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Fusion Kitchen employs immigrant women as teachers
| 10:02 am | 0 CommentBy Esther Tung Cooking class series created by SFU students seeks to help women develop job skills and share their recipes Back home in Pakistan, Shahnaz Asfar had been running a kindergarten for students who came from low-income families for over five years. Six months ago, she left the school in the hands of one of her trusted teachers, packed up her more...
SFU Archives release guide to arts and culture records
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By Esther Tung Subject chosen to draw more attention to the archives as a resource It seemed unlikely that a deceased English professor’s files would contain the kind of arts and culture records that Paul Hebbard, a staff member at the SFU Archives, was looking for. But when Hebbard delved into Peter Buitenhuis’s collection of documents, he came across more...
Artwork by students now on display around Woodward’s
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By Esther Tung Students from the class as well as from other campuses invited for dialogue and collaboration at CityStudio workshops Until Wednesday, paintings and installations by SFU visual arts students will be scattered across the Woodward’s campus. All of these pieces are meant to fit loosely with the theme of sustainability, from a web of plastic bottles more...
King of the stage
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By Esther Tung Drag king performer Ponyboy stays gold by breaking traditional ideas of gender identities and norms When Paige Frewer puts on a fake moustache and takes the spotlight, she becomes Ponyboy, the ladies’ man who isn’t afraid of doing a little work to win your admiration. Often, that work involves stripping down to skivvies to a Bobby Darin more...
One man’s garbage
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The quest for zero waste at SFU By Esther Tung Photo By Mark Burnham In step with Metro Vancouver’s plans to divert 70 per cent of its waste from landfills by 2015, SFU has launched its most comprehensive waste reduction strategy to date, with a strong focus on composting. If you’ve eaten at McKenzie Cafeteria or Tim Hortons in the past month, more...
What’s your sign? Part 2
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You’re in a bar after promising not to spend another Friday night drinking and watching Doctor Who. You spot someone eyeing you from across the bar, you sidle up to them and ask them a question, the first question, the oldest in the universe. Hidden in plain sight: Hey baby, what's your more...
Hey baby, what’s your sign?
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You’re in a club. You spot someone smiling at you from across the bar. You sidle up to her, and your mind goes blank. Totally blank. The blankest blank. So you resort the oldest line in the book: Hey baby, what's your more...
Theatre review: Ignorance
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By Esther Tung Photos by Jason Tsang You may not have found the meaning of life, but Ignorance gives you all the right questions to ask Bliss became elusive once our prefrontal cortexes outgrew ignorance. We spend our lives in search of happiness, but are prohibited by evolutionary design from stopping to smell the roses for too long. What is the meaning of life more...
“Ordinary Canadians don’t care about the arts”
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How arts organizations in B.C. are impacted by funding cuts, and why they aren’t giving up By Esther Tung Photos By Mark Burnham It’s official — arts and culture funding in B.C. will be frozen for the next three years. The 2012 B.C. provincial budget, released last week, was projected to bring the province from its current deficit to a $154 million surplus more...
Dan Savage undeserving of protester savagery
| 8:00 am | 0 CommentBy Esther Tung “Please read this on the man you’re about to go and listen to,” said a young woman, as she held out a bright pink pamphlet with Dan Savage’s face Xeroxed on the front, and then moved onto the next person in line to enter the Vogue. The pamphlet detailed the Savage Love sex columnist’s various phobias, denounced his attitudes towards more...
