Need a great excuse to eat out this month? Why not give while you dine, for the month of June, several Vancouver restaurants will be adding one dollar to the price of a menu item to support Growing Chefs’ Eat.Give.Grow fundraiser. Each restaurant will offer a specially marked item on their menu, simply, order it…
Author: Jay Minter
2012 MTV Movie Awards – Winners
Sunday night the 2012 MTV Movie Awards were handed out at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Los Angeles. The awards show were hosted by comedian Russell Brand, ensuring an entertaining and edgy fun show. Martin Solveig was the house DJ for the evening and the show also featured performances by fun, Wiz Kalifa and The Black…
An Evening with Idina Menzel
Idina Menzel – The Centre For Performing Arts In Vancouver – June 1, 2012 Stepping on to The Centre’s stage for her first visit to Vancouver, Tony-award winning singer-songwriter/actress Idina Menzel was greeted by enthusiastic applause. Kicking off a summer tour in support of her latest recording “Barefoot At the Symphony”, which indeed she was,…
Personal Training with Alex Jack
As many of you know, I regularly work out regularly, as a formerly very overweight person it’s been a constant challenge to keep up the battle of the bulge. Since starting working out last year I managed to lose about 90lbs of fat and replace it with muscle, thanks in no small part to the…
Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Month at The Fairmont Empress
This weekend marks the central weekend celebrating the Diamond Jubilee of HRH Queen Elizabeth II with festivities happening all over Britain and the Commonwealth of Nations. Here at home, The Fairmont Empress in Victoria is celebrating their tie to the British Royal Family with a month full of Queen’s Jubilee events and specials, honouring her…
Leighton Meester at The Vogue Theatre
Leighton Meester – Vogue Theatre – May 30, 2012 Usually we associate Leighton Meester with reading Vogue Magazine as her character Blair Waldorf in Gossip Girl, but the Vogue Theatre In Vancouver is a long way from the Upper East Side. On the second date of her West Coast tour, with the band Check In…
Burnaby Summer Concert Series – Bon Iver
Bon Iver – Deer Lake Park – 25May2012 Kicking off the Burnaby Summer Concert Series, Grammy winners Bon Iver brought a full house, or field, to the beautiful Deer Lake Park. Always a spectacular setting for a concert, Deer Lake field was still a bit soggy in patches but that didn’t deter the thousands from…