Located in what is also the hotel’s breakfast room, this White Elephant serves some of the best Thai food in town.
Knifewear is unveiling a new beer with the help of Brewsters Brewing Company.
Local menswear designer Haithem Elkadiki at Studio 122 Presents: Muse, opening night party.
I just returned this evening from a day trip up to Edmonton to pay a visit to the offices of our sister publication, Avenue Edmonton. Upon my arrival, I was shown, on screen, the cover of the September issue, with the final touches being put in place, before it was shipped off to the printer later in the afternoon. On the cover, I noticed an icon that Susan, our Avenue Edmonton art director, had created indicating that the September issue was also the "5th Anniversary" issue. It's hard to believe that it was just over five years ago in...
A kite. That's what graces the cover of this month's issue of Avenue Calgary magazine. Not a famous Calgarian. Not an outtake from our latest fashion shoot. In other words, nothing that would tip a reader's hat that they were reading a regular issue of Avenue magazine, save for the masthead splashed across the top of the cover. The kite, frankly, is secondary to the cover lines on the August issue — "The Best Places to Live" — which has become our second best selling issue on the paid newsstands and has our second-best...
Avenue's sister publication, Wine Access, is this country's premier wine magazine. Once a year in the December/January issue it devotes itself to the burgeoning Canadian wine industry and the results of its Canadian Wine Awards. These awards are now a decade old, and have become the "go to" awards when it comes to defining the best that Canadian wine has to offer. Last year just over 900 wines were entered into the competition....
On Wednesday, I’ll be heading to the Seattle-Tacoma region for my annual golf trip. I penned about last year's excursion in A Little Golf with 31 of my Closest Friends. The trip is know as the RVPI (Rankine Versus Pogubila Invitational), after the last names of the two gentlemen, Dave and Frank, who started the tournament seven years ago. The uniqueness of this trip every year, isn’t the guest list, but the locations chosen by the organizers. While...
I'm three days late in writing this blog about our new Avenue web site, because we found a bug shortly after launch that didn't allow me to upload a new entry. Such, I'm discovering, is the world of web site launches. When you launch a magazine, it's done. It's complete. It's printed, bound and delivered to your customer base. And then you move on to the next issue. When you launch a web site, it's ready, but it's not done. It's never complete. There are bug lists and post-production discussions. And did I mention it's never done...
Just got back from Disneyworld this past weekend and later this week, I'll provide a summary of the many things I witnessed over my 10 days in the Orlando area. But I just wanted to put up a quick post today, as I received news that I've been selected to be one of the 100 people who will be attending this year's TEDxYYC event which will be held at the Grand Theatre on April 1st. Apparently more 400 people registered to attend this year's event, so I'm honoured to have been selected to be a part of...
I'm off to Disneyworld tomorrow. It's one of the tougher assignments that I've assigned myself to. Produce about three stories for our sister publication, up!, the inflight magazine for WestJet, and treat my family to a holiday that will serve as a brief respite from the winter we're presently struggling though. I plan to surprise our kids with these news in the morning. We might even make a video of it, like you see in those Disney commercials now airiing on television. For an eight-year-old and a five-year-old waking up to find out you're going to...
It might come as a shock to most of you, as it did to me, but the editor-in-chief of Wired magazine doesn't think print is dead. Not only that, he doesn't think it will ever die. Chris Anderson flew up from his California home on Thursday to speak this evening to an eager audience at Mount Royal University, part of the institution's year-long speaker series in celebration of its 100th anniversary. But prior to that talk, I was lucky enough to be invited this afternoon to sit with a group of 30 people in an interactive question-and-...
I received an email this morning from an old university friend of mine now working for Cannacord Capital letting me know that he had an extra ticket (at $400 a pop) to the Arnold Schwarzenegger luncheon held at noon today over at the Telus Convention Centre. Needless to say, I jumped at the chance and a couple of hours later I found my jeans-and-sportscoat-ladden self surrounded by 2,000 or so blue and black suits of corporate Calgary. Another old friend whom I saw at the event had VIP tickets and got his picture taken with the former Governor of California. He informed me that...
I took my five-year-old son to the Flames game tonight. He was very excited by the end - as were nearly 19,000 other Flames fans - when the hometown team pulled off a 3-1 victory over the Nashville Predators. Cameron had been looking forward to the game for weeks. Bacially the day after I told him I had the tickets, he would ask me every following day after that, "Is today the day we're going to the game?" "Is today the day we're going?" My son's enthusiasm for a Monday night win in late January was shared by the large majority of Flames fans in...
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