With a host of new web design and programming jobs in the shop, the STANANDLOU web team leaps into action and starts planning the first of many innovative features to their next site. Pictured are: Jason Gerbovaz, Marya Gerbovaz, Scott Brinkmeyer, Jason McElweenie, Kate Wiggins, Michelle LeBlanc, with Lou manning the camera. PHOTOS
June 12th Sarah Sides and I headed over to the new McCormick & Schmick’s in City Centre for their grand opening event. What a soiree. Patrick Henry Creative Promotions organized the event and invited us to check out the swanky new location.
The event was fabulous — fantastic atmosphere, great entertainment on the patio, generous amounts of M&S’s signature menu items and specialty mixed drinks. The food was delicious and the cocktails unique. Some of the specially mixed drinks for the event and now happy hours were a black raspberry Grey Goose Martini, Patron Margaritas, and wine spritzers — my favorite was with a Cabernet and St. Germain…fantastically creative and oh-so yummy.
The set-up invited guests to visit every corner of the new location – entertainment on the patio, wine and cheese in the back dining or meeting room, sushi bar near the open main bar area, seafood table with a fantastic ice sculpture leading you back towards the back dining room where the comfort food was served buffet style.
Hats off to PHCP for a well done event, highlighting all of what McCormick & Schmick’s has to offer in their new location.
Brandy, Michelle, Kate, Rhea, and Jennifer excited to see Madonna!
Well, most of us anyway. She’s on almost all of my 56 mix tapes I made in middle school and now occupies a whole playlist on iPod. I own several CD’s and know the names of all her three children. I am a Madonna fan. To my delight (to put it mildly), STANANDLOU’s account services and media team attended the sold-out, much anticipated Madonna “Sticky and Sweet” concert on Sunday, November 16 at Minute Maid Park. Although she was a little late, Madonna’s performance was worth the wait. The production was extravagant, the dancers incredible, and the star lived up to her reputation as an amazing performer. Best memory of the whole night besides being with the STANANDLOU crew? Singing my lungs out and dancing to Madonna’s “Like a Prayer” – just like I did when I was 13.
So another thing about me is that I am a little bit of a hippie. Or at least I try to be. I am really interested in all that Green discussion that seems to pervade all of our lives. I remember reading a while back in The Economist about the food crisis in the world. It talked about the rising prices for rice and how it would push millions of people into unheard-of poverty levels. I can’t remember the figures exactly, but there would be millions of people in the world forced to eat less than $1.00 food per day.
That stems from many different factors – natural disasters (floods, etc), changes in farming techniques, but also government intervention in agriculture, specifically subsidies for food products to create biofuels like ethanol. Other articles also talk about the ratio of energy produced versus consumed to create these new fuels to cut the use of fossil fuels. All interesting reading.
In the June 28th issue of The Economist, they discuss Brazil’s biofuel industry. There were many interesting points to the article, but what stood out in my mind the most is that the ethanol that the brasileiros produce “packs 8.2 times as much energy as it used in its production, compared with just 1.5 times for corn ethanol, according to the Woodrow Wilson Centre, a Washington think-tank.”
My main problem with all of this talk is that people are living on less than $1.00 in food and people are concerned about using food to produce fuels that will preserve our future. Why don’t we care about people we can save right now, using those same resources?
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