Eye on campus: March 6 – 19ongoing Cookbook contest The Camosun College Student Society wants you! Or at least they want your recipes. Why, you ask? They want to make a healthy college cookbook to help students eat healthy and cheap. Why should you contribute, you ask? Apart from helping out a great cause, there are prizes. Three prizes of Thrifty’s […] Continue Reading |
Sour Grapes: Sous-vide fine dining from plastic bagFor the humble home cook, the options for making food edible are mostly limited to the basics: sauteing, steaming, baking, broiling, and perhaps the occasional flambe. But these days, more and more people are getting fancy in the kitchen. And fancy foodies love a complicated cooking method. Sous-vide, French for “under vacuum,” is a method […] Continue Reading |
Speaker’s Corner: Nothing to fearWhen it comes to public speaking, according to common “top fear” lists, some of us would rather be dead than deliver a speech. On listverse.com, writer Caty Medrano compiled her idea of “top 10 strong human fears.” What I like about her list is that it deals in the drives behind fears: Losing your freedom […] Continue Reading |
Local, Live, and Loud: March 6 – 19Thursday, March 7 Masta Ace, Stricklin, Wordsworth, The Bundles, Ill Tone & The Kids Lucky Bar, $18, 9 pm I’m consistently amused by the way a story can be transformed from one mouth to another. It’s like that game Telephone. You know the one? Remember it from when you were a kid? In it, it’s […] Continue Reading |
New textbook program to save Camosun students moneyA new program will grant BC students easier and inexpensive access to their textbooks. Under the new open textbook program, which could be implemented as early as September, postsecondary students in select courses will be able to read their texts online, download them for free, and print them for a fraction of the price of […] Continue Reading |
New Music Revue: Hollerado, KEN modeHollerado White Paint (Royal Mountain Records) 3.5/5 Sharing the stage with both Weezer and Jack White, Ottawa-based indie-rock band Hollerado have been sweeping the globe since debuting Record in a Bag back in 2010. Building steam over the past two years, their hit single, “Pick Me Up” from latest album White Paint does not […] Continue Reading |
Ability’s Muse: The many layers of suicideToo often I hear of families and friends losing loved ones to suicide. Those left behind are wracked with guilt, wondering what could have been done differently. There is much conflict and controversy as to how those no longer with us should be viewed. Suicide has been labelled as the ultimate act of cowardice, as […] Continue Reading |
Victoria artists flock together like birds of a featherStar-crossed artists Julien Loiselle and Aram Heinze are teaming up for Birds of a Feather, an art exhibition about women, birds, the conflict between beauty and inner demons, and taking flight. The luck of the draw brought Loiselle and Heinze together when they started working together at Spinnakers Brewpub. “Once we realized we were both […] Continue Reading |
Camosun weighs in on looming job shortageBC will lose close to 19,000 jobs due to a shortage of qualified persons, according to a number of recent reports. The BC Labour Market Profile, BC Stats, and Statistics Canada confirm that the number of jobs that require post-secondary credentials will exceed the amount of BC graduates between 2016 and 2020. According to Gloria Darroch, […] Continue Reading |
Book: Clarke Champniss returns with Republic of Rock ‘N’ Roll ’80s music tome via WarnerFor some, the music of the ’80s was as cheeseball as it gets. But for music journalist Kim Clarke Champniss, it was a revolution. The former MuchMusic VJ details what he says was one of the most important decades in rock in his new e-book, The Republic of Rock ‘N’ Roll, due out in March […] Continue Reading |
