Ljudmila Petrovic
Hot and wild in the city
June 17, 2013Ken and Barbie’s sexless plastic crotches serve as the welcoming banner to Sex Talk in the City, the Museum of Vancouver’s (MOV) newest exhibit. The exhibit is broken down into three areas: the classroom, the bedroom and the street, with the physical construction of each area carefully flowing into the next while creating a distinct ambience of each physical location. Calling this an exhibit is really a misnomer; it’s more so a thoughtfully constructed installation piece that interweaves Vancouver’s sexy past with each collection of artifacts presented in a unique way. The classroom features desks, questions asked by actual Vancouver…
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Let’s talk about sex, baby
June 17, 2013By Ljudmila Petrovic Photos by Ben-Buckley I was recently out shopping when Bruno Mars’ “Locked Out of Heaven” came on the radio. Now, one of the lines of this song is, “your sex takes me to paradise,” except in…
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From Type-A to Type I’m Okay
June 3, 2013How being unemployed was the best thing that could have happened to me By Ljudmila Petrovic Photos by Alex Ortega Let’s be honest right off the bat: I embody the textbook definition of a “Type-A” personality. Now, I don’t believe…
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DOXA Reviews, part 2: Sister and Forget Me Not
May 21, 2013By Ljudmila Petrovic Photos by DOXA Festival In Ethiopia, one in 27 women die from childbirth-related causes. In Cambodia, it’s one in 48 women that die from childbirth-related causes, while in Haiti, it’s one in 44. Canada’s rate in the…
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DSM for dummies
May 21, 2013By Ljudmila Petrovic Photos by Vaikunthe Banerjee What is the DSM? The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is considered the Bible of mental illness diagnosis. It is published by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and is used…
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In Review: DOXA Film Festival’s Wrong Place Wrong Time and East Hastings Pharmacy
May 13, 2013This year’s documentary film festival shows its artistic side By Max Hill Documentary films aren’t always considered artistic or creative: they tend to be categorized as straightforward, didactic and anonymous, not unlike a news article. The Documentary Media Society, a…
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Vegging out
March 31, 2013By Ljudmila Petrovic Photos by Mark Burnham At 4:30 am, Kalarupini and her one prep assistant arrive at the Commercial community kitchen at their temple, and begin to cook that day’s veggie lunch. They usually finish several hours later, after…
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Stuff we HATE
March 31, 2013By Gary Lim and Ljudmila Petrovic Manitoba Manitoba is Canada’s worst province. There I said it. If Canada was a family, Manitoba would be the brother they sent away after they found it taking apart cats behind the tool shed.…
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“The Pub Guy”
March 24, 2013By Ljudmila Petrovic Photo by Mark Burnham If you’ve spent any time at the Highland Pub, you’ve probably met Darryl, the man who makes a visit to the campus pub like an episode of Cheers. “I like to get to…
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SFU R-R-Roll up team looking for new players to roll over opponents
March 24, 2013SFU's Roll Up Team aiming to cream opponents next season; two sugars By Timothy H. Bitts Photos by Ljudmila Petrovic It’s that time of the year again ladies and gentlemen, roll up the rim season is in full swing at…
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