14, Lettitor

Out with a bang, a whimper,

and a few choice words Photo by Bex Peterson usually pride myself on the ability to working at the local pizza shop. I wasn’t newsroom was all about, and I loved it. scrappy (though no-less endearing) school Iwrite articles quickly and cleanly, yet looking to become part of a school group, The decision to write some silly publication. putting this Lettitor together in any sort of and I didn’t really have any allegiance to articles for the Other Press led to It has been a tiring, educational, and timely manner has me stumped. Douglas as a whole — I was only even an application for Langara College’s thrilling year to say the least, but my time How should I end off my time at the taking three evening classes a semester. journalism program (I was sad to find that with the OP is finally at an end. Other Press? How can I cram the memory How I even ended up at an Other Douglas offers absolutely zero classes on Come September there will be a new of so many articles, production nights, and Press meeting likely came down to some the profession), which became two of the EIC in town, by the name of Bex Peterson. pitch meetings into just one article? savvy recruitment work on the part of hardest and most-fulfilling years of my life. I have full trust in them to carry on the Well, I suppose we should start at the Serafini and her then-Assistant Editor I learnt how to clean up my copy, write a good work, steer this ship through the start. Eric Wilkins, but probably more because compelling lede, and charge my way head- turbulent water that is student journalism, I first began working for the Other I wanted to pick up my first-ever writing first into an industry that was laying off and add to the cardboard box full of Press back in October 2014 on a drunk cheque. professional adults left and right. empties that I kept under my desk. night when I realized that the college There were a lot of people I didn’t Through my time at Langara I still had To Natalie, Sharon, Eric, Lauren, and newspaper would actually pay me to write know, the couches didn’t match, and the one foot firmly in the Other Press office. I anyone else who put some faith in that kid satire articles. Instead of pitching anything basement office had no cell reception to was promoted to Assistant Editor by the who wrote those dumb humour articles, through the proper channels, I just wrote speak of, but when I walked in the door I wonderful Lauren Kelly in 2016, and then thank you. I wouldn’t have figured out three articles, sent them to the then- was welcomed warmly by Humour Editor took the reins as EIC last summer. who I wanted to be without the occasional Editor-in-Chief Natalie Serafini, and, to my Sharon Miki, whom I had been sending In the same summer I managed to nudge in the right direction from the lot surprise and delight, two were published in my dumb satire articles to for the past few land a solid, full-time job with Daily Hive of you. the following issue. weeks. after a few months of interning, free- I saw my name in print for the first Those meetings eventually became lancing, and part-timing, which left me Cheers, time ever a week later… and that was a weekly occurrence, and when Sharon with an exhausting schedule that often felt basically it. stepped down from the Editor position, I like a bite that was far too big to chew. At that point in my life I was just was lucky enough to secure the spot. Yet here we are, on the other side of taking general studies courses at Douglas Even without writing a single word a year spent balancing being a staff writer College to get my parents off my back of actual news (yet, at least), I still with a large-scale, digital-only publication about living at home rent-free while managed to get a feel for what working in a and heading a group of students at a

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Vancouver Mural Festival, August 6 - 11 SFU hosts talk by Barua ööHousing refugees at home and abroad

Colten Kamlade the crisis from escalating. many changes to US immigration issue of refugees. According to a new “This presentation warns that the in recent years. According to a poll by Global News Ipsos, many Staff Reporter delay in resolving the present Rohingya CNN article, Trump’s policies have Canadians are concerned with refugees crisis may trigger another refugee- resulted in the lowest admission of crossing the Canadian border. ccording to SFU’s website, generating crisis by victimizing the non- refugees to the US since the 1980s. “Sixty-two percent of respondents nearly one million Rohingyas A Bengali and Buddhist minority living “Those restrictions, along don’t think the Trudeau government has from Myanmar have sought shelter in Chittagong. This observation, made with enhanced security screenings a ‘solid plan’ to respond to the influx of in Chittagong, Bangladesh. after a month-long visit to Rohingya enacted in January for refugees from refugees. And 56 percent of respondents D. Mitra Barua will be giving a talk refugee hosting Chittagong, highlights 11 countries deemed high-risk by the say the fact that Ottawa had to call in on housing refugees on September 27 the urgent need for international administration, have led this year to the army shows that the issue is ‘out of at the SFU Vancouver Harbour Centre. intervention so that the Rohingya a slowdown in refugee arrivals and control,’” stated the website, referencing Barua is the Annette and Hugh Gragg refugees are repatriated in timely contributed to the historic lull in a poll concerning immigration concerns Postdoctoral Fellow in Transnational fashion to stop another humanitarian admissions,” their website stated. in Quebec, where an army camp was Asian Studies, Rice University’s crisis in the region,” the website stated. Some have celebrated this, set up in Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle to Chao Center for Asian Studies. Barua’s talk comes at a time when others have decried Trump’s policies receive large numbers of asylum seekers According to SFU’s website, the dialogue surrounding refugees as xenophobic. Though much of the coming over the border from the US. Barua’s presentation calls for has reached a feverish—and often media has been focused on the US, international intervention to prevent hostile—peak. There have been Canada is similarly divided on the news // no. 4 theotherpress.ca Photo by Zack Embree Zack by Photo Analysis: Trudeau faces pipeline opposition during BC tour

ööKinder Morgan pipeline continues to stir discontent

Greg Waldock In Delta, anti-pipeline protestors “We know we have to put in of other colossal oil spills, accountability beat drums and chanted during place a strong plan to fight climate for Kinder-Morgan to properly maintain Staff Writer Trudeau’s speech at a Liberal Party change,” said Trudeau. “There are the pipeline, unresolved First Nations barbeque. The disruption was brief, people on the other side of the political treaties as traditional land is involved in busy weekend for the Prime but enough to garner outside attention. spectrum who don’t like that.” the construction process, and economic Minister, involving a province- A Members of the Tsleil-Waututh First Trudeau’s support of the concerns about splitting the wealth wide tour and attending the Vancouver Nation, including William George, pipeline being rooted in a desire to between British Columbia and Alberta. Pride Parade, was marred by frequent led the protest as Trudeau quickly protect the environment has been a The Liberal Party has defended interruptions by anti-pipeline interrupted his speech to thank the Liberal Party focus point since the the project by assuring the public that activist at many different stops. protestors for appearing, and encouraged decision to buy the Kinder-Morgan a pipeline across to the coast is the The Kinder-Morgan pipeline the audience to applaud them. pipeline was announced in May. safest and most economically-efficient has dominated public discourse More significantly, Trudeau’s The purchase cost $4.5 billion and option, and it is currently working provincially as well as federally for visit to Duncan on Vancouver Island involved some of the most significant to secure First Nations approval and years now, but since the Liberal Party focused on defending his party’s political resistance Trudeau has scientific data regarding potential announced its support of the project, decision to financially back the encountered during his tenure as Prime spills and the hazards involved. public outcry at these such events has pipeline project against the protestors Minister. Major anti-pipeline concerns seemingly become more frequent. that dogged his entire tour. include environmental safety in the wake Douglas College bans smoking ööVaping also a casualty of new policy

Jake Wray “Douglas College chose to go Students concerned about Those caught smoking, vaping, smoke-free to provide a healthy and not having enough time to smoke or chewing on campus once the ban News Editor safe work and study environment for between classes should get medical takes effect will be asked to cease its community members. The decision help, according to Douglas College. at once, or vacate the premises, ife will be far less convenient is in line with other educational “We acknowledge this initiative according to the information document. for nicotine addicts at Douglas L institutions choosing to go smoke- will impact some individuals and we Continued violation of the ban College beginning September 1. free,” the document reads. encourage you to seek medical advice could be a violation of the Douglas The College has banned “We are dedicated to providing to help manage nicotine cravings College student code of conduct. smoking of tobacco and cannabis, a healthy and safe environment for during class and working hours,” Use of tobacco for Indigenous vaping, and chewing tobacco on its both employees and students, as well the information document reads. ceremonial purposes will still be allowed, campuses, according to a press release as the community around Douglas. Prior to creating the new policy, according to the information document. posted on the College website. This change lets us join the growing Douglas College issued a survey Cannabis smoke will not be The College enacted the new ranks of public institutions that are which found “more than 75 percent permitted even after legalization. policy out of concern for student’s going smoke-free,” Nancy Constable, of respondents were bothered by Smoking, vaping, and chewing health and because other schools director of safety, security and risk second-hand smoke to some degree,” will not be allowed in personal did it, according to an information management said in the press release. according to the press release. vehicles on campus. document about the new policy. issue 31 // vol 44 news // no. 5 Photo by Analyn Cuarto Analyn by Photo Pride in New West ööEvents ongoing throughout August

Colten Kamlade their website at www.newwestpride.ca. the Terminal Pub celebrating Pride. happened the year before in If you can’t wait for August Other events around the Tri-City Greenwich Village, and the parade Staff Reporter 18, then there are plenty of pride- area will also be taking place. For the was both a commemoration and a related activities taking place in New entire month of August, there will next step,” the Times article said. his month the Douglas College Westminster throughout the month. be a display of Pride literature and According to ABC News, Gay Student Union will have a booth at T On Tuesday, August 14, there is a Pride film in the library at both Douglas Pride is celebrated worldwide. the New West Pride Street Festival. Family Picnic, as well as a 19+ event College campuses. In Vancouver, the “LGBT Pride Month events draw The festival lasts for one week, brought to you by Steel & Oak Brewing. SFU Belzberg Library is celebrating millions of participants from around running from 3 to 8 pm every day on On Wednesday, August 15, there is a Canadian LGBTQ+ histories and the world each year. Today, the month- Columbia Street. According to the Pride Hoedown (which includes square- stories through a similar display. long celebrations include pride parades, New West Pride website, there will be dancing, two-step, and line dancing), The first Pride Parade took place marches, parties, concerts, workshops entertainment with acts performing and Rainbow Pride Trivia. On Thursday, on June 29, 1970. According to an and symposiums across the nation. across three different stages. There will August 16, there is Rainbow Karaoke and article from the New York Times, the Memorials are also often held for be singers, dancers, poets, DJs, and drag a Pride pie contest. On Friday, August parade took place in New York the members of the LGBT community performers, all celebrating the LGBTQ+ 17, there is a New West Pride Edition of year after the Stonewall rebellion. who have lost their lives to hate community. If you are interested in Fridays on Front, as well as an event at “The Stonewall rebellion had crimes or HIV/AIDS,” the article said. volunteering for the festival, check out Saudi students forced to leave Canada ööDiplomatic dispute displaces thousands

Jake Wray students have been [receiving notices]. “I have never heard of News Editor anything like this before.” Bessma Momani, a political pproximately 16,000 Saudi Arabian science professor at the University of students might be forced to leave A Waterloo, told the Toronto Star that Canada due to the Saudi government the Saudi government will not rescind revoking their scholarships. its decision to revoke scholarships This is only the latest development for students studying in Canada. in a diplomatic dispute between “I don’t think, understanding Saudi Canada and Saudi Arabia after a tweet Arabia’s foreign policy, that they’re by Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister going to climb down from this, so Chrystia Freeland criticized the we’re at an impasse,” she told the Star. Saudi Arabian human rights record. The King Abdullah scholarship, The Saudi government responded administered by the Saudi government, by expelling Canada’s ambassador pays all education and living costs, from Saudi Arabia and recalling its Momani told the Star. The Star Photo of Chrystia Freeland via Wikimedia own ambassador from Canada. also reported that a group of Saudi Joseph Wong, vice-provost at the Arabian doctors who are in Canada for students have questions about how steps for their studies,” UBC president University of Toronto, said Saudi Arabian specialized training will be forced to the current dispute between Canada Santa Ono told the Vancouver Sun. students have been notified that they leave. The doctors treat approximately and Saudi Arabia will affect them “I appreciate this is a time of must leave Canada within a month. 20,000 patients, Momani told the Star. now and in the future, and we are stress and uncertainty for UBC’s Saudi “I understand this is what is being UBC is supporting its Saudi students working hard to help them manage Arabian student population and I want circulated to students,” Wong told the with the sudden transition, according with the limited information that is to reassure them that we are doing all Canadian Press. “I’m hearing from to a report by the Vancouver Sun. available, and to provide individual we can to provide required supports other universities in Canada that their “Understandably, many of our support as they consider the next during this evolving scenario.” Have an idea for a story?  [email protected] OO Horror next door OO ‘Overcooked 2’ picks up where the original left off… and then some OO Finding new meaning and artistic life in old material Arts And more! Chairman of the Board: Building on a grid öö‘Quadropolis’ board game review

Ed Appleby gameplay. When selecting buildings from the pool—which is also laid out Senior Columnist on a grid—you must use one of your architects numbered one through four, and then only place that building in a corresponding slot in your own city. Once a tile is placed from the pool, ’ll admit it, I’m a city-building slut. the next player cannot take a tile from IWhether it’s pumping hours into the same horizontal or vertical from traffic management in Cities: Skyline, the grid. This, in addition to a first or over-designing a peasant village player token—the Mayor—can add in D&D—which the PCs will just ride a pretty strong element of strategy through, every time—I love working the and psychology to the game. ins and outs of a good city simulator. The placement of your own Quadropolis (2016) is a city-building buildings has a heavy tactical element tile placement game for two to four as well. There are several ways to score people designed by François Gannon points, and you will need to decide if and published by Days of Wonder. you’re going to specialize or generalize In the game, players are tasked with in your builds—a similar strategy to 7 building their own metropolis on a Wonders (2010). Generalizing allows four-by-four grid by selecting buildings you to pull from a larger pool of points, from a common pool. Buildings can while specializing generally gives

either contribute or utilize power or you more points, but puts you at risk Illustration by Ed Appleby people in order to score points. Points of being blocked by other players. are scored based on building type I love this game. It’s quick and and placement with regards to the fun with a healthy dose of strategy. players’ grid and proximity to other Both casual and more experienced buildings. The player with the highest players will find this game engaging, “It’s quick and fun with a healthy dose of strategy.” score after four rounds of play wins. and its fun and simple style makes Like any good city builder there it a good game for younger players are several rules and stages, yet there who are just being introduced to is also an element of simplicity in the more complex strategy games. A true (and funny) depiction of Vancouver öö‘Avocado Toast’ theatre review

Jerrison Oracion they do it in three different Vancouver neighbourhoods. In the show I Senior Columnist watched, they acted out going through the Grouse Grind normally, and then they did the same scene in Yaletown depicting the wealthy residents of that neighbourhood, and finally in Main ast year, the Vancouver Street, depicting the people in that LTheatreSports League put on the area. The cast’s depiction of those production Oh, Canada, which explored neighbourhoods was exactly like the the country’s history in an improvised people that I see in those places. way. In that show, they played a game Next, two construction workers where they did the same scene in (VanRassel and Kolstee) go inside the three different Canadian cities. Now, theatre and tell the tour group that imagine the same game over an hour they will demolish it, and they have Image by Vancouver Theatre Sports and a half and you get Avocado Toast. to convince Miss Concord Pacific by Created by League member 9 pm that the theatre is a place where the spot around a campfire. when they referenced something Lauren McGibbon, the show tackles they make people laugh and that it In the second half of the show, about the city that I recognized. everything related to Vancouver, and should not be demolished to make they pay tribute to Vancouver being The design of the set has a it is one of the best shows that the way for apartments. This references recognized as Hollywood North by doing lot of aspects of a typical street in League has ever made in my opinion. the increase of apartments being built a film in the style of a Hallmark Channel Vancouver. Before the performance, In it, a tour guide gives us a tour of in the city as well as the #SavetheRio film that takes place in Vancouver. In they served avocado toast in the the city and shows us the aspects that campaign. Miss Concord Pacific is the performance I watched, the tour lounge—which is the name of the make Vancouver so distinctive. played by someone in the audience. group did a film about an employee show and is a stereotypical part of In the opening night performance The cast then plays a game where in Science World taking a break and Vancouver cuisine. I had a few great- on July 5, McGibbon played the tour they get someone in the audience to give finding his purpose in the world. During tasting pieces myself, and I hope they guide and the Vancouverites in the tour them a word in a foreign language and certain points, Lawson and Carson offer this during every performance. included Margret Nyfors, Ken Lawson, they say something that sounds like the came in as fitness enthusiasts and had Avocado Toast makes fun of Rae Lynn Carson, Jullian Kolstee, Taz word. On opening night, the members the audience do a fitness trend. I was Vancouver in a way that is very VanRassel, and Ed Witzke. Throughout found someone who also speaks Japanese laughing a lot when Lawson said that funny and relatable, and it’s one the show, the tour guide uses an and worked the words that they used the previous fitness trend they did of the shows to see this summer. umbrella as a stick. The cast performs into the scene they were doing. was a fad. There were a lot of funny Avocado Toast is now playing at the a game where they do the same scene The Vancouverites next moments from each of the members Improv Centre until September 1. in different places, except this time sing a song about something on throughout the whole show, especially issue 31 // vol 44 arts // no. 7 Horror next door öö‘Dark Tales’ book review

Some of the most haunting stories Ethan Gibson in Dark Tales are those devoid of Columnist overt supernatural elements. Instead, nightmare-logic and unreliable perception often propel the descent of an initially tame story into a tapestry of despair, madness, isolation, and hirley Jackson (1916–1965) is best persecution—all without hope of Sknown for her novel The Haunting explanation. “The Bus” provokes real of Hill House and her infamous short sympathy for its protagonist in its first story “The Lottery.” Both are classics pages: An elderly woman gets off her of literary horror and demonstrate bus at the wrong stop and finds herself Jackson’s talent for creating unsettling stranded in unfamiliar territory during Photo of the Beach Boys via Capitol Photo Archives stories of brilliant terror and mystery. a storm. As headlights approach the Dark Tales, a new collection of her vulnerable old woman, the reader feels stories from Penguin Classics, presents profound apprehension but cannot a thrilling assortment of short stories anticipate where the tale will lead. A note on history: about the darkness lurking within Much of Jackson’s writing is similarly average American neighborhoods, propelled by gripping mysteries, making forests, and country manors. Each her fiction incredibly readable. story in Dark Tales imagines—without It isn’t simply fear of the unknown Riding those melodrama or hyperbole—the truly that characterizes Jackson’s stories. scary potential for everyday life to Her gift for horror is most apparent quickly become unrecognizable and when the unknown is thought to have hostile, without explanation. (sound) waves been escaped, only for the familiar Certain stories in the collection to prove the real source of terror. ö explore the fragility of identity—that The gradually overwhelming moods öSurf music’s brief crest of popularity aspect of ourselves so vitally intimate of dread, unease, and uncanniness that its disruption is always uniquely Caroline Ho branch expressed the beachgoing spirit found in Jackson’s stories—the “quiet, directly through words. Most influential unsettling. Both “Louisa, Please cumulative shudders” Dorothy Parker Arts Editor Come Home” and “The Beautiful to vocal surf and by far most memorable celebrated in Jackson’s work—invoke today are the Beach Boys, founded in Los Stranger” conjure chilling stories ith temperatures as scorching as fear in the reader, but also the unique Angeles County in 1961. They combined about identity. In dramatizing drastic feelings of satisfaction and admiration Wthey’ve been recently, few things identity changes, Jackson taps into a some elements of instrumental surf

sound more refreshing than hanging Cover of ‘Dark Tales’ only inspired by great horror fiction. with layered vocal harmonies, feel-good deep well of haunting scenarios. As out at the beach all day. Whether or It’s hard to read Jackson’s work and still vibes, and lyrics concerning surfing, the familiar becomes alien and the not you can actually make it out to your doubt the merit of horror writing. beaches, cars, and girls—a full idyllic known becomes unknowable, ordinary local sandy shore, we can at least evoke Dark Tales is a delightful California lifestyle. Titles such as “Surfin’ lives in Jackson’s stories are shattered, the sensation of waves and cool ocean collection for fans of Jackson, and an USA” (1963) and “California Girls” (1965), transfigured, or gradually dissolve air with some good old surf music. excellent introduction to her talents sporting lines like “You’d see them until nothing is as it once seemed. Unsurprisingly, the musical genre’s for newcomers. Most importantly, wearing their baggies/Huarachi sandals When the supernatural appears history is tied to the sport of surfing this newly-published collection too/A bushy bushy blonde hairdo/Surfin’ in these stories, it does so in ways that itself. Though it had been practiced reasserts the relevancy and immortal USA,” left no question about the group’s are subtle yet uncompromising. In “The for millennia by ancient Polynesians, power of Jackson’s fiction. interests and creative inspirations. Man in the Woods,” a the sport started to gain a wider Vocal surf wasn’t just about surfing: young man strolling international following in the 20th It was about a whole cultural worldview through an innocuous century. As surfboard manufacturing emphasizing aesthetics, leisure, and wood finds himself improved after World War II and a few youthful optimism, promoted by the standing before a major Hollywood films brought even Beach Boys, rock duo Jan and Dean, and stone house. His more attention to the sport, by the other groups in California and beyond. trepidation is softened early ’60s surfing had become a popular Some musicians and listeners disdained when the women activity with its own culture. The major the association between this vocal inside graciously invite surfing hotspot in North America style and surf music, arguing that the him into their warm outside Hawaii was Southern California, only true surf music was instrumental, kitchen. Soon another where surf music became the soundtrack not this blatant, polished pop variant. man appears, one who for the subculture and beyond. However, half a century later the seems strange but not Music critics divide the genre into Beach Boys remain directly tied to surf obviously dangerous. two categories, instrumental and vocal. music in popular perception today. Indeed, there is The former was pioneered by Dick Dale, The widespread popularity of the no explicit danger known as “The King of the Surf Guitar,” genre—with slews of high-charting anywhere in the story, who was an avid surfer himself. Drawing singles and albums from the Beach Boys only the suggestion influences from instrumental rock, and others—was short-lived. As with of peril. The story’s country music, and his family’s Middle many things in music history, the arrival sense of unease waxes Eastern roots, Dale and his band The of Beatlemania and the British Invasion and wanes as the Del-Tones played at a rapid, staccato to the US in the mid-’60s pushed surf out young man rationally pace, with heavy use of electric guitars of the musical spotlight. In addition, the appraises his and reverb effects. Dale’s 1961 “Let’s Go growing political turmoil of the decade, situation—until the Trippin’” is regarded as the first surf with the escalation of the Vietnam War abrupt end compels music song, and his guitar arrangement and other international tensions, created the reader to go back, of the traditional Eastern Mediterranean an atmosphere where the picturesque to search frantically tune “Misirlou” (1962) launched the mood of surf music lost its appeal in for clues, and to find, genre to national prominence. favour of more subversive genres. By the disappointed, that no Dale and The Del-Tones’ success late ’60s, musical tastes had grown out answer to this story paved the way for other instrumental of their blissful, beach-loving phase. exists. All one finds is surf groups such as The Bel Airs, The Nevertheless, surf music is still the same irresistible Surfaris, and the Chantays. These alive. Artists have been writing mystery present in California-based bands solidified music influenced by the mellow each eerie detail the characteristics of plucky guitars buoyancy of the genre for decades. of a story that, like against swift, uncomplicated meters Beyond that, ‘60s surf music many others in this as hallmarks of instrumental surf. remains instantly recognizable and collection, persists While the instrumental style of reminiscent of that ubiquitous, in the mind long surf music captured the experience beachside, wave-riding atmosphere. after being read. of riding the waves, the genre’s vocal arts // no. 8 theotherpress.ca ‘Overcooked 2’ picks up where the original left off… and then some ööLike the first game, but stronger

Katie Czenczek Kingdom—and still failing to explain minutes you’ll find yourself screaming at times they can be more challenging why the Onion King is perfectly fine your friends, partners, and grandmothers than the main story levels. Staff Writer with chefs chopping up other onions and to grab the damn soup before it sets The newest and coolest new throwing them in stews—only there is a on fire. This game is designed to stress mechanic, however, is the throwing hat was arguably the best couch new monster in town called the Unbread. you out. Some of the designs set up feature. Now you can toss raw ingredients co-op game to come out in recent W Massive hordes of these creatures are by the first game to make you break a across the kitchen to your fellow chefs in years, Overcooked 2 lives up to the high eating up all of the food in the kingdom, sweat include the beeping timer that a way that is absolutely not food-safe. The expectations set by the first game. so it is up to the chefs to save the day indicates your food is about to catch mechanic works nicely with the levels, The sequel manages to build on the by cooking up a ton of recipes via food aflame or the shaking order that warns where at times you’ll be forced to throw first game while still using the same truck. That’s about as far as the sequel’s that you’re about to lose a customer. ingredients in order to complete orders ingredients cooked up in the original. storyline goes because this isn’t a game The sequel builds onto this feature by based on the level design. This feature Overcooked 2 is available on people flock to for the plot. As you adding levels where things randomly can be game-changing or disastrous Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Windows traverse throughout the world, you can catch on fire without a fire extinguisher depending on how players use it. PC, and Xbox One and might be just the cook on a spaceship, a hot air balloon, handy, along with many other twists and The sequel is just as fun as the game to pull out when you have friends in a boat floating down the bayou, and turns that will keep you on your toes. original, and if I were to pick between over and it comes to the point in the many other locations and venues. While you drive to the next story the two, I would choose Overcooked 2 night when everyone starts checking The reason this game should make it level in the hub world, there are hidden just due to it being a more finely-crafted their phones. However, you can now onto your shelf is for the utterly hilarious levels that you can discover along the game. It hits all of the points that make even play co-op online, which makes chaos that is trying to run a kitchen. way. For these levels, you sharpen the first game great but has a ton of the game all the more accessible. Be warned, this game isn’t for your your knives and ready a little snack added features that take it up a notch. The game is still set in the Onion less-developed relationships, as within for Kevin, the Onion King’s dog. At Finding new meaning and artistic life in old material ööArt gallery reopens with innovative sculptures and installations

Caroline Ho in his family and career, he continues previously have been installations, things were not connected or close to crafting his vessel, devoting more and “Flotsam Fixation” is instead a series each other,” she said of the sculptures’ Arts Editor more obsessive attention to it—but of sculptures made from driftwood repurposed components. “It would he never finishes the construction. and repurposed materials, hanging evolve over time. It was fun because he Amelia Douglas Gallery’s Mulvihill’s model is made of parts on the walls outside the Gallery in I would just sort of make things.” newest show brings together two T from an actual full-size boat, the artist groups of two or three on smooth The combination of driftwood and found ocean-themed exhibits that speak to said to the Other Press at the opening wooden mounts. Some of the pieces objects, according to Mulvihill’s exhibit the power of repurposed materials. reception. The components on the appear organic and animal-like, such text, is meant to “evoke inquisitiveness “Landlocked?” and “Flotsam Fixation” inside of the vessel consist of various as Cervidae, shaped to resemble a deer about the objects’ users and usage, and feature installations and sculptures objects and items she’s collected and are head; others like Transact Belt-Built are to fuse the past and the present within created by Tiki Mulvihill, an artist purposely meant to look incomplete, more inorganic and abstract, yet all are the cross-cultural lens of Canada.” currently based in Vancouver. The keeping with the narrative. She based full of whimsical, individual character. Mulvihill said the next project exhibits, which are part of the annual the exhibit’s drawings partly on photos The driftwood is collected from the she’s currently working on is an New West Cultural Crawl art festival, found in her family’s collections. shores of Vancouver Island, while the installation called “East Past to West opened in the Gallery on August 2, with Mulvihill doesn’t have one specific repurposed materials are household Present,” which will walk viewers a reception on August 11 where visitors source of inspiration for the story objects, tools, and other various bits through the history of Canada in also had the opportunity to participate in behind “Landlocked?”; rather, the and pieces accumulated and bought a series of sculptures representing a collage workshop guided by the artist. idea developed throughout the second-hand over the years. Some of the provinces, moving through each “Landlocked” is comprised of a 6’5” process of building the boat. the sculptures are assembled out of province both geographically—from crafted wooden boat hanging from a “I just started, and then I came up similar materials such as metals or east to west—and chronologically. large wooden frame, in addition to six with an idea,” Mulvihill said. “That’s items with related purposes, while “Landlocked?” and “Flotsam Fixation” 30” by 40” drawings. The exhibit tells the the way I was with installations many more have been pieced together will be on display in the Amelia narrative of a man who starts building […] I’d come up with a notion or an on the driftwood based on colour, Douglas Gallery until September 8, a boat in his shed. As he progresses idea, and I would create things.” form, and what seemed to fit. with a closing reception and artist’s talk through life, through ups and downs While many of the works she’s done “A lot of them, it’s the colour, but those held in the Gallery on September 7. Photos by Analyn Cuarto Analyn by Photos Have an idea for a story?  [email protected] OO The dos and don’ts

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Greg Waldock with a spatula every once in a while. in. About a spoonful for half a stick apart so it resembles a grotesque After an hour or so, depending on of butter should be plenty. If you butterfly. This gives two benefits— Staff Writer the amount of onions, you will have are feeling extra fancy, add finely one, it drastically reduces cooking s a student who has to pay his a heap of deliciously sweet and chopped parsley for appearance— time, which is critical for a food that Aown way through post-secondary, jammy caramelized onions. These but, because chopping parsley is cannot be eaten undercooked. Two, I have found working in a kitchen things are absolutely amazing. such a bore, this part is extremely it gives you more chicken surface to be one of the most useful jobs an They will work on everything optional. Additional bonus tip, area to flavour. As the inside of undergrad can get. In Vancouver, it’s from hot dogs and hamburgers to fry burger buns with this butter chicken is generally pretty bland common to get very flexible hours, scrambled eggs and omelets. They before assembling the hamburger. and flavourless, having more open decent pay, and the chance to pick keep for about two full weeks and It’s not the best option for the space to spice up and season is up some new tricks to use at home. can be made in any portion sizes. waistline, but it’s delicious. A little always good. This should be taught These are a few ways to amp up your It’s entirely based on your appetite garlic always goes a long way. as a cooking staple, but it somehow own food prep, with minimal effort. and the number of onions you use. gets neglected so often at home. Butterflied chicken breasts Caramelized onions Garlic butter This is likely the most well-known None of these tricks are bold, One of the best and simplest foods An unbeatable spread for basically tip here, yet it’s so often ignored, innovative, exotic, or strange. They you can make at home. Simply slice anything. Mince some garlic (or buy despite being such an important basic are just simple, quality things to however many onions you have into minced garlic, it’s indistinguishable), step in cooking chicken. Simply slice improve cooking and eating just a strips, place them on a hot frying melt down however much butter open a chicken breast with a sharp little bit. Anything to keep students pan with a splash of canola oil, and you feel like sacrificing for kitchen knife lengthways, stopping saving money by cooking themselves let them fry. Shake them around experimentation, and mix the garlic about halfway through, and pull is a good thing—every little tip helps.

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This week’s post is by @woolykrazy hen Justin Trudeau ran for office in 2015, and the persistent threat of a fully-implemented Wone of his major platforms was an open- “Muslim ban,” Canada would appear to be a arms approach to immigration. Liberals roundly far better, safer option. In a tweet last January, Seeking sanctuary condemned the Harper Government’s controversial Trudeau restated his dedication to an open- Bill C-24, which allowed the government to arms policy in response to Trump’s ban: revoke citizenship for dual citizens and those eligible for dual citizenship if the citizens in “To those fleeing persecution, terror question were convicted of terrorism, treason, & war, Canadians will welcome Is Vancouver doing enough to aid refugees espionage, and other betrayals of Canadian you, regardless of your faith.” trust. They also pledged to receive an ambitious and undocumented immigrants? That same year the Liberals implemented 25,000 Syrian refugees over the next year. Bill C-6, which repealed portions “A Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian,” of C-24, though not all of it. said Trudeau in a debate that year. Unfortunately, political promises on both a The subject of immigration and refugee support federal and even a municipal level do not seem By Bex Peterson, Assistant Editor is as relevant and hotly contested now as it was to match with political action. According to in 2015, if not more so, due in no small part to a report by the CBC in 2016, before C-24 was the rise of a demagogue with a frighteningly adjusted, the Trudeau government employed anti-immigration stance in the US. Images of it to revoke citizenship at a “much higher rate” children in cages and families ripped apart at than the Conservative government ever did. the southern US border have been a staple of the Between November 2015 and August 2016, the 24-hour news cycle for the past several months. government used the law to make 184 revocation According to the CBC at a press conference in decisions without legal hearings, with most of June, Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale said these decisions resulting in a loss of citizenship. of the crisis, “Obviously, anyone looking at the “The Liberals criticized these provisions human images would be very, very concerned.” when they were in opposition,” Laura Track Frank Cohn, Executive Director of VAST of the BC Civil Liberties Association told the (Vancouver Association for the Survivors CBC that year. “They said they were going of Torture), has seen the impact these to fix it. And yet they have been using it policies and the culture surrounding them even more than the Conservatives did.” has had on migrants and refugees. The City of Vancouver has also done some “We have a significant increase in people coming flip-flopping on the subject of immigration, here from the United States, and a significant specifically regarding the city’s potential status as increase in people coming here who would be a “sanctuary city.” Though the City put forward going to the United States,” said Cohn in a phone and adopted an “Access Without Fear” policy for interview with the Other Press. “It’s not necessarily undocumented immigrants in 2016, hoping to a specific policy that drives people away, it’s encourage access to municipal resources for those a change of environment. There’s a change in without documentation, Councillor Geoff Meggs culture in the US where a lot of really aggressive, was candid in his insistence that Vancouver should violent discrimination has been emboldened, not be counted as a sanctuary city while speaking and where people living in small towns around with the Early Edition on CBC Radio in 2017. the US as immigrants and as undocumented “We felt, and this is what the settlement and immigrants began to feel uncomfortable. Even newcomer services said as well, that we should not on the streets of New York City, people have oversell what is happening,” he said, explaining described that the attitudes towards them and their that the city’s hands were often tied by federal law. lives have changed with the new administration and the general culture around xenophobia.” Even the “Access Without Fear” policy has been largely criticized by advocates for asylum He also cited the removal of DACA (Deferred seekers and undocumented immigrants, Action for Childhood Arrivals) and the Temporary especially after the policy was adopted by the Protected Status designation for Haiti as having Vancouver Police Department this past July. a direct impact on migration to Canada. In a press release, Alejandra Lopez Bravo, a “We see a lot more Central Americans member of Sanctuary Health, condemned the coming here,” he said, “and Quebec new guidelines put forward by the VPD. sees a lot more Haitians.” “The Vancouver Police Department should With the horrific images coming out of the US not claim to provide ‘Access Without Fear,’ if it continues to be complicit in the detention the places where it does, and engaging people of children, the separation of families, and who have suffered most from it in the process Seeking sanctuary the deportation of people to countries where of speaking out against it. When there are they will face violence and persecution,” opportunities available for people here, then she said in the statement. “If you collaborate they are able to participate in that process. When with Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), there aren’t those types of opportunity like you’re not providing ‘Access Without Fear’.” housing, and healthcare, and employment, and acceptance, and integration … when we don’t Is Vancouver doing enough to aid refugees The shadow of the CBSA looms large over have that, then it’s hard for them to heal.” and undocumented immigrants? the Lower Mainland whenever the status of undocumented immigrants here is discussed. The process of settling in Canada and The Metro Vancouver Transit Police especially seeking documentation is in itself a source have gained a sort of infamy over the past decade of stress and anxiety for new arrivals. or so for their previous policy of collaboration with the CBSA, a policy which resulted in the “People’s refugee claims, the wait time has By Bex Peterson, Assistant Editor suicide of a Mexican migrant in a CBSA holding shifted from being about six weeks to being about cell after she was detained by the Transit Police 18 months now, with people regularly getting following a fare check made three weeks prior. about three cancellations or postponements— Indeed, Lucia Vega Jimenez’s story became a which often come the day before,” said Cohn. rallying point for activists calling for a change to “It remains a very stressful process.” immigration policy in Vancouver on the whole, There are many advocacy groups dedicated to and resulted in the Transit Police ending their addressing these issues. Notably, grassroots official agreement with the CBSA in 2015. community group Sanctuary Health released an “A person who’s in the process of seeking audit this past May of the City’s “Access Without documentation faces a certain set of challenges, Fear” policy titled Still Waiting, Still Afraid, and if it’s a person who doesn’t have a pathway which is available for public reading on their to documentation then that’s a whole other website. In the report, Sanctuary Health makes set of challenges,” said Cohn. “They’ll often note of the many gaps in the policy, including have to exist in underground types of ways, the emphasis the policy puts on providing access and the mental health challenges that come to shelters for undocumented immigrants. along with that are just exacerbated.” “…The City policy explicitly recognizes shelters Vancouver is not without services for refugees and as an important site for Access Without Fear,” undocumented immigrants. However, there are states the audit. “However, none of the frontline challenges to offering and accessing these services. workers were aware of the Access Without Fear policy. Several staff stated they would “That infrastructure tends to be somewhat have to give personal information to Canada underfunded and therefore is not able to do Border Services Agency (CBSA) officers. This everything it needs to do,” said Cohn. “So, there lack of training about the need to protect client are good settlement agencies; [VAST is] a good confidentiality could prove to be most devastating mental health [services] provider that works to the safety and security of undocumented independently and with settlement agencies. But individuals. Furthermore, a new agreement for refugee claimants, those who are seeking between CBSA, the John Howard Society, and asylum, there’s a lot of restrictions to what they’re the Belkin Shelter will put shelter workers in able to use. A lot of those restrictions are due to direct contact with the CBSA as the shelter tight funding, a lot are due to discrimination. will be used as a de-facto detention centre.”

“Discrimination is certainly something that It’s clear that there is an impulse on the part a lot of new arrivals experience. Canada is a of Canadian politicians to oppose the kind of wonderful, open, and inclusive country, but mentality that could lead to the sort of crisis we’re certainly not beyond being a racist, currently taking place on the southern border of racializing country as well. So that affects the US. However, the impulse and the rhetoric housing, employment, and other opportunities.” mean very little if not supported by action.

Unfortunately, these types of opportunities are “I think we have some really good work that’s of vital importance for those fleeing violence happening here,” said Cohn. “I think it’s a and discrimination, Cohn went on to explain. fine, fragile balance though, because you look what’s happening in Ontario and we certainly “Our slogan is, ‘Healing is an act of resistance’,” have to recognize [that] if we don’t do this said Cohn. “That really speaks to the idea of work well, we risk going down that road.” challenging that this violence needs to exist in life & style // no. 12 theotherpress.ca

Great Inclinations ööThe dos and don’ts of trail etiquette

Jacey Gibb While we’re at it, leave the trails are garbage can-free with signs drone at home too asking hikers to “pack out what you Distribution Manager Imagine you’ve reached the summit of pack in,” meaning any garbage you bring a hike, and you’re just settling down Great Inclinations is your go-to source for with you needs to leave with you too. to enjoy the views and some post-hike diving into the world of casual hiking in Enjoying some celebratory snacks at the snacks, when an insistent whirring fills and around the Lower Mainland. Because end of any hike is important though, the air. Someone brought their drone, hiking’s not just for assholes anymore. so just make sure to bring a plastic and instead of just taking in the scenery bag with you to fill and then dispose like a normal person, they’re dead-set Everyone has a different reason for of when you get back to civilization. on getting aerial views for some fucking strapping on some hiking boots and reason. Putting aside the blatant privacy venturing out into the wilderness. But seriously, pack out infringements that come with drones, They’re shared spaces, though, so it’s everything that you pack in they’re a noisy eyesore that taint any I wanted to expand on this for two important to remember your personal outdoor experience. Fortunately, I’ve reason for hiking isn’t necessarily reasons. The first is that I’ve been on hikes been on many hikes where a drone where people will toss their banana peels going to be the same as everyone else’s. shows up and someone else quickly yells, or other bits of organics into the woods Here are a few things to be mindful “Fuck off!” and their operator takes the and justify it by saying it’s organic and of on your next outdoor adventure. cue and moves on or powers down. will break down. The problem with this is you’re leaving food waste for animals Leave your speaker/ Let people pass you to find and increasing the likelihood that music device at home Trails attract hikers of every skill level. For they will become comfortable around Music in shared spaces is always a some people, it might be their first time polarizing thing. The same people who on a hike and they’re slowly clambering or dependent on humans. The second blast their tunes at the beach or in the over stones; others know the trail by heart reason is dog poop. Quite a few bags are park for everyone to hear are likely and can comfortably run it. If you notice biodegradable now, but people interpret going to be the same people who bring hikers are trailing close behind you, step that as being okay to leave their crap beats on the trail. Do everyone a favour to the side and let them go past. Chances bags along the trail because it breaks and use headphones instead. Either are they’re moving at a quicker pace down. Just because it’s biodegradable that, or forgo packing any music for the and will appreciate going ahead of you. doesn’t mean I want it impairing my hike and listen to the birds or nearby Similarly, if you’re part of a larger group view of the beautiful landscape, nor stream or whatever else Mother Nature’s and there are people behind you, give do I want to have to suffer the smell. soundboard has to offer. The majority of them the opportunity to scuttle ahead and Those bags aren’t airtight. Either have a hikers aren’t interested in your musical get away from the congestion and noise. separate plastic bag in your backpack so tastes, so just leave the speaker at home. you can double-bag the poop and take Pack out what you pack in it with you or stash it somewhere along The same courtesies that govern our the path where you’ll remember to take city lives apply to the outdoors. Most it with you on the way back down.

Artificially yours ööBionic vs prosthetic limbs

Brittney MacDonald on external force or stimuli to better language of movement— perform a function. A step is meaning the individual can Life & Style Editor taken by a person physically move more naturally, even right lifting and shifting the leg, as after amputation—but you also n the media, it is not often opposed to a natural limb where reduce fatigue for the operator. that the future is portrayed as I we have muscles and nerves within Due to the use of integrated something to look forward to. it to let our various biological (internally implanted) bionics, Technological advancements, components know to take the we not only have the opportunity especially when these step. To use a crude analogy, it’s to better bridge the gap for advancements interact directly basically the difference between individuals who have missing with humans, are shown as having to pick up a heavy box limbs, we are also presented dehumanizing. Well, call me versus using a fork lift. with a future where restoring an idealist, but I have never Bionic limbs use electro- sensation, such as touch and subscribed to this belief. I mechanics to better mimic the sight, isn’t very far off. don’t think that the general function of nerves. These are both While I find all of this population should be so quick internal and external, meaning fascinating from an outsider to dismiss some of the really they can be attached on the perspective, I am also well amazing scientific breakthroughs surface of the skin, and they can aware of how this might change that we are experiencing now, be surgically implanted. This someone’s life. I have never had including bionic limbs. alone makes the manipulation of to deal with being physically For anyone who doesn’t have the artificial limb more akin to a limited, and I don’t want anyone to deal with the day-to-day reality natural process, because it creates else to either. Thankfully, that of wearing a prosthetic limb— a line of communication between might not be a problem for long. myself included—it can be easy the mechanics of the appendage to ignore or be unaware of what and the brain. The brain can advantages a bionic appendage then control the artificial limb may claim. If you’re wondering as it would a natural one, as about the difference between the opposed to the individual having two, you’re not alone. From what to consciously lift and shift as I’ve gathered, modern prosthetic “Bionic limbs use electro-mechanics to they would a prosthetic limb. In limbs are artificial devices relying doing so you not only create a better mimic the function of nerves.” issue 31 // vol 44 life & style // no. 13 Before and after photos by Reddit user vtunon Beauty on a budget: L’Oréal Lash Paradise line ööMust-buy mascara is a hit among misses

Lauren Kelly the Lash Paradise Mascara on both eyes, with the primer under one. The lashes Graphics Manager without primer were very well-defined compared to the ones with the primer, fter a love affair with the dramatic and they generally looked cleaner more eyelashes given to me by Marc A deliberate. If you have a problem with Listed: Top 10 Jacobs’ Velvet Noir mascara, I was ready lash volume, the primer might be worth to try find a cheaper mascara that a try as it definitely helped with that, but would give my eyelashes a similar look. it’s not something I will use in the future. I have been hearing great things about things people hate Another disappointment was the L’Oréal’s Voluminous Lash Paradise eyeliner. The metallic rose gold shade Mascara, so I decided to pick it up in was gorgeous, but the felt tip applicator Blackest Black, alongside the Lash applied the product in a very streaky Paradise Mascara Primer and Lash to watch online way. My attempted cat eye look was filled Paradise Liquid Eyeliner in Rose Gold. with gaps and looked very messy. Unless I have worn the Lash Paradise you’re doing a single line, this eyeliner Mascara for the past two weeks, and I ööA helpful list for any aspiring content creator can’t really stand on its own as you can’t mostly really like it. It gives my lashes fill it in without removing product. It’s both increased volume and length so I a little more to it than meets the eye. so finicky and specific that I wouldn’t Brittney MacDonald can get the dramatic, long eyelashes I As someone who is a great lover of recommend it. The liner also comes in Life & Style Editor want, while having very little clumping most available online content sources, black, which I did not try, but based on even though the brush is big and I have scoured the internet for genres this I would go with a different brand. re you looking to supplement your doesn’t really seem to have any bristles and trends that people just can’t stand Only pick this up if you love the idea of poor student income with a little to comb the lashes. One problem I had A to watch anymore. Why, you may ask? having metallic rose gold eyeliner and online AdSense? Well good for you! with the Marc Jacobs mascara is that Because I am dedicated to helping you! are okay with sacrificing performance However, be warned—there might be I often had to be careful with finding for that. For more information on a the right balance, because it was easy worthwhile eyeliner, check out my to use too much. However, I haven’t previous article “Beauty on a budget: found that at all with Lash Paradise, A guide to felt-tip liquid liners.” and I appreciate the easier application. Ultimately, I would say the mascara I do have two caveats, though. is a definite pick-up for those of you 1. React videos Firstly, this mascara is much more who are seeking long dramatic lashes 2. “Prank” videos—emphasis added difficult to remove than any other I’ve without worrying about clumping. Since used, and other people who use it have because most of these are staged it also comes in Black, Black-Brown, told me the same thing. Make sure and Mystic Black, there’s a colour for 3. Videogame streamers who don’t talk you have a good eye makeup remover every level of desired impact, and a 4. Teaser clips for paid or upcoming content before picking this one up. Secondly Waterproof Blackest Black option will (and this seems completely counter 5. Rage-quitters be good for days at the beach—and to the previous point), this stuff cries possibly those aforementioned “tough” 6. Confession videos off super easily, so I wouldn’t wear it if days. However, I would mostly skip 7. Clickbait titles you’re expecting to have a tough day. the primer and eyeliner. You can find On the bright side, it looks awesome, 8. Streamers on their phone the mascara and primer at London so if neither of these points will be Drugs for $13.99 and the liner at $12.99, 9. Shock videos—a common example a problem for you, you’re golden. while Walmart sells them all for $10.96 are people or animals getting hurt On the other hand, the mascara each. If these prices are a bit steep, primer did not work as well for me. I 10. Insult/rant content hold out for a sale—I picked them all found that, while it coated my lashes up at Shoppers Drug Mart for $8.99 well, it made the mascara look much each with a regular price of $13.99. clumpier and messier. To test it, I used Have an idea for a story?  [email protected] OO Disney was unjust for firing James Gunn OO Elon Musk is an ass, but private space travel is still important OO Plastic straws ban distracts from environmental issues Opinions And more! Country music doesn’t deserve the hate, y’all ööDon’t judge an entire genre on a few bad songs

Jessica Berget wasn’t the genre that I hated, but the more of old country that doesn’t deserve the for it is part of a hive mind mentality mainstream musical stylings of “new” antagonism. Not all country music is more than it is a matter of opinion. On Opinions Editor country singers such as Brad Paisley, Aaron about blue jeans, cowboy hats, pick-up an AskReddit forum, people discussed Pritchett, and Keith Urban that gives it a trucks, and whiskey. Most songs have their reasons for hating country, and the verything except country music,” bad rap. Old country music singers like moving lyrics that talk about heartbreak, answers are all repetitive; it’s cliché, the seems to be everybody’s favourite “E Johnny Cash, John Denver, Dolly Parton, simple living, growing up, being in love, lyrics and music are too simple, or that music genre. But what exactly is it about and Willie Nelson have everything to love and family values. Some of the lyrics are there’s no sophistication. While this may country that alienates so many people? about country music: sentimental and also quite poetic. For instance, Johnny be true for some songs, I would argue Is it the simplistic lyrics? The twangy, catchy lyrics, funky guitar riffs, great beats, Cash compares being in love to being that you can say the exact same critiques rhythmic guitar? Or is it that people just and singing that hits you in your soul. on fire in his song “Ring of Fire.” for all kinds of music, not just country. love to hate things without really giving You can’t judge an entire genre All genres of music have something It’s time to literally face the music, it a chance? I’m going with the latter. of music based on a couple of songs. to hate about them, but everyone seems to because country music has some great I was once on the anti-country People form their opinions on country hate country music for the same reasons, hits. It may not be a genre for everyone, bandwagon, and I understand why it’s so based on the new stuff they hear on the most of which are stereotypical and untrue and that’s just fine, but at least give it a easy to make fun of. However, I realized it radio, forgetting that there are decades — making me believe that the hatred chance before you decide to actively hate it. Rants in your pants: There’s no excuse for being a terrible dog owner ööIf you don’t know how to care for your dog in the heat, you’re an awful excuse for an owner

Janis McMath heat with muzzles on, even though a flat faces which cause breathing problems dog’s main heat regulation system is that need to be monitored. A dog that Contributor panting. I still see people leave their has breathing problems is a dog that has dogs in locked cars even though we’ve temperature- regulation problems, and ummer is a hot, miserable time— all been screaming about the dangers of having a brachycephalic breed without and awful dog owners insist on S knowing that, or knowing how to care making it even more miserable. During heatstroke for what seems like forever. these sweltering months, I constantly I cannot understand how people for it, is shameful and inexcusable. encounter dog-owners that clearly have can still be ignorant about their dog’s Could you imagine having breathing needs when all the information is readily and overheating problems and having done no research on their dog’s needs. available to them. Seriously, I have even no way to communicate that fact to your People are constantly walking their seen people walking excessively-panting caregiver? If you have a dog, you have an dogs on concrete in the midday sun—even pugs in the heat, meaning that they obligation to inform yourself on your dog’s If you are going to take the life though midday is the hottest time of literally don’t even know the fundamental needs. Your dog depends on you entirely of another living thing into your day and concrete can get hot enough to needs of their dog’s breed. If you don’t to take care of them, and if you get a dog hands, the very least you could burn and blister a pup’s paws. I’ve seen already know, pugs are a brachycephalic you are deeming yourself responsible do is the proper research—or you people walking their dogs in the extreme breed—a breed that have short noses and enough to maintain the dog’s health. probably shouldn’t own a dog at all. Disney was unjust for firing James Gunn ööA tweet from ten years ago shouldn’t ruin your career online personality, Mike Cernovich, about a writer-director who would make why should Gunn be fired for something Katie Czenczek went through at least a decade worth of those kinds of jokes being in contact with he said almost ten years ago? I can only Staff Writer Gunn’s tweets until he hit a slanderous a bunch of children. But James Gunn imagine the idiotic crap that spewed from gold mine—that is, he found some wasn’t working as Disney princess at the my mouth ten years ago, and it would be hether or not you care inappropriate tweets that can get a person most magical place on Earth. The man ridiculous if I were fired for such a thing. about Guardians of the W fired in today’s climate (unless you’re is creating movies. Good movies, too, For a broader scope of the situation, Galaxy Vol. 3, James Gunn being Donald Trump, of course). According that bring in Disney a lot of revenue. the larger problem is the current trend fired should aggravate you. to The Verge, Cernovich has made a Not only was this an irrational move that when the masses scream and shout, Gunn, writer and director of the career of targeting people whose political to make in terms of how quickly after people get crucified. James Gunn is first two Guardians of the Galaxy movies, beliefs do not line up with his, and the tweets were resurfaced that they not the first person to be fired over an was originally slotted as the writer and with James Gunn’s outspoken criticism said goodbye to Gunn, but it’s also just insensitive tweet, nor will he be the last. director for the upcoming threequel against the current President of the a terrible economic blunder. It may cost The problem with this firing, however, until Disney Studios decided to send United States, he was the perfect target them Dave Bautista’s acting chops as is that he did not make these comments him packing based on some insensitive for Cernovich’s next smear campaign. well, as the actor has publicly expressed recently, nor did he refuse to apologize tweets. These tweets were made in Cernovich’s motives for targeting strong opposition to the decision, as for saying such things. It would be 2009 and 2010 and made tasteless jokes Gunn aside, I sincerely do not believe that have other members of the main cast. different if he made those tweets while about molestation and pedophilia. Disney chose to terminate James Gunn’s While I don’t think that because working for Disney the way Roseanne Sure, they are wildly inappropriate contract from a moral standpoint. After people are a fan of someone’s work should Barr did while representing ABC. and not the kind of material that falls all, Disney is a company, and companies they be exempt from being punished for Overall, I just want companies under the Disney “brand.” That being need to remain in the public’s good their actions, James Gunn has clearly felt to stop relying on Twitter while said, I believe that the company has graces to continue receiving money. The remorse for his words already and his choosing to fire someone, as ridiculous completely overreacted to the situation. company’s public relations team was so-called crime was committed almost a as that may sound. It’s unfair to Let me break it down. Gunn’s tweets likely having a panic attack over all the decade ago. If the statute of limitations the employee, and like this case recirculated around after right-wing possible parents who were concerned for assault runs out after six months, with James Gunn, the public. issue 31 // vol 44 opinions // no. 15

Elon Musk is an ass, but private space travel is still important ööTwitter outrages shouldn’t keep people from appreciating SpaceX’s accomplishments

despite garnering a lot of support and does something disservice to Musk’s remarkable Greg Waldock attention online. Vernon Unsworth, a incredibly stupid, achievements—founding PayPal, Staff Writer British diver who aided in the rescue, they must be Tesla, and SpaceX is nothing criticized Musk’s proposed automated as evil and short of incredible—and prevents lon Musk has had a weird year. submarine and decried it as a PR incompetent a better dialogue on his many He’s worked with Donald Trump E stunt. Musk took this personally and as a Disney flaws, like his ongoing labour to promote sciences, left, started insisted the submarine plan would go villain. It disputes around the treatment dating Grimes, has engaged in a ahead anyways—and casually implied does a and payment of his Tesla workers. multitude of Twitter arguments, and Unsworth is a “pedo guy.” It was about Being an asshole online does spectacularly embarrassed himself as ugly and reprehensible as an insult not make a person or their during the Thai cave crisis. can get, aimed towards a person risking accomplishments unimportant. However, this should not change how their own life to save trapped kids. Musk and SpaceX shouldn’t both people feel about SpaceX, privatized This, as well as his year-long be written off by internet anger as space travel, and the advancements in involvement in Trump’s science council, evil and mean-spirited. Musk and technology SpaceX has made over the has made him enormously unpopular his company have accomplished last decade. Musk can be an idiot on among a lot of people, and it’s not amazing things in the past decade, Twitter and still contribute to the field. hard to see why. Though he later like reusable rockets, synchronized To start off though, I should clarify apologized, it is hard to come back vertical landings, long-term specifically which Twitter incidences I from calling a rescue diver a manned space capsules, and many am referring to. During the Thai cave pedophile seemingly out of the contributions to NASA projects and the rescue operation, where a soccer team blue. Despite that, I do not ISS. It is, in fact, possible for someone and a coach were trapped kilometers think Elon Musk and SpaceX to contribute massively to the future deep in a cave with a minimal chance should be so casually of human space exploration and still of survival, Musk posted on Twitter disregarded. A lack of be a giant tool. As satisfying as it is to that he was developing a few methods nuance is one of the watch a billionaire get taken down a to help the victims. He did not end internet’s greatest few pegs, the perspective is important. up contributing to the operation, problems. If someone

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ööPlastic straw ban distracts from other environmental issues Jessica Berget Opinions Editor

y Fall 2019, Vancouver will be the Bfirst major Canadian city to ban single-use plastics in the hopes of eliminating plastic waste disposal by 2040. While this is a first step in the right direction, I don’t think completely cutting out straws is enough to fix the solid waste dilemma. Furthermore, with everyone being fixated on plastic straws, it takes the focus off bigger problems. The solid waste problem is so big, ö eliminating plastic straws is not nearly öA tweet from ten years ago shouldn’t ruin your career enough to solve it. As well-intentioned as the campaign may be, a survey by Australian scientists Denise Hardesty and Chris Wilcox conducted over five years of shore clean-ups has shown that there is an estimated 7.5 million plastic straws on America’s shorelines, estimating about 437 million to 8.3 billion on shorelines worldwide. If you compare that to the 8 million metric tons of plastic waste that goes into the ocean in a year, straws only make up a small percentage, about

2000 tonnes. Drinking with a straw Cuarto Analyn by Photo doesn’t seem so bad now, does it? that throw away tons of food every day, Some cities treat it as if you are plastic tube will only make it worse. So, what makes up most of this implement repercussions for those putting straws up turtle’s nose yourself. Additionally, some disabled people plastic waste? A scientific report by who abandon fishing gear and harsher The city of Santa Barbara has gone as who cannot drink without straws will nature.com surveys that about 46 penalties for dumping things at sea, far as to fine servers $1,000 or sentence be negatively impacted by this ban. percent of it is “Lost or discarded fishing set up facilities to recycle or dispose of them with up to six months jail This ban is one solution to the nets, known as ghost nets,” while other fishing nets, recycle plastics into useful time after a second offence of giving plastic waste problem, but it’s not a fishing gear makes up almost the rest. things—almost anything except banning them out, which is nothing short of great solution. Dictating what people If we really wanted to eliminate straws. But since that video of the turtle ridiculous. Overcrowding in jails and use to drink liquids from is silly waste and pollution, I think the solution with a straw stuck in his nose went prisons is already a huge problem, and sending people to jail for it is so would be to investigate the corporations viral, straws are getting all the blame. filling it with people for drinking with a absurd it’s almost hilarious…almost. Creative Works ‘Super Human’ part three One day ö By Caroline Ho öA short story excerpt Arts Editor now hanging too loose on his bones. the brain’s still in there, I can feel the Brittney MacDonald Anders crouches down across from weight of it. But it’s loose; the coroner Life & Style Editor me, looking over the body in much will probably find that it’s shrunk.” I’ve drawn up a list of the things I will be: the same way. “I was confused at first. “How?” he asks, canting A poet, a lawyer, a star on TV, ctually, it might,” Anders chimes in. There’s no outward sign of trauma, so I his head curiously. A star-gazing astronomer PhD, “A “If it was the Arcana that wanted thought maybe a heart attack. But look “My guess is whatever pressure Perill dead, and not just their attack at the way he’s positioned, it’s too…” that made the blood vessels in his eyes With buildings and boulevards dog, Holt could have brought someone He falls short, trying to think of a burst, did the same to his brain. Several named after me. else with him. The harpoon gun has word to describe the eeriness of it all. consecutive aneurisms… it would explain a one-time use, Perill could have shot “Not natural,” I finish, and he nods. the sound. If they ruptured, his skull is I have so much to get done, who he thought was a bigger threat, but “Then I notice this…” he adds, latex probably filled with blood, draining from once I have the time: then was killed by the accomplice.” gloved fingers quickly pressing against the brain and shrinking it slightly.” The way he speaks has me Perill’s eye lid. He opens it, revealing a I right Perill’s head the way I I’ll learn how to sail, how to suspicious that Anders has already crimson sclera. “They’re both like that.” had found it and rise, quickly pulling paint and rock climb, formulated another theory. I lean in for a closer look, feeling off my gloves and bagging them for I’ll start up a podcast or two on true crime, “You have someone in mind?” I ask, my mouth go dry as I examine the vitae- the forensic team. There is nothing And write chart-topping songs cocking a brow at him as he nods gravely. filled orb. “Every blood vessel has burst,” more we need to see, and we both He waves a hand, beckoning me towards I murmur and Anders nods once more, know the answer to this riddle, but with some exquisite rhymes. the file room and the second body. as if I’m confirming a suspicion of his. we have to go through the motions. The file room seems almost peaceful “Try and move his head,” he instructs, “So, we’re looking for someone I’m full of ideas I’m ready to share: in contrast to the violence of the office. and I know this is new territory. Anders is who could apply a lot of pressure,” How to make this Earth greener, Wall upon wall of floor-to-ceiling servers a detective and is therefore only allowed he begins as he switches on his own storing an entire library of information certain actions within his job title. I am gauntlet to record our findings. more peaceful, more fair, buzz harmoniously as blue and green a Controller and take precedent over “Telekinetic pressure, there’s no How to show everyone that LEDs blink like tiny stars. Micheal Perill the rules of leaving things as found external trauma. We’re looking for a I’m here, that I care, was a well-funded and well-connected for forensics and the coroner, within powerful psychic,” I finish, knowing I’ve I promise myself that I’ll make it, I swear. man. I probably should feel worried that limitations of course. I am allowed confirmed Anders’ theory for him. I would have to be the one to break the to take any measure to determine if “Agreed. Detective Craig Anders news that supers were responsible for the crime is super human in nature, and Controller Dai Graydon, on this I can’t wait to show the his death, but it is too quiet here. There and to find out what sorts of abilities day December 14 of 2077, conclude that world what I can do: is an ease about the room, a residual may have been used to commit it. the assassination of Micheal Perill was The skills that I’ll master, aura that leaves the mind numb. I know I reach out a hand, pulling Perill’s performed by one Levi Holt, also known the fame I’ll accrue, I know the feeling from somewhere, head to the side and hearing something. as Reaper, now deceased; and one Alyssa but when I try to remember my collar I forfeit my reserve and shake the Noir, also known as Tarot.” He clicks off The hearts I’ll inspire, the prevents it, worsening the heady man’s cranium, now better able to the feed, coding in the upload sequence despair I’ll eschew— sensation by adding its own torpid haze. identify it’s something liquid inside. to put the recording on the Patron City I try and shake it, approaching the My dreams may sound wild, but “It sounds like a water bottle,” Police Department mainframe. A coroner I’ll make them come true. body that Anders already waits beside. Anders affirms, holding up a hand to and forensics team will be here in a matter Even Perill’s death seems gentle compared his mouth in attempt to hide his silent of minutes to confirm our findings. to the way we found Holt. He’s laid out flat gagging. I pretend not to notice. “You “Can you imagine the pain involved?” I know that I’ve got this potential inside, on his back, his arms folded over his chest. don’t think it’s his brain, do you?” he asks, and for a moment I’m unsure To reach all of my goals, step His body is a little pale and stiff from rigor The very question catches me off what he’s talking about. I turn and find by step, stride by stride, mortis, but otherwise he looks like he had guard and I laugh. The complete absurdity him looking at Perill, unable to tell if To be able to claim my lain down to take a nap. I crouch beside of it! “Someone came and liquefied his he feels sympathy for the man or not. him, my eyes scanning in silent inspection brain? That’s a little too science fiction, “Aneurisms are usually painless,” I achievements with pride, as I take in his graying buzz cut, deflated don’t you think?” I chuckle, and it’s add, but know it’s a lie. Given whom this I’m sure I could do it, if I only just tried. cheeks and sallow skin. He looks like a enough to get a small grin from him and man was, and what he was trying to do, man who may have been heavy at one make him forget about being sick. “No, Tarot would have made it excruciating. time but lost a lot of weight, his flesh I’ll start it all soon, I just need a bit more— More money, more energy, more drive to explore, If you would like your own creative work to be featured in our Creative Writing section, send poems, short stories, More will to acknowledge excerpts (of 1,500 words or less), and original artwork to and not just ignore [email protected] or [email protected]. 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omeone better phone up Alfredo Linguini Reviews Sand change into their kitchen whites: An Italian restaurant in downtown Coquitlam ööSpeedy reads was recently found to be “infested, beyond the point of control” with vermin, for fast films according to Vancouver Coastal Health. Patrons of Liam’s Pasta Bar, a staple Jerrison Oracion in authentic, local Italian cuisine, were Senior Columnist delighted to hear about the indefinite Photo illustration by Lauren Kelly closure, immediately drawing parallels to his summer, there were a lot of bought this Ratatouille poster, and I’m “I’m ready to be transported back to the beloved 2007 animated film Ratatouille. highly-anticipated films. Some hoping the rats can sign it for her. memories from my childhood via the sense T “I wonder if Remy’s in there, of these films we were eagerly “I guess that’s just the magic of Pixar of taste,” declared Orthner, wondering cooking up some of his signature dishes,” waiting for, and some were sequels films: They bring people together.” what dish the rat colony would whip up to Claire Fenton told the Other Press, as we simply did not need. After these Ratatouille follows the story of help conjure emotions long ago lost, only she clambered against the restaurant’s films were announced, we weren’t Remy, a young but resourceful rat present in Orthner’s now-distant boyhood. windows, eager to catch a glimpse of sure how good they were going to the innovative rat-turned-sous-chef. with a knack for flavours and cooking. The infestation has also sparked be. Some were surprisingly great, Fenton was among dozens of other Through happy coincidence, he teams rumors that Pixar is gearing up for a some were very disappointing. We diehard Pixar fans that immediately up with an inept garbage boy (Alfredo Ratatouille 2, and that this whimsical know that summer can be fast- flocked to Liam’s Pasta Bar after the closure Linguini) to create signature dishes health and safety violation is just a paced, so to save you time, here was announced last week. Several tents that are a hit all around Paris. sneak peek at more magic to come. are some one-sentence reviews have since been erected on the sidewalk After Vancouver Coastal Health’s So far, Disney has failed to comment of this year’s summer films. outside of the restaurant, with people damning report, legions of Pixar on the story, but it’s also become standard Because who wants to sit saying they won’t leave until they witness loyalists descended onto Liam’s Pasta practice for their films to be shrouded in down quietly for two hours the adorable rat chefs for themselves. Bar, eager to catch a glimpse of the next secrecy. With four of the five upcoming Pixar while watching a movie? Coquitlam resident Sam Smith spent unlikely chef duos turning the Parisian films untitled, it’s possible for a Ratatouille the night outside of Liam’s Pasta Bar, though restaurant scene upside down. “squeakquel” to scamper into their schedule! he admits he’s never even seen Ratatouille. Even Michael “Iron Spoon” Orthner, Let’s hope you don’t have to wrestle The Avengers: Infinity War “My niece is a really big fan of the infamous food critic for the Tri-City News, a pack of rats to get a reservation So far, the war is very sad. movie, and her birthday’s coming up,” was chomping at the bit, eager to have at Liam’s Pasta Bar when it finally Smith explained to the Other Press, his icy heart melted like Anton Ego, the reopens for business—might we Solo: A Star Wars Story while holding a rolled-up poster. “So I restaurant reviewer from Ratatouille. recommend trying the ratatouille? It might upset hardcore Star Wars fans—but I still think we should give Lando his own film.

Doctors shocked by increasing number of Ocean’s 8 It’s very fun and a strong, unique amnesia cases in young people even number. that, for a second, I had fallen into a öö‘So many have forgotten what words such Twilight Zone-esque situation and had Incredibles 2 as ‘literally’ and ‘Hitler’ mean,’ say experts literally become Hitler. I thought about how A sequel that we didn’t need, I would explain to my friends and family but better than I thought it was going to be. Klara Woldenga subjects describe someone or something that I was now, through no fault of my own, they don’t like. I open up a dictionary Humour Editor literally Hitler. Also, I thought about how and teach them what both those words I would have to get used to having such Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom mean, but they still continue to call others a stupid mustache. It was impossible to Pretty much the same as The r. David Franklin has seen a lot in ‘Literally Hitler.’ It’s very disturbing.” imagine solutions to both those things.” Lost World: Jurassic Park—why his 20 years as a Metro Vancouver D So far, Vancouver word amnesia Luckily for Marin, this was only do the dinosaurs have to fight? general practitioner. However, according reports have hit over 5,000 this year, with a flash-in-the-pan thought—once she to him, this is the first time he has the majority of cases coming in from looked in the mirror she realized that Ant-Man and the Wasp seen such an influx of unique amnesia Tumblr, Twitter, and Reddit. According she was not, in fact, Adolf Hitler. It’s better than the previous film cases in people below the age of 50. to recent reports, these cases have “This is a really big problem,” simply because it has more insects. “Over the past few years it’s been slowly been seeping into classrooms, Marin said. “I don’t want to be a to house call after house call,” Dr. coffee shops, and workplaces. dictator or anything, but I think we Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again Franklin told the Other Press. “And “I’ve tried everything,” local history need a solution to this issue.” Kinda sad… but the new songs I don’t even own a phone or a car. I teacher Joan Marin told the Other Press. Common early signs include are great so whatever. don’t know how I’ve been doing it.” “After I started hearing my students call becoming extremely outraged at YouTube Open positions include: According to recent reports, 75 others ‘Literally Hitler,’ I sat everyone comments, saying “This is not a joke,” Teen Titans Go to the Movies percent of those born between the years down and explained who Hitler actually when it clearly is a joke, and saying “it’s Deadpool except appropriate of 1985 and 2000 have been diagnosed was: The dictator of Nazi Germany a joke” when it’s clearly not a joke. for young children… so very with “word amnesia,” defined as the from 1934 to 1945. He initiated World “This disease affects so many much not Deadpool. person’s inability to retain or accurately War II and created the Holocaust. I people, especially the friends and family recall what specific words mean and then brought in the English teacher to connected to those who have it,” Dr. Christopher Robin how they work in conversation. explain what the word ‘literally’ meant.” Franklin told the Other Press. “It can be The same old bear except this “We have seen a rise in people Unfortunately, Marin’s efforts only very scary to forget what words actually time at a family reunion. forgetting very specific words and lead to the students calling her, along with mean and how language actually works. phrases,” said Dr. Franklin. “‘Literally the English teacher, “Literally Hitler.” If you see the first signs of this disease in Dog Days Hitler’ is our most common example. “It was really scary for a couple of yourself or a loved one, please call your An ensemble comedy I’ve heard it constantly being used when moments,” Marin told reporters. “I thought doctor and schedule an appointment.” with dogs… yep. humour // no. 18 theotherpress.ca

Newfound documents reveal mysterious this journey. Definitely not crying myself YouTube ‘Prison Challenge’ to sleep at night and missing my blankie. Note: When the vlogger said “fans” ööAugust 31, 5042 he did not mean cooling apparatuses that don’t actually cool a human By the Guild of Human room, instead circulating hot air in Studies, multiple authors hopes of finding cool air hiding within said room. He meant other people his document is intended for who adore him despite his blatant Tresearch purposes only. Any disregard for the wellbeing of others. circulation of these papers outside an academic setting is strictly prohibited. Vlogger TASERB3AM’s Lizard people must refrain from using transcripts from 2018-03-20 transcripts pages as papier-mâché masks for our next Best-Dressed (Shouting) WHAT’S UP GUYS, Humanoid of the Month competition. TASERB3AM HERE AND HERE IS MY how Earth was ultimately destroyed. people. Take, for instance, this quote FIRST VLOG FROM THE BIG HOUSE. Authors’ Note: These video logs—or from the Bible—the human’s main I gotta say, people act like prison is vlogs as the humans called them—were Except from Vlogger TASERB3AM’s source of wisdom for centuries: “Never like a death sentence or something created by a sub-species of human called transcripts from 2018-03-18 trust a guy with two first names.” and I’m just finding it to be like rolling “YouTube personalities.” For some reason up in my lambo and hitting on some not currently apparent to us, YouTube (Shouting) WHAT’S UP GUYS, Vlogger Simon Andrew’s hunnies walking by—not that I’m gay grew in popularity during the 2010s TASERB3AM HERE AND TODAY YOU transcripts from 2018-03-19 or anything. I’m going to start this video thanks to vloggers on the dead planet GUYS ARE GOING TO WATCH ME by recording the convo I’m about to formerly known as Earth. Their videos BREAK INTO PRISON. Now I know (Shouting) HOW’RE YOU DOING YOU have with a girl without her permission depicted their day-to-day lives, showing you’ve probably seen people try to break SEXY SAVAGES? IT’S DAY 48 FOR ME IN and it’s going to be totally hilarious. them buying groceries, defecating out of prison before, but I’m going to PRISON AND I JUST WANTED TO TAKE outside their neighbours’ homes, and change things up by getting locked THIS OPPORTUNITY TO REFLECT ON (Stern voice from off camera) HOW’D pranking other YouTube stars. It should up in jail. Some challenge rules we MY TIME HERE. I know a lot of you may YOU GET THAT CAMERA, INMATE? be noted that, while most of the events have in place include no bribing police still be a little upset with me for stabbing YouTube stars acted out are heavily officers—which you guys totally know my roommate the other day, but just know (Camera shatters and video blacks out.) scripted and should not be considered that I could do since I posted my bank that I did that for (shouting) ALL OF honest depictions of human behaviour, statements on last week’s video—and I YOU GUYS! Your support makes all of this From what we can gather from these these sets of transcribed vlogs are vital need to beat Simon Andrew’s time to be worth it, and if not for my true fans out transcripts, it appears as if these two to understanding just how far a human imprisoned in order to win the challenge. there, I would have never done this. Prison vloggers were actually arrested, whereas would go for fame. We have learned that has really changed me as a person, and every other human who partook in humans cared deeply about “Likes,” the Before looking at the next transcript, I’m finding out a lot about myself in here. the challenge merely used poorly- “Subscribe button,” and lavish displays of it’s important to note that humans And again. I. Did. This. All. For. You. You edited green screens and hired friends wealth. More importantly, however, they who are given two first names are often guys are the reason I’m in here (laughter) to be inmates. These are the only are a crucial piece of the puzzle explaining depicted in human epics as untrustworthy and I’m totally psyched to have been on transcripts left from their time in jail. Comic by Nova Comic by Ed Appleby Entertainment SUDOKU Montly Crossword: BC edition WeeklyBy Caroline Ho, Arts Editor Crossword: Vacation No. 399 Easy Previous solution - Very Hard 591638247 ACROSS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 846527913 1. 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