Magazine Issue

Idyllic Avenue, the first novel from local author Chad Ganske, is the end result of a life spent in the pursuit of writing. But the strange thing is that the sci-fi book, which follows Stanford “Saturn” Samuels (a man with an eye mutation that makes him “imperfect”) and his life on the distant planet of […]

Thanks to an old friend, a familiar face will again grace a familiar stage when Stephen McBean brings his Pink Mountaintops project to a new version of Harpo’s (now known as the Upstairs Cabaret in Bastion Square). Opened in 1974 and closed in 1995, Harpo’s is revered by longtime members of Victoria’s music scene as […]

One thing I noticed in my move from “friendly Manitoba” to “beautiful British Columbia” was the ability of BC residents to act like they live in a whole different country than the rest of Canada. Nowhere else have I met people who have travelled less outside their province or complained about their province while still […]

Vancouver magician Travis Bernhardt’s new show, Unpossible!, may stick out on the theatre-rich lineup of the annual UNO Festival, but his one-hour long demonstration of psychological trickery was written in the same spirit of adventure as the rest of the acts in the 17th annual festival of solo stage performers. “I wrote this show to challenge […]