Topher Grace, Sunny Mabrey, Abigail Spencer and others celebrate 160 years of Bally's Swiss Heritage (and benefit a worthy children's cause at the same time); Jennifer Love Hewitt, Melissa Joan Hart and a full complement of Bravo stars including a special selection of both Kardashians and Real Housewives strap on their ice skates for a Disney On Ice skating party at LA Live; Common takes the stage at a progressive design showroom; and Samantha Ronson DJ's Rachel Zoe's holiday party—for all the details, check out this especially design-oriented edition of Last Night's Parties. More»

Neil Patrick Harris, Rex Lee, RuPaul, Wilmer Valderrama, and Tori Spelling (don't ask) step out for the LGBT filmmaking community at the Outfest 2011 Opening Night Gala screening downtown; Martyn Lawrence-Bullard, Taryn Manning and Maria Menounos snack on sushi and shop bikinis as Melrose gets a new place to snag some sexy summer beach gear with the opening of the Shay Todd flagship—summer is a little slow but not that slow, so get all the pressing details on what went down Thursday in L.A. with today's edition of Last Night's Parties. More»

• Stop traffic: Joe Francis is getting married [NYPost]
• Dean McDermott is in ICU after a Tuesday motorcycle wreck [KTLA]
• A waitress socked Lindsay at her bday party last night at Voyeur? [TMZ]
• Phil Jackson decides to coach the Lakers for one more season [LATimes]
• Microsoft puts the kibosh on the 2-month-old Kin phone [HuffPost]

The Elves are PISSED. Long hours, no overtime, no health insurance, no pay increase since the 1860s, and worst of all, they never, EVER get Christmas off. Sick of living under Santa's tyrannical dictatorship, they descended upon Bryant Park, and even recruited some high-profile celebrities, like Lance Bass, Jenny McCarthy, Dean McDermott, and the cast of "The Secret Life Of The American Teenager", to champion their cause. More»

[Tori Spelling. All photos by ANDREAS BRANCH for PMc] 90210 actress, Tori Spelling, joined by her husband Dean McDermott and their two children Liam and Stella, kicked off the release of her second venture into the literary world, Mommywood, last night. The party, held in Beverly Hills of course, drew a celebrity crowd including Spelling's TV co-star Jennie Garth, actress Lisa Rinna, and Kim Kardashian. More»