As soon as the twelfth month of the year rolls around, I start tingling with excitement. I daydream about attending or hosting fancy cocktail parties, where we all dress up in our favorite festive cocktail attire, sip on a few cocktails, and get toasty warm from the inside out, and munch on elegant bites all night. This time of the year certainly evokes a certain celebratory quality, don't you Read more

Jake Gyllenhaal linked arms with Winston Marshall, of the band Mumford & Sons, during the Jazz and Heritage Festival in New Orleans on Friday. The actor is apparently good friends with Winston, who plays the banjo for the Grammy-winning group — he recently was spotted hanging out with them on their Railroad Revival tour, which took Mumford & Sons from city to city on a special train. Read more

Gwyneth Paltrow gathered her A-List pals together in NYC last night for a party in honor of her new cookbook My Father's Daughter. Her husband, Chris Martin, made a hasty exit from the bash while other friends like Jay-Z, Michael Stipe, Jerry Seinfeld, Martha Stewart, Mario Batali, and her mom, Blythe Danner, seemed happy to smile for the assembled photographers. The book hits shelves nationwide Read more