What’s Going On: July 13 to August 9, 2016Until Sunday, July 17 The importance of theatre Blue Bridge Theatre is putting on Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest at The Roxy, 2657 Quadra Street, until July 17. See bluebridgetheatre.ca for more information on this and other plays that Blue Bridge has planned. Until Saturday, August 13 Much ado about lame headlines using […] Continue Reading |
New Music Revue: Consilience’s Under Our Bed a soothing listenConsilience Under Our Bed (independent) 4/5 Edmonton’s Consilience is the project of multi-instrumentalist Tasy Hudson, a solo musician with, among other instruments, a guitar, a synthesizer, and a loop pedal. On Under Our Bed I can hear what Hudson is trying to get across with her soft tones and gentle melodies. The addition of instruments […] Continue Reading |
The Bi-weekly Gamer: Something new with OverwatchI’ve been playing a lot of the new game Overwatch. As a first-person shooter with aspects of LoL, Team Fortress 2, and Call of Duty thrown in, it’s honestly a good game. (I didn’t think I would ever be saying that, as I despise Blizzard, the game company that made Overwatch, due to their policies, […] Continue Reading |
Lit Matters: Beating the tin drum with Günter Grass“Even bad books are books and therefore sacred,” said Günter Grass, a German novelist and political activist who won the Nobel Prize in 1999 and is best known for his sweeping novel The Tin Drum. The novel tells the story of World War II from the perspective of Oscar Matzerath, a dwarf who willfully stopped […] Continue Reading |
The other side of the divide: talking tensions with Bilan Arte, national chairperson of the Canadian Federation of StudentsOur June 15, 2016 issue featured the cover story “A provincial divide,” which looked in detail at the state of the national student movement in Canada. The Canadian Federation of Students (CFS) did not agree to interview requests by the time we went to print. We have since talked with CFS national chairperson Bilan Arte […] Continue Reading |
Camosun Toastmasters club still going strong after 80 yearsCamosun College’s Toastmasters Club, which is dedicated to improving students’ public speaking, communication, and listening skills, has now been in Victoria for 80 years (it was at other locations before Camosun was founded in 1971). College Liaison for Toastmasters April Atkins says the group’s longevity can be attributed to those involved in the club. “There […] Continue Reading |
Jazz singer Jaclyn Guillou says collaboration countsVancouver’s Jaclyn Guillou doesn’t hide away these days: the jazz vocalist is performing at this year’s Victoria International JazzFest, and she just released a new album, This Bitter Earth, a tribute to legendary jazz musician Dinah Washington. However, her singing began in a much more secretive fashion. “My piano teacher recognized that I had vocal […] Continue Reading |
A provincial divide: inside the national student movementFrom January 14 to 17 of this year, the British Columbia Federation of Students (BCFS, then known as the Canadian Federation of Students-British Columbia [CFS-BC]) held their 34th annual general meeting. The meeting was significant, as the provincial student group finally made official what people behind the scenes had been talking about for a long […] Continue Reading |
What’s Going On: June 15 to July 12, 2016Until Tuesday, June 21 Have a seat Camosun College Fine Furniture and Joinery students will be displaying their end-of-year projects at this exhibit, which is open to the public, at the Arts Centre at Cedar Hill Recreation Centre, located at 3220 Cedar Hill Road. See camosun.ca/learn/programs/fine-furniture-joinery for info. Until Thursday, June 23 Water is neat, […] Continue Reading |
To See or Not to See: The hi-fi humanity of High FidelityHigh Fidelity 5/5 High Fidelity (2000) is a rom-com in all the right ways. It’s a movie that knows how people work and what motivates them; it knows that people aren’t perfect, and it works with that fact. The humour in the film is paramount, and it’s not the kind that you’ll find in most […] Continue Reading |
