Arts

At the Movies The Soundtrack of Your Life – Vol. 1 The Soundtrack of Your Life – Vol. 2 (Atomic Fire Records) 3.5/5  This month, Swedish all-star band At the Movies (featuring members of Soilwork, HammerFall, King Diamond, Pretty Maids, and others) released two new records featuring their hard-rockin’ takes on some of the best […]

When I first picked up the book Haunting British Columbia: Ghostly Tales from the Past by Mike McCardell I was instantly captivated by the use of humour McCardell incorporates into his writing. The book starts off with the introduction of our narrator, who is the ghost of a real engineer from the 1860s. The story […]

I recently went to the Royal BC Museum to watch Saving Luna at the IMAX and to see the museum’s Orcas: Our Shared Future exhibit. If you haven’t heard about Luna, just go watch the IMAX movie and let yourself be carried away in laughs and appreciation for the wonderful creatures known as orcas that […]

Until June, the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (AGGV) is encouraging people to reconsider their surroundings with its exhibit The Places We Live. AGGV curator of Asian art Heng Wu has co-curated the exhibit along with Mel Granley and Nicole Stanbridge; Wu says it’s a collective show, meaning it’s a survey of the AGGV’s permanent […]

In November of 2021 the City of Victoria approved the Victoria Music Strategy to help foster the local music scene and hopefully give the city the push it needs to become a world-class music destination. City of Victoria artist in residence Kathryn Calder—who also plays in Vancouver indie rock group The New Pornographers—says that when […]

2021 was a great year for movies; see my list of the best ones over on page 11 of this very issue. Will 2022 top it? Time will tell, but one thing is for certain: some great movies are in store over the next 12 months. From the definitive origin story of a certain buzzing […]

I’m always trying to find more literature from queer writers, so I was thrilled to read Toronto-based writer Natalie Wee’s new collection of poetry, Beast at Every Threshold.  The collection of poems touches on Wee’s experiences as a woman, as a queer person, and as an immigrant. She does a magnificent job of exploring the […]