It wasn't too tough to encourage more than 50 members of mb's London contingent to gather at O Bar, smack-dab in the middle of the city. On hand were mb's own editorial director, Dorian Benkoil, and Il Giorno correspondent Deborah Bonetti, who shared hosting duties. According to an attendee, "Deborah was a great host and really made me feel welcome." For more warm fuzzies, be sure to stop by mb's next London event, which'll take place just a hop, skip, and jump away at Freedom Bar.

At The O Bar, May 3, 2006

Photos by Ola Rogers

Il Giorno correspondent and mb hostess Deborah Bonetti and mb editorial
director Dorian Benkoil

Elton John AIDS Foundation's Kevin O'Duffy and EJAF manager
Anna-Marie Meyer

ENTAction CEO Simon Bacal, Malta Times correspondent Margaret Cooper
and television producer Tira Shubart

Sapphire Publishing's Jennifer Myers and Bloomberg TV editor David Ellis

Channel 4 TV director Isabel Tang, illustrator Martin Bolchover and Diverse
TV series producer Kate Middleton

Publicist Agnes Johanssen and Broadview corporate news producer
John Grisby

NiteDine food and travel writer Wally Robertson, journalist Vivian van Djik
and Equilibrium Films producer John Miles

Copy editor Nick Christodoulides, Anna Marie-Meyer, Deborah Bonetti and
music producer and composer Leonardo Di Lorenzo

Crowd shot

StoryCode research director Chris Norris and writer Meredith Meyers

Akqa Agency's Molly Parsley and writer Laura Roe Stevens

Crowd shot

The O Bar