Arts

Camosun writing instructor Laurie Elmquist’s new book Where’s Burgess? paints a world that children can relate to and that will take adult readers back many years, suddenly immersed in the world of nine-year-old protagonist Reece. Children’s literature is an underappreciated genre, which is unfortunate when works like this are out there. Elmquist writes with both […]

Montreal electro-soul band Busty and the Bass look, at first glance, like an orchestra. That’s because there are nine members in the band. But Alistair Blu, one of the vocalists for Busty and the Bass, says that while having so many members makes organization harder, the positives outweigh the negatives, and it actually creates a […]

“Is art to be an actor’s emotional masturbation on stage?” Local director and UVic Theatre instructor Clayton Jevne asks that question because he knows there is an inevitable disconnect between the spontaneous emotional human experience we have in our day-to-day lives and the one actors have on stage. One of his intentions is to narrow […]

Local director Peter Gatt has taken on the challenge of directing a play with heavy religious themes in his own church—the church he grew up in. “Because I was raised in the church where we’re performing it, I have a very good understanding of how a traditional church pushes their storytelling and how they like […]

Cadence Weapon Cadence Weapon (eOne Music) 4/5 Edmonton rapper Cadence Weapon—also known as Roland Pemberton—has returned with his fourth album. It’s his first in six years, but Cadence Weapon hasn’t lost touch with his roots or his ability to weave quality rhymes over unique beats. Over 11 tracks, Cadence Weapon makes use of observation and […]

Life flies by in the fast lane for Vancouver musician Peter Ricq. When not performing with Robbie Slade as indie electronic duo Humans, he keeps active creating animated media (his past work included the television show League of Super Evil). Things are busy, he says, and it seems to be true: Humans recently finished up […]

Victoria folk/soul band Carmanah are fresh off of releasing their debut album Speak in Rhythms; lead singer Laura Mitic says that the album is a showcase of their evolution as a band. She also says that the album explores how the world works. “We’ve matured quite a bit with this album, both in songwriting and […]

Until Saturday, February 24 Lock up the heart! Phoenix Theatre is performing its newest play, Crimes of the Heart, this month. The play focuses on sisterhood and what happens when sisters reconnect after one has committed a violent crime. Tickets are between $15 and $26; more information can be found at phoenixtheatres.ca. Until Saturday, March […]

Three holograms stand at the end of Deluge Contemporary Art Gallery in Victoria. If you stand at the right angle in front of them, you can catch a wrinkled handkerchief on each. Are they real? What do they mean? Contemporary art puzzles us. It’s not about proportion, composition, or accuracy of imitating nature. It’s also […]