Carlo Javier, Columnist // Illustration by Rebekah Maurice This year’s awards season saw movies like Roma, Black Panther, and If Beale Street Could Talk get some much-deserved recognition. And the likes of Regina King,…
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CMNS 236 Understanding More Television: Brooklyn Nine-Nine Realness
Carlo Javier // Columnist Sometimes Brooklyn Nine-Nine fails to make me laugh. The hyper-energetic wit of Jake Peralta (Andy Samberg) can border on overbearing and the show’s tendency to overfocus on Samberg can…
CMNS 236 Understanding More Television: To All the Boys That Have Loved HIMYM
Carlo Javier, Matchmaker on the side // Illustration by Cynthia Tran Vo I have developed a bit of a problem with How I Met Your Mother and it sucks because for a…
CMNS 236 Understanding More Television: Lessons from Killing Eve
Carlo Javier, Rose-coloured boy // Illustration by Daniel Pauhl Stuart Hall’s encoding and decoding model is probably the most respectful of people among all communication theories and it’s entirely because of…
CMNS 236 Understanding More Television: The Changing Landscape of TV
Carlo Javier, Binge-watcher and binge-eater // Illustration by Cynthia Tran Vo One of my favourite cold opens from The Office is the one where Michael Scott (Steve Carell) emulates Meryl Streep’s…
Album Review: Being Human in Public
The New People’s Champ, Jessie Reyez, is the latest voice of a generation Carlo Javier, Contributor There’s something different about Jessie Reyez. It’s not that she’s already come close to…
Understanding the curious “Business and Professional Associations” Fee
New student levy could undercut non-Business students in the Faculty CARLO JAVIER // EDITOR-IN-CHIEF A new student levy could mean students in the Schools of Communication and Legal Studies will…
Editor’s Desk: A letter to my younger self
Editor’s Desk: Volume 50, Issue 20 Carlo Javier // Editor-in-Chief “We’re all we got.” – Shea Serrano Dear 18-year-old Carlo, You will love going to Capilano University, even though nearly…
Looking ahead at the 2018 IDEA Grad Show
This year marks the first batch of students to complete IDEA’s four-year Bachelor’s Degree, since the shift in 2014 Carlo Javier / Editor-In-Chief Every year, the works of Capilano University’s…