A 'Buffy' episode, staged with love
The hero of the '90s TV classic must fight a musical demon in Yellow House Theatre Co.’s inaugural production of the staged episode “Once More, With Feeling.”
Jack Paransky
Deputy Arts and Culture Editor
Jack Paransky is a fourth-year Honours Chemical Biology student with an academic passion for organic synthesis and fungal research. Extracurricularly, he is passionate about culture, food, and the intersection of the two where he can find them. culture@ubyssey.ca
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Why do we care about extra protein, anyway?
My great-grandmother didn’t care about her macros and still made food my mother extols. Where did the “meal” go?
On breakups, narratives and falling out of love with Sex and the City
In January, I went through my first real, adult breakup. It was the culmination of problems boiling to an unceremonious conclusion at the end of a biblically terrible week. It was a numbing surprise, if …
Feeding UBC with the Sikh Student Association’s langars
Jashan Chacal, a sixth-year engineering student and a prominent SSA member and organizer, told me Sikhs look at langar as the great equalizer.
Can Campus Babes Find Love?
It seems the only thing getting wet at UBC is the grass in the rain and cheeks on a bad day.
Hackathon coders are the heart of the machine
Hackathons like cmd-f are as computer science as electric apple pie. Each person, in groups of up to four, attempts to write a functioning computer program in 24 hours. 24 straight hours.
The Fugitives fill St. James Community Square with nostalgia and fireflies
The Fugitives are one of the best bands I have ever seen. When I saw they were performing with the RFC, I jumped at the chance to get a ticket.
BOOM! Pro Wrestling hooks fans with stories, action and steel chairs
Wrestling is one of the most interesting ways we have to tell a story. The match inside the four ropes is both colosseum and stage. The wrestlers establish characters that give each hit and tumble …
At Numbers Cabaret, performance is resistance
Numbers took up residency on Davie Street in 1980, becoming the oldest continually-operating gay-owned business in the West End. For most of its tenure, it acted as an underground space for people trying not to …
Nosh Hunt: Searching for brisket in Vancouver pushed me to the brink. One restaurant brought me back.
I set out to find Texas in Vancouver: a brisket in the great white north that I could go to when I missed people with accents like dripping molasses.
Twelve Days of Completely Secular Yuletide: Eight Crazy Nights is the second worst thing to happen to the Jewish People in the past two centuries
ADAM SANDLER, have you watched Eight Crazy Nights on Crave? Have you sat down with a bucket of popcorn to enjoy it? Did you laugh at the movie? Did it live up to your expectations?
The Best Restaurant in the World. Ever. is a mixed meal
The play focuses on the restaurant Joe’s — referred to by everyone as the “best restaurant in the world” — hosting an evil businessman for dinner.
How to ditch indie shit-men and find yourself a Hallmark HUNK
I don't want a lot for Christmas. There is just one thing I need: to stop seeing stupid mustaches and toques every time I’m on hinge.
