Neil Patrick Harris and partner David Burtka joined birthday girl Giada de Laurentiis to kick-off the Los Angeles Food and Wine Festival downtown on Thursday night.
Lindsay Price backed up husband Curtis Stone who hosted Saturday night's "Lexus Live on Grand" party and concert.
LA Food and Wine Festival founder David Bernahl with Saturday night's main man, chef Curtis Stone.
Gavin Degraw's Saturday night performance illuminates the festival's growth. It's come a long way from the first edition in a tent in the Robinson's May parking lot on Labor Day weekend in 2011. This year was a four-day weekend event with names like Scott Conant, Thomas Keller, Susan Feniger and a full festival atmosphere.
"So You Think You Can Dance" contestants-turned-pros Allison Holker and Stephen 'tWitch' Boss (an off-the-dance-floor duo) mix it up on the way in to Saturday night's party.
As she greeted opera singer Josh Guerrero, "Ace of Cake's" Duff Goldman surprised Giada on-stage with a multi-level pink and white cake.
Hayes MacArthur and Ali Larter.
Josh Henderson samples the "wine" side of the food-and-wine fest. (LAFF photos by Ben Horton/Getty Images.)
Newlywed and "30 Rock" star Katrina Bowden and tennis champ Roger Federer (a Moet & Chandon brand ambassador) helped blow out the candles for the bubbly's 270th birthday party. Anna Wintour, Josh Lucas, and Bob Sinclair warmed up the room for the Emeli Sande performance at the Chelsea Piers party in New York. (Photo by Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images)
260 years younger, New York's Soho House is already a decade old. Â At it's 10th birthday party, John Legend and Mumford and Sons serenaded the crowd as the original Meatpacking private members' hotspot was hot again. (Photo by Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images)
Focus President and Co-CEO Andrew Karpen, "Closed Circuit" director John Crowley and star Eric Bana let Focus CEO James Schamus borrow their smiles while screening the legal thriller at the Tribeca Grand Screening Room in Manhattan. (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images)
Two nights later on Wednesday, "The World's End" director Edgar Wright, actor Simon Pegg and actor Nick Frost were the center of the Focus world at their Arclight premiere. J.J. Abrams, Dave Grohl, Rashida Jones, Michael Sheen, and the back-from-NYC Karpen and Schamus joined the festivities. The appropriate after-party venue: the Cat & Fiddle pub. (Photo by Eric Charbonneau.)
Kym Johnson, Cheryl Burke, and Karina Smirnoff stare down the last days of summer at the Revolve Beach House in Malibu before the new season kicks off next week with a "Good Morning America" cast reveal. (Photo by Brian Lindensmith/All Access Photo.)
Ahead of the VMAs, BMI held its R&B/Hip-Hop Awards in New York on Thursday, with Cash Money Records' founders as the Icon award recipients. BMI President and Chief Executive Del Bryant, Lil Wayne, Ronald "Slim" Williams; BMI Vice President Catherine Brewton (who co-hosted with Ray J); and Bryan "Birdman" Williams.  (Photo by Arnold Turner.)
Producing the actual VMAs, executive producers Dave Sirulnick (left) and Jesse Ignjatovic (right) showed off a redesigned Moonman by artist Kaws at the pre-VMA press conference. (Photo by Larry Busacca.)
Emmy nominees Christina Hendricks, Aaron Paul, and Jane Lynch were but three of the nearly 20 performer nominees cocktailing atop the Universal Sheraton on August 19 for the annual pre-Emmy soiree of bold face names.
Lead Actor nominee Jim Parsons and Supporting Actor nominee Jesse Tyler Ferguson.
Performers Peer Group Governor Bob Bergen, Â who oversees the actors division with Lily Tomlin, brings the nominees up on stage, causing nominees to put down sponsor Beaulieu Vineyard wines and Grey Goose cocktails that permeate all Emmy events.
Scott Bakula, nominee Sofia Vergara, Parsons, and nominee Jane Fonda get a meet-and-greet.
"True Blood" newbie Jamie Grey Hyder (werewolf "Danielle") popped up at a Playboy Mansion movie night on Thursday. (Photo by Christopher Polk (Getty Images for Playboy)
Five million children in need now have shoes thanks to Skechers' donation -- a milestone marked with a Mondrian soiree on Aug. 21 --Â but "Bachelor" Bob Guiney tried to make it 5,000,001. The would-be Prince Charming hawked one more to Brooke Burke. The next morning, E! announced Burke's star-making series "Wild On" is getting a reboot as "Party On," with new host Jacqueline Wood. (Photo by Stefanie Keenan.)
