Lit Matters: Hermann Hesse the original beat poetHermann Hesse, a German writer best known for his novels The Glass Bead Game, Steppenwolf, and Siddhartha, received the Nobel Prize in 1946. He had a troubled childhood and didn’t do well in school, so most of his education as a writer came during the evenings while he was apprenticing to become a bookseller. Working […] Continue Reading |
20 Years Ago In Nexus: March 4, 2015 issueStinky situation: It’s a news story from 20 years ago that mirrors complaints island residents still have today: our March 6, 1995 issue talked about how Interurban students had been smelling something stinky in the air recently. “Mr. MacNutt, across the street, has a compost business where he mixes topsoil with animal wastes; depending on […] Continue Reading |
Belfry brings social issues to light during SPARK festThe 2015 SPARK Festival is presenting a blend of performances celebrating wild inhibition, the Canadian dual identity, and the mockery of the yoga and health industry. The goal is to showcase theatre pieces that are ahead of the curve, and playwright/dancer Anita Majumdar cannot be further from it in her performances Let Me Borrow That […] Continue Reading |
New Music Revue: Led Zeppelin’s Physical Graffiti still perfectLed Zeppelin Physical Graffiti (Atlantic Records) 5/5 The latest Led Zeppelin reissue tackles 1975’s huge Physical Graffiti, a double album of absurdly good, acid-destroyed rock. All these years later, it still sounds perfect. “Custard Pie” is one of the best album openers ever, and “In My Time Of Dying” is an 11-minute funeral dirge… placed […] Continue Reading |
Canadian poet Gwendolyn MacEwan honoured in new Theatre Inconnu play“All I have ever cared about/and all you should ever care about/is what happens when you lift your eyes from this page.” Beautiful words from the late Canadian poet Gwendolyn MacEwan’s Let Me Make This Perfectly Clear. The Ontario native passed away in 1987 and is still considered by many to be one of Canada’s […] Continue Reading |
Dickens’ unsolved mystery brought to the stage at Langham CourtThe great author and storyteller Charles Dickens wrote The Mystery of Edwin Drood, but the case could never be solved. Dickens passed away before writing the end of the story, leaving his last piece of work unresolved and in the hands of desperate playwrights trying to take advantage of his untold tale. Langham Court Theatre […] Continue Reading |
Vinyl Supernova home to Victoria’s vinyl resurgenceAll of the Victoria record collectors wondering when the next big event is going on will want to check out Vinyl Supernova. The largest record fair on Vancouver Island, Vinyl Supernova will be home to over 50 vendors selling their merchandise. Local record stores from all over the island, and even a few off the […] Continue Reading |
The cheque’s no longer in the mail: what will happen to Canada Post as it struggles to remain relevant?At Canada Post’s Victoria sorting plant, manager Kevin Pearson strides onto the huge facility floor and says, “This is where it happens.” At 3:30 on a Tuesday afternoon, “it” means quite a lot. Long, shiny conveyor belts snake from laser-scanning machines into the caverns of trucks and suck up packages of all shapes and sizes. […] Continue Reading |
Victoria Beer Week brings more cheers to another yearWith its abundance of craft breweries, it’s pretty clear that Victoria is a beer-drinking city, so a beer-specific week seems perfectly natural. Enter Victoria Beer Week. “There was a group of us that started meeting, all kinds of different people, but all related to beer,” explains Joe Wiebe, co-founder of the festival and author of […] Continue Reading |
What’s Going On: March 4 to 17, 2015Tuesday Evenings Weekly drop-in sports at Interurban Interurban students are on a mission to spread health and wellness. The idea is to give Camosun students opportunities to participate in free/drop-in activities in a safe, inclusive, and social environment. The drop-in sports take place on Tuesdays from 8:30 to 9:30 pm at the PISE Gym at the […] Continue Reading |
