Michael Kwan, Author at Beyond the Rhetoric

Tacofino Commissary on Hastings, Vancouver

Posted by Michael Kwan | Apr 19, 2013 | Food & Drink

Tacofino Commissary is one of those places that you can drive by a thousand times and never know...

Grammar 101: Copyright and Copywrite

Posted by Michael Kwan | Apr 18, 2013 | Freelance Life, Grammar & Idioms

When two words sound the same, but are spelled differently and have different meanings, it can be easy to confuse the two. This is further exacerbated when the two words are seemingly related in some way. That is exactly the...

What’s Up Wednesdays: Street Fights, Podcasts and Credit Cards

Posted by Michael Kwan | Apr 17, 2013 | Stuff & Things

Every Wednesday, I gather together five interesting blog posts that I found around the Internet....

Sunday Snippet: “Russian Rocket” Pavel Bure

Posted by Michael Kwan | Apr 14, 2013 | Perspectives

“When I look at the net, I don’t see a goalie.” As with so many other people...

The Ram Restaurant & Brewery in Tulalip, WA

Posted by Michael Kwan | Apr 12, 2013 | Food & Drink

Living in Vancouver, we are very close to the US-Canada border. Given that so many things tend to...

Don’t Buy and Sell Your Business Like Old Furniture

Posted by Michael Kwan | Apr 11, 2013 | Business Talk, Lifestyle

The world of commerce is based on the relatively simple principle of buying and selling things. I...

What’s Up Wednesdays: Cherry Blossoms and Gay Weddings

Posted by Michael Kwan | Apr 10, 2013 | Stuff & Things

What’s happening in the blogging world this week? Let’s dive into this hump day...

Grammar 101: Pricy or Pricey?

Posted by Michael Kwan | Apr 9, 2013 | Freelance Life, Grammar & Idioms

The English language is filled with all sorts of different rules for how you conjugate verbs or how you convert one type of word into another. For example, it is generally true that if you add “-ed” to the end of a...