review
Show versus Show: RuPaul’s Drag Race and Drag Race Thailand
July 10, 2018Warning: this review contains spoilers for both shows! RuPaul’s Drag Race (Season 10, 2018) RuPaul’s Drag Race (RPDR) turns 10 and is back with finely orchestrated drama, bigger wigs, and even bigger personalities. RuPaul herself makes big promises about this season being more show-stopping than ever. She is ready to butt into these queens’ lives with sharp observations about their most personal and drag-related flaws, which brings us to the queens of this season. RPDR is all about fleshed-out arcs, whether they’re real or not. The season is full of shade, laughs (may I interest anyone in a…
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Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom is an intense sci-fi adventure thriller
July 8, 2018If you want to take a break from superhero epics for a while, check out J. A. Bayona’s Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. Bayona crafts a riveting sequel to Jurassic World that incorporates heart-pounding action and startling originality. The…
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The Moment is a beautifully written, heart-wrenching woman-loving-woman novel
July 4, 2018Don’t let the cover fool you; if you’re expecting a cliché young adult romance, look elsewhere. The Moment is one book that I return to year after year because the way T. C. Anderson weaves words is artistry that deserves…
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At the Vogue Theatre
July 2, 2018Ambience: A- The Vogue Theatre is one of those theatres that looks really comfortable and homely, like you’ve walked into a lecture hall you’ve been in a hundred times. Waiting in line for the venue to open was a breeze,…
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Meghan Parker’s comic book thesis is informative and adorable
July 1, 2018Meghan Parker, an SFU grad student, did something really cool when she created her thesis Art Teacher in Process: An Illustrated Exploration of Art, Education, and What Matters. She realized that writing about art wouldn’t work as well as making…
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Incredibles 2 makes for an incredible sequel
June 29, 2018In 2004, Walt Disney Pictures released a superhero family film that had an impact on the animation world, but it wasn’t the characters’ abnormalities that garnered the film such astounding critical and commercial success. Rather, it was the way the…
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SFU authors’ spotlight
June 26, 2018With Malice by Eileen Cook (an SFU Writer’s Studio mentor) “Who we are is what comes out when shit goes bad.” Without giving away too much, this sentence from Eileen Cook’s With Malice sets the stage for the entire novel.…
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Album versus Album: Katy Perry and Taylor Swift
June 25, 2018Witness by Katy Perry (2017) Katy Perry, who set the bar high with her album Prism (2013), fails to meet expectations with her latest album Witness (2017). Witness is not a terrible album overall — it does contain hits like…
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Need diverse, non-stereotypical characters who grow and solve crime together? Look no further
June 24, 2018One of the reasons I love the cop comedy Brooklyn Nine-Nine (B99) is that it has a truly diverse cast of characters. They don’t throw in stereotypical characters for the sake of diversity like many other shows do — they…
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Railtown Cafe is my everyday buddy
June 23, 2018Being students, we are always looking for cheap eats around our SFU campuses. Railtown Cafe is situated a few blocks away from SFU’s Harbour Centre campus. However, it has four different locations to choose from, the closest one to Harbour…
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