Arts Archives - The Peak

The dark Underbelly of the Beat Generation

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William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, and Allen Ginsberg represent the Beat Generation in American Literature. Full of drug-induced episodes, a rejection of authority, and...

Manufactured Landscapes

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Do you ever think about where your cell phone will go once you throw it away? What about who made it, or who mined...

Author Spotlight: Joan B. Flood

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Irish by birth and Canadian by choice, Joan B. Flood is a writer of fiction, non-fiction, and “even a poem or two.” Her first...

Stella and Garment play with gender

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New York’s Sidra Bell Dance is a bold company that presents innovative works dealing with gender and identity. “My work lives in a world...

Like a hurricane

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Chase Padgett loves Canadians and Canadian Fringe Festivals. “I often feel that I’m a Canadian trapped in an American’s body,” he said. Padgett is returning...

Manhattan and Monopoly: Four ways Nollywood is more successful than Hollywood

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“If my films make one more person miserable, I know I’ve done my job.” In the existential eyes of Woody Allen, the world is a...

Whose Life is it Anyway? tackles disability in the theatre

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Sometimes art and life imitate each other a little too well. During the research process for his new show, Whose Life is it Anyway?...

So you want to be a travel writer?

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The Peak caught up with seasoned travel writer and Burnaby resident Robin Esrock about his new book, wanderlust, and his upcoming “Adventure Travel Journalism...

Return to the wild

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Sometimes, on the bus ride up to SFU, you see a coyote, bear, or deer looking awfully shocked that another bus is coming up...

Hirsch: remembering a Canadian legend

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Would you want someone to tell your story after you’re gone? And if so, who could be trusted with this task? Alon Nashman and Paul...

SFU community members sound alarm on new investment policy draft

Langara journalism program faced with potential closure

BC’s overdose crisis crosses 10 year mark

GSS and SFSS express concern over heating conditions in student residences

Post-secondary education funding is mishandled

Life and growth are never linear

Students can be “middle powers” through collective action

Brighter Side: Making the most of your last summer class

Monday Music: An escape into the many lenses of shoegaze

Get to know Greek mythology through Homer’s The Odyssey and its counterparts

Nico-meets-stereolab: a review of MEMORIALS’ All Clouds Bring Not Rain

Nutritious Nibbles: Pouding chômeur

Long Story Short: Paving a non-linear academic path

SFYou: Kyle Newcomb of Setiaputra Lab

Health policy expert Dr. Leah Shipton explains duplicative health-care

SFSS bars recording at Council meetings, deterring student reporting

I went on a Scientology speedrun . . . this is what happened

I attended a cultural book club filled with white women so you don’t have to

In the headlines: Bowen Island campus, data centres, and so much more!

What kind of raccoon shitter are you?

Wayne Gretzky’s false Canadiana

Former SFU women’s basketball coach inducted into Canadian Basketball Hall of Fame

How the Red Leafs fared to start 2025

Staying active when everything feels expensive