Andrea Renney
Why must SFU Burnaby get the butt-end of the toilet paper roll?
November 10, 2019In the “Whale of a Birthday” episode of the culturally impactful show Spongebob Squarepants, Squidward performs a song for Pearl on her sixteenth birthday. The monumental song won audiences over with the stunning lyric, “When my tear ducts give issue, I can’t use just any tissue, I need four ply, four ply, four ply, when I cry.” This song resonates with me to this very day. It shaped my expectations for myself and what I deserve in my tissues. You can thus imagine my horror, my dismay, my shock when I headed into my first washroom stall at the university…
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10 ways to spend $10 at Mini Mart
October 7, 2019Photos by Chris Ho Dear Minimart, It’s us: The Peak. Maybe you don’t know us, but we know you. See, your fine establishment is only a brisk walk away from our home-away-from-home office. Back in summer 2018, when we thought…
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#AllTheRagrets: What SFU students wish they knew in their first year
September 7, 2019What I wish I knew as a baby SFU first year is . . . … you are going to be bad at university at first, and that’s okay My high school teachers and parents had pegged me as…
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The Fore-Playlist
February 3, 2019We would ideally have 69 tracks on this playlist, but for our Sex, Sexuality, and Gender Issue, we’re hooking you up with these hot tracks ASAP for you and your hot date(s). “Power Trip” by J. Cole Slow,…
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Sitting down with band: Hot Flash Heat Wave
September 3, 2018“Finish this sentence: If you like _______, you’ll like Hot Flash Heat Wave.” Sitting on a second-story patio on a warm August evening in San Diego, Hot Flash Heat Wave’s Ted Davis (bass and vocals) and Nathan…
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A closer look at surf rock
August 2, 2018[embed]https://open.spotify.com/user/arenney-us/playlist/31GTDKD04s4Y499C27qypN[/embed] While studying abroad in San Diego in the spring, I embraced all things southern California: freeway traffic, “studying” on the beach, and In-N-Out Burger. Already a garage-rock and punk-rock enthusiast, the natural progression for the California version of myself…
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The Dirty Nil achieves maximum rock and roll in 2017
September 20, 2017Hailing from Hamilton, Ontario, the Dirty Nil is three guys and a guitar, a bass, and a drumset. Call them a rock ‘n’ roll band, call them a punk band, call them a jazz band — they don’t care. Despite…
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It floats to the top of the box office — and for good reason
September 19, 2017There’s been a lot of buzz about It, the recent adaptation of Stephen King’s well-known horror novel of the same name that may well have sparked coulrophobia (the fear of clowns) in the hearts of people everywhere back in 1986.…
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Album Reviews
May 16, 2017Everybody by Logic Review by Neil MacAlister With Everybody, Logic outshines the corniness and repetitiveness that plagued his last two projects by playing to his biggest strength: his ambitious, cinematic approach to album-crafting. Everybody tells the story of a man…
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Simon Fraser University’s independent student newspaper since 1965.
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