Urban Mixer Blog

On Thursday, November 29th, REV Energy Beverage hosted an event featuring DJ Steve Porter and Kevin Shiu at Richards on Richards.

As a bonus, everyone who attended the event was entered in a draw to win a flight to Carnival in Brazil courtesy REV.

On Thursday November 29th, OPUS Bar played host to the latest instalment of Heineken’s Green Room Sessions, an invite-only, multi-sensory music event featuring some of the world’s most innovative talents.

DJs Skilla and Christian Alvarez hit the decks while attendees sipped on the Dutch beer and enjoyed artwork by mixed-media artist, Amir Aziz. At the main bar, Sherani and David Volberg of Pearls Auto Spa tasted beverages with jaw-dropping actress and friend Kiara Hunter, while promoters Devon Ash and Zach Browman mingled with Zeha frontman Axel Menzler inside the Zeha Shoes VIP Lounge. Host Jens Marquardt introduced the newest member of his team, Andre Bender, and members Yaletown’s party scene including jet-setter Naz Bhayani and friends Graham Pence, Lisa Cadrain, Lisa Kwong, Gabrielle Kam and Amanda Giles savoured the music. Heineken hosts the 2007 finale of the Green Room Sessions on the 8th of December on a secret rooftop.

To find out about the next Green Room Session event, stay tuned to the Urban Mixer Events Calendar, HERE.

Rouge over Robson, a benefit for the Friends For Life Society and A Loving Spoonful, raised over $5000 for the cause on Thursday, November 29th at the Pacific Palisades Hotel in a holiday gift show, live and silent auctions, wine and a taste of Spanish music all wrapped up with a red ribbon.

The event, organized by the Hotel’s Linda Chin, had Thursday night Ginger 62 resident DJ G-Luve spin the music while sponsors Alisa Usher, Curt van Ardenne and Rachel Davis from Clarins Canada provided $5 mini-makeovers for attendees. Layla Jaffer, owner of the Bling by Layla jewlry line, organized the Christmas buying at the event while those present moved between the Merengue, Flamenco and Calypso rooms of the hotel to bid on silent auction items.

On Thursday, November 29th, Zin Restaurant & Lounge teamed up with R&B Brewing Co. to present the “Beer Dip”, a 5 course fondue dinner created by Chef Richard Tyhy. Each course was created and paired with local Vancouver beer from R&B Brewing Co.

The Beer Dip combined the unpretentious dining style of fondue with beer education and encouraged guests to discover the various flavours of beer and culinary ingredients they pair well with. As a bonus, R&B Brewery presented the audience with some education on how to taste beer (Barry Benson speaks as seen in the video below) and a taste of R&B’s cask-conditioned 10 year anniversary ale.

Hosts Rick Dellow and Barry Benson, co-owners of R&B Brewing Co., promise an upcoming repeat of this unique dining experience soon. Stay tuned to the Urban Mixer Calendar HERE for more information.

Check out the menu and more information about the event from the original release after the jump. Read more

Model, actress and dancer Denyc and her troupe of Flo-go hostesses and dancers made their official debut at the off-Granville after-hours club, Gorg-O-Mish on Monday, November 26th, 2007.

With DJs Johnny Omega, timeline and CB Shaw providing the entertainment as well as the Flo-go girls all dressed up in sexy santa outfits, it certainly was a not-to-miss event. Check out the Flo-go girls online HERE.

Bjorn Lomborg, named as one of Time’s 100 most influential people in the world and the 14th most influential academic in the world, the author of ‘Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming,’ made an appearance for a very exclusive dinner at the Vancouver Art Gallery on the 26th of November.

The event, an enlightening discussion about Global Warming with practical steps to overcome it, and an insider’s view on Al Gore’s manifesto with reasoning why it and the Kyoto Protocol isn’t practical, was hosted by the Fraser Institute. An invite-only event, the dinner, catered by Four Seasons Hotel, attracted some of Vancouver’s top businesspeople including Peter Brown from Canaccord Capital, Perry Braun from Salman Partners, David Ferguson of Anthem Properties and Ray Castelli of Naikun Wind Development to name a few.

Read more about the next Fraser Institute speaker series event featuring Karl Rove after the jump. Read more

Welcome to the week of November 26th - December 2nd. Urban Mixer has the lowdown on the seven days!

To see the latest newsletter (and newsletter archives) for your city, click the appropriate city, below:

CALGARY | VANCOUVER

We’ve turned the city upside down to find you the very best parties, concerts, and special events for this week, and we’ve got a great calendar lined up for you and all the other Urban Mixers. Read on and keep your datebook and your party clothes handy.

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Talvin Singh, the UK based DJ who pioneered the fusion of drum and bass rhythms with classical Indian music, made an appearance at the Modern in Gastown on Sunday, November 18th, to give Vancouver a taste of the Asian Underground scene.

The artist, having collaborated with greats including Madonna, Björk, Sun Ra and Massive Attack in the past, showcased an evolution to the sound offered in his previous albums and shook the floor with the sound system described as being one of the clearest in the city. Check out Talvin Singh on MySpace, HERE.

Welcome to the week of November 19th - 25th. Urban Mixer has the lowdown on the seven days!

To see the latest newsletter (and newsletter archives) for your city, click the appropriate city, below:

CALGARY | VANCOUVER

We’ve turned the city upside down to find you the very best parties, concerts, and special events for this week, and we’ve got a great calendar lined up for you and all the other Urban Mixers. Read on and keep your datebook and your party clothes handy.

Read more

On Wednesday the 14th, the Fraser Institute convened the next in its series of Behind the Spin: Fraser @ OPUS events featuring Richard Baker from Timely Medical Alternatives.

Baker, the president and founder of the company which helps Canadians (and occasionally Americans) receive speedy, cost-effective and life saving medical treatment (usually treatment that the government previously deemed as medically unnecessary) spoke about Canadian healthcare and how the current system is so poorly managed that almost every patient needlessly suffers when confronted with the need for treatment.

The event, attended by members from Health Canada, UBC’s School of Medicine, private medical practitioners, Port Moody-Westwood’s MLA, Iain Black, and with commentary from Nadeem Esmail, Director of Health System Performance Studies at the Fraser Institute, stimulated intelligent debate about Canada’s healthcare system.

After the event, a select few attendees joined Baker and event host, Leah Costello, for dinner at the OPUS Hotel.

The Behind the Spin series continues in January, 2008, with a dialog featuring David Frum, former speech writer to President George W. Bush, best known for coining the term “Axis of Evil.”

Find out more about the Behind the Spin events, HERE.