Kelly Thoreson
Altar Boyz: leave it at the altar
July 23, 2012By Kelly Thoreson Photos by Emily Cooper (Arts Club) Running jokes wear thin on the soles without the support of a real plot to the production Four young and attractive Catholic boys and one Jewish man form a boy band called the Altar Boyz and tour to sing about God and Christian values: it could have been a pretty good sketch on Saturday Night Live, but it leaves something to be desired as a musical. Altar Boyz parodies both boy bands and religious tours with all of the trills, over-enthusiasm, and abs that are to be expected, and is jam-packed…
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SFU receives Fair Trade campus designation
May 14, 2012By Kelly Thoreson SFU becomes the second Canadian campus to receive official recognition from Fair Trade, after UBC SFU’s decade-long struggle for formal commitment to providing Fair Trade products on campus has come to a close. On May 4, the…
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SUB conscious
April 2, 2012By David Dyck and Kelly Thoreson A Student Union Building has been on the minds of undergraduates for years. How come we never hear about it? Eleven per cent of undergraduate students determined the fate of a $65-million project this…
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Peak pick: tacos
March 12, 2012By Kelly Thoreson There’s more to life than Taco Bell — follow this Peak guide and your stomach to greener pastures You live on the Wet Coast. It is cold, and it is wet — all the time. Summer is…
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Play review: Intimate Apparel
February 20, 2012By Kelly Thoreson Timeless themes and relationships transcend the early 20th century setting Despite taking place in 1905, Intimate Apparel portrays modern truths. The play tells the story of Esther (Marci T. House), a single black woman who sews…
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The Surrey stigma: The city we love to hate
February 6, 2012By Kelly Thoreson “I heard that Surrey was not the nicest place. It wasn’t a place you wanted to go to,” said Ella Sargent, a sixth-year kinesiology major at SFU. “The ‘ghetto’ is a bad word for it, but it…
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“I don’t know how to use a condom” & other tales of how sex education failed me
February 6, 2012I thought I had pooped my pants, but who poops their pants in the fifth grade? I didn’t remember going to the bathroom that day, but I guessed I must have — in my pants. Maybe it was ‘anal leakage’ —…
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Penny for your thoughts
January 23, 2012What to consider before giving change to the homeless in Vancouver By Kelly Thoreson “Panhandling isn’t a very lucrative career,” Thomas explained as we sipped warm coffees outside the entrance to Insite, the Downtown Eastside’s supervised injection site. “Well, for…
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New Year’s resolutions (the ones you should have made)
January 9, 2012By Kelly Thoreson The new year is a time for contemplation, for reflecting on the year past and on what we desire for the future. It’s a time to make resolutions and become better, more fulfilled human beings. I like…
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