Browsing Tag Ljudmila Petrovic
You are what you eat?: The most bizarre diets
| 12:00 am | 0 CommentBy 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 more...
The Reality Stars
| 2:05 pm | 0 CommentBy Ljudmila Petrovic “Vancouver is a goldmine and I love to go digging,” announced Christina — one of the stars of the new Real Housewives of Vancouver — in the promotional video for the reality show. For most viewers watching the newest installment of the Real Housewives shows, the fact that the setting is so familiar makes the ‘reality’ of more...
Vancouver Bucket List: Summer Edition
| 12:00 am | 0 CommentBy 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 year that Vancouver is not submerged in rain, it is an exquisite city. We have both the mountains and the ocean, so why not spend the day more...
Listless: SFUvideogames
| 12:00 am | 0 CommentThere’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 that could take place at SFU? Terry StarFox64 Residence Evil: Biohazard Pokemon: Concrete Gray WAC-MAN AQ*Bert EA Sports Pond Skating 2012 Final more...
Living in diaspora
| 5:00 am | 1 CommentsBy 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 have grown up in, where most of my past and most of my future seems to be? Or is it Belgrade, the city in which I was born, where more...
Sisters & Brothers captures the sibling dynamic
| 12:01 am | 0 CommentBy 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 without permission, and pretending to cry to get our parents’ pity. Despite our track record, she’s my favourite person more...
SFU grad-directed documentary released
| 12:01 am | 0 CommentBy 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 SFU grad student Joel Heath’s award-winning documentary People of a Feather. Evan Warner and Jocelyne Chaput, both graduates from more...
Movie review: Goon
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By 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’ biggest disappointment. After attending a local hockey game with his quirky and socially inappropriate friend (Jay Baruchel, also more...
Fat happiness: Is it wrong to be fat?
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By 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 teenage years. By 19, she could barely function emotionally in the world because of her overwhelming fear of harassment. What changed her view of being fat more...
Tanning is out?
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By 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 age to use indoor tanning. Their “Tanning is Out” initiative addresses rising concerns in the province, more...
