Ljudmila Petrovic
Theatrical maladjustment
March 18, 2013Conceptual Theatre production pushes boundaries and provokes community involvement By Ljudmila Petrovic Photo courtesy of David Cooper The first thing I noticed when I walked into the theatre at Firehall Arts Centre was the stage props: there was some furniture, and the rest of the set design consisted of piles of storage boxes. This made me wonder what the play was going to be like amidst the creative and powerful, albeit messy stage. It turned out much like the stage. The concept behind maladjusted is described as “theatre making policy,” a somewhat difficult connection to make out of context. I…
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Grape Expectations
March 18, 2013Your guide to wine tasting By Ljudmila Petrovic Photos by Mark Burnham Illustration By Eleanor Qu “Life is too short to drink bad wine,” Cesar Perrin tells me as he pours me a wine from his family’s Chateau de Beaucastel.…
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Pizza Hands: Kama Space-tra
March 12, 2013By Ljudmila Petrovic and Eleanor Qu
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Close encounters of the film kind
March 10, 2013By Ljudmila Petrovic Photos by Mark Burnham At an early age, Matthew wanted to become an astronaut, but his eyesight wasn’t good enough. Growing up in northwestern Ontario, Matthew Cimone would spend many starry nights with his grandfather’s telescope, looking…
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SFU blows an engine
March 10, 2013By Ljudmila Petrovic A gray and foggy Terry Fox Field played host to the Arizona Lax- cats last weekend, marking the sixth game of the Clan’s season. The visiting team over- whelmed SFU with a final victory of 14–12,…
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LAST WORD: Final Frontier
March 10, 2013Space colonization just another opportunity for oppression By Ljudmila Petrovic Image by Mark Burnham In 2005, Michael Griffin, the NASA Administrator at the time, announced that the ultimate long-term goal of NASA’s spaceflight programs was space colonization. “The goal isn’t…
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Residential School Awareness Week at SFU
March 5, 2013By Rachel Braeuer and Ljudmila Petrovic Photo by Rachel Braeuer Feb. 27 marked the end of Residential School Education Week at SFU, which consisted of a three-part speaker series featuring Commissioner for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Marie…
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SFYou: Fight for your pride
March 5, 2013By Ljudmila Petrovic Photos by Mark Burnham Samonte Cruz grew up in a rural area, so when he come out as queer around the age of 16, he was one of the only queer people that was out at his…
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Pidgin pleases taste buds
February 24, 2013Newly opened on the DTES, Pidgin is worth the visit By Ljudmila Petrovic Photos by Patrick Lui / TTLui Photography Pidgin just opened up on 350 Carrall St. amidst anti-gentrification protests. It is the latest in a string of trendier…
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Benny and the regrets
February 19, 2013The controversies surrounding Pope Benedict XVI’s Vatican career By Ljudmila Petrovic Illustration by Eleanor Qu “In today’s world . . . both strength of mind and body are necessary, strength which in the last few months, has deteriorated in…
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