review
Track-by-Track: Watching the Sky by Sheppard
June 8, 2018By: Alex Bloom, Courtney Miller, Zach Siddiqui, Natasha Tar "Watching the Sky" Alex Bloom: I feel like I’m listening to the soundtrack of some inspiring, feel-good Pixar film about an animal. Courtney Miller: I’m not a big believer in intro songs to begin with, but I guess as intro songs go, it’s not the worst? Lots of ethereal voices layered up which was cool though. Zach Siddiqui: I’m already bored. Although maybe this would make a good background track for the beginning of some teen movie? Natasha Tar: This intro is adorable, but I’m super glad that it’s only 50 seconds…
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Board Shorts
June 8, 2018Board approves $1,860 to send four members to the student union conference held by UBC AMS At the Simon Fraser Student Society (SFSS) Board of Directors meeting on June 8, the Board carried the motion to send four Board members…
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Authentic German cuisine you’ll literally dream about
June 7, 2018Written and photographed by: Maxwell Gawlick Hidden in a nook of Chinatown is Bestie, an authentic German restaurant with which you’re guaranteed to fall in love. It’s a cute location, bigger on the inside than the outside, and filled with…
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The true story behind That Dragon, Cancer makes it more than a game
June 6, 2018By: Amal Abdullah That Dragon, Cancer is a game created by two parents, Amy and Ryan Green, to eulogize the life of their son Joel, who was diagnosed with atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumor (AT/RT) at just one year old. Joel…
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Video game versus video game: Star Wars Battlefront
May 31, 2018By: Maxwell Gawlick Star Wars Battlefront and Star Wars Battlefront II (2015/17) [caption id="attachment_104414" align="alignright" width="213"] Image courtesy of Pandemic Studios[/caption] You’ve stolen the Imperial plans and you’re sprinting along the trenches of volcanic Sullust. You hear the howl of…
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Hungry poems for sobering histories
May 30, 2018By: Gabrielle McLaren Though the premise of a poetry collection on Ukrainian-Canadian women sounds straightforward, Laisha Rosnau taps into a long, ugly, and complicated history that includes concentration camps, global waves of immigration, westward expansion, government abuse, urbanization, shifting conservatism,…
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At the Orpheum
May 25, 2018By: Hannah Davis Ambience: A The Orpheum was built in 1927, and it shows; the venue has character that seems to hint at the history the building holds. I have been to more than one show at the Orpheum, and…
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Album versus Album: Logic
May 23, 2018By: Alex Bloom The Incredible True Story (2015) Logic is certainly a talented rapper, but what stands out to me is this album’s ability to tell a story. The opening track, “Contact,” sets the scene for the album with an…
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Identities: A Short Story Collection is an illustrative and powerful read
May 21, 2018By: Ruramai Munyanyi An adjunct professor in SFU’s Beedie School of Business, Yabome Gilpin-Jackson, sets her foot into the fiction arena and holds her own with some of the best fiction I have ever read. Identities: A Short Story Collection is…
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Lemony Snicket’s famous work is reinvented through TV
May 20, 2018By: Jennifer Russell The Netflix original A Series of Unfortunate Events artistically captures the bleak yet hilarious world that was first created by Daniel Handler (AKA Lemony Snicket) in his novels. Even though the story focuses on the lives of…
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