New Music Revue: Mean Jeans show youthful spirit on new albumMean Jeans Gigantic Sike! (Fat Wreck Chords) 4/5 Mean Jeans, the party punkheads from Portland, Oregon, just released their fourth studio album, Gigantic Sike! The record—actually their fifth, if you count 2018’s Jingles Collection, 23 unsolicited product jingles—is guaranteed to give listeners one hell of good time with the excitement in it. “Fun,” “young,” and […] Continue Reading |
Freedom from Addiction: The ups and downs of withdrawalAnyone who has consciously gone through withdrawal from a serious addiction would agree that it is extremely difficult and painful, and—if they made it through it—that they are glad to be on the other side. Withdrawal from sex and love addiction may not seem so bad. Indeed, sex and love addiction is sometimes regarded as […] Continue Reading |
Know Your Profs: Camosun’s Robin Fast on talking to instructors and learning how to learnKnow Your Profs is an ongoing series of profiles on the instructors at Camosun College. Every issue we ask a different instructor at Camosun the same 10 questions in an attempt to get to know them a little better. Do you have an instructor who you want to see interviewed in the paper? Maybe you want […] Continue Reading |
Hold My Beer, I Lost My Keys: How to clean your apartment, student styleAmong the list of to-dos in a young adult’s life, the most mundane task has to be cleaning their grotesque apartment. If you’re anything like me, this chore always seems to sneak up on your way out the door to ’90s night at Logan’s or Blackout Sundays at the Rooftop. What if you should bring […] Continue Reading |
Bubbles: September 25, 2019 issue |
Creativity crosses boundaries in BC Culture DaysThe time has come for every reasonably sized city in BC to open up their proverbial creative stage and flaunt what they have to offer for BC Culture Days. Since 2009, British Columbia’s Bridge Arts and Community, a non-profit charitable organization, gets together with up to 10 artist ambassadors and promotes the awareness of arts […] Continue Reading |
Camosun instructor strives to understand human motives with art“The immediacy of a moment in time that you can’t rehearse. An unscripted, honest event. It’s not fiction. Once it’s been done before it becomes fictive. Not an honest moment in time.” This is one of Camosun Visual Arts instructor John Boehme’s MOs in regard to his performance art. Whether he is performing in Minsk, […] Continue Reading |
News Briefs: September 25, 2019 issueCamosun participates in Orange Shirt Day Monday, September 30 is Orange Shirt Day, a day devoted to awareness about the impacts of the residential school system. Camosun students, staff, and faculty are invited to wear an orange shirt during the event, which starts at 9:45 am at Interurban and 1 pm at Lansdowne. See camosun.ca […] Continue Reading |
Camosun Business Study Group club column: Why is importantSamuel Pierpont Langley was the inventor of the first man-carrying airplane capable of sustained flight. You might say, “Wasn’t that the Wright brothers?” Well, you’re not wrong. Read on. Langley was the head of the Smithsonian Institute from 1887 to 1906. He dreamed of making it big like his heroes Edison and Bell, so he […] Continue Reading |
What’s Going On: September 25 to October 8, 2019Until Sunday, September 29 Where to look? Dare to look? Not sure what to do when the weekend hits? Perhaps you’re wanting something slightly different from the brain-blasting social life of the nightclubbing crowd? The gutsy and unapologetic exhibit All Eyes on You by Nicole Sleeth has taken female nudes in an entirely new direction. […] Continue Reading |
