OCEAN WISE MENU x THE FISH HOUSE x STANLEY PARK

Ocean Wise menu launch at The Fish House in Stanley Park restaurant on May 22, 2013.

VANCOUVER DAZE #119: J.CREW PARTY x PACIFIC CENTRE

Vancouver Daze, Volume 119: J.Crew women's only store grand opening party inside Pacific Centre on May 21, 2013. Published in Vancouver Is Awesome.

REVIEW: STILL 'FAST & FURIOUS' AFTER ALL THESE YEARS

"We talkin' vehicular warfare."

"All roads lead to this." It sure does as Fast & Furious 6 aims to pay off the five films that came before it. What I like about The Fast and the Furious franchise is how I can enjoy it both ironically and genuinely both at the same time. Four-time series helmer, director Justin Lin continues the tradition of inconsistent title naming and varied rise in quality. Baffled by the Fast & Furious franchise's endurance, I wrote an exhaustive piece about every film and this film's predecessor (the best one) Fast Five. The sixth instalment lives up to everything that came before in even dumber and more ridiculous ways.

REVIEW: IT ALL ENDS – 'THE HANGOVER PART III'

The Hangover was an inventive comedy full of fun and natural chemistry between its cast with a breakout performance by Zach Galifanakis. The Hangover Part II was a dark, twisted, and dreadfully dull beat for beat reconstruction of the original. The Hangover Part III is often a lazy, tired retread of the same story yet is often laugh out loud funny. The film goes to dark places and is more of an action movie injected with comedy bits. Surprisingly, I found most individual scenes much more enjoyable and crowd pleasing than expected.

FROM BOURBON TO TAPAS x EAST OF MAIN CAFE x CHINATOWN

New tapas menu tasting at East of Main Cafe in Chinatown on May 15, 2013.

VANCOUVER DAZE #118: DISARONNO x MIXING STAR x REFLECTIONS

Vancouver Daze, Volume 118: Disaronno's The Mixing Star cocktail competition at Reflections lounge inside the Rosewood Hotel Georgia on May 14, 2013. Published in Vancouver Is Awesome.

REVIEW: THE WRATH OF 'STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS'

Star Trek Into Darkness is certainly beautifully looking and provides a mostly, fun, amusing adventure. Unfortunately, the actual mechanics of the film as a whole provides an inconsistent, disapointing follow up to director J.J. Abrams' 2009 series re-imagining. Into Darkness is full of entertaining scenes and compelling acting, but the story, execution, and its overall contruction are hollow and severely underdeveloped.