Jon and Roy return with new album, continue to chill

On their fifth full-length release, By My Side, Victoria-based Jon and Roy continue their highly successful blend of acoustic guitar, smooth vocals, and unique drum beats. The pair of musicians, singer/guitarist Jon Middleton and drummer/percussionist Roy Vizer, has been playing together on the West Coast for years, as is evident in their music. “We’ve definitely […]

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Victoria poetry slam competitors prepare for chance at national finals during Canadian Festival of Spoken Word

Those in the growing Victoria poetry slam community know that competition amongst local poets is friendly yet fierce, but in the upcoming Victoria Poetry Slam Finals there is even more on the line. One person will be named Victoria Slam Champion and all five finalists will have the opportunity to represent their city in this […]

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Camosun alumni Ann Eriksson’s novel addresses two types of health issues

Camosun graduate Ann Eriksson has a history in biology, but she’s always had a passion and love for books and writing. After joining a friend’s writing support group she wrote her first novel, fell in love with doing it, and just kept going. Eriksson’s fourth and most recent novel, High Clear Bell of Morning, merges […]

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Victoria author Chad Ganske turns to science fiction for debut novel

Idyllic Avenue, the first novel from local author Chad Ganske, is the end result of a life spent in the pursuit of writing. But the strange thing is that the sci-fi book, which follows Stanford “Saturn” Samuels (a man with an eye mutation that makes him “imperfect”) and his life on the distant planet of […]

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Pink Mountaintops’ Stephen McBean returns to Harpo’s stage in Victoria

Thanks to an old friend, a familiar face will again grace a familiar stage when Stephen McBean brings his Pink Mountaintops project to a new version of Harpo’s (now known as the Upstairs Cabaret in Bastion Square). Opened in 1974 and closed in 1995, Harpo’s is revered by longtime members of Victoria’s music scene as […]

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Travis Bernhardt’s Unpossible! brings magic and mind-reading to Victoria’s UNO Festival

Vancouver magician Travis Bernhardt’s new show, Unpossible!, may stick out on the theatre-rich lineup of the annual UNO Festival, but his one-hour long demonstration of psychological trickery was written in the same spirit of adventure as the rest of the acts in the 17th annual festival of solo stage performers. “I wrote this show to challenge […]

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The Adventures of Superman returns to spirit of 1940s radio plays

When Rod Peter Jr.’s interest in 1940s and ‘50s radio plays led him to stumble upon a curious bit of American boosterism called The Adventures of Superman, he knew that he wanted to bring it to the stage. And while Peter staged a version of the radio play a couple of years ago, another script […]

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Hear No Evil Vancouver Island comedy tour features trio of Vancouver comedians

When three Vancouver comics–Jared Borland, Kyle Jones, and Byron Bertram—got together over beers to figure out why they weren’t getting enough work from their agents, the trio decided to make some work for themselves. The result was a self-booked, 10-show tour of Vancouver Island over 14 days, going as north as Port McNeill and stopping […]

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