Arts

Beachheads Beachheads (Fysisk Format) 2/5 Norway’s Beachheads are best known for having members of metal band Kvelertak in their ranks, but here on their debut album they veer far away from metal. Heavily influenced by power-pop bands of yesteryear, the band shows potential but is dragged down by mostly depressing lyrics and songs that just […]

In None of This Was Planned, reporter Mike McCardell writes about the people he’s met while trying to get stories on the streets of Vancouver. The characters he talks about range from inspirational to odd. When I read the title and found out what it was about, I was excited to read this. And while […]

Megan Dickie’s motivation to become an artist came early: her father worked in architecture and construction, and her mother was a schoolteacher. Dickie—who is also an assistant professor of visual art at the University of Victoria—always created things as a child and, she says, had a hunger for drawing, which continued into her adult life. […]

Until Sunday, January 22 Going from door to door A story about three generations of women, From Door to Door is a comedy being held at Congregation Emanu-El synagogue. Focusing on the loss of a mother’s husband, the play expands on the roles of a grandmother, mother, and daughter and how each one affects the […]

I had no idea what I was about to get into when I started reading Red Robinson: The Last Deejay. I had never heard of Robinson, and I didn’t know that Canadian radio had such a fabulous past; all this, and I was raised in the very same city that Robinson made famous. The book […]

Things often look bleak during Victoria’s rainy and cold winter months. Wintertime sadness, illness, and general hatred of our city’s weather all set in and people start to ask themselves, “Why must we live in such gloominess?” Well, Victorians can stop asking themselves that now, because the annual Snowed In Comedy Tour is returning to […]