i_hope_that
For many of us, the holidays can be kind of rough. If you're searching for a network of understanding friends, this ultra-nurturing community encourages you to express your heartfelt wishes and offer other members encouragement and acceptance. Not for the terminally snarky or emotionally-challenged, this is a good-spirited place to lend comfort and support.

diygifts
Feeling crafty? If you've got a few last folks on your holiday gift list, this is a great place to seed your creativity and generosity. You'll also discover wonderful DIY tips to decorate your home and entertain guests. Offering a no-frills-no-skills attitude that welcomes the cash-challenged and arts-phobic, you're sure to get ideas and make friends in the process.

cooking_club
A fun and friendly community dedicated to those who love to cook, whether you're a meat-and-potatoes type, an aspiring gourmand, and/or a vegan. In search of a brilliant dish to use up those weekly leftovers? Post your ingredients and you'll be whipping up a feast by dinner. You can also share favorite recipes. For Type A chefs, you can spice up your culinary repertoire with exciting cooking challenges.

Title: A Christmas to Remember
Pairing: hide/Pata
Warning: suggestive content
rating: pg 13
Summary: Pata gets a gift
set in christmas of 1998

http://aniffa.livejournal.com/49920.html

stepstomarrow
When granddaughter, Jada, was born with leukemia, a donor-match was located and Jada made a miraculous recovery. In honor of her grandaughter's health, Jeanna has decided to walk across the country (in the dead of winter) to raise awareness and build support for the bone marrow registry (all that's required is a cheek swab). Follow Jeanna's remarkable journey as she travels the United States by foot.

Title: Drink or Die
Char/Pairing: Yoshiki/hide
Rating: PG-13 for a curse word xD;
Summary: It's hide's birthday and Yoshiki plays a song for him.
Note/Warning: Drabble and a curse word xD;

Drabble♥

Title: Pata Remembers
Pairing: Pata/hide
Warning: none
Genre: humour
Rating: pg
Author: me
a/n: takes place day after hide's birthday this year

http://aniffa.livejournal.com/49391.html

taste_buds
Holidays provide a built-in excuse for indulgent entertaining. This all-purpose foodie community covers everything from homemade hangover cures to dinner party menus. Need quick advice? Get five-minute snack suggestions, low-fat ingredient substitutes, and even measurement conversions. Delicious recipes garnished with humorous advice. Yum.

naturesbeauty
Always on the lookout for compelling images, we were delighted to discover this flourishing community of artists who share a love of nature. Honoring the subject with photographs, paintings, sketches, prose, poetry, and other creative works, you'll be simultaneously riveted to your monitor and inspired to run helter skelter towards the nearest wooded dale.

Title - Yoshiki Remembers
Author - me
Rating - pg
Pairings - Yoshiki/hide
Warnings - none
Disclaimer - I only own my thoughts
Summary - Yoshiki remembers hide on his birthday
a/n: written as a birthday present to our beloved pink spider
comments are <3

http://aniffa.livejournal.com/49028.html

YAMASHIRO RESTAURANT : History Page

Visiting with Huell Howser clip

Yamashiro is a super trendy restaurant which looms above Hollywood. Built at the turn of the century, it represents America's fascination with the orient at the time.

Hollywood footnote for you: Yamashiro's was also one of many locations used to film Memoirs of a Geisha.

Press promotion for next season's TBS drama Shinsengumi Peacemaker (mentioned here). A chance to get a look at some of the actors in costume.


Link to Oricon article & pics