Has K-pop Lost Its “K”?
K-pop is a lot of things. It is South Korean pop music, clean-cut choreography, a culture of artist idolization, and now a global phenomenon…
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Gabriela Chan
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Arts & Culture
Features
Hunger for Home: Access to Asian Ingredients in Kelowna
Empty shelves at Kelowna’s Asian grocery stores raise a bigger question about food, belonging, and the cultural bridges that specialty shops…
Campus Life
Instead of Studying for Finals, You Should Check Out Some Cool Art
Things are coming to an end. March and April can feel like a whirlwind of “finals” — not just final projects and exams but also final exchan…
Arts & Culture
Jacqueline Breaks Boundaries in Opera
At its most basic, an “opera” is a dramatic work set to music and song. However, this genre of musical performance has notoriously been asso…
Arts & Culture
A Lesson in Movie Marketing: Orange Blimp, Cereal, Ping Pong Balls, and All
A period film about ping pong does not immediately scream “box office success,” but Marty Supreme has managed to mold itself into independen…
Features
Not Done Yet: The Trill Seekers Are Going to Semis
Avid readers of The Phoenix should remember UBC Okanagan’s a cappella club, The Beats. If you have read about them in our previous Opinions …
Features
Film Education at UBCO or the Lack Thereof?: A Conversation with Denise Kenney
Films have immense value in the classroom. Whether it be theory or production, studying film opens our eyes to a generation’s taste in media…
Features
On-Demand Streaming Services: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
We are students of a digital age. Most days, we do not write assignments on paper, but submit lengthy word documents as Canvas assignments. …
Features
Is UBCO’s Co-op Program Worth It?
Youth in Canada face the highest unemployment rate this country has seen since the mid-1990s, meaning that securing a job as a new graduate …
Opinions
Don’t Romanticize Life, Just Live It
We are in the trenches. It is late October, which means the first batch of mid-term grades are trickling in and second mid-terms, research p…
Arts & Culture
Mysteries and the Craft: A Portrait of Writer-Director, Celine Song
In October 2024 at the Austin Film Festival, Oscar-nominated writer and director Celine Song talked about the difference between being an am…
Features
Becoming Unforeign to a Foreign Language
It was almost nine p.m.. My mom, dad, brother and I walked into a local restaurant near our hotel on Jeju Island. We were hungry and tired a…
Opinions
UBCO’s A Cappella Club, The Beats: The Insider Scoop
One of the best choices I made in university was joining UBC Okanagan’s a cappella club, The Beats. In 2023, I became part of The Beats’ non…
Opinions
How Cooking Has Spiced Up My Life
In the summer of 2022, I had just completed my university entrance exams in Hong Kong. As a subtle declaration to the world that I was “done…
Campus Life
The Big City or The Hidden Gem?
In my second year of university, I was faced with a small crisis. About half of my friend group had transferred, not to a different school, …
Campus Life
Inside and Outside the Classroom
White fluorescent lights cast upon an 800-square-feet room. It is lined with long desks and chairs that are either missing a handle or have …
Sports
Student-Golfer Bess Chan on Playing for Passion and Inclusivity
If you are a student wanting to try a new sport, chances are that golf is not the first that comes to mind. Why choose such an expensive spo…
Arts & Culture
Reimagine Pictography and Sculpture with Taylor Baptiste: q̓ayisxn — Off the Rocks Exhibition
I pushed through the doors of the Creative and Critical Studies Building, took a left turn into the FINA gallery, and was welcomed by two re…
Campus Life
Spend Less and Stay Stylish at UBCO
It’s the first day of school. You scan your closet: grey sweatpants – no. That leather jacket you saved up for and finally bought in the sum…