Metric impresses packed crowdA high-energy event from start to finish, Metric were full of intensity on the first stop of their Canadian tour at Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre. The Toronto rock band, who recently released their fifth album, Synthetica, played to a packed Victoria crowd on November 9. Stars, whose members also play in Broken Social Scene, did a […] Continue Reading |
Art show gives meaning to placeImages inevitably carry with them the artist’s meaning; if this meaning is not seen, it is lost. A new art exhibit entitled Understanding Place in Culture: Serigraphs and the Transmission of Cultural Knowledge is a collection of indigenous artists’ work; the meanings behind the work can help the person viewing them understand the world and […] Continue Reading |
Death metal band Auroch worship at altar of LovecraftH.P. Lovecraft is one weird dude. Go ahead and Google image search his name. For every menacing looking head shot of ol’ H.P. is yet another menacing looking head shot of him with monster squid tentacles emerging from the back of this head. This, of course, is the perfect source material for a brutal death […] Continue Reading |
Good Person of Setzuan contemplates poverty, moralsPoor people can also be good people. Good Person of Setzuan, the current production of the University of Victoria’s theatre department, is ready to drive that point home. Conrad Alexandrowicz, the director, writer, and choreographer, will be bringing the enlightening play (based on Bertolt Brecht’s classic work) to audiences in November. Brecht asks many important […] Continue Reading |
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New Music Revue: October 31, 2012 issueKISS Monster (Universal Music) 4/5 Rating a KISS record is sort of like rating your grandparents. What can you say? Everything’s weird. Here, on their first studio album since no one really cares, the long-running pseudo-parody/rock band lay down the goods with surprising authority. It’s impressive that a band so out of touch with […] Continue Reading |
Plants and Animals embrace their FrenchnessSometimes a Canadian indie rock band gets to record their latest album in a pretty cool spot. But a recording studio in a 19th century mansion just 15 minutes from downtown Paris? Plants and Animals have to be kidding us. “We did it in a big house and that house itself is an instrument,” says […] Continue Reading |
KISS tribute killsLots of stuff went down in Sooke in 1989. Can you even imagine? The mind bends and warps a bit when you even start to put place and time together like that. Here’s how what happened in Sooke in 1989 matters today: James Keble and D’Arcy Ladret met. Who are James Keble and D’Arcy Ladret? […] Continue Reading |
Trucking book surprisingly powerful image of CanadaThere is beauty in big rigs, grace in grease, glory in hard work. And all these things are on display in Daniel Francis’ gorgeous hardcover book Trucking in British Columbia, which is a stunning read for truckers and anyone who appreciates striking visuals. The book is anchored in amazing photographs but it also has lots […] Continue Reading |
Local, Live, and Loud: October 31 – November 13, 2012Wednesday, October 31 Alcoholic White Trash, Endprogram, Fuquored Logan’s Pub, $10, 9 pm Anyone remember Punky Brewster? Soleil Moon Frye? Was that her name? I’m pretty sure she was in that Sabrina, The Teenage Witch sitcom as well. I often wonder about the whole child-star thing. I mean, you get all this attention at such […] Continue Reading |
