Bread and Butter Collective reusable-container program comes to CamosunThere’s a new reusable food container program happening in Victoria, and it has a Camosun College connection. Camosun Culinary Arts chair David Lang is a founding member of the Bread and Butter Collective, who started the program. For $8, people can buy a reusable, polymer-based container at a participating restaurant when they get a take-out […] Continue Reading |
Blue Bridge’s Dracula pays homage to Bram Stoker’s writingWhether we’re talking movie, play, or book, one of the most interesting pieces of fiction that arguably gets better every time it’s adapted is Bram Stoker’s classic Gothic horror Dracula. And on February 26 Blue Bridge Repertory Theatre artistic director Brian Richmond will debut his new play adaptation of Stoker’s Dracula. Richmond describes his version […] Continue Reading |
Maritime Museum of BC shares spectacular seafaring stories in new exhibitIn the spring of 1958, John Guzzwell became known as “the man who came back from the dead” after circumnavigating the globe in a 20-foot sailboat and surviving gales and a cyclone that other, larger, boats had been destroyed in. Guzzwell had launched Trekka from Victoria in 1954, after building it by hand in a […] Continue Reading |
25 Years Ago in Nexus: February 9, 2022 issueHas it decomposed yet?: Students and staff were frustrated over the theft of cafeteria dishes a quarter-century ago at Camosun, as a story in our February 3, 1997 issue detailed. Cafeteria staff reported having to buy 600 new dishes a month to counteract the thefts, and the caf enacted a 10-cent charge for those purchasing […] Continue Reading |
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Leaving the Cave: The good news of springThe first signs of spring are a wonderful thing to see after going through months of howling winds, deep snow drifts, and cars skidding around black ice. Winter is exhausting unless you truly enjoy the layering of clothes, the loss of feeling in your earlobes and fingertips, and the constant leaking from your eyes and […] Continue Reading |
Show Me the Money: Stock markets going wildIf you have money invested in the stock markets, cryptocurrencies, or just about any other financial assets, the two weeks starting on January 17 must have been terribly unsettling for you. At the time of writing this (January 25), major stock indices have lost between 8 percent to 10 percent, and some popular cryptocurrencies have […] Continue Reading |
Nic’s Flicks: Don’t Look Up decent but with faultsDon’t Look Up (2021) 3/4 One of the most memorable new movies that I’ve seen recently is Adam McKay’s new political satire Don’t Look Up. This well-cast and mean-spirited smash has broke streaming records across the globe and is 2022’s most talked-about film so far. The main attribute that really makes this movie work is […] Continue Reading |
This System Is Broken: Who is being raided on the yintahHey, wouldn’t it be grand if citizens of canada could arrive together at the unanimous understanding of how our government’s declarations of reconciliation are an active contradiction? The “royal canadian mounted police” marching en masse with loaded machine guns and ravenous attack dogs into unceded traditional Indigenous territories doesn’t look like the face of reconciliation […] Continue Reading |
Let’s Talk 2.0: Drag-culture conflictsI adore drag queens. There is nothing more fun than heading out with the girls to Friends of Dorothy or sitting down with popcorn to watch the latest episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race. Drag culture is just so complex and fascinating that I can’t stay away from it. But the longer I enjoy drag shows […] Continue Reading |
