Hotel Interactive, Inc. - Crown’s third hotel, Crown Metropol, will open on Wednesday 21 April. The new 658-room, $300 million AUD hotel reflects the urban and metropolitan context of the hotel’s design and location. The hotel was built over 27 months and employed over 5000 people during the building phase, with up to 700 employees working at any one time.

One of the world’s most famous chefs, Gordon Ramsay, has opened his first two Australian restaurants; maze and maze Grill at Crown Metropol. Ramsay and his chef de cuisine, Josh Emett are also responsible for the hotel’s room service offering and spa cuisine.

Crown is now

By Daily Mail Reporter - Nigella Lawson is officially a domestic iGoddess after her first iPhone application soared straight to the top of the charts.

The culinary queen's 'Quick Collection' was ranking as the UK's top-selling lifestyle app for Apple devices,  just hours after it was launched yesterday.

It has heated up competition among the celebrity chefs who are usually  competing for TV airtime and bookshelf space.

However, it is unlikely Essex-born Mr Oliver has lost any sleep over the matter. His cookery app became Apple's top-grossing UK app just days after its October release and has remained in the top five ever since.

Jamie's app features 50 recipes

By Michele Laudig, Phoenix New Times (blog) - Iron Chef Cat Cora  will be the star of our next Chow Bella event, on June 23 at 7 p.m.

We're thrilled to team up with our favorite local bookstore, Changing Hands, for a special night of cooking and chatting with Cora, who'll give a food demonstration and will sign copies of her latest cookbook, Cat Cora's Classics With a Twist. We'll also have prizes and giveaways throughout the night.

As the first female Iron Chef on the popular Food Network show, Cora's demonstrated her finesse with creating elegant, creative dishes from random ingredients.

In her new book, she shows readers how to

MSNBC - USA - LOS ANGELES - The new promo spot for the MTV Video Music Awards featuring Britney Spears and the show’s host, British comedian Russell Brand, has been unveiled.

Spears and Brand reference the singer’s 2007 VMA performance via an elephant in the room, which the duo make no reference to. The pachyderm performs tricks in the background as Spears and Brand joke about his less-than-household-name status in the United States.

In one spot, Brand jokes with Spears about her not knowing his name, as she calls the “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” star Russell Brown.

Adweek - New York, NY, USA - When my mother got married, something like 50 years ago, her family put together the equivalent of a down payment, which set her and my dad up with ... a fancy new Electrolux vacuum cleaner. (Were you expecting a house or an apartment? Priorities!)

We had no pets, so dragging the long canister vac around the house was the closest thing I knew to walking a dachshund, and it made just the right swirls and patterns on the wall-to-wall carpeting in the living room, which we weren't allowed to walk on.

But the vacuum still works and, even stranger, I have really

OK! Magazine - New York, NY, USA - It was a happy reunion on Thursday for comedian George Lopez and his TV wife, Constance Marie (The George Lopez Show). The pair, along with Lopez's real life wife, Ann, joined Jennie Garth, Andy Garcia and others as part of 'Keep it Hollywood,' an event to promote World Kidney Day in L.A.

The stars participated at stations set up to check blood pressure levels and blood sugar levels, as well as helping to raise awareness about the dangers of kidney disease.

"It's one of the things that we're all getting tested for," said former 90210'and Dancing With the Stars alum Jennie Garth.

Newsday - Long Island, NY, USA - Actress Lorraine Bracco is about to unveil Rosato, a new rose from Salento, Italy, the ninth wine under her Bracco Wines label. On Aug. 26, a lucky group of invited guests will gather at the Water Mill mansion of Bracco's friend, real estate principal/chef Andrew Borrok, for hors d'oeuvres and a tasting of the new import.

Borrok's home is a 20,000-square-foot neoclassical dwelling built in 2005. While he made his fortune in real estate (he recently sold a building Manhattan for $350 million, according to his publicist), Borrok is an accomplished chef who will now concentrate on his culinary career, his

TheShowBuzz - New York, NY, USA - Actress Amanda Bynes says girls of all ages shouldn't have to make empty their wallets to look their best. On Thursday, the 21-year-old officially introduced her apparel and accessory line, Dear, in New York at Steve & Barry's, a casual retailer.

Shoppers will be pleasantly surprised when they check out the price tags from the Dear collection — every item is priced at $19.98 or less. But Bynes said affordable doesn't mean dull.

"I wanted a clothing line that made affordable fashionable, because it is really hard when you're in school and maybe your parents can't afford or won't let you get

U.S. News & World Report - Washington, DC, USA - Backstage at Lincoln Center, stagehand Adam Lewis was multitasking. Fiddling with a soundboard, he was also trying to snag autographs from his new favorite food celebrities, waiting to be honored at the 20th anniversary James Beard Foundation Awards ceremony. "This is going right up there next to Beyoncé and Metallica," said Lewis, clutching his official program, covered with signatures from chefs like Bobby Flay of the Food Network's Boy Meets Grill. "These people are on the money."

With the help of that cable network and other cooking shows like Bravo's reality show Top Chef, chefs are emerging from behind the kitchen

PR Newswire (press release) - New York, NY, USA - Greg Norman Collection, a leader in golf-inspired sportswear built upon a unique combination of performance,luxury and style, announces today the promotions of three of its management team members: Brigitte Lee, Norman Shacat and David Quattrucci. The appointments were made today by Suzy Biszantz, CEO/President, and Dave Hall, COO/SVP of Finance.

"Based on the extraordinary contributions of Brigitte, Norman and David, GNC has consistently filled its in-stock replenishment orders in excess of 99% over the past three years," says Hall. "In addition, we are consistently shipping over 95% of our customer orders by the expected ship date."

Lee was named Vice President of

BuddyTV - USA - An immense talent in music is what launched Gene Simmons into stardom, and now, thanks to his reality series, Gene Simmons Family Jewels, he is one of the most recognized faces in television.  However, aside from all the fame he has acquired from the industry, Simmons has also gained some success from being a hard-working businessman.

His rock band Kiss, which he co-founded in the early 1970s, has nearly three thousand licensed products, but Simmons pointed out that his business dealings go beyond the band.

“Kiss is only one part of it.  We have the Gene Simmons brand which has Simmons Books,

Furniture World Magazine (press release) - USA - Macy’s is hosting an extra special housewarming with Donald Trump to celebrate his latest venture, a new furniture collection. Whether in a city-sized apartment or suburban oasis, the real estate mogul turned television megastar’s latest collection may provide the perfect opportunity to live like Donald Trump, for urban dwellers and suburbanites alike.

An entrepreneur known worldwide for his business expertise and classic American style, Trump has cornered the market on luxury product collections that already include menswear, accessories and super premium vodka. By launching Trump Home™ on Thursday, July 19 at Herald Square, Macy’s will become the first in the market

Home Furnishings Business - Philadelphia, PA, USA - Donald Trump unveiled a new line of office chairs at a Manhattan Staples Tuesday, and during a press conference, the billionaire couldn’t resist an urge to add another chapter to his long-running feud with Rosie O’Donnell.

Trump Office for Staples is a collection of five executive chairs said to be “inspired by the lifestyle of Donald Trump” at prices ranging from $350 to $550.

At the press event hosted by Framingham, Mass.-based Staples, Trump reportedly said, “Someone asked me how Rosie O’Donnell would like these chairs. They’re not strong enough (for her). We’d have to make them stronger.”

Trump made a similar crack

BuddyTV - USA - Music icon Gene Simmons, known most as the bass guitarist and lead vocalist of KISS, has been busy rocking the television world with his reality series, Gene Simmons Family Jewels.  His longtime partner Shannon Tweed and their children, Nicholas and Sophie, serve as his co-stars on the show.

A&E recently renewed the reality series for another season.  However, the show is not the only project that the 57-year-old has committed to recently.  In March, Gene Simmons joined forces with IDW Publishing in order to create the Simmons Comic Group.  IDW decided to approach the Family Jewels star with the hopes of

Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco, CA, USA - LifeVantage Corporation (OTCBB: LFVN), formerly Lifeline Therapeutics, Inc., today announced a license agreement with Montel Williams. This three-year, renewable license agreement provides LifeVantage with the opportunity to market science-based dietary supplement products using Montel’s name and persona to identify and promote LifeVantage products. It is anticipated that initial marketing efforts will focus on the infomercial market where there is a large interest in dietary supplement products, where the product launch can be developed quickly, and where the Montel Williams persona will have a significant impact.

Montel stated, “I am excited about the opportunity to offer science-based dietary supplements to the market

Elites TV - Dickinson, TX, USA - Ellen DeGeneres has danced her way into the hearts of millions of fans with her trademark wit and quirky observations about everyday life, and now, she has her own line of greeting cards. Now available in drug stores, grocery chains and super centers nationwide that carry American Greetings products, the ellen collection(TM) is a partnership between DeGeneres and American Greetings that brings the comedian's award-winning style of humor to a new line of 32 greeting cards.

the ellen collection(TM) features illustrations of the comedian on cards for birthdays, friendship, thank you and encouragement. The cards were developed in close collaboration with