As vice president of operations and new business development of Craft Restaurant Group, Katie Grieco works shoulder-to-shoulder with famed chef and Bravo's most recognizable Top Chef personality, Tom Colicchio. Overseeing the Craft, Craftbar, Craftsteak and 'wichcraft locations nationwide (New York, Dallas, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Las Vegas) Grieco often has her hands full. She gets the job done one restaurant at a time.

Andrea Pambechy is an innovative gal who dove headfirst into nightlife working as a door-girl -- before the trend took off. She eventually settled into a position with Suite Dallas, a landmark in the North Texas luxury club scene. Now a partner in the venture, Andrea and Suite recently partnered with BlackBook to host the Belvedere IX SXIX party in correlation with the South by Southwest music fest. She talks with us about Dallas at night, her secret spots, and overcoming typical chick stereotypes.

Easily one of the most celebrated celebrity chefs in the world, Wolfgang Puck speaks about food with balls, juggling more restaurants than he has fingers, and still finding time to make love.

Where do you love to eat? In France, Beaumaniere. In Italy, Quattro Passi. And in Los Angeles, Matsuhisa.

What is your favorite food? Food with some guts or balls, as we would say in the kitchen— no matter what origin.

Where are your secret spots? Sidebar at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel and Angelini Osteria for true Italian food.

After you've researched and purchased your steal of a flight (OK, maybe "steal" is a stretch), don't stop there -- click on over to your departing (and arriving) airport's site and take a browse. Many airports now have real websites that give tons of useful information beyond the standard flight schedules and delays. There's also pertinent information like what's what with the ground transportation, parking, shopping, dining, and security line waits. Generally you can also find up-to-the-minute weather conditions as well as cultural links for the surrounding city. Aviation has a roundup of the top 10 airport websites (5 national and 5 international). The top 5 national sites include Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, Chicago's O'Hare Airport, Dallas/Fort Worth Airport, Denver International Airport, and the San Francisco International Airport. Check out the full list, including the international hubs, here.

“What are you doing New Year’s Eve?” You’ll probably be asked this question a hundred times by your friends over the next week. However, for many, New Year’s never lives up to the hype, and partygoers' complaints are usually universal: Went to the same club I go to on a regular Friday night, paid ten times the price for admission, had ten times the amount of people there, waited ten times longer for a drink. Enter New Year’s Nation. This unique company hosts New Year’s Eve parties in ten cities, and what makes the events so different is the connectivity -- all cities will be linked live via the Internet. Plus, there’s no waiting outside behind a velvet rope to get in, and no chance of being empty-handed when the clock strikes midnight. NYN has a specific ratio of bartenders to guests, so everyone will get their drink on. And for your listening pleasure, NYN just announced DJ AM and Travis Barker will be DJing this year at their LA party -- their first time playing together since the plane crash.

Martini Park and Marquee co-owner Chris Barish on underage promoting, the power of the water-sipping celeb, bringing club culture to suburbia, and growing up with the Governator.

Point of Origin: I’m from New York. I started throwing parties at my parents’ home when I was young. We’re talking really young, like 15, 16 years old. You know, there used to be fun clubs in New York. They would have an off night, and I would come in and make a deal with whomever the owner was, because either they were failing a bit or they wanted to make a little extra money. I’d promote to the various people I had met in grade school who had then graduated to high school. When you think about it, we were really young, and I can’t believe these clubs would let us do it. It was New York, and it was a different time, different era, different laws, and a different mayor.

We're pleased to announce a considerable expansion to our list of BlackBook guide cities. In addition to thousands of restaurant, nightlife, and hotel profiles already online for New York, Miami, Chicago, and Los Angeles, we've added coverage for Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Dallas, the Hamptons, Honolulu, Montreal, San Francisco, Toronto, Vancouver, and Washington DC. We're just starting some of these, but all will be ramping up over the coming weeks. And that's not all -- soon, you'll see online BlackBook guides for Paris, London, Milan, Seattle, Berlin, and more. Stay tuned.