Review: Victoria’s Great Canadian Beer Festival delivers a hoppy yearIt started off a bit gloomy with clouds, but the sun came out to whet beer-drinkers’ appetites at the 21st Great Canadian Beer Festival on September 6–7. Though the soggy turf at the festival site of Royal Athletic Park didn’t dry out, it was a small price to pay for the pleasure of drinking beer […] Continue Reading |
Gameplay: Hot fall games now availableAs gamers, we usually have to play the waiting game before getting our hands on a particular title. Sometimes we wait for weeks, even months, but eventually we push the thought of it out of our heads because the anticipation eats us up. Instead we busy ourselves with school, work, or just life itself, and […] Continue Reading |
In Search of Lost Time: Why we need feminismI was hoping to write about another topic this week but in the wake of frosh week here in the colony of Canada we need to be discussing rape culture. Let’s not shy away, as have in other media sources, from the real impact and meaning of the chants that have been peppered throughout the […] Continue Reading |
Noms!: Spaghetti keeps on givingSpaghetti is a meal that can be created in bulk for reasonably cheap and provides you with dinner or lunch for days. Spaghetti is probably the most thought-of thing when people say “pasta,” and for good reason. Spaghetti is awesome, but for it to be awesome you need an awesome sauce. Okay, now that I […] Continue Reading |
All-day LGBTQ workshop at UVic welcomes and celebratesAn all-day workshop at the University of Victoria hopes to provide as many attendees as possible with strategies to build inclusive services for LGBTQ families. Welcoming and Celebrating Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity in Families, led by Canadian activist, educator, and author Rachel Epstein, will feature activities to get people thinking and communicating about easy […] Continue Reading |
Sudoku answers: September 18, 2013 issueAs promised, here are the answers to the two sudoku puzzles in our September 18, 2013 issue. Continue Reading |
The show is in the basement: house shows bring music back to basicsEarly the morning of June 21, after the devastating floods in downtown Calgary, the city’s long-running music festival Sled Island was forced to cancel the remainder of its dates. Many of the touring bands scheduled to play the festival were stranded in the city while festival wristband holders appeared to be up the river without […] Continue Reading |
Ability’s Muse: Submitted for your considerationAs students, we must manoeuvre a seemingly endless obstacle course of deadlines, cram sessions, and textbooks; add sleep deprivation and a substantial amount of debt and you’ve barely scratched the surface of the student experience. This is a common thread for all students, this struggle that exists to obtain that glorified piece of paper, and […] Continue Reading |
Age of Geeks: New phones all over the placeThe last two weeks have been quite eventful in the technology sector. New releases, acquisitions, controversial statements… everything seems to be happening at once. Here are the top four stories you shouldn’t have missed: Apple releases two new iPhones After several months’ worth of hype about the upcoming iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c, we finally […] Continue Reading |
Camosun Mechanical Engineering Showcase brings a bit of television drama to Interurban campusEveryone has ideas. 3D printing filament extruders, for example. Who hasn’t daydreamed of making those? Uh… who knows what those are? Well, the students involved in Camosun’s annual Mechanical Engineering Showcase do, and they’re ready to show off their ideas in physical form. Every year, second-year mechanical engineering students get a chance to display their […] Continue Reading |
