didn’t like the prince who kissed her? She wouldn’t wake up! At least not for centuries! That’s the premise of this world premiere musical adaptation of Sleeping Beauty at the Kirk Douglas Theater in Culver City.