Tegan and Sara disappoint with new release

Tegan and Sara Get Along (Warner Bros.) 3/5 It’s a well-known fact that when you come out as gay woman you receive the complete Tegan and Sara discography and are signed into a legal obligation to love them for life. It’s just what happens. That being said, I was stoked to get my hands on […]

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Miracle on 34th Street play brings radio broadcast to the stage

This Christmas season, audiences can head back in time to 1940s New York City with Blue Bridge Repertory Theatre’s production of Miracle on 34th Street. The script is adapted from the Oscar-winning 1947 Christmas film about a department-store Santa. Miracle is staged as if it were a real 1940s radio-play broadcast, complete with live audience. […]

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Holiday movie season brings thrills, chills

The holidays are approaching like some kind of festive juggernaut, and while families are out representing consumerism, the Hollywood marketing machine likes to capitalize on this wanton spending by releasing their last wave of films for the year. So while you’re procrastinating and not buying gifts for your loved ones, a number of excellent films […]

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Professor publishes zombie essay collection

OTTAWA (CUP) – In 2009, University of Ottawa mathematics and statistics professor Robert Smith and his students wrote a paper When Zombies Attack!: Mathematical Modelling of an Outbreak of Zombie Infection. After two years of significant media buzz about his unusual publication, Smith has returned as the editor of a collection of essays on the […]

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New Music Revue: December 7, 2011 issue

The Lost Lovers Brigade Little Skeletons (independent) 3/5 When listening to The Lost Lovers Brigade’s debut album, Little Skeletons, a few key phrases come to mind, phrases like “meh,” “it’s aight,” and “I guess I could see people being into this.” Now, that’s not saying this Vancouver band is terribleŃthere’s something that catches my attention […]

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Local, Live, and Loud: December 7-13

Wednesday, December 7 Ladyhawk, the Wicks Club 9ONE9, $12, 9 pm Canadian indie outfit Ladyhawk is in Victoria in December to rock and sonically please the lot of ya… so, yeah, these guys haven’t released an album since, like, Poseidon was a topical figure in daily affairs. Basically, what I’m trying to say is it’s […]

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The Nutcracker to bring holiday joy to the stage

It’s a yearly tradition, but this time around things will be different for people who go to see The Nutcracker. This year, the performance of the classic tale is a unique version set in Russia during the imperialist era in the late 19th century (the time of its first production). “In this production, Clara’s fantasy […]

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German play thrives on student collaboration

Influential German playwright and director Bertolt Brecht considered the theatre a laboratory for dramatic experiments. And now University of Victoria German studies instructor Elena Pnevmonidou is conducting an experiment of her own by staging an 174-year-old German play by Georg Bźchner. Woyzeck: The Choreography of a Murder is a collaboration between UVic theatre students and […]

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Local cover bands bring back sounds of decades past

Those tired of going to a dance club to hear the same repetitive dubstep beats should try going back to a time when rock and roll was king. An upcoming live show at Metropolis promises to be a cover-band extravaganza, featuring three bands, all of whom specialize in one of three eras of classic rock: […]

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Local, Live, and Loud: November 30 – December 6

Wednesday, November 30 Ola Onabule, Star Captains Alix Goolden Hall, 7:30 pm, $45 The British-Nigerian soul singer Ola Onabule is in Victoria on November 30 to soulfully croon Victoria audiences with tracks from his new album coming out in December, entitled Seven Shades Darker. Friday, December 2 Adam & the Amethysts, Fast Cars, Newport Beach UVic […]

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