Post-secondary staple Peter Verin dies at 71If you live in Victoria, there’s a good chance you’ve seen, if not had a conversation with, Peter Verin. Verin was a staple in the post-secondary community, living on the grounds of the University of Victoria for many years. Verin was known for carrying a large amount of items around with him in his shopping […] Continue Reading |
New play at Langham Court gets slapstickOne man, Two Guvnors is a play set in the ’60s in Brighton, England that features slapstick situations and a skiffle band; the play features around 30 cast and crew members. Kyle Kushnar is the lead actor of the production, portraying the character Francis as he attempts to successfully moonlight for two governors, without either […] Continue Reading |
25 Years Ago in Nexus: January 4, 2017 issueThere’s no news like bad news: The cover of our January 9, 1992 issue featured not one but two grim headlines: “Oil leak contaminates Lansdowne” and “Camosun arsonist sentenced.” The latter talked about how a person who had been setting fires around the Lansdowne neighbourhood had been sentenced to 10 years in prison, while the […] Continue Reading |
Calculated Thought: New risk to housing marketAs of January 1, first-time homebuyers can apply for a loan from the BC government to help with that pesky mortgage down payment. Cleverly dubbed the B.C. Home Owner Mortgage and Equity Partnership program (HOME Partnership), it has specific stipulations: the person applying for it must be a first-time buyer of a principal residence that […] Continue Reading |
Smith vs. Smith: January 4, 2017 issue |
Camosun College surpasses funding goal for trades buildingsCamosun College has reached their $6.5-million funding goal for new buildings and renovations at the Interurban campus. The college—which raised the funds through its TRADEmark of Excellence campaign—exceeded its goal by $1.5 million. A large chunk of the fundraising went toward Interurban’s new Centre for Trades Education and Innovation. TRADEmark of Excellence campaign director Angus […] Continue Reading |
None of This Was Planned leaves bad taste in mouthIn 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 […] Continue Reading |
The Bi-weekly Gamer: Shaking up the play styles in HearthstoneI’ve been pretty deep into playing Hearthstone for the past month. An online card game made by well-known company Blizzard, Hearthstone tests players’ knowledge of the vast number of creative and unique card types the game has. It pits two players against each other in a game within a game; each player can choose from […] Continue Reading |
UVic prof uses video games to challenge artMegan 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. […] Continue Reading |
To See or Not to See: Mostly Sunny with a 66-percent chance of banality in new documentaryMostly Sunny 2/5 On the surface, the documentary Mostly Sunny (2016) is about the journey that adult-film star Sunny Leone undergoes into the world of Bollywood in her attempt to branch out from her taboo genre. However, her journey is presented as one much less about spiritual or even artistic fulfillment than it is as […] Continue Reading |
