Category Archives: LDOT
[TMA NEWS] While we were gone… #CUBA #Starships
BLOGGER UPDATE!
Last week Jordan (3rd from right) & myself, Eddy (2nd from left) took a week long break from TMA for a much needed ‘girls gone wild’ vacation! We left you dry but now we’re back to lubricate your ears with hottest music (LOL)! Thank you to the thousands of viewers that visit TMA everyday. Now check out the video montage of our wild ‘Cuba Vacation 2012′ with 9 amazing friends! “Let’s go to the beach, beach, lets go get away…”
[LOCAL NEWS] Smoking ban may hit bar patios (London Free Press)
If this smoking ban passes it will be a big slap in the face for bar owners who built patios to cater to the smoking by law change years ago. Now if you can’t smoke on patios it will have to be on the streets. Do you want hoards of drunk people smoking on the streets at night? Think about it city politicians. Not to mention the LAVISH rooftop patio investment going down the drain. Not impressed.
Smoking ban may hit bar patios
By Randy Richmond, The London Free Press
A proposed new smoking ban that would snuff out cigarettes on restaurant and bar patios seems bound to light up debate at city hall Monday. At least one member of the committee set to debate the ban says he’ll push for it, while another says he’ll push back.
“There are more and more regulations and rules about what you can do when you wake up in the morning,” Coun. Dale Henderson said.
“Smoking is legal. I’ll push back on this.”
But fellow community services committee member Coun. Harold Usher is just as determined to make sure the ban gets approved.
“People have the right to smoke, but they don’t have the right to harm the health of other people.”
The Middlesex-London Health Unit wants London and Middlesex councils to ban smoking in dozens of outdoor areas, including parks, swimming pools, playgrounds, municipally owned recreation facilities, festivals and outdoor bar and restaurant patios.
When the health unit voted 6-5 to recommend the ban, there was little opposition to stopping smoking in places where children and adults play.
But there was opposition from area politicians at the prospect of making bar and restaurant owners stop people from smoking on their patios, many of them built or renovated to satisfy a ban on indoor smoking nine years ago.
“I don’t like it,” Henderson said of the new proposed ban. “You are punishing smokers and making them second-class citizens.”
London’s 2003 ban on smoking in restaurants led to a tumultuous two-year battle that put restaurant and bar owners in the uncomfortable position of defending the unhealthy habit.
Last fall, when the health unit voted to recommend the new ban, restaurant owners told The Free Press they opposed the idea, but weren’t eager to embark on another public relations battle they’d likely lose.
Henderson and Usher both said they hadn’t heard much from the public or restaurant owners since the ban was proposed last fall.
“We’ll hear about it more after the vote,” Usher predicted.
Policy makers have a responsibility to make the city safer, especially when it’s so clear second-hand smoke causes health problems, he said.
If the five-person community services committee endorses the ban Monday it would have to be approved by city council.
The health unit is recommending public consultation take place before any new ban comes into force.
[WATCH] London at Night | Timelapse of London Ontario | StoryBox Productions
Absolutely stunning visuals from StoryBox Productions.
I’ve never seen Dundas & Richmond look so good!
London at Night
Story Box Productions
http://www.storyboxproductions.com
This video was created with over 20000 still images all shot in London Ontario at night, in about a weeks time in November and December 2011. This is the Launch video and Introduction to our new commercial cinema company StoryBox Productions.
To find out more about who we are and what we do as well as what we have to come check one of these places for more details:
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website: http://www.storyboxproductions.comMusic: Sand (Custom Edit) – Erwin Steijlen
[LAVISH] ‘Bollywood Nights’ Weekend Recap
Check out the FULL gallery By resident photographer Ben Clouthier
Thanks for spicing it up with us for our first bollywood night at LAVISH! It was a huge success and we had a blast putting the whole themed event together! Although themed events require much more time, effort and money, it’s so worth it when 12:30 strikes and the ‘stars are aligned’ for a quick 5 minutes:
1. The decor
2. The packed club
3. People dancing to the bollywood jam
4. The bollywood show starts
5. …And then the crowd goes wild!
Most people don’t even recollect this “magical moment” (LOL), but I soak in those 5 minutes like no other and that makes the extra effort worth it! Normally mid-January is when LAVISH does the ‘Garden Of Eden’ party but we wanted to mix it up a bit and I couldn’t resist Bollywood! Saturday started out with a shopping trip to purchase pink and orange fabric. With the help of my good friends Jake & Pablo we managed to put it up in 3 hours – and this time none of the decor got ripped down by the end of the night – SCORE!
During decorating hours I got a text from Cardiff (local drag queen) who wanted to open for Cassandra. I thought why not, this could entertaining…and it sure was! When her Sari (Indian dress) started falling off all I could think was “shit, I hope no one is getting offended”. With that said, Cardiff continues to grow as an drag performer…
In cased you missed (or couldn’t remember) Cassandra Moore’s performance, Ben Clouthier captured the amazing show! The beautiful outfits were custom made especially for ‘Bollywood Nights’, and the Bollywood style performance to Rihanna’s smash hit ‘We Found Love’ got people wild!
+ Tag Yourself In the Bollywood Nights photo gallery by Ben Clouthier
[LAVISH] Friends & I Playing Just Dance (Jai Ho ‘You Are My Destiny’)
This weekend is the big themed event at Lavish, BOLLYWOOD NIGHTS starring Cassandra Moore! Every time there’s a themed event my friends are I become dorks and really get into the event days before the weekend! We’re probably gonna have a Bollywood movie night this week (Slumdog Millionaire, Pride and Prejudice, etc) and have already been dancing to Bollywood songs on Just Dance (for Xbox Kinect or PS3). Check out our 3rd attempt to Jai Ho! You can also learn the moves on the YouTube video below. It’s the best game ever & gets your heart racing real fast!
[LOCAL] Joe Fontana Unveils London’s New Theme Song (w/lyrics)
thoughts?
Mayor Joe Fontana unveiled the city’s new theme song at the end of his State of the City address Wednesday morning at the London Convention Centre. The song, titled London Is the City of Opportunity, is performed by Jim Chapman’s Incontinentals.
London Is the City of Opportunity by Jim Chapman’s Incontinentals by jalvir
LONDON IS THE CITY OF OPPORTUNITY
by Jim Chapman
REFRAIN:
The closer you look, the more that you see, that
London is the city of opportunity! (REPEAT)
VERSE:
Imagine a city where the river runs through it
Imagine a city where dreams can come true
Imagine your future how you want it to be
In London, the city of opportunity
Imagine a factory where none was before
Imagine an office, imagine a store
Imagine a home the way you’d like it to be
In London, the city of opportunity
BRIDGE:
Whatever you need, we can provide
Whatever you want, that’s what you’ll find
Whatever your dreams, we can make them come true
London’s opportunities are waiting for you
VERSE:
Picture your future in the city of London
Picture your dreams as you want them to be
Picture the things that you can accomplish
In London the city of opportunity
There’s plenty of room for your visions to prosper
With plenty of options to find what you need
And plenty of people who are ready to help you
In London the city of opportunity
BRIDGE:
A place to do business, a place to reside
Working and living, side by side
Making our future all it can be
In London the city of opportunity
CLOSING REFRAIN:
The closer you look, the more that you see, that
London is the city of opportunity! (REPEAT X 3)
[LOCAL/WATCH] Maroon 5 – Moves Like Jagger (Jordan Campbell – A Cappella Cover)
Read Full London Free Press Article on the 20y/o aspiring London Actor
The 20-year-old aspiring actor, who has performed in several London high school productions and sang in the Amabile Boys and Mens Choir, has produced an amazing cover of Maroon 5's hit, Moves Like Jagger.
