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Giving away tickets to events, products, passes, experiences, etc. It’s fun giving stuff away.

My Petite Box: A Calgary Subscription Box Review

A Local Monthly Subscription Box I've seen subscription boxes on Facebook over the last year or two but never really paid much mind to them. I'm picky, I hate surprises, and is it really worth the money or do you get the dollar store equivalent of products you'll never use? I…

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Win Calgary Flames Season Tickets & Free Skip!

October 11, 2017

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It's pretty well documented that I'm in a serious relationship with Skip the Dishes, especially for my lunch as I rarely leave my desk to go anywhere. I'm told there's lots of other great times to order food, like during a Calgary Flames game! Skip the Dishes is now the…

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Giveaway: The New Phantom of the Opera Comes to Calgary

July 25, 2017

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"Bigger & better than ever before!" I have been in love with The Phantom of the Opera since 1986, Andrew Lloyd Webber worked his magic on the Gaston Leroux story, what seems like a million years ago. I drove my family insane as I learned to sing the score, they…

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Be a Calgary Stampede food judge for a day!

June 12, 2017

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Calling All Foodies! (contest is now finished, thank you everyone for taking part!) A very popular foodie trend has been in the making for the past few years on the Calgary Stampede midway. Each July local and international food vendors bring their inventive, and often crazy, concoctions to dozens of…

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Giving Away a Family Day at the Calgary Expo

March 30, 2017

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Calgary Comic & Entertainment Expo 2017 - Giveaway! It's almost that time again! The Calgary Expo is once again just around the corner. Already! The Expo is one of our favourite annual events in Calgary, taking place at the end of April and bringing all things geeky to the city.…

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Giveaway: $50 gift card to SkipTheDishes

March 13, 2017

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Dinner is served with SkipTheDishes I frigging love SkipTheDishes. For realsies. I can't even count how many people I've told about it, even convincing one of my clients to order lunch to the office for a group of us so we didn't have to stop working. I only wish I had…

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Giveaway: Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella

March 12, 2017

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Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella One of my earliest memories is colouring a picture of Cinderella in the living room. As I sat on the living room floor, contorted into a shape that only boneless children seem to achieve, I tried so hard to get the colours to match what the front…

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Win an Earls67 gift card from The Spesh

December 5, 2016

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Win with The Spesh & Crackmacs on Twitter! We've teamed up with the folks behind a new food and entertainment app called The Spesh, and we're giving away a $50 gift card to Earls.67, located in downtown Calgary. In this ailing Alberta economy, who doesn't need some free dough, and grub!…

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Covert Concert 2016 at Flames Central: win your way in!

May 13, 2016

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Win Covert Concert Passes Every year the Calgary Stampede puts on an event called the Covert Concert, which is a release party .. party for the upcoming bands playing the Coke stage at Stampede. One of the bands on the Coke Stage list will also be at the Covert Concert,…

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Beer alert!! Calgary Beer Fest Giveaway

April 22, 2016

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20x Calgary Beer Fest Tickets This giveaway has ended, sorry! Beer good. Free tickets to beer festival good. The good people at Alberta Beer Festivals have donated 20 tickets for us to giveaway, however we please. 10 Friday/10 Saturday. Thank you guys! We're giving away 16 tickets on this blog post,…

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Calamity Town Review & Giveaway

February 1, 2016

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I had mistakenly exclaimed that I had never been to the Vertigo Theatre before and that Calamity Town would be my first time attending. My face was red when I arrived to realize I had been there for The Mousetrap, but I was so exhausted that I operated on auto…

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The Little Prince Review & Giveaway

January 26, 2016

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Presented by Theatre Calgary: The Little Prince As an adult it's often easy to forget what it was like to be a child, engrossed in our favorite book, who daydreams about life on an asteroid because of a book like The Little Prince. For me those books are so numerous…