Lauren Tang, 13, stands next to her bullseye at Lykopis Archery School. Like the iconic sitcom Friends spawning a sea of ???Rachel??? haircuts in the ???90s, Hollywood films have inspired more young people in the Lower Mainland to pick up a new hobby ??? ...
Author: Benjamin Yong
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New driver in a Lamborghini? Only in Richmond, B.C…
During my normal mind-numbing morning work commute crawl, I was briefly entertained when I saw this: A shiny black Lamborghini sporting the classic green new driver emblem! When I told my co-worker, she said it could be a 40-something new immigran...
Vancouver International Auto Show 2012 ‘bringing sexy back’
Back for the first time at BC Place post-renovation, the Vancouver International Auto Show makes its 92nd appearance and manages to keep things fresh for consumers who are finally starting to buy again. ???We???re not back to the pre-2008 levels ??? you...
YouTube singing sensation Jason Chen inspires Vancouver
From the March issue of CHARGED magazine... Everyone has a friend or ten who graduated from business school to go on to practical, yet perhaps unglamorous careers in finance, or accounting. Taiwanese-American singer Jason Chen started down that pa...
Parade triggers passion for classic cars
My most recent article, for Black Press' InMotion, about a guy on Vancouver Island who actually got a pretty cool hand-me-down car from his father -- unlike the 1984 Nissan Micra with bald tires and a broken engine mount that I learned to drive on...
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