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21st Annual Mushroom Harvest at Sorrentino’s
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Sorrentinos’s is well-known for their annual Garlic Festival but did you know they’ve been running an annual Mushroom Harvest event for almost just as long? This September marks the 21st Annual Mushroom Harvest at Sorrentinos’s! What that means: all of the restaurants (they have...
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Review: Lazia Restaurant
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Edmonton’s food scene has grown so much in the last few years. Everywhere you look there seems to be a new restaurant popping up! It’s a really exciting time – Edmontonians have so many dining options to choose from for their nights (or lunches) out. And the restaurants that hav...
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Social Media Notes (#82) – Links for the Week of August 24 – 30
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Social Media Notes Here’s this week’s round-up of social media (& tech) news. Come by each week for what I hope to be a fun & informative blog post on social stories that caught my eye throughout the week! This is big: New Instagram update supports landscape and portrait image...
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Recap: Farm Dinner at Northlands Urban Farm (Alberta Farm Days)
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On Sunday, as part of Alberta Open Farm Days, I went to Northlands for an outdoor Urban Farm Dinner! More than 70 farms, producers, and organizations across the province, including Northlands, were running tours and various farm-themed events and activities all weekend for the annual, two-day eve...
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Social Media Notes (#81) – Links for the Week of August 17 – 23
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Social Media Notes Here’s this week’s round-up of social media (& tech) news. Come by each week for what I hope to be a fun & informative blog post on social stories that caught my eye throughout the week! I thought this was an interesting article (and let’s face it, mos...
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Social Media Notes (#80) – Links for the Week of August 10 – 16
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Social Media Notes Here’s this week’s round-up of social media (& tech) news. Come by each week for what I hope to be a fun & informative blog post on social stories that caught my eye throughout the week! This week I’m the curator for @PeopleofCanada – a rotating ...
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Recap + Giveaway: Escape City Edmonton (new live action escape game)
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Friday night. Date night. What do you do? It’s the weekend. Group of friends want to hang out, where should you go? More and more Edmontonians are turning to live action escape games as a fun, different, and challenging activity to do for their night (or weekend afternoon) out! The demand i...
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Review: LETS Grill Restaurant
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This week Mike and I tried new Chinese restaurant LETS Grill (5926 104 Street) with our friend Nic and his pal Billy. LETS Grill just opened two months ago on Calgary Trail, in the same strip as Tropika and Syphay – and just a couple of doors down from the newest live action escape game Esc...
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Social Media Spotlight: Top Edmonton Instagram Users to Follow (version 3)
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My favourite social network (after Twitter) is Instagram and I’m not alone in this. It now boasts more than 300 million monthly active users worldwide (more than Twitter), with more than 70 million photos shared each and every day. People love sharing their photos. When I use Instagram, I t...
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Social Media Notes (#79) – Links for the Week of August 3 – 9
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Social Media Notes Here’s this week’s round-up of social media (& tech) news. Come by each week for what I hope to be a fun & informative blog post on social stories that caught my eye throughout the week! Big (ish, probably?) news: Google is now a subsidiary of something call...
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Top 10: Edmonton Chinatown Restaurants
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I recently had the pleasure of contributing a restaurant Top 10 list to YellowPages Canada. The company has been around for more than 100 years (do you remember the YellowPages business directory books arriving on your doorstep?) and in recent years has undergone a rebrand. YellowPages Canada now...
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Recap: #YEGFoodCrawl through Edmonton’s Chinatown
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I remember when food crawls were shiny and new. Something called Dishcrawl hit our city a few years ago and got a lot of people excited. The concept was an easy one to get excited about – for a set price, “crawl” to a number of different restaurants, try their food and meet thei...
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Social Media Spotlight: Teddy Bear Tonkey Dog from Edmonton is Newest Internet Sensation
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Social Media Spotlight: Teddy Bear Tonkey Dog from Edmonton is Newest Internet Sensation by Linda Hoang She’s quite paws-ibly Edmonton’s most famous dog. Tonkey, a four-month old bearcoat shar pei puppy, has shot to stardom after Instagram photos and video of the pup were posted on po...
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Social Media Notes (#78) – Links for the Week of July 27 – August 2
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Social Media Notes Here’s this week’s round-up of social media (& tech) news. Come by each week for what I hope to be a fun & informative blog post on social stories that caught my eye throughout the week! Snapchat is reportedly on track to generate $50 million in revenue this...
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Recap: ‘Cut Like a Chef’ Knife Skills Class at Knifewear Edmonton
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My birthday recently came and went (sad faces that it’s over now :() and I got to do so many different festivities! I believe it’s very important to celebrate your birth – really, to celebrate all life milestones. In the last few years I’ve gotten into the habit of celebra...
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