Arts

The journey for Hapax Theatre’s upcoming production of The Boy in the Chrysalis, playing at this year’s Victoria Fringe Festival, has been several years in the making. The one-man, one-act play tells the story of a schoolteacher who is a drag queen by night, struggling to escape the reality of his recent break-up and life […]

Until Sunday, August 12 A close shave Blue Bridge Repertory Theatre is bringing cannibalistic meat pies to The Roxy Theatre with Stephen Sondheim’s musical Sweeney Todd—The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. This wildly popular pop opera was inspired by the horrifying, turn-of-the-century penny dreadful novels. For ticket sales and schedule, as well as information on […]

What tourist attraction could possibly be outside the Patient Care Centre at the Royal Jubilee Hospital (RJH)? If you’re checking out Saskatoon-based artist David LaRiviere’s interactive app, you’ll see that the Anti Tourism Project is a very different kind of tourist attraction. LaRiviere has spent his time as Open Space artist-in-residence talking to people around […]

Guns N’ Roses Appetite for Destruction 2 CD Deluxe Edition (Universal Music Canada) 3/5 When I first heard Appetite for Destruction as an impressionable pie-faced 12-year-old, it was about the only thing that made sense to me for a good nine months. The incredible fury-loaded riffs and roars in “Welcome to the Jungle” and “Sweet […]

Chin Yuen was already drawing at a young age. Even before the Victoria-based artist started kindergarten, she knew she loved art. However, she didn’t make the decision to become a professional artist until she was in her 30s. Yuen completed a master of arts in English Literature at UVic, as well as a teaching degree […]

Tony Molina Kill the Lights (Slumberland Records) 3.5/5 Kill the Lights by California’s Tony Molina is a callback to the late ’60s and early ’70s, when love was on everyone’s mind and emotional, bard-like vocals were the popular sound.  Molina’s complex musical arrangements and retro styling remind me of The Beatles—the honest to God Beatles—and […]

Toronto-based musician Mattie Leon was sitting by the water in Halifax, soaking up the beauty of Nova Scotia, when he began to intertwine history with creativity. It was this combination that led to his EP Signal Hill. Leon, who is on a national tour in support of the EP, points to one of Signal Hill’s […]

The Rolling Stones From The Vault: No Security. San Jose ’99 (Universal Music Canada) 4/5 My fears of live albums being duds were quickly categorized as irrational halfway through “Jumpin’ Jack Flash,” the first song on The Rolling Stones’ new archival live album From The Vault: No Security. San Jose ’99. This is a song […]