You can go to http://flickr.com/photos/urbanmixer/tags/sanafir for access to all of the pics I’ve taken at Sanafir.
Here’s some pics we took the other night. As Lorraine states: “I think I’ve never been so expensively drunk in my life” and “I don’t remember getting home that night.. how did I get home?”. We’ll leave the answers to that question to the mystics. Here’s some photos in the interim:
On an annual basis, I get to be subjected to some variances in normal culture. I suspect it has something to do with living in the West End. It’s not really standard Robson Street Fare.
If you’re into nude cycling, the West End is for you. Here’s a pic of this year’s annual bike ride. More pictures tagged Robson Street published here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/urbanmixer/tags/robsonstreet/
From: Rana Vig (Mehfil Magazine)
FYI… Last week the national OMNI TV program, South Asian Focus, chose to feature Mehfil Magazine as its lead story. Some of you saw the program (thank you for your kind feedback) many who missed it but had heard about it through the grapevine asked if we had recorded it and to send them a DVD. To make it easier for everyone we asked our friends at Shift On Line to render the show for the web – attached below is the link for the Mehfil segment.
Thank you for your continued good wishes and support. Thank you for making Mehfil Magazine a huge success!
Link to the high bandwidth version:
http://mehfilmagazine.com/mehfil_vid01.cfm
Link to the low bandwidth version:
http://mehfilmagazine.com/mehfil_vid02.cfm
MM
Originally uploaded by Urban Mixer.
Once in a while in my travels, I bump into an extraordinary being. In this case, I was enjoying a night out restaurant-hopping with the Vancouver Martini Tour folk when I came accross Henry Rollins.
Raj: Hey, would you kindly spit on my head?
Henry: What?
Raj: Well, actually just kidding. That shit’s disgusting but I understand that you’ve had such requests in the past.
Henry: Ya, only once actually. You have a pretty good memory.
Raj: Ya, well, stuff like that usually sticks with me. My name’s Raj, by the way.
Henry: Cool. My name’s Henry.
We took some photos, chatted a bit more. I invited him out for the rest of the night but he mentioned that he was kinda a private guy. That was the end of that. He went home after that, I think.
From ONEList June 2006 (ONE/Northwest and CommEn Space)
Do you have an email newsletter? If so, then usability guru Jakob Nielsen’s latest studies of users’ eye movements across web pages is compelling visual evidence of how people read on the web, and how it is different from how they read print.
Nielsen draws three key conclusions for online writing:
that users will notice when scanning down the left side of your content. They’ll read the third word on a line much less often than the first two words.
From Terrie’s Take #379:
Toyota has teamed up with contact lens maker Menicon to produce a compound which can significantly speed up the decomposition of cow pats (poop) for compost. The new
compound is added to cow slush and reduces the mess into usable compost in 45 days, about half the current time. As a side benefit, it also reduces the methane and thus the
smell emitted by an active bio-pile. The compound is called “resQ45″ and is targeted at the nation’s dairy, beef, poultry, and pig farmers, who have to dispose of about 89m
tonnes [Ed: you didn't know it was that much, did you?] of manure every year. ***Ed: This could be a hit in Europe and Australasia as well. (Source: TT commentary from
reuters.com, Jun 16, 2006)
http://today.reuters.com/News/CrisesArticle.aspx?storyId=T343500
Urban Mixer Comedy Night
MORE INFO: http://vancouver.urbanmixer.com/events/urban-mixer-comedy-night
Set Sail for Comedy: Get your giggle on, Gilligan! Or Ginger! Yeah, I always liked Ginger…and Mary Ann too!
Let the freshest comics in the west tickle your funnybone and maybe some Urban Mixers will tickle your fancy or anything else they can reach. Join the Urban Mixer at the Urban Well for some urbane chuckles with an hour of appies and mingling before a special comedy show.
WHAT: Urban Mixer Comedy Night and Mixer
WHERE: The Urban Well (Kitsilano), 1516 Yew Street, Vancouver
WHO: Social, Professional Singles
WHEN: Thursday, June 22nd, 2006, 6:30PM – 9:30PM
WHY: Great people, great conversation, great comedy, excellent venue
HOW: $15 in advance, $20 at the door buys you admission, great comedy and appies.
Originally uploaded by Urban Mixer.
Jennifer Ouano and Rochelle Grayson.
Spring … Sprang … SPROING!!!
Come and celebrate the birth of Jennifer Ouano and Rochelle Grayson’s
bouncing baby company, Elastic Entertainment.
Nosh at the Wiggle Bar, sip an Elastic martini, get jiggly to the
groovin’ tunes of DJ Ali Sani, and help us slap some life into our
bundle of joy.
Think you got sproing? We’ve got plenty of it and we can’t wait to show you!
When: Wednesday, June 14th, 9:00PM onwards
Where: Caffe Sette, 818 Burrard St. (between Robson & Smithe)
Elastic Entertainment: Creative Sproing for the Digital Wasteland
I called 411 the other day to get the address for Sanafir. Apparently they have mis-spelled the information in their database as Sanafair.
Anyhow here’s the information for quick reference:
Address: 1026 Granville Street, Vancouver (MAP)
Telephone: +16046781049
Other relevant stuff:
Website: http://www.sanafir.ca
Opentable: http://www.opentable.com/rest_profile.aspx?rid=6379
Went there last night for some amazing food, wine and company. Everything comes out in threes, highly reccomended! Something to definitely check out!
