Just got the press release from the Vancouver Canucks as they get ready to honour Trevor Linden on December 17 vs. Edmonton.
photo by Jeff Vinnick of Getty Images
Vancouver, B.C. – The Vancouver Canucks are proud to announce that Canucks.com will celebrate 16 Days of Trevor Linden, beginning on Monday, December 1st, 2008. The special 16-day initiative will take an in-depth look at Trevor Linden’s career, concluding on December 16th, 2008 just one day prior to Trevor Linden’s sweater retirement ceremony.
The 16 Days of Trevor Linden will feature video and print content as well as a series of photo galleries highlighting Linden’s hockey career spanning more than two decades. The 16 days of coverage encompasses draft day in 1988 through to his last game on April 5, 2008 and will include stories and accounts from on and off the ice courtesy of former teammates, coaches, fans and countless others impacted by Trevor.
Exclusive commentary from former teammates and coaches will highlight a collection of excerpts to be included in the 16 Days of Trevor Linden. Video content will depict the terrific ’94 run to the Stanley Cup, a collection of Linden’s most memorable goals from his 19-year NHL career and a number of other significant moments in Linden’s career. A compilation of photos will comprise a series of photo galleries including one gallery highlighting some of his many involvements with those in the community.
To access the 16 Days of Trevor Linden, please go to Canucks.com starting December 1st through December 16th, 2008.
[press release]
I did an interview with Trevor Linden the day he announced his retirement, I’m looking forward to chatting with him again in the next couple of weeks.
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Tis the season to hop aboard the train in Stanley Park and check out the bright displays for the BC Professional Firefighters’ Burn Fund. Tonight it’s the media opening, tomorrow it’s open for everyone to check out.
More than a million twinkling lights transform the forest, train and Children’s Farmyard. Explore the woodland paths leading to enchanting, animated displays and holiday sounds. A Christmas family tradition for over 20 years, the train wends its way through the forest past Santa’s workshop, an international village and the much loved Moose in the middle of the glistening waterway.
The aroma of hot chocolate, fresh popcorn and roasted nuts brings back childhood memories. Visit Santa in his ‘Living Room’ at the Train Station.
The event is open to the public from November 28, 2008 - January 3, 2009
(closed December 25)
Event info at 604.257.8531 or BurnFund.org or VancouverParks.ca
Admission to the plaza is free. $8 adult / $5 children and senior tickets are required to ride the Bright Nights Train and visit the Children’s Farmyard
Bright Nights has raised over $1.2 million for the Burn Fund. This achievement is supported by more than 500 off-duty professional firefighters from the Lower Mainland and around BC who donate their time to set up, operate and take down the annual display.
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After that it’s off in June with Team Diabetes Easter Island. After that?? Well, I’ve already started to look to 2010 and have the Rio de Janeiro Marathon circled on my calendar, but I might not have to wait that long as Team Diabetes is embarking on a brand new adventure – Conquer the Canyon®!
Here’s the email that just landed in my box from Team D:
In September 2009, Team Diabetes will be traveling to Grand Canyon National Park – one of the seven natural wonders of the world - for an exciting and challenging hiking adventure.
Team Diabetes participants will have the opportunity to experience the magnificent beauty of the Grand Canyon up close and personal, one step at a time. With steep descents into the Canyon of up to 3,200 feet, participants will hike the trails accompanied by an expert guide who will interpret the intricacies of the geology, history, flora, fauna and environmental zones of the canyon.
Join us and enjoy this spectacular natural feature that extends for hundreds of miles across a portion of the southwestern Colorado Plateau in Arizona.
I know what I’m getting my grandmother for Christmas. She just saw Il Divo on Regis and Kelly for the first time this week and fell in love.
Now they’re coming to Vancouver:
DETAILS:
DATE: SATURDAY, MAY 30, 2009
TIME: 7:30 PM
VENUE: GENERAL MOTORS PLACE
PRICES: $57.05 - CA $127.05, plus applicable service charges & fees
Of course you can get tickets before anyone else, here’s the secret info:
INTERNET ORDER PERIOD:
Start: THU, NOV 27 @ 10AM
End: FRI, NOV 28 @ 10PM
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TO ORDER YOUR TICKETS**:
1. Click on this link and follow the instructions to select your seats. The link will only be active during the INTERNET ORDER PERIOD.
2. When prompted, enter the following password in the Presale section and proceed with your order: angelina
3. Select your delivery type and make your payment to complete your purchase.
4. Once your order has been processed, a confirmation number will be provided. Keep this number on file for reference.
Password: angelina
**Specific seats have been assigned to this exclusive sale during the INTERNET ORDER PERIOD.
**This pre-sale is available THU, NOV 27 @ 10AM to FRI, NOV 28 @ 10PM
**LIMIT OF 8 TICKETS PER HOUSEHOLD.
**Availability of seats is based on a first-come, first-served basis, and is restricted to areas defined by the promoter.
**Ticket prices, service charges, and availability of seats may be subject to change.
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This is another entry from the archives of my blog when it was on MySpace.
From June 6. 2006:
It’s a hot muggy day in L-A.
Even the normally crowded patios along the boulevards are a little tamer as people opt for the air conditioning inside. That’s rare in Los Angeles. Here, its all about the patio. The poseurs in their look at me, no dont designer sunglasses and the touristy looky loos wandering by to see if any of the patio patrons is a celeb are standard equipment for any restaurant worth its share of sidewalk.
Every visit to LA I spy a star and this visit has been no different. In the few minutes Ive been down in the lobby of the Regent Beverly Wilshire waiting to interview Christina Aguilera, Ive spotted Mean Girl Lacey Chabert and Bow Wow headed in and out of the lobby lunch spot, The Blvd. And was that Orlando Bloom dining solo in a cafe on Rodeo?? Maybe, if he still has his black curly locks and goatee hes been sporting in the Pirates of the Caribbean 2 posters.
After touching down at LAX this morning I had to grab a cab to the hotel. Try to get a cab in L-A its impossible. New York, with it’s dense mass of skyscrapers was built for taxis, but L-A, with its freeways spread across the southlands with barely a 10 story building to be seen, is a car town. Everyone here has their own car and if they’re visiting, they rent.
So after standing with other no car fools in a queue with no cabs, I ended up 20 mins late to the presser where a few dozen other journos were already 5 songs into a preview listen of Christina’s new cd, Back to Basics.
Everyone was deathly silent during the listening session, huddled over note pads and scribbling. It was almost like we were bizarre contestants for a reality show and we didn’t want the rest of the competition knowing our secret strategy.
I was guilty of it too. As we listened along I would jot notes about each track, judiciously covering up my paper like I had just plucked the perfect answer for a final exam.
Basics, it’s not even released for another 2 months and Im already resorting to shorthand, is an ambitious 24 song effort and I only caught the tale end of Nasty Naughty Boy before being treated to Im In Trouble, Hurt, Thank You and Slow Down Baby. Of all those tracks only Hurt sounds like the Christina you’re used to. It’s a big power ballad along the lines of Beautiful but instead of uplifting and comforting lyrics, this one sounds like a deathbed plea for forgiveness.
Nasty Naughty Boy is a burlesque-y romp where Christina begs her man to put his icing on her cake. She then quickly takes it back with Slow Down Baby, a song for those who think theyre getting a piece of said cake but are sadly mistaken, cause she’s taken.
In Trouble is a track your grandma will enjoy with the snap crackle and pops of old vinyl, horns youd hear on a Missippi Riverboat and a breathy Christina sounding miles away, buried in the mix like a lounge singer struggling to be heard over a packed house.
While Pray will make you think you’re walking by a basement church in Harlem on a sweet summer Sunday. That, and you’ll be humming the different song with the same title by Hammer in the back of your mind itching for a mash-up to be done.
Back to Basics, her third disc and first in almost 4 years, is a concept album that goes in a few different directions. Some songs will sound familiar to Stripped, but inspired by Linda Perry’s vast record collection and DJ Premier’s mashing of new and vintage beats, Christina also takes fans down an unfamiliar road, one laced with burlesque, horns, smoke, jazz and blues. But it really shouldn’t come as a surprise that shes finally done this, Christina has been talking about her love of standards and blues and jazz since her first interviews for Genie In a Bottle 7 years ago.
She calls the likes of Ella and Etta her “fun music” from when she was a child, and judging by the fierce pace of the debut single, Ain’t No Other Man, were gonna find it fun too.
Some of the songs have the same sort of “feel” that Madonna’s Dick Tracy inspired I’m Breathless held, but where Madge was kitschy doing straight ahead songs from the era, Christina is more “inspired” by the era, mixing old horns with heavy beats and therefore ends up with a much more current sounding set.
I am squeezed in for this interview on Canadian tv day. There is no other radio here at the hotel, just me and Rick Campanelli from E-T Canada, that guy with the thinning 80s hair and George Michael stubble beard from eTalk and Hannah from MuchMusic. I hear MusiquePlus and MTV are here, but I dont see them.
I am here to do a World Album Premier special to air across Canada in August when the disc comes out. My 20 min interview was chopped to 15 and when I walk in the door the assistant tells me I now have 12 mins.
Are you kidding me?
I wanna ask her about all the charities she supports and the abuse she suffered at the hands of her father. I wanna ask her how the song Oh Mother makes her feel. I wanna ask her what the mood was like in the studio for different songs, how does she get ready for upbeat songs versus the melancholy ballads. I wanna ask her about the music for the new album, where the samples came from and where the inspiration for the original pieces came from. I wanna ask her about her new look, shocking blonde hair and thick red lips and nails. I wanna ask her about this supposed demure image she was going to bring to the table as a married woman. Shes naked in every single photo in GQ and theres talk she might be knocking on Hefs door, but the husband doesn’t want her to do it ..
All that doesn’t get brought up. As were getting set up the assistant tells me not to ask about Mariah. Why would I?
The Mariah thing appears in the tail end of her GQ interview and has kinda blown up in her face. I know the tabloid shows are gunning for her reaction, but for an album premier, I’m focused on the music and my stupid 12 minute time limit.
Since I’m on a tv day, Christina and I are in directors chairs with 2 cameras, one locked on me and one focused on her. We have tv microphones and I can’t get a straight audio feed. For the radio show, were going to have to play back the video and record the audio from the video tapes to edit. It’s all rather odd, but the video is also going to be streamed on the Iceberg network and radio station websites across the country, so youll get to see what a bumbling fool I was and how ugly radio people are when they do interviews.
Rick was there in a suit and tie, had is makeup and hair done. I just strolled up in a Polo shirt and jeans and a sweaty, ruffled brow.
12 minutes after asking all about her new husband, Jordan, and his inspiration for the disc and the happy place she is in life and the dangers of doing a jazz-ish album when the purist haters will chase you down, its over.
I have no idea what I asked or what she said. It went by so fast. The best part is I had 4 pages of chicken scratch notes and I only scrambled through them once, the rest of it was a natural and easy Q&A.
The record company says my chat was the best of the 20 or so she had done today. She was impressed I stuck to the record and asked real questions about her real music.
It’s almost lunch time and I am really craving my favourite sandwich from when I was a kid. Remember, I invented this as an 8 yr old, so you might think it’s creepy, but it’s frickin fan-tas-tic!!
Yup, peanut butter, lettuce and mayonnaise.
You have to use iceberg lettuce, not the leafy stuff. It’s gotta be crunchy. The tang of the mayo, the crisp of the lettuce and the smooth of the peanut butter is sweet childhood heaven.
I’ve started a series of posts about how to do a Wedding on a Budget. One of the posts, choosing a photographer, received many comments with great ideas. In the end, Jen and I settled on a friend of mine who was just starting out with her own business.
Carolyn is Spilled Milk Photography, a company that focuses on family photos and children. Perfect for what our wedding will be - a family celebration!
To test drive our chemistry with Carolyn, we scheduled a shoot for this weekend up at Cypress for our Christmas Card. Some decorations in the forest, a snowman and some ice. It was perfect.
Carolyn’s got a great eye, a perky personality and she’s a mom who loves other people’s kids almost as much as her own. If you’ve got a new one on the way and want to capture the growing family, or if you’d like her to run around your little one’s special birthday bash you’d best get in while she still has availability and her rate card is still low.
Old fashioned word of mouth is filling up her dance card and with shots like these, you know her rates will rise with her popularity.
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“We believe ultra-low cost notebooks will be a major draw this Black Friday as vendors look to push volumes and consumers look to trade down given the economic environment,” he wrote in a report to clients Wednesday. “We have not seen any Apple Black Friday ads yet (as is customary), but expect the company to be more aggressive than usual in its one-day sale, perhaps with $100 off a few Mac models and discounts on several iPods.”
Whatever sale comes, expect it only online and only through the US Apple store. Canada isn’t down with Black Friday, although The Brick is trying to start something called Red Friday this week.
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Every visit to LA I spy a star and this visit has been no different. In the few minutes Ive been down in the lobby of the Regent Beverly Wilshire waiting to interview Christina Aguilera, Ive spotted Mean Girl Lacey Chabert and Bow Wow headed in and out of the lobby lunch spot, The Blvd. And was that Orlando Bloom dining solo in a cafe on Rodeo?? Maybe, if he still has his black curly locks and goatee hes been sporting in the Pirates of the Caribbean 2 posters.
Basics, it’s not even released for another 2 months and Im already resorting to shorthand, is an ambitious 24 song effort and I only caught the tale end of Nasty Naughty Boy before being treated to Im In Trouble, Hurt, Thank You and Slow Down Baby. Of all those tracks only Hurt sounds like the Christina you’re used to. It’s a big power ballad along the lines of Beautiful but instead of uplifting and comforting lyrics, this one sounds like a deathbed plea for forgiveness.
I am squeezed in for this interview on Canadian tv day. There is no other radio here at the hotel, just me and Rick Campanelli from E-T Canada, that guy with the thinning 80s hair and George Michael stubble beard from eTalk and Hannah from MuchMusic. I hear MusiquePlus and MTV are here, but I dont see them.
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