EXPO Magazine - Overland Park, KS, USA - Pawniquely Yours, a maker of hand-crafted dog beds, is launching the Luxury Pet Pavilion, a trade and consumer show for high-end pet owners and retailers, Aug. 18-19, 2007, at the Metropolitan Pavilion in New York. The event will be held in conjunction with Pet Fashion Week in New York. A second event is planned for Feb. 23-24, 2008, in Los Angeles, CA.

Exhibitors will include makers of luxury pet products, such as Austrian Swarovski Crystal collars and celebrity-inspired dog carriers.

Stephanie Ellis, CEO of Pawniquely Yours, is striving to create a luxury atmosphere at the event. For the New York event, she's

GameSpot - USA - As the first of several planned Q&A sessions with Penny Arcade founders Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik wound down, the duo announced that they had a very special guest to toss to the lions of this year's Penny Arcade Expo. While the team said they had initially planned to offer up very special guest Jack Thompson to provide a counterpoint to the day's offerings, Holkins dejectedly revealed that they could not work out an agreement with the controversial Florida lawyer. With that intro, his stead took the stage, and it turned out to be none other than widely reviled game-to-film

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Pittsburgh, PA, USA - The way Cat Cora writes is a far cry from how she behaves on TV.

As the first and only female chef on Food Network's "Iron Chef America," Cora -- a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America in New York state -- practices what she describes as "extreme cooking." "It's a ton of pressure," she says, "like a sporting event, right down to the very last second. It's really a show that people take seriously, but it's entertaining, too."

But extreme cooking is hardly reflected in the 39-year-old's two cookbooks, the latest of which is "Cooking From The Hip: Fast, Easy,

Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco, CA, USA - BWise, a leading provider of governance, risk and compliance (GRC) software solutions, today announced the success of its sponsorship at the 2007 FEI Summit, May 20-22 at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston. Over 300 visitors stopped by the BWise booth to learn more about a risk-based approach to compliance and to meet Frank Abagnale, who signed copies of his newest book, “Stealing Your Life.”

With the SEC’s continued focus on compliance from a process-oriented standpoint that incorporates risk management, BWise’s booth was well attended by organizations seeking to better understand how to fully capitalize on SOX compliance and related internal