Cool Thing: October 1, 2025 issue |
Magazine Issue
The worst cocktail you’ll ever taste: My life with ADHD and anxietyWhat’s your favourite drink to have at the bar? Maybe you and your colleagues like a nice cold mug of lager or a stout after a hard day’s work in the summer sun. Maybe you prefer to unwind with a nice glass of wine and relax by yourself in a quiet section of the venue. […] Continue Reading |
Evie the Alien: October 1, 2025 issue |
Enjoying fall comfort foods on a budgetIt’s a Wednesday evening and you’re heading back home from a busy day at college. The wind chills the environment and you deeply crave something familiar and warming, something homemade with easy ingredients. That’s when the idea comes to mind: comfort food. The moment when food connects with the soul, and the dish leaves your […] Continue Reading |
25 Years Ago in Nexus: September 17, 2025 issueTele-Reg-o-Mania: In the age of exasperating online class registration and complicated student portals, we should be grateful of the system’s immediacy. In our September 18, 2000 issue, writer Shane Berkholtz complained about the then-new and painful Tele-Reg process, where students use their phones to—get this—call a Camosun hotline to register for classes. Although it may […] Continue Reading |
Natural Selection: September 17, 2025 issue |
Open Space: In defence of real lifeDigital connection has never been more essential. We stay close to friends across continents, access unlimited information, and build communities around shared interests. Life is lived increasingly online, and while millennials and Gen Zs have been coined as “digital natives,” our digital ecosystems have become fertile ground for conquest by those seeking profits. Your attention […] Continue Reading |
New Music Revue: Yasmine Hamdan offers cathartic pleas for hopeYasmine Hamdan I remember I forget (Crammed Discs) 4.5/5 To listen in length to an unfamiliar language is to become fluent in a spirit. When listening to Yasmine Hamdan’s latest album I remember I forget, I do just that—understand not the words but the distress, the devotion, the tenderness. She carries in her tune a […] Continue Reading |
Intrepid Theatre’s Metro Studio closing after 20 yearsAfter two decades of running the Metro Studio, a small venue in the southwest corner of the Victoria Conservatory of Music that has provided a performance space for independent theatre initiatives since 2005, Intrepid Theatre will soon be closing its doors. Confronted by a large rent increase, the organization has made the decision to not […] Continue Reading |
Pieces of Performance: A slice of Cheesecake offered up with burlesque revueFor 20 hot years of sweat and happy tears, The Cheesecake Burlesque Revue troupe has been blessing stages and audiences from Victoria to Europe. Longtime Cheesecake performer Champagne Sparkles has deep pride in their small beginnings, which built to who they are today. “It started off as friends taking a workshop… [to performing] in a […] Continue Reading |