The looming threat of snow didn't keep the media at home on a Wednesday night. Ibiza was hopping with journos and their friends all night long. Over 100 writers, editors, producers, authors, and PR folks met and mingled, sharing their trials and tribulations along with their successes and recent accolades. Old friends caught up and new arrivals melted easily into the MB flow while sipping mango tangos and cosmopolitans. The biz buzz at the party was positive and it appears that after a few slow years, the media market in Seattle is poised to pop with new opps. Look out 2006!

- Michael Bradbury Seattle host

At Ibiza, November 30, 2005

Photos by Michael Bradbury

Freelance writer and mb host Michael Bradbury, freelancer Ritzy Ryciak, and Seattle Post-Intelligencer business editor Don Smith

Freelance writer Liza Zimmerman, freelance editor Christine Cook, and mb's Joann Natalia Aquino

MSNBC.com science editor Alan Boyle, Enterprise Newspapers editor Jenny Zappala and MSNBC.com reporter Alex Johnson

Rami, European Weekly marketing associate Felix Schulte, European Weekly marketing and sales manager Jessica Koch, and Scotsman Publishing associate editor Ivanna Sukkar

S&T producer Karen Wennerstrom, Microsoft writer and editor Rebecca Agiewich, writer and editor Candace Dempsey, and freelancer Crai Bower

Group shot

The Economist writer Douglas Gantenbein and freelancer Peter Sackett