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Everything you need to know about SFU Streetfest

Peak Web September 8, 2018

By: Winona Young   The Peak: In your own words as the co-chair of Streetfest, can you please describe what SFU Streetfest is? Mark McLaughlin: The SFU Streetfest at UniverCity that we're going to be holding September 14 is really an occasion for us to bring the whole mountain together in one stop, just to celebrate the new school year. It’s all about celebrating the mountain, the community, and it’s really the first time SFU reaches out into UniverCity to hold a joint event [of this size]. P: Can you please explain what the impetus to create this event was?…

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At The: London Pub

Peak Web September 2, 2018

By: Winona Young Ambience: B For 10 p.m. on a Sunday, there’s a certain buzz of excitement in the crowd once I walk into the London Pub. Groups of people are crowded around the makeshift stage area, and the overall…

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Crazy Rich Asians isn’t just crazy good — it’s crazy spectacular

Peak Web September 1, 2018

Written by Winona Young There is so much to say about a movie as groundbreaking as Crazy Rich Asians: Things like “representation is so important,” or “it’s okay one movie can’t represent an entire continent,” or even, “was Awkwafina’s accent…

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At the PNE Amphitheatre

Peak Web July 6, 2018

Written by: Michelle Gomez Ambiance: B+ I’m at the PNE Amphitheatre for a two-day rap and hip-hop concert called Breakout Festival. While most of us can agree that there is nothing better than an outdoor concert on a warm summer…

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Incredibles 2 makes for an incredible sequel

Peak Web June 29, 2018

Written by: Youeal Abera In 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…

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Cheesy to gritty: the turning point for Batman’s character

Peak Web June 19, 2018

By: Saif Nayani In February 1986, DC Comics began publishing Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, a four-issue comic mini-series by Frank Miller, Klaus Janson, and Lynn Varley. By the 1980s, people were used to seeing Batman as a source of…

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Actor’s Spotlight: Timothée Chalamet

Peak Web June 14, 2018

By: Tiffany Chang You might vaguely remember him playing Matthew McConaughey’s son in Interstellar (2014), or his appearance in the critically acclaimed coming-of-age film, Lady Bird (2017). But this year, after being the youngest Best Actor Oscar-nominee in almost 80…

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Album versus Album: Brockhampton

Peak Web June 13, 2018

By: Winona Young All-American Trash (2016) Think more Boyz II Men, less OFWGKTA. All-American Trash was Brockhampton’s first mixtape and it’s clear they hadn’t cemented their recognizable sound. The mixtape is overall slower, more seductive, and has an edge of…

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Bringing colour and community to SFU Burnaby

Peak Web June 12, 2018

By: Amal Abdullah SFU Colour is a club dedicated to enhancing physical spaces with art and colour on Burnaby campus. Currently consisting of three club executives, it was launched as a club in January 2018, but has been running as…

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Deadpool 2 is still dead funny

Peak Web June 9, 2018

By: Youeal Abera Warning: this article contains spoilers. For years, Ryan Reynolds tirelessly worked to bring beloved Marvel superhero Deadpool to the big screen. After all his persistence, Deadpool hit theatres in February 2016, and the movie was a massive…

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