Ghost town: SFU’s absent arts community

Photo by Jenny Waters What can we blame this time for the student–campus disconnect? I’m not the first to observe the state of SFU’s arts community...

Peak Pick: PuSh Festival

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...

Restaurant opening: The Union

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,...

Movie review: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

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...

Movie review: Carnage

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...

The Black Keys – El Camino

  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,...

Here’s the best thing about winter

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...