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New Music Friday
November 3, 2017By: Ana Maria Mejia Morales, and Edna Batengas [embed]https://open.spotify.com/user/thepeaksfu/playlist/3WZUfKu8V7RhOJr6N3SYQn[/embed] “MotorSport” – Migos, Nicki Minaj, Cardi B Ana Maria Mejia Morales: Here we go. Started off bad. Real bad. Edna Batengas: Yasssssss! Downloaded this song the day it came out. I love that Nicki and Cardi B are on the same track. Rap queens link up! “Bambiala” – Danagog, Davido, Mayorkun AMMM: For a second there I was like “DEMAGORGON?!” No, not at all. Dumb brain can’t stop thinking about Stranger Things. This song can’t be compared to the brilliance of the show. Nothing can compare. EB: I love the beat…
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Ballet BC’s resident choreographer presents world premiere
November 2, 2017By: Tessa Perkins Ballet BC’s resident choreographer Cayetano Soto is presenting a new one-act ballet, Eight Years of Silence, during Program 1 of the company’s 32nd season. Also opening the season is a work from Johan Inger, B.R.I.S.A. Ballet BC…
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SFU School for the Contemporary Arts’ production of The Bald Soprano takes place in modern-day Vancouver
November 1, 2017By: Edna Batengas SFU’s School for the Contemporary Arts (SCA) has an upcoming mainstage theatre production of The Bald Soprano. It was originally written in the ’50s by playwright Eugène Ionesco as a French, Absurdist farce. The SCA has adapted…
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What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding by Kristin Newman is a fast-paced account of her adventures abroad
October 31, 2017By: Victoria Lopatka What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding: A Memoir by Kristin Newman is a debut travel memoir unlike any other travel memoir you’ve ever read. With humour and reflection, Newman leads us through her adventures in foreign…
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Album Reviews
October 31, 2017By: Monica Branch and Neil MacAlister Younger Now by Miley Cyrus Miley Cyrus seems to mark each phase of her life with an album. From Bangerz, to Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz, and now her newest release, Younger Now, her…
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Happy Death Day is one of the best blends of comedy and horror to hit the silver screen
October 30, 2017By: Jennifer Russell If you’re looking for a movie that combines comedy and horror, Happy Death Day is perfect for you. I went into Happy Death Day without knowing anything about the movie except that it is a time loop…
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Honour: Confessions of a Mumbai Courtesan is an eye-opening story of resilience
October 29, 2017By: Ashley Lee While Honour is a fictional play, the story is all too real for sex workers and their families in Mumbai. The play, presented as part of Diwali in BC, is a five-year project founded by Rohit Chokhani that…
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Director’s Spotlight: Tim Burton
October 28, 2017By: Jonathan Pabico One of my favourite directors is the legendary Tim Burton. Burton's films are known for their bleak and morbid atmospheres as well as the dark and unsettling feeling they create in a viewer. Despite this, his movies…
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New Music Friday
October 27, 2017[embed]https://open.spotify.com/user/thepeaksfu/playlist/4aEby0tqQ1Pw3vWQ9c8Uaz[/embed] By: Ana Maria Mejia Morales, Edna Batengas, and Jenna Beetstra “La Fête” – Falz Ana Maria Mejia Morales: Ah! A mélange of English and French. Not good. Skip this. Edna Batengas: Ey, I love that he said “Hakuna Matata.”…
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The God of Small Things is in a World of its Own
October 27, 2017By: Gabrielle McLaren, Staff Writer A friend gave me his favourite book before I left for a flight, we agreed that it would make a great read for a plane ride. I called him when I landed and told him that…
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