Arts

No El Prado (Arts and Crafts Records) 2.5/5 LA-based indie sextet No’s debut, El Prado, isn’t an upbeat album, but by no means is it unbearably depressing. With El Prado, No delivers an album with vocal lines that are easy to nod along to, and they also contain some lyrical gems. The album’s tone bleeds […]

Whether it’s to cheer us up, connect with friends, avoid an awkward silence, or to keep us from keying our neighbour’s car, comedy seems to do the trick. Laughter cuts tension, lightens the mood, and allows us to explore every kind of topicŃfrom airplane peanuts to racial profilingŃall in a way that transcends the straight-faced […]

Bringing over 30 craft breweries, including every brewery and brewpub on Vancouver Island, together for a week-long series of events wasn’t nearly as tricky as it sounds. Victoria Beer Week is a new event that celebrates BC’s growing craft beer scene and, according to board member Jeff Kendrew, the amount of interest from brewers and […]

It’s hard not to think of Buffalo alt-rock-lite band Goo Goo Dolls without immediately skipping to the choruses of their biggest songs, “Name” and “Iris.” But under the trappings of acoustic power ballad hits is a band that’s coming up on 30 years of distinguished rock and roll, not just the strummed acoustic numbers that […]

Francois Leduc gives literal meaning to the term “swimming with sharks.” Leduc recently spoke at the IMAX about his experiences free-diving with sharks for the making of the movie Great White Shark. During the filming of the IMAX feature it was Leduc’s job to protect the featured diver William Winram when they were diving with […]

Set in Japan, big eyes, crazy hair: sound familiar? No, it’s not Mothra. It’s anime, Japan’s number one television medium since a medium only held twelve ounces. From its inception, anime has spread far and wide, becoming a common feature in the lives of many North Americans. It’s even made it to our very own […]

As the saying amongst professional wrestling fans goes, “Mick Foley is God.” Imagine our excitement when it was announced that the man who was infamously flung from the top of a 16-foot tall steel cage by the Undertaker in 1998’s Hell in a Cell, one of the best wrestling matches of all time, was appearing […]

The past year was a turbulent one for the Victoria Film Festival (VFF), but they’re back with another line-up of independent films to celebrate their 20th anniversary. With the recent closure of the festival’s main sponsoring venue, Empire Theatres’ Capitol 6, VFF was left scrambling for a new screening location as well as money to […]