Arts

Imagine the awe of the viewers in front of their box-like televisions in 1969 when they watched the first black-and-white images—sent by a slow-scan television (SSTV)—of the moon. This then-cutting-edge technology allowed transmission of images through voice frequencies across two stations—in the above case, between the moon and the Earth. “Slow-scan was built around this […]

Hamilton singer/songwriter Terra Lightfoot says that her latest album, New Mistakes, is a window into where she currently is at in her life. She says the album is about being comfortable with the challenges that can arise in any situation. “Instead of shying away from making a mistake, it’s realizing that each problem we encounter […]

Friday, February 23 Bringing the family together The Jim Cuddy Band is joining up with Barney Bentall, Sam Polley, and Devin Cuddy on a tour across Canada. The band will be promoting their new album, Constellation; their stop in Victoria will bring them to the McPherson Playhouse. For more info and tickets, head over to […]

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 […]