E-sports challenge conventional sports for popularityVideo games are big business. In 2013, consumers in the US spent over $20 billion playing video games. That’s double the amount they spent on going to the movies, and slightly more than the combined revenues of the NFL, NBA, and NHL. Inside this 40-year-old industry, a new sector, electronic sports (or e-sports), has seen […] Continue Reading |
Camosun alumnus latest addition to Victoria RoyalsIt hasn’t always been about sports for Camosun alumnus Adam McKinnon. Recently hired as the manager of communications and hockey coordinator by the Victoria Royals, McKinnon took a year off after completing high school to work in England at the Royal National Institute for the Blind. There he found another passion: working with children. “Their […] Continue Reading |
Former Camosun student Claire Bezuidenhout becomes Victoria’s living statueAmong all of the artists, musicians and street performers in downtown Victoria, one who stands out is actually a former Camosun student. Yes, the Copper Cowgirl, who sheriffs crime by standing absolutely still in the Inner Harbour, is actually Claire Bezuidenhout, a recent Camosun grad from the Community Support and Education Assistant program. “I loved […] Continue Reading |
News Briefs: Camosun Chargers update, a moving museum, and award-winning beerChargers take charge A group of 15 Camosun College student athletes have been awarded prestigious National Scholar Awards from the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association for achieving academic honours during the 2013/2014 season. Lachlan Ross, Harrison Mar, Brianne Larson, Elyse Matthews, Rachael Bakker, Olivia Bakker, Amy Acheson, Alex Sadwoski, Lucas Dellabough, Cameron Fennema, James Poirier, Jamie […] Continue Reading |
Camosun College Student Society meets with government to address concernsMembers of the Camosun College Student Society (CCSS) recently met with government officials to discuss and mediate student and institutional concerns. On Friday, September 5, the CCSS members met with MP Murray Rankin. Then, on Tuesday, September 9, they met with NDP Advanced Education Critic Kathy Corrigan, MLA Rob Fleming, and MLA Carole James. Hot-button […] Continue Reading |
The Garden continue to confound and confuseCalifornia-based twin brothers Fletcher and Wyatt Shears have impressed and confused the music world in equal amounts since they began their band The Garden in 2011. The Garden are anything but a normal punk band, and they definitely have their own style, rocking an overtly feminine wardrobe and blasting songs just over a minute long […] Continue Reading |
Belfry’s The Rez Sisters looks at rez life for women“It’s hard to be an Indian woman in this fucking country,” says character Emily Dictionary during the Belfry Theatre’s production of The Rez Sisters. The play, written by Manitoban playwright Tomson Highway, is set on an Indian reserve where seven women cross on conflicting paths that throw them into humorous and turbulent (and defining) situations. […] Continue Reading |
The artist’s dilemma: creating a living as an artist or living to create artWhat do professional artists do, exactly? Do they spend their days sitting cross-legged in a loft-style brick apartment in the city, wearing smocks and throwing paint on their canvases? And can they really make thousands of dollars for each painting? As a designer and photographer unfamiliar with the scene in Victoria, I found myself intrigued […] Continue Reading |
What’s Going On October 1 to 14, 2014: Byrd watching, flash tattoing, and prison play-ingWednesday, October 1 Byrd and Waken in Merlin North Carolina folk-music troubadours Jonathon Byrd and Johnny Waken, who’ve recently recorded a free album that can be downloaded through bandcamp.com, are currently touring through Canada and have hit the west coast. They will be performing with special guest Shari Ulrich at Merlin’s Sun House, a 50-seater […] Continue Reading |
Age of Geeks: Time for some iBugsWe aren’t even halfway through the fall and it’s already been an awesome season for mobile technology: there were the announcements of the Xperia Z3, Note 4, and new Moto X, and now Apple has unveiled the latest member of the iPhone family: the iPhone 6. While Android and iOS are two very different systems […] Continue Reading |
