Certainly, Milano is not much noted for its eco credentials, being as it is much more concerned with everyone looking fabulous when the apocalypse does indeed arrive. But boutique hotel purveyors Starhotels have graced Italia's fashion capital with a truly eco-chic option that doesn't sacrifice style in the process. Their new E.c.h.o. hotel is replete with recycled design elements, massive solar panels, and water recovery systems.

The Sandoval brothers--Alfredo, Felipe and Patricio--of Mercadito renown have opened Tavernita, which falls somewhere between a Med-Latin restaurant and a sexy, elegant lounge. Tavernita is in the great tradition of dining-spot-as-nightlife-destination.

There was a time not long ago when no one would have believed bowling would become trendy. So there’s no reason to believe that ping-pong won’t suddenly catch on as the drunken hipster activity of choice. South Beach’s new nightspot Chalk, in fact, is counting on it.

Following the success of their eccentrically chic Palihouse Holloway, Paligroup has thrown open the doors to the appropriately named Palihotel Melrose Avenue next week. An honest-to-goodness boutique hotel, it has just 32 rooms, and is located quite conveniently amidst the Melrose retail and restaurant mayhem -meaning it might be the only hotel in LA that doesn't require interaction with the valet every time you walk out the front door.

With the political aspirations put behind, The Donald is back to what he does best: erecting dazzling, monumental, skyward towers. His debut Canadian hotel will soon be unveiled, and one of its centerpieces is this glorious new 15,000 square foot Quartz Crystal Spa.

It’s been, oh, just about 1800 years since the eponymous Roman emperor built his great public folly, the Baths of Caracalla. And while the hygienic advances of the 21st Century are certainly most welcome, there’s something just a little too sterile about modern spa culture. The appropriately monikered Archimedes Banya, however, goes a long way to tapping back into all that old classical world decadence.

Things have certainly seemed slightly less fabulous since the heady days of Hedi, but Kris Van Assche has, one must admit, been a formidable successor, and as they say, the glamour must go on. This spectacular new Dior Homme boutique in San Francisco joins already existing, freestanding DH stores in New York and Beverly Hills, but it nevertheless has the scale of a flagship.

As the culinary world becomes a playground of wordplay and conceptualizing, the new Livello has found an unexplored niche. Livello being the Italian word for “level,” the chic new eatery in the ever fabulous L’Ermitage Beverly Hills dispenses with such exhausted terms as “fusion” and “molecular” and instead offers a cultivated balance of Italian and Asian cuisines.

The glamorous Meatpacking District resto Bistro Bagatelle is rumored to soon be reopening in a new MePa location. But in the meantime, Brand Essence partners Remi Laba and Aymeric Clemente will be taking the show to La La Land.

It’s hard to ignore the delicious irony of opening a second outpost of a nightclub whose acronym stands for “ONE OF A KIND”. But all that is forgotten upon entering 1 Oak Las Vegas, a spectacular, 16,000 square foot stunner in the Mirage Resort & Casino.