Ljudmila Petrovic

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Hot and wild in the city

Peak Web June 17, 2013

Ken 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

Ljudmila Petrovic June 17, 2013

  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 the “radio-friendly” version,…

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From Type-A to Type I’m Okay

Ljudmila Petrovic June 3, 2013

How being unemployed was the best thing that could have happened to me 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 in compartmentalizing or…

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DOXA Reviews, part 2: Sister and Forget Me Not

Ljudmila Petrovic May 21, 2013

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 past several years…

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DSM for dummies

Ljudmila Petrovic May 21, 2013

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 by clinicians across…

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In Review: DOXA Film Festival’s Wrong Place Wrong Time and East Hastings Pharmacy

Max Hill May 13, 2013

This year’s documentary film festival shows its artistic side 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 non-profit organization based…

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Vegging out

Ljudmila Petrovic March 31, 2013

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 which Kalarupini takes…

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Stuff we HATE

Gary Lim and Ljudmila Petrovic March 31, 2013

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. Honestly, it’s like a shittier version…

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“The Pub Guy”

Ljudmila Petrovic March 24, 2013

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 know people,” he…

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SFU R-R-Roll up team looking for new players to roll over opponents

Timothy H. Bitts March 24, 2013

SFU's Roll Up Team aiming to cream opponents next season; two sugars 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 SFU and nobody is…

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