As you may or may not know, with the help of our (much prettier) cohorts at colab and Schipulite Katie Laird we’ve managed to get WordPress founder and creator, Matt Mullenweg to Houston for our city’s first-ever WordCamp. The Houston Museum of Natural Science is the coolest location ever (keynote in the IMAX theater!) and will be hosting the day-long camp. We hope you can attend.

Here at PG, we pride ourselves on our love of Wordpress and build probably no less than 98% of our sites on the platform for its stability, ease of use, multi-user capabilities and structure. Hope we get to see some new faces and learn about WP all at the same time.

Check out the speakers and get your tickets soon. And when you do, we have these snazzy badges courtesy of our friends over at Schipul!

Copy/paste for the attendee badge: <a href=”http://wordcamphouston.com/”><img style=”margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;” title=”WCH-Attendee” src=”http://www.startwithgrey.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/WCH-Attendee.jpg” alt=”WCH-Attendee” width=”150″ height=”200″ /></a>

Copy/paste for the speaker badge: <a href=”http://www.wordcamphouston.com/speakers/”><img style=”margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;” title=”WCH-Speaker” src=”http://www.startwithgrey.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/WCH-Speaker.jpg” alt=”WCH-Speaker” width=”150″ height=”200″ /></a>

Back as hosts for our 3rd year, PG and Colab (Cosmopolitician) will be participating with our friends (and client) at Azur Salon in the 20th Annual Dining Out for Life next Thursday, April 29th.

You eat. Restaurants Donate. Win win.

On Thursday, April 29, 2010, restaurants across Houston will unite in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Each restaurant will generously donate 33% of food bills all day long. In 2009 with the help of great Houston restaurants, AIDS Foundation Houston (AFH) raised over $70,000 in support for their programs and services such as housing, case management, and food assistance for nearly 5,000 HIV+ men, women, and children.

For the 2nd year in a row, we’ll be hosting at Monica Pope’s T’afia in Midtown. We’re super excited to be back at this Top Chef Masters’ home in Houston!

Monica and I will be posted up at t’afia on Thursday night from 6-10pm. Please stop in for a drink, a meal, or dessert and help us support this great cause.

Hey, ya gotta eat, right? Make it count this night.

Reservations are recommended. 713-524-6922.

And even if you don’t eat at T’afia, try and hit up one of the other participating restaurants.

Well, we have finally fully recovered from the ever so spectacular block party. We’d like to give a huge thank you to everyone that came out and made it such a great event for not only Primer Grey and Colab but the whole community.

A very special thank you goes out to everyone who chipped in their goods and services. Celeste and Stella Rose , Tammy Portnoy and Friday Harbour, Sarah and the Houston Rockets, JR Cohen and Smart Meals, DJs Young $quaddy and Good Grief, The Ford Fiesta Movement and Noah’s Kitchen, Irene Ruiz de Panfilis for the beautiful artwork, Katie Laird and Esther Steinfeld from Business Makers, and everyone else that came and had a great time.

If you want to check out some great pictures from the evening or have some of your own to share, be sure to check out the PG+CO Flickr group.

You can also go back in time and read all of the tweets from the evening on Twitter.

– PG+CO Photo by Mark Austin.

It’s confirmed. We have added some talent to the Block Party.

Young $quaddy and DJ Good Grief are confirmed on the bill for the Block Party.

You may know these guys from such monthly parties Don’t Fight It! or Commotion.

They will be curating requests via Twitter. Just add #pgco to your tweets and see if your request makes the cut.

Dig deep folks. This ain’t your average party.

All the Block Party details here.

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