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Peak Pick: PuSh Festival

EIC January 16, 2012

By Kaylin Metchie Photo courtesy of PuSh Festival PuSh is cutting edge and avant garde, featuring acts that push the frontiers of performance art The PuSh Festival is once again upon us, bringing multi-disciplined, visionary, and groundbreaking work to the Vancouver audience. Looking to transform conventional notions of entertainment, PuSh showcases great talent from Vancouver and around the world. After Trio A +Beginning  (Andrea Bozic) February 2–4 After Trio A…

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Restaurant opening: The Union

EIC January 16, 2012

By Ljudmila Petrovic New addition to the up-and-coming Strathcona neighbourhood lives up to its trendy expectations 219 Union St. The Union, a newly-opened Southeast Asian cuisine restaurant and bar, is located just off of Main and Union, right behind the…

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Movie review: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

EIC January 16, 2012

By Jenny Kim The American remake holds its own, armed with strong actors and suspense at every turn Based on the novel of the same name by the late Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is a film…

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Movie review: Carnage

EIC January 9, 2012

By Adam Cristobal Simplicity and minimalism allows viewers to focus on the interactions between characters instead Roman Polanski’s Carnage is based off of Yasmina Reza’s French play, Le Dieu du Carnarge. The adaptation’s basic plot remains more or less identical…

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Lorena and Jose filming Lost Chapters
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The Black Keys – El Camino

EIC January 9, 2012

  By Kristina Charania The Black Keys’ seventh coming makes bluesy garage-rock even classier Here’s a funny tidbit: the car on the front cover of El Camino is, well, not an El Camino. Even better? The band cites their choice…

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Here’s the best thing about winter

EIC January 9, 2012

By Carnell Turton The Peak presents a guide to local winter brews made and sold right here in B.C. Winter sucks. It brings rain, and a sadness that can only come when the sun sets before 4:30 p.m. By the…

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