In celebration of its new aluminum bottles, Coca-Cola is celebrating at the Soho Grand Hotel in New York on Thursday, Aug. 21, and bringing on the most scandalous Gossip Girl star, Ed Westwick, to host the evening. Coca Cola has been focusing on redesigning and redecorating its bottles lately -- first when it enlisted the help of designer Roberto Cavalli earlier this summer to "dress" a limited edition of the couture bottles in the designers signature animal prints for Coca-Cola Light. The three different animal print designs were released to the Italian market earlier this year as well as in the New York and Hamptons area this summer. Grab one and cool off while you can!

Last week, everyone who wasn't lucky enough to be in China, watched the opening ceremony for the 2008 Beijing Olympics on television with amazement, and hopefully in high definition. It was by far the most explosive Olympic production ever, thanks to Chinese-born, New York-based artist Cai Guo-Qiang, director of visual and special effects for the ceremonies. Known for creating gunpowder drawings and intricate explosion events in which buildings and landscapes seem to explode in the night, Cai worked along side filmmaker Zhang Yimou (Hero, House of Flying Daggers) to create something spectacular. Cai was initially tight-lipped about his intentions, but his retrospective at New York's Guggenheim Museum, "I Want to Believe," earlier this year, offered clues. The show's signature piece featured seven white Chevrolet sedans, infused with flashing lights to evoke explosions, dangling from cables in the atrium. Videos showed the power and scope of Cai's explosive artworks: paths of specially prepared gunpowder snake around the Great Wall of China, the Tate Modern museum, and other famous buildings, releasing fire, smoke, and beauty. For more information on the artist, go to www.caiguoqiang.com