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VANCOUVER DAZE showcases and highlights the social life and scene of our beautiful city, covering all the misadventures and shenanigans at various cultural events, mixers, parties, meetups, and local happenings. We fiercely promote all the fun times the city has to offer along with the interesting people behind them. Follow more of my work/coverage over at RICKCHUNG.COM and on Twitter at @RICKCHUNG. You can pitch me HERE.

Volume 40: Painted Rock Estate Winery‘s 2nd annual tasting party at Gotham Steakhouse & Cocktail Bar on October 20, 2011. More photos available on Flickr.

On a random weekday afternoon, I popped into Gotham Steakhouse for Painted Rock’s annual private wine tasting and celebration.

Everyone sipped on the fine wine from Pentiction. I stuck mostly with the fairly tasty chardonnay and merlot. Forgive me, I know next to nothing about wine or wine culture. I just know when I like it and it tastes good.
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VANCOUVER DAZE showcases and highlights the social life and scene of our beautiful city, covering all the misadventures and shenanigans at various cultural events, mixers, parties, meetups, and local happenings. We fiercely promote all the fun times the city has to offer along with the interesting people behind them. Follow more of my work/coverage over at RICKCHUNG.COM and on Twitter at @RICKCHUNG. You can pitch me HERE.

Volume 39: Garden Party Flowers‘ grand opening party on October 19, 2011. Some photos courtesy of Jeremy Lim. More photos available on Flickr and Tumblr.

I made the unusual stop in the Terminal/Station/Industrial area packed with mostly warehouses for a flower and garden party.

I met owners Caley Hui and Amy Hu at the MacLure’s Cabs 100th anniversary party and they mentioned their opening party to celebrate their brand new location.
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VANCOUVER DAZE showcases and highlights the social life and scene of our beautiful city, covering all the misadventures and shenanigans at various cultural events, mixers, parties, meetups, and local happenings. We fiercely promote all the fun times the city has to offer along with the interesting people behind them. Follow more of my work/coverage over at RICKCHUNG.COM and on Twitter at @RICKCHUNG. You can pitch me HERE.

Volume 38: Shark Truth‘s Sans Fin Soup Contest at Renaissance Vancouver Harbourside Hotel on October 13, 2011. Hashtag: #SansFinSoup. More photos available on Flickr.

Last night was Shark Truth’s big Sans Fin Soup Contest in support of finding alternatives to shark fin soup and stopping fish mutulation.

Founder Claudia Li (pictured below with Angela Jung) with her team and the support of the Vancouver Foundation as one of their projects, spearheaded this cause and the group’s efforts.
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VANCOUVER DAZE showcases and highlights the social life and scene of our beautiful city, covering all the misadventures and shenanigans at various cultural events, mixers, parties, meetups, and local happenings. We fiercely promote all the fun times the city has to offer along with the interesting people behind them. Follow more of my work/coverage over at RICKCHUNG.COM and on Twitter at @RICKCHUNG. You can pitch me HERE.

Volume 37: MacLure’s Cabs 100th Anniversary party at CBC Vancouver on October 5, 2011. Photos courtesy of Jeremy Lim. More photos available on Flickr.

My travels as a social editor sometimes takes me to interesting places. Case in point, I attended MacLure’s anniversary party celebrating 100 years in business. I had no idea they’d been around so long.

CBC’s basement studios were packed with mostly members of the Indo-Canadian community, NPA politicians looking for votes, representatives from the other local taxicab companies, and random friends. It was pretty decked out.
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VANCOUVER DAZE showcases and highlights the social life and scene of our beautiful city, covering all the misadventures and shenanigans at various cultural events, mixers, parties, meetups, and local happenings. We fiercely promote all the fun times the city has to offer along with the interesting people behind them. Follow more of my work/coverage over at RICKCHUNG.COM and on Twitter at @RICKCHUNG. You can pitch me HERE.

Volume 36: Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF) 2011 Red Carpet Party at CinCin Ristorante + Bar on Robson Street on September 29, 2011. More photos available on Flickr.

Don’t worry, this isn’t about the controversial opening gala. Let’s stay positive here. Last night, I celebrated the opening of our city’s little film fest by garbling down some insanely delicious green macaroons (above) and mingling about with members of our film industry.

My lovely +1, singer/songwriter Kristie Yung, and I hopped over to Robson for a packed crowd at CinCin. It was ridiculous how full it was. It was like a sauna in there. I quickly spotted Mayor Gregor Robertson and a ton of character actors from local productions.
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VANCOUVER DAZE showcases and highlights the social life and scene of our beautiful city, covering all the misadventures and shenanigans at various cultural events, mixers, parties, meetups, and local happenings. We fiercely promote all the fun times the city has to offer along with the interesting people behind them. Follow more of my work/coverage over at RICKCHUNG.COM and on Twitter at @RICKCHUNG. You can pitch me HERE.

Volume 35: The Social Feed long table communal dinner at Nelson the Seagull on September 22, 2011. More photos available on Flickr and Minoru Blvd.

Last night, I joined the ultimate experience in social dining. An adventure in long table social eating interaction, I joined the folks at The Social Feed for one of their dining adventures at everyone’s favourite, new Gastown coffee shop and eatery.

At Nelson, named after the former President of South Africa, we dined on a relatively basic yet delicious set three course meal mixed with social interactions among friends and strangers. It was fun having dinner after hours in the daytime cafe.
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