New Music Revue: Frog Eyes deliver powerful but draining albumFrog Eyes Pickpocket’s Locket (Paper Bag Records) 3/5 Victoria indie-rock band Frog Eyes has gathered a new assortment of musicians to create an even darker, more unique sound on this album. Vocalist/guitarist Carey Mercer still makes his mark with his signature shaky style, and he is accompanied again by his wife Melanie Campbell, who blends […] Continue Reading |
Bringing old plays back to life and connecting artists together with the return of Victoria’s Fringe FestivalWhat a summer finale: during the span of 11 days, the Victoria Fringe Theatre Festival will bring spoken-word poetry, dance performances, and fully-produced shows to nine different venues around town. One of the interesting things about Fringe, which is now in its 29th year, is that it gives young companies (from all over the world) […] Continue Reading |
Camosun College Student Society Lansdowne executive alleges she was verbally abused at Canadian Federation of Students national meetingCamosun College Student Society (CCSS) Lansdowne executive Shayli Robinson, who is also Aboriginal Students Liason for the Canadian Federation of Students-British Columbia (CFS-BC), claims she was verbally abused and bullied at a recent Canadian Federation of Students (CFS) national meeting. Robinson says she ran for the national women’s representative position at the meeting (which took […] Continue Reading |
Postsecondary on an empty stomach: the rise of student poverty in CanadaIt would be comforting to think that a slight dip in Canada’s economy has led to the situation many postsecondary students are in: struggling with poverty. Unfortunately, many working within postsecondary education feel that the factors at play are much more complex than that. It’s more than just waiting for the economy to get better: […] Continue Reading |
Rick Miller reinvents the solo act with BOOMTypical solo acts consist of performers utilizing their own talents: singers sing their own songs, comedians tell their own jokes, and magicians perform their own magic tricks. One person would never attempt to impersonate 100 people in just one show, right? Well, Rick Miller does, and he will break every preconceived notion of solo shows […] Continue Reading |
What’s Going On: July 15, 2015 issueVarious dates in July Symphonic summer The Victoria Symphony is seeing to it that there’s lots of historic music being played in nice sunshine-y places, such as the Inner Harbour and the Butchart Gardens, this month. See victoriasymphony.ca for info. Until August 1 Get coupled Michael Doerksen’s Coupling is a three-part exhibit based around cast […] Continue Reading |
Lit Matters: The fantastic humanity of Bohumil Hrabal“I was always lucky in my bad luck,” quipped Bohumil Hrabal, a Czech writer famous for his lovable characters and raucous plots. In his novels, a wastepaper compacter quotes philosophy, a man narrates a whole book in a single sentence, and an innocent, clumsy young train-station attendant manages to blow up a Nazi munitions train, […] Continue Reading |
Know Your Profs: Camosun Pipe Trades instructor and chair John Gordon sees trades fighting entitlementKnow 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 that you want to see interviewed in the paper? Maybe you […] Continue Reading |
New Music Revue: Rain Over St. Ambrose’s new album displays a spectrum of stylesRain Over St. Ambrose Still Waking Up (Independent) 4/5 This second album from Nova Scotia indie rockers Rain Over St. Ambrose is slow to start: the repetitive “29 Takes” fails to take full advantage of the band’s vocals. But things pick up fast. While “Broken Love” sounds like two other songs I know, the added […] Continue Reading |
News Briefs: July 15, 2015 issueThousands graduate at Camosun ceremony On June 18 and 19 over 3,000 students graduated from Camosun College at official ceremonies held at the Interurban campus. The ceremonies also saw six awards given, including one to Camosun Anthropology teacher Nicole Kilburn and her students for their bug festival, which was featured on the cover of Nexus […] Continue Reading |
