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Kristi Alexandra is a fourth-year journalism student and Culture Editor for The Runner. She is a freelance writer for The Georgia Straight and BeatRoute magazine, and hopes to one day be a MuchMusic VJ. You may send your donations for Kristi's future nose job to culture@runnermag.ca so she that she can be telegenic enough to realize her dreams as a television personality.

Eddie Van Halen's facemelting riffs more than made up for Diamond Dave's lack of sparkle. JACOB ZINN/THE RUNNER.

Van Halen leave on a high-note

It might be time for Diamond Dave to trade up his mic stand for a cane.

Flicker Art Media (Aleksandra Dulic & Kenneth Newby), Transience (2010), installation image. Courtesy of the artists, photographed by Sharon Doucette.

Surrey Urban Screen changes the landscape of arts

Digital technology has changed how we share and experience images.

(geishaboy500 /Flickr)

Acoustic Guitar Festival brings masters to Kwantlen

The Fraser Valley Acoustic Guitar Festival hits Kwantlen this Friday.

The Kwantlen Sikh Student Association logo.

Kwantlen Sikh group seeks more support

Religious clubs at Kwantlen receive little support compared to other universities.

Nina Arsenault went under the knife over 60 times to achieve her feminine physique. Photo courtesy of David Hawe.

The Silicone Diaries offers a cutting gaze

Nina Arsenualt, star of the Silicone Diaries, talks identity, beauty and spirituality.

His Girl Friday is one of many classic newspaper films being screened this weekend at Vancity Theatre. PHOTO COURTESY OF VANCITY THEATRE PRESS RELEASE.

Old flicks shine light on new issues in Stop The Presses!

Stop The Presses! runs from Jan. 27 to Feb. 2 at the Vancity Theatre

The assortment of treats and toys at the Taboo Naughty But Nice sex show makes this gaggle of dildos and vibrators look as innocent as kittens and yarn. chrysaora/flickr

The secret sex-lives of Vancouverites

The annual Taboo sex show reveals our kinks and, of course, taboos.

justgrimes / flickr

Hipster shit

What really is a hipster anyways?

The Surreyalists’ Big Little Art Show steps outside the classroom

The Surreyalists’ Big Little Art Show steps outside the classroom

Surreyalists’ Big Little Art Show: Kwantlen artists selling their work.

Tour de horror reveals real hauntings

Vancouver Trolley Company’s two-and-a-half-hour halloween trolley tour touches on the city’s bloody history.

Artwork by Paulo Majano

Fine Arts faculty tackles augmented reality in new installation

Kwantlen students explore 1950′s art with 2011 technology

Boris fans were in a blue psych-haze on Tuesday, Oct. 11. KRISTI ALEXANDRA/THE RUNNER

Boris fails to capture Vancouver

A line-up of three freak-metal acts usually garners high expectations.

Students and advocates of the club space attend an inclusivity training seminar in their new space at Kwantlen's Surrey campus on Sept. 23. (Matt Law / The Runner)

Social justice space launched in Surrey

University gains a positive, physical space for Pride Kwantlen and student-run clubs; faculty feels elbowed out of its employee lounge.

Industrial Organ by Amy Cheung

Local Eyes: Surrey Arts Centre’s Arts 2011

Local artists from the Arts 2011 showcase share their art and philosophy with students.

Prostitution and the F-Word

Three Kwantlen instructors and Dr. Leslie Ann Jeffrey – author of Sex Workers in the Maritimes Talk Back – sound off on the sex-trade, women’s rights and what it means to be a feminist.