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At Barbra Streisand's recent fund-raiser for the Cedars-Sinai Women's Heart Center in Malibu, guests helped themselves to a raw fruit and veggie bar. In place of a tablecloth, organizers used a quilt to match the vintage-inspired aesthetic of the event.

Nothing says summer like fresh seafood. At the Power Ball in Toronto, V.I.P. guests helped themselves to shrimp and freshly shucked oysters at a chilled seafood bar provided by Petite Thuet.

Tabú nightclub at the MGM Grand Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas is offering several Fourth of July-inspired cocktails this summer. The White Night (pictured) is a sweet and savory blend of Malibu rum, Frangelico, Rumplemintz, and cream strained and served over ice, then garnished with raspberries and blueberries.

The first-ever food truck from Chicago's E. Leaven Food Company specializes in an impressive range of breakfast, lunch, and dessert items, including short rib piewiches and chopped salads, and can provide catering for meetings and events for groups of 10 or more guests. Most menu items cost less than $10 apiece.

At the Children’s Aid Foundation’s Teddy Bear Affair, November 5 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, manager of events Meg Sethi staged vignettes representing the seasons. For spring, clear umbrellas and glittering beads hung as the sound of rain played.

Hospitality brand Nikki Beach hosted a V.I.P. pop-up lounge for the Toronto International Film Festival in 2009. The space on the 18th floor of the Park Hyatt was outfitted with flowing white curtains and white quilted leather furnishings, and white-lacquered bamboo was used to divide the space.

At Tourism Toronto's client reception in 2007, a three-tiered acrylic structure that was accented with wild white flowers and green vines served as a display for all-white chocolate sushi bites.

In 2006, nonprofit art organization Performa instructed its guests to wear white—the combined "canvas" of their outfits served as moving screens for colorful video projections produced by Gerrit Vooren and Brian Miller of Reels4Artists.

Chef Ralph Rendsland of Three2Oh Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream Systems, has launched his custom dessert trailer, Ice Cream Social Club. The trailer, designed to look like an old-fashioned ice cream parlor, is equipped to make custom ice creams, gelatos and sorbets on site with a nitrogen tank and induction cooking systems. The menu includes Bananas Foster, Cherries Jubilee, root beer floats and homemade ice cream sandwiches.

The Walt Disney World Swan & Dolphin Hotel's newest themed banquet beverage station is the "Moonshine Station." The setup has a Southern feel, with drinks like the Cosmoshine (a mix of cranberry juice, triple sex, lime and moonshine) and the Cherry Coke (a mix of cherry-flavored moonshine, cola, ice and fresh cherries). Additional flavors include the Melonshine, Apple Pieshine, Rise & Shine, Palmer Moon Tea, and the Moonshine Mojito.