Atlantic Canada’s in the House!

Representatives from Atlantic Canada House are snapped with Granville Island’s Scott Fraser and Immedia’s Morgan Sommerville at the Granville Island media briefing regarding Island happenings during the 2010 Winter Games. Arts Club Granville Island Stage, the New Revue Stage and the Backstage Lounge will host the Atlantic Canada House, an amalgamation of the best entertainment the East Coast has to offer. Expect nightly performances and a daily stage show that celebrates the East Coast region and its people.

Heart Warmers

Victoria-based photojournalists Carol Clemens and Jeremy Ferguson celebrated their recent anniversary with a Vancouver sojourn that included artsy lattes at Vancouver’s Medina Cafe. Congratulations!

Hi SOCIETY!

THE GLOWBAL COLLECTION welcomed its newest restaurant SOCIETY to its mix of dining offerings on October 31. Proprietor Emad Yacoub and Immedia’s Laura Serena helped celebrate the successful launch. Visit SOCIETY throughout November and receive '2 for 1 lunch' on all food items between 11:30 am and 4:30 pm daily. Dine on reinvented comfort foods such as handmade pizzas, tomato soup served with mini grilled cheese sandwiches, lasagna, bacon wrapped meatballs, and more!  

Three Decades of Donuts!

Donna from Lee’s Donuts waves for the camera in front of delicious rows of doughy treats. Lee’s - located in the Granville Island Public Market – recently celebrated 30 years of Island life. Congratulations!

What a Catch

Samantha Geer (Fours Seasons), Elizabeth Haggerty (AOL.com) and Debra Bokur (Healing Lifestyles Magazine) are joined by Executive Chef Josh Wolfe in COAST Restaurant -- just prior to taste-testing Chef Wolfe’s award-winning crab cakes!

Heeeeere’s Johnny!

Vancouver’s glowbal grill chef John Crook entertains King 5 Morning News host Joyce Taylor on a recent taping of the popular Seattle news show. Visit glowbal in Yaletown to ask John for his autograph!

Vancouver View

New York-based journalist Jeryl Brunner is picture perfect on the sunny Italian Kitchen street side patio.

Fore the Kids

Vancouver’s finest flank Edel Forristal and Barbara Hicks (Loden Vancouver) and Margot Davis (MD Consultants) at the 22nd Annual Women’s Media Golf Tournament, June 3. Over 200 media women hacked at Musqueam Golf & Learning Academy ‘fore’ BC’s special needs children.

Sugar High

Vancouverites Catherine Dunwoody, Bruce Constantineau, and Sam Geer happily display the delicious Thomas Haas chocolate bars received at the recent Tourism BC fete at the brand new Vancouver Convention Centre. Supernatural indeed!

Mas-caught!

Coastal Living’s Jeff Book is pictured with one of the 2010 Winter Games mascots at the 'Canada Media Marketplace 2009' closing reception (hosted by Tourism British Columbia) at Guastavino's in New York City.

Irish you a Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Loden Vancouver’s General Manager Edel Forristal and Sean Heather celebrate their favourite day of the year (St. Patrick’s Day) at the Irish Heather (Sean’s very hip and happening Gastown gastropub).

Oh Say Can You See

Anthem Magazine’s LA-based Editor Dustin Beatty, and New York-based Editor Scott Indrisek smile outside COAST Restaurant with Immedia’s Morgan Sommerville during Anthem’s recent Whistler/Vancouver visit.

Mountain High

This year’s ‘Leave Your Coats at Home’ participants (the annual Montreal familiarization trip hosted by Media Kitty, Marriott Chateau Champlain and Tourisme Montreal) take in the view from Mount Royal on a sunny - albeit chilly - day. Pictured, from left - Passport’s Carla Waldemar, Media Kitty’s Morgan Sommerville, Just for Canadian Doctor’s Barb Sligl, Intermezzo’s Joe Lieberman, Montreal guide Peggy Wilson, Access Magazine’s Ramona Zacahrias, Jetwing’s Shobha Gallagher, and Tourisme Montreal’s Marie José Pinsonnault.

La Dolce Vita

LA journalists Stan Wu and Doug Sheldon toast the excellent ambiance of Glowbal Restaurant Group’s Italian Kitchen during a recent Vancouver visit.

East Meets West

Immedia’s Morgan Sommerville is joined by Ian McMillan, Tourism Sault Ste. Marie, Sandra Bradt, Windsor, Essex County & Pelee Island CVB, and Percy Mallet, Tourism New Brunswick at the Travel Media Association of Canada’s evening at the Olympic Oval in Richmond, BC - home to the world's top speed skaters during the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.

Blinded by the Light

Vancouver Convention Center’s Kim and Debra, Four Seasons' Samantha and Meredith, and the Pan Pacific’s Marie are the most stylish girls on-site during a recent tour of the new Vancouver Convention Centre. Featuring a six-acre ‘green’ roof, an exhibition centre the size of six football fields, and dining facilities able to accommodate 3,000 guests – it’s safe to say the place will be ready to welcome the world when the time comes. The doors officially open April 3, 2009.

Seattle Sojourn

Glowbal Restaurant Group Corporate Chef Sean Riley, glowbal grill & satay bar Executive Chef John Crook and Immedia's Morgan Sommerville enjoyed a wonderful dinner at Seattle's Wild Ginger recently. The place was hopping on a mid-winter's Wednesday eve -- a testament to its tastiness!

Merry Matt

BC Business Magazine's Matt O'Grady proves he's not all business by posing with the merry centrepiece at Tourism Vancouver's Annual Christmas Luncheon.

Sweet Success

Smart Cookies members Andrea Baxter and Sandra Hanna relax in one of Loden Vancouver's signature guest rooms in between takes for an upcoming episode of their TV show, which airs on the W Network. Their strategies for turning their financial lives around have been featured on Oprah, and in the New York Daily News and Money Magazine.

Margaret & Fred

Local journalists Margaret Gallagher, CBC Radio and Fred Lee, Vancouver Courier, are seen at the Mission Hill Family Estate Perpetua and Quatrain launch.