Help combat bullying and ignorance in British Columbia by support Out in Schools – a non-profit who tries to educate youth about tolerance and acceptance.

Purchase your tickets and receive a cocktail reception, gift bags, access to an amazing silent auction, and a fashion show featuring the Bay’s White Space.

Participants (including a team from Global News – Steve Darling, Wesla Wong & Mike Madryga) are faced with the challenge of climbing one of Vancouver’s tallest staircases, the Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre Hotel – which is a whopping 48 storeys high.

For more information on the event, check out the Lung Association of BC’s website. You can also find the event on Facebook.

DefneMag has teamed up with Stairclimb for Clean Air to bring you a contest! We’re giving you the chance to win 1 of 2 $150 gift certificates for any pair of Adidas running shoes from Rackets & Runners!

All you have to do is:

1) Comment on this post

2) Tweet: “I entered to win a $150 GC for Adidas at Rackets & Runners from @DefineMag & @stairclimbvan – #teammadryga” (or #teamdarling or #teamwesla)

We’re pitting the members of the Global News Team against each other, so when you enter, tweet your alliance! You can even tweet them your support – @stevedarling1, @weslawong and @mmadryga.

Contest closes February 25, 2011

Whose team are YOU on?

This Thursday, December 16, join Vancouvers bloggers and tweeters at Charm Modern Thai at 6:00pm.

This is the perfect opportunity to meet up with all those people you keep meaning to have a drink with, network, and make new friends.

We will be collecting monetary donations and non-perishable food items for the Greater Vancouver Food Bank.

So don’t be a Scrooge, put on your best Holiday attire (because it never gets old) and come have a drink, or 2…or 5, with us!

RSVP here and tell your friends!

Define Magazine is a free online magazine. To be successful in this space, you need to find a voice and make it an extension of yourself. As an entrepreneur, you always want to see your service/product do really well. We’ve always received a decent number of visitors but nothing to brag about.

We’ve sat down, brainstormed and came up with ideas to make Define relevant.

Our format is changing and it will be for the better. I thought back to when Erin and I came up with Define Magazine. We wanted to inspire and affect our readers in a positive way. Erin and I would like to continue working toward these goals and we believe we have the right set of writers to do so.

Our writers are not only terrific people but they are my friends. Anyone who helps me, I always try to take care of them and make sure they are happy. A new goal of mine is to be able to compensate these amazing people. It will be a challenge but I believe if we all push together, we can achieve greatness.

New things you will find on here:

Featured Article

If you are pretty big deal within the community, let’s spend some time together and share your awesomeness with the everyone. Vancity Buzz was our first one.

Follow Friday

We wrote this down during the summer but we’ve been neglecting it until we found the right writers. It should be self explanatory but if it isn’t, we thought it would be fun to interview a person a week and ask them fun questions. Elim did our first one and she featured Midwest Couture.

I felt owed everyone an explanation of what happened to Define Magazine. We fell off the chart. We attempted to make a comeback but we were too slow at processing the articles. We weren’t consistent but we’ve been working internally on improving our procedures. One thing to know, we don’t give up! If we screw up, I’ll be the first to admit we messed up. But just know that we will work towards perfection.

Thanks for taking the time to to read this!

AFOOT MAGAZINE PRESENTS – WINNER OF AFOOT’S NEXT COVERGIRL @ CANVAS LOUNGE!

“Fashion Industry people, media folk, Vancouver’s most infamous bloggers and many more are all coming to an event held by Afoot Magazine in order to determine the winner of the magazine’s next cover girl, as well as getting the chance to mix and mingle with the city’s finest.”

Vancouver, British Columbia June 23, 2010 - – Afoot magazine is throwing an event in order to announce the winner of the casting call that they had April 9th, 2010 to determined their next cover girl. The CoverGirls event will take place on July 23rd, 2010 at Canvas Lounge in Gastown and will be hosted by Niki Blasina from “A Haute Mess”. The event will commence at 9pm and will go on until closing hours.

Afoot Magazine is a locally bred lifestyle magazine that is experiencing great success by covering the most exciting events in town while featuring some big names from the music and fashion industry from all over the world. Afoot has been holding some greatly successful events recently and this event is promised to be no different. Afoot believes in representing cultural movement and progression in the city of Vancouver & Internationally and this will be another way to do just that.

The event will give Afoot the chance to announce their next cover girl while bringing local industry people together in order to network and become more familiar with the magazine and its endeavours. It will be a fun-filled evening where Vancouver’s most infamous bloggers, local fashion industry folk, influential members of the media and numerous other special guests will be mingling, sipping on champagne and indulging in chocolate.

There will be enticing music, champagne, delicious treats from some major chocolatiers, a live photography feed that will be on site featured on a projector, and Niki Blasina from “A Haute Mess” as the host for the evening.

We invite you to join us in our celebrations of our success alongside our cover girl winner while mingling with the city’s finest.

Below is their official press release.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Five Hole for Food: He shoots, food banks score!

Blogger playing road hockey across Canada to help food banks

­(Vancouver, B.C., June 25, 2010) – Richard Loat is taking his passion for hockey and community involvement on the road. He is the organizer of Five Hole for Food, a grassroots campaign that will see him play road hockey in nine cities to generate donations for community food banks.

“I had a cross-country road trip already planned from Vancouver to Montreal when I realized this could be an opportunity to help those who are less fortunate,” said Loat, who is also a blogger for the NHL’s Vancouver Canucks. “When I started talking to other hockey fans across Canada to gauge their interest, I knew this was the start of something big.”

Five Hole for Food will start June 29 in Montreal and finish up July 9 in Vancouver. Loat has enlisted people in each city to organize a road hockey game. Anyone with a hockey stick can come out and play for free – players and spectators are asked to bring food donations for the local food bank.

Five Hole for Food sponsors include Molson, Boston Pizza, Marketwire, Red Bull, Rogers Communications, and Monster Energy Drink.

“This is the road trip of a lifetime,” said Loat, a 21-year-old university student from North Vancouver. “I was inspired by how Canadians were united by the 2010 Winter Olympics and saw an opportunity to use hockey for a good cause.

“Choosing to work with food banks was an easy choice. We can make a big impact with a little bit of time, work, and ultimately food. There are a lot of great causes out there, but we chose to help food banks because we can see the impact immediately. Food banks are facing shortages these days and this is something we all need to help solve however we can.”

Five Hole for Food will make stops in Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Winnipeg, Regina, Calgary, Edmonton, Victoria, and Vancouver. Volunteers from food banks in the respective cities will be at each game to collect donations.

Several hockey teams across the country are also committed to supporting Five Hole for Food. For example, the Ottawa 67s street team will be participating, while the Vancouver Giants and Abbotsford Heat team mascots will make an appearance at the final game in Vancouver. Canadian National Hockey League teams have also donated prizes – such as autographed hockey sticks and jerseys – for auction with the proceeds to benefit food banks.

Also, former Vancouver Canucks goaltender Richard Brodeur is confirmed to be the Five Hole for Food ambassador at the Vancouver game on July 9.

“Canadians love hockey and are generous people. I think they will embrace Five Hole for Food when we visit their city,” said Loat. “Bring your hockey stick and come play in a fun game, or come out to watch and support us. I’m looking forward to meeting some great hockey fans.”

Those who can’t make it to the games can also make donations online: www.fiveholeforfood.com.

For more information about Five Hole for Food, follow us on Twitter: @fiveholeforfood, or send e-mail to info@fiveholeforfood.com.

Vancouver, are you ready to be Stripped?

YALETOWN’S NEWEST BEAUTY ADDITION

For Immediate Release — Vancouver, BC

Opening late June 2010, Stripped is the latest a-la-carte beauty salon to hit Yaletown. Catering to both ladies & gents, Stripped is an exclusive wax bar that believes in no fuss, no frills and no unwanted hair.

Stripped is 100% unisex right down to our space, so gentlemen need not be frightened of any pink or lace. Enjoy 850sq ft of sleek white interior divided into three spacious treatment rooms. Pops of bright purple and the sounds of cool lounge music will have you feeling slick the moment you walk through our doors.

We don’t do promos because we don’t need promos – our speedy services simply mean the best prices in town. Be bikini ready for just $20 and speedo ready for $30. For the furrier folks you can be Totally Stripped from head to toe for one flat price – you tell us where, and it’s gone.

Hair removal deserves as little of your time as possible, so our professional Strippers will have you in and out in no time; feeling smooth and confident. Our mantra is simple: remove hair, remove it well, remove it fast.

Wax on, wax off. Now you’re ready to get stripped.

Stripped Wax Bar

1226 Hamilton Street
Vancouver. BC. V6B 2S8
604.681.8660
www.getstripped.ca

Media Iquiries:
Jag Sandhar
media@getstripped.ca

Here are some shots from the event:

From top: Photos 1-3 are models from JK Models wearing fashions from Leone and L2. Photo 4 is the JK Models crew at the end of the event. Photo 5, some of the stylish ladies at the party, local bloggers and Twitterati, Kim, Lisa, Kelsey, Liv, Nicole, and Adela. Photo 6, event co-host and TV personality, Erin Ireland, Director of JK Models, Jennifer Koning, designer Malene Grotrian, and Jenna Fortin.

Images from Peter Jensen.

On May 13, 2010, Fresh Out is holding a Flash Sale! Come down to the Gallery @ Artech (336 E. 1st Ave., Vancouver) between 4pm and 9pm and you’ll be able to snag some fantastic deals, listen to music being spun by DJ Jesse James, and have access to the $4 cash bar.

The sale is ONE DAY ONLY so make sure that you don’t miss out!

For details check out the Fresh Out website or the Facebook event