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News Briefs: Camosun Chargers update, a moving museum, and award-winning beer

Matt O'Connor, contributing writer

October 1, 2014

Chargers 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 […]

Camosun College Student Society meets with government to address concerns

Sera Down, contributing writer

October 1, 2014

Members 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 […]

The Garden continue to confound and confuse

Josh Traill, contributing writer

October 1, 2014

California-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 […]

Belfry’s The Rez Sisters looks at rez life for women

Annie Luke, contributing writer

October 1, 2014

“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. […]

The artist’s dilemma: creating a living as an artist or living to create art

Erin Blondeau, contributing writer

October 1, 2014

What 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 […]

What’s Going On October 1 to 14, 2014: Byrd watching, flash tattoing, and prison play-ing

Matt O'Connor, contributing writer

September 30, 2014

Wednesday, 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 […]

Age of Geeks: Time for some iBugs

Vishal Pandey, contributing writer

September 30, 2014

We 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 […]

Booze Clues: Cocktail perfection at Little Jumbo

Andrea Valentine-Lewis, contribute writer

September 30, 2014

Little Jumbo is a relatively new cocktail lounge/bar in town, but since it’s run by some of Victoria’s booze pioneers, it’s already a hot spot. Located down a secretive alley on lower Fort (506 Fort St.), Little Jumbo seems modest from the outside, but as soon as you walk in it’s a whole other story. […]

Lit Matters!: The question of why?

Keagan Hawthorne, contributing writer

September 30, 2014

“Information is endlessly available to us; where shall wisdom be found?” This is the question American literary critic Harold Bloom asks at the beginning of his book, How to Read and Why. Bloom isn’t the only person to ask this question and then find the answer waiting in literature. “If I were a young person […]

New Music Revue: Counting Crows find themselves with Somewhere Under Wonderland

Greg Pratt, managing editor

September 30, 2014

Counting Crows Somewhere Under Wonderland (Capitol Records) 4/5 For their sixth studio album, pure American rockers Counting Crows have taken a step back, with fantastic results. Their last album was back in 2008, after all; they’ve had time to rethink what makes them great, and here they deliver with astonishing results from the second the […]