Ljudmila Petrovic
You are what you eat?: The most bizarre diets
May 13, 2012By Ljudmila Petrovic Wallis Simpson, a former Duchess of Windsor, once famously said, “You can never be too rich or too thin.” It’s no secret that, in a society where this attitude is constantly plastered across tabloids and magazines, many people go to great lengths to reach a waif-thin figure. Because of this pressure, the tried-and-true idea of eating healthy and exercising moderately to stay healthy has taken a back seat to extreme, often bizarre methods of appetite-suppression.Moreover, appetite suppression has been part of various religious and spiritual passages. Below are some of the most ridiculous diet fads. FRUITARIANISM The…
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Vancouver Bucket List: Summer Edition
May 6, 2012By Ljudmila Petrovic So, you’re stuck in Vancouver again while your friends jet off to Prague and New York. Fear not! Here’s a handy-dandy list to get you through: MOUNTAINS AND OCEANS, OH MY! For the three months of the…
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Listless: SFUvideogames
May 6, 2012There’s been a lot of commotion at SFU Burnaby these past few weeks as a film crew works to film something that is definitely not Halo 4. Which gets us at The Peak thinking: what would be some video games…
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Living in diaspora
March 26, 2012By Ljudmila Petrovic "Welcome home."” The woman at YVR customs hands me back my Canadian passport and smiles warmly. Home? Where is home? I wonder, glaring at her for starting this internal conflict again. Is it Vancouver, the city I…
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Sisters & Brothers captures the sibling dynamic
March 26, 2012By Ljudmila Petrovic TIFF 2011 favourite premieres theatrically in Vancouver, Victoria, and Toronto cinemas When my little sister was eight years old, she told me that she hated me. She was also a constant source of annoyance, taking my clothes…
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SFU grad-directed documentary released
March 12, 2012By Ljudmila Petrovic Footage of the eider duck and Nunavut’s Sanikiluaq community in it spans over seven winters A Ph.D project to create an underwater camera system to view the eider duck diving below sea ice was the inspiration for…
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Movie review: Goon
February 27, 2012By Ljudmila Petrovic Another lively addition to the genre of testosterone-fuelled ‘not a boy, not yet a man’ flicks Seann William Scott stars in Goon as Doug, a lovable club bouncer whose lack of direction in life is his parents’…
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Fat happiness: Is it wrong to be fat?
February 20, 2012By Ljudmila Petrovic As a child, Kalamity Hildebrandt was put on diet pills by her doctor in order to lose weight. By age nine she was bulimic, which progressed to the point where she was throwing up blood in her…
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Tanning is out?
February 20, 2012By Ljudmila Petrovic Local cancer groups fight to ban indoor tanning The Canadian Cancer Society’s B.C. and Yukon division is fighting to establish what they consider long-overdue legislation that will make it illegal for those less than eighteen years of…
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Restaurant opening: The Union
January 16, 2012By Ljudmila Petrovic New addition to the up-and-coming Strathcona neighbourhood lives up to its trendy expectations 219 Union St. The Union, a newly-opened Southeast Asian cuisine restaurant and bar, is located just off of Main and Union, right behind the…
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