Noms!: Glen Lake Pub offers good eating in Sooke/LangfordThe Glen Lake Pub, situated on Sooke Road at the edge of Langford, got a big facelift back in March. While never a seedy sort of place, it wasn’t particularly well renowned either. Admittedly, I had never gone there before the renovation, but I had heard talk of droll decor and food prepared by people […] Continue Reading |
Camosun arts studio hosts WHL Royals’ Ben WalkerIf you see a guy with flaming red hair in the visual arts pottery studio at the Lansdowne campus, you might just have a budding Western Hockey League star in your midst. Victoria Royals right winger Ben Walker has been doing pottery as an independent study through Camosun College since January, but before you go […] Continue Reading |
News Briefs: Volleyball winner, student aid, dental patient shortageCCSS overcharges for U-Pass An error on the part of the Camosun College Student Society (CCSS) related to the monthly U-Pass was recently discovered by the college. Members of the CCSS accidentally had the college collect $1 per month more than was needed, and the CCSS and college agreed that refunding students the $1 would […] Continue Reading |
Open Space: Camosun student tells tale of trouble with mathLast Wednesday I wrote my first math test since I gave up on the subject in 1974. I scored 94 percent, and I’m angry. For 37 years I knew I was “no good at math,” but after only a month, a little gumption, and lots of help from my math teacher, I receive an almost […] Continue Reading |
Theatre: Ghosts of the Plaza looks at Victoria’s Plaza Hotel historyThe play Ghosts of the Plaza has elements of comedy and drama, and it also has a musical number. However, that’s not all it has to offer. Between all that, it manages to incorporate a part of Victoria’s history into the show. “A history that hasn’t really been looked at,” says play co-writer Sarah Smith, […] Continue Reading |
Belfry presents Let’s Make an Opera to Victoria theatre audiencesMost people have never thought about being in an opera. Now, everyone walking through the Belfry’s doors can have a chance to do just that. Let’s Make An Opera & The Little Sweep is a unique piece by Benjamin Britten, a main player in 20th-century British classical music. It’s a play about the making of […] Continue Reading |
A message from the Camosun College Student Society: Tuition increases unfairGovernment policy is not protecting students at Camosun College against excessive tuition increases. In 2005, the BC government set in place a tuition limit policy that limits post-secondary institutions to increasing tuition fees for existing programming by a maximum of two percent a year. New programming, however, can be set at any tuition level that […] Continue Reading |
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 |
