Professor publishes zombie essay collectionOTTAWA (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 […] Continue Reading |
New Music Revue: December 7, 2011 issueThe 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 […] Continue Reading |
Local, Live, and Loud: December 7-13Wednesday, 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 […] Continue Reading |
The Nutcracker to bring holiday joy to the stageIt’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 […] Continue Reading |
German play thrives on student collaborationInfluential 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 […] Continue Reading |
Local cover bands bring back sounds of decades pastThose 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: […] Continue Reading |
Local, Live, and Loud: November 30 – December 6Wednesday, 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 […] Continue Reading |
Book partners Graham Roumieu with Douglas CouplandOTTAWA (CUP) – It’s a book kids should never read and adults will die to get their hands on. The new novel Highly Inappropriate Tales for Young People, by well-known Canadian authors and artists Douglas Coupland and Graham Roumieu, is more akin to a series of short stories and emulates a child’s picture book, but […] Continue Reading |
New Music Revue: November 30, 2011 issueMetallica & Lou Reed Lulu (Warner Bros.) 3.5/5 On this maddening, fever-dream-inducing disc, Lou Reed smashes caustic spoken-word vocals against a pallet of avant-garde sound bites and well produced sludgy metal riffing by Metallica. Lulu is a highly ambitious album, but it also comes across as something unique. My guess is Lou Reed just doesn’t […] Continue Reading |
Bedouin Soundclash rises to challengesWhile many people grow up wanting to be famous musicians, Eon Sinclair, bassist of Toronto’s reggae/ska trio Bedouin Soundclash, grew up aspiring to be a teacher. “Ten years ago I saw myself teaching in a classroom somewhere,” he says. “I have an interest in education. I probably would have envisioned myself as an elementary teacher […] Continue Reading |
