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  • BC Chef’s Society Dinner

     

    Thomas Haas Chef
    Thomas Haas Chef

    It was billed as the dinner of a lifetime. North Vancouver’s own Pino Posteraro, of Cioppino’s Mediterranean Grill fame in Yaletown, played host to an elite group of famous foodies at his restaurant earlier this month to serve a $500 a plate, 12-course feast in support of the BC’s Chefs’ Table Soiety (CTS). The “Senza Frontiere” (without borders) dinner helped raise funds for the creation of bursaries and scholarships for young, emerging, student chefs. Vancouver’s finest chefs shared kitchen duty as they put their egos on hold and cooked up a storm that was dressed to impress. Congrats. (more…)

  • Rutledge Run for Zajac Ranch

     

    John Reynolds MP
    John Reynolds MP

    Did you make any New Year’s resolutions this year? If you did, and you’re finding it hard to stick to some of them, then maybe this can be an inspiration. West Vancouver’s Don Rutledge, who is better known for his involvement in race cars, the hospitality industry and investment portfolios, made a pledge last year. It was time to give something back to himself, and others. So he started to train, and with the help of some very influential friends, he qualified for the ING New York City Marathon. It was time for his friends to pay up on the bet – a bet that helped raise money for a very worthwhile cause – the Zajac Foundation for kids.

     

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  • Sex and the City – and New York Fashion Week

    Glitterati have flocked to the Big Apple this week as New York’s Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week runs from September 5-12, 2008. But some still wonder if it’s all for real.

    Sex and the city girls
    Sex and the City filming in New York at the fake Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week set.

    Well social-climbers and panicky debutants can put their Percocet back in their Pradas because the real deal is in full swing and the cars and stars have come out to play. Lindsay Lohan, Ivana Trump, The Olsen Twins, Winona Ryder, Rene Zellwegger, Victoria “Posh Spice” Beckham, Jennifer Lopez, Kanye West, Beyoncé, Kelly Osbourne, and Kirsten Dunst have all been spotted either on the catwalks or in the front row ogling at the latest and greatest haute couture and creations by designers like Betsey Johnson, Max Azria, Vera Wang and Ralph Lauren. (more…)