Here you'll find Hollywood actors hobnobbing with local artists and culture aficionados.
You get to sit in swanky bars, hobnobbing with other "artistes", with enough money to buy that up-and-coming director a cocktail.
With his firm's share price close to record levels, he was able to enjoy hobnobbing with world leaders as he called on other companies to join Unilever in adopting a range of strategies designed to tackle climate change.
He was visibly uncomfortable with military men (remember that limp salute) and preferred to spend his vacations hobnobbing with metrosexuals in Martha's Vineyard.
"The Punjab government is hobnobbing with the terrorists," says the security officer.
The trip provided opportunities to show Mr Wahid hobnobbing with foreign grandees, and enjoying their declarations of support.
After all, Mr Schröder, who turned 55 on April 7th, has always been something of a quick-change artist, puffing cigars with his pals the bosses one moment, hobnobbing on the shop-floor the next, his brow furrowed with concern for those on small incomes.
Last spring, he and another bishop observed Lent by walking 218 miles over the rain-swept hills and grimy townscapes of the west Midlands, hobnobbing with Sikhs, Hindus and Muslims as they called at schools, supermarkets and a car factory.
He has become synonymous with the IPL's culture of ostentation and celebrity, jetting from game to game and hobnobbing with the film stars and tycoons he persuaded to buy IPL teams.
AFTER years of hobnobbing with international sports stars, Sir Allen Stanford, a financier accused by American authorities of an $8 billion fraud, now seems short of friends.
In recent months he has questioned the government's tough immigration policies, implicitly decried the Roman Catholic church's active role in politics and ignored one of the enduring taboos of the traditional right by hobnobbing with homosexual activists.Associates stress that he has, in fact, been distancing himself from his past for years.
