While fully admitting that I was coming into Blue Surge expecting it to be a fantastic work (I have seen the work of Sabrina Evertt and her team at Twenty Something Productions before, with Prodigals – read my review here ), I always try to enter a new play devoid of any preconceptions. I was definitely not disappointed
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Blue Surge @Theatre_20 (theatre review)
photo credit: -mrsraggle- I am well known for giving pretty damn good bear hugs, and while I’m not someone who eats much peanut butter, I do know it’s a staple of Canadian families’ breakfast. Lots of my friends who were born and raised in Canada (and even my family members in the US) do eat peanut butter and jam sandwiches frequently. So when Kraft contacted me about their campaign, I really liked it
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Spread the Feeling and Hug a Bear with Kraft Peanut Butter at Vancouver Aquarium
Goat cheese, sometimes called chevre, is a cheese product made from the goat’s milk. Goat cheeses can range in taste from strong and pungent, to delicate and mild, however, it does have a distinct tangy flavor which it inherits from the hormones in the goat’s milk.
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Baked Apple Cinnamon & Goat Cheese Tart
Last night (thanks, in no small part to my not-so-good ability to pinpoint a meeting location for the Vancouver Blogger Meetup) our meetup was rather small (but it felt so right, at the same time!). Erika Rathje, Jan Karlsbjerg and I showed up (and as he usually does, my friend Jan has a summary of what we talked about at the August 2010 Vancouver Blogger Meetup)
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Watching the sunset at Second Beach in Stanley Park
A reader recently asked me if I received her recent email, which was sent via the email form on this blog. It was then that I realized that none of these email links were working on any of my blogs ( Cooking with Corey , See Corey Run , Rock It! Running Company , Underage Knitter , etc.)
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Update: Email Links Fixed + New Public Facebook Page
Seems like everywhere you turn, everyone is feeling the crunch. With tough times like these, people are trying to pinch those pennies wherever they can, especially on vacation. Certainly in a city like Miami , that attracts millions of tourists year round because of its warm weather, beaches and non-stop nightlife ; you can definitely burn a hole in your wallet if you’re not careful
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Miami Cheap Eats
Whatever the answer to the recession dilemma, make sure to take time to think about your investment, reformulate your business plan, and analyze all of your options. Closing the door on an on going business, no matter how difficult the future may seem is a monumental decision that is harder than just leaving one night and tossing the key. Plus, it costs money.
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Restaurant Survival Mode Takes Vision and Planning
Nearly 80 percent of the customers who buy high grade villas and apartments at real estate projects in the central city of Da Nang come from Hanoi , according to Savills, a real estate service provider. Meanwhile, clients from HCM City account for 13 percent, and the other buyers are foreigners, Viet Kieu (overseas Vietnamese), and residents from other provinces and cities. Da Nang: Coastal real estate market bustling Da Nang gets aggressive with real estate Da Nang: 96.5% of FDI pours into real estate Though the real estate market in Vietnam remains gloomy, the Da Nang market remains bright.
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Hanoians rushing to Da Nang to purchase high grade villas, apartments
Chef Robert Wiedmaier’s latest project, Mussel Bar , opened in July in Bethesda. As you may guess from the name, this casual Flemish gastro-pub specializes in mussels and frites, which Wiedmaier does so very well at his Brasserie Beck . The menu features nearly a dozen preparations of the bivalves, including green curry with lemon grass; Delirium fennel, lemon and Stilton cheese; tomato fondue, capers and garlic; and classic white wine with garlic and parsley
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Mussel Bar
fried goodies: suppli (£2), bocconcini (£2.50), artichoke a la Giudia (£5), and in the background, a fried courgette flower (£4) When I was at Bocca di Lupo a year ago , I had a lot of fun, but the service and food were a mixed bag. I left thinking that while I wouldn’t object to going again, I also wasn’t dying to revisit. However, not having been to Bocca di Lupo and being a lover of all things Italian, Jon has long wanted to go, and with the recent buzz around good-quality, low-to-mid-priced Italians opening in London, the time seemed right to revisit BdL. Which is how we found ourselves there for dinner last week
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Bocca di Lupo, Soho (revisited)
Here at Smith HQ, when we’re not living, breathing and loving boutique hotels, we’re drooling over delectable dinners in London , long lunches in Languedoc , superior coffee in the capital and wine-tasting events – even wedding cakes made of cheese . (We take our ‘tastemaker’ title quite seriously, you see.) Typing is mainly practised one-handed, to enable a non-stop snack stream to pass unhindered into our greedy (but still oh-so-selective) bellies. In short, we’ve decided to put more foodie posts on the blog menu, and resurrect our series of interviews with the food world’s Michelin-starred great and good (see our previous interviews with the awesome Alain Ducasse and mighty Michael Caines ).
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What’s cooking at 21212? Quickfire Q&A with chef Paul Kitching
I think we might have to rename the Book of Yum to “the Book of Amaranth” if I keep this up. I can’t help it. I’m eating amaranth every four days, thanks to this crazy allergen-free, gluten-free diet that I’m on.
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Gluten-free, Dairy-free, and Egg-free Amaranth Scone Recipe
The Ministry of Health has announced that it has recorded around 42,000 cases of dengue fever , including 33 deaths, so far this year. Dengue fever increases at alarming rate The number of patients mounted quickly throughout the country, especially in the central and central highlands regions. At least 18 provinces and cities have reported having dengue fever patients.
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Dengue fever reaches alert level | Look At Vietnam
As I have mentioned before, I am back to teaching undergraduates at UBC this fall (1 course in September-December 2010, 2 courses in January-April 2011), which means that the social media personality will have to take a backseat to the academic and educator . That said, I try to make sure that PR people know where I stand and what my time availability is for the (limited number of) engagements I could possibly attend. So, just so that everyone knows, I will be pretty much unavailable any time before 5pm on Mondays and Wednesdays (pitches thus would be most welcome on Thursdays and Fridays ).
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My Fall 2010 schedule (for PR pros and journalists alike)
photo credit: Stephen Cummings It’s been a relatively long while since I have liveblogged the way I used to in 2008 and 2009, but I have always (well, at least since I began dipping my toes into the social media world) thought that there is value to having an event liveblogged. I no longer have the luxury of enough time to liveblog events and thus have been really happy whenever someone else takes on that role.
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The return of the liveblog?
I love the Vancouver Latin American Film Festival, and lucky for me, they love me back. VLAFF has kindly generously given me 3 (three) pairs of tickets to the opening night film, Los Viajes del Viento (The Wind Journeys) , Spanish with English subtitles / 117 min (Colombia/Netherlands/Argentina/Germany, 2009). Opening night for VLAFF is September 2nd, at Empire 7 Cinemas on Granville Street
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Win tickets to the Vancouver Latin American Film Festival Opening Night Film #VLAFF @vlaff
Whether you come to Belgium for its delicacies or not, whether you even like chocolate or not, doesn’t matter once you set foot in Brussels : You will try some chocolate. As you will soon find out, chocolate vendors are everywhere in the main tourist areas of downtown Brussels
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How to Optimize Your Chocolate Experience in Brussels
I was catching up on some podcasts and just finished listening to a Fresh Air program from May that I thought was fascinating. Terry Gross interviews author Daniel Okrent about his book Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition . It’s a great interview, so I wanted to share.
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The History Of Prohibition
I’m sure there are restaurants that have a straightforward, charitable reason for putting out 50% off deals on Toptable. I’m sure there are plenty of sadly overlooked but nevertheless lovely restaurants, serving fabulous food, which find themselves in a position to lay on a very generous discount, keeping regular clientele happy and drumming up a bit of extra interest from those on a slightly tighter budget
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Incognico, Covent Garden
Chef RJ Cooper has found a new home for the ambitious 24-course menu he created while at Vidalia . The chef hopes to open Rogue 24 this winter tucked away in Blagden Alley , across from the convention center. The 52-seat restaurant will only serve Cooper’s 24-course tasting menu during one dinner seating Tuesday-Thursday and two dinner seatings Friday and Saturday evenings.
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Rogue 24