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Album Reviews
October 15, 2017By: Neil MacAlister and Mikaela Nuval Love Yourself: Her by BTS BTS, known for aggressive hip-hop tracks, surprises with Love Yourself: Her: an album heavily influenced by pop and EDM. It is surprisingly vibrant and cheerful, which is especially encapsulated by the track, “DNA.” Although the seven-member Korean boy band is deviating from their hip-hop roots, BTS stays true to their sound with their personalized lyricism. “Go” talks about how youth live in the present by sacrificing their futures, while their hidden track, “Sea,” only available in physical albums, details their struggles in finding success. For…
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Tragic message of Kate Evans’ new book strikes audience
October 9, 2017By: Aaron Richardson In a truly heartfelt and emotional performance at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, Kate Evans read from her new graphic novel Threads: From the Refugee Crisis. A gripping tale about her experience as a volunteer…
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Kingsman: The Golden Circle has good action and a good cast, but not much else
October 2, 2017By: Jonathan Pabico Kingsman: The Golden Circle is a disappointing sequel by X-Men: First Class director Matthew Vaughn. The film is crowned with fun, stylized action scenes, but it suffers from some severe drawbacks. The film’s narrative gets…
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The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls is a moving memoir about family troubles and imagination
October 1, 2017By: Tessa Perkins This classic memoir needs no further reason to read it other than its brilliance, but now that it has been adapted into a feature film, this is the perfect time to pick up a copy and see…
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Joey Bada$$ delivers a powerful performance at UBC
September 28, 2017By: Neil MacAlister Recently UBC held its Welcome Back Barbecue, and, along with a group of artists I’d honestly never heard of (apologies to the Strange, Harrison Brome, Shaun Frank, and Vanic), New York rapper Joey Bada$$ performed. …
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Album Reviews
September 26, 2017By: Neil MacAlister and Natasha Tar Special Edition Grand Master Deluxe by the Cool Kids The return of the Cool Kids is a fantastic thing to witness. In the 2000s, the Illinois rap duo (made up of Chuck Inglish and…
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The Secret Garden exhibition is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for Vancouverites
September 25, 2017By: Yelin Gemma Lee Vancouver Art Gallery (VAG), in collaboration with Le Musée Marmottan Monet, brings the well-known impressionist artist Claude Monet to our doorstep with the Secret Garden exhibit. The exhibit is up until October 1 and has been…
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The Poke Guy brings the delicious culinary innovation of Hawaii to SFU’s doorstep
September 23, 2017By: Ana Maria Mejia Morales Ah, lunch. What a dilemma. What to get? I have $16 in my bank account, so that’s more than enough. Pizza? No, I’ve had pizza twice this week. Maybe something healthy would be better .…
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Dunkirk: the genius of Christopher Nolan
September 11, 2017By: Ana Maria Mejia Morales I usually don’t like action movies. Forgive my taste, but I truly believe that cinema, the seventh art, should be used for more than loud explosions, stunt men, and fragile masculinity. I usually apply this…
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Book of the Week: André Alexis’ Fifteen Dogs is a beautiful exercise in the theory of consciousness
September 11, 2017By: Aaron Richardson Even with the plot of a movie we’ve all seen and hated, Fifteen Dogs is more than worth the read. The book follows a group of dogs who have been given the gift of intelligence by the gods…
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