O’Kanese deals with the dead for VictoriansVictoria has been known as one of the most haunted places in Canada, but it doesn’t have to be like that. Isabele O’Kanese is a native seer who aids people in their spiritual plights. O’Kanese, who is of the Oji-Cree nation, helps people with their haunts by doing tarot readings, psychometry, pet readings, and mediumship […] Continue Reading |
MMA fights criticisms, continues to growMixed martial arts (MMA) is a combination of boxing, Muy Thai, wresting, and Brazilian Ju Jitsu with its own unique set of rules. MMA started as a competition to see which of those sports was the best, but quickly turned into its own sport entirely. But while the popularity of MMA is increasing rapidly, so […] Continue Reading |
How to stay a fashionable man in VictoriaFashion is often considered a feminine pastime, but a man who can creatively style his duds is something to be appreciated. The popular saying “when you look good, you feel good” doesn’t just apply to weight loss, makeover shows, and women. Men should also embrace that saying and apply it to how they dress. “You […] Continue Reading |
Good Person of Setzuan contemplates poverty, moralsPoor people can also be good people. Good Person of Setzuan, the current production of the University of Victoria’s theatre department, is ready to drive that point home. Conrad Alexandrowicz, the director, writer, and choreographer, will be bringing the enlightening play (based on Bertolt Brecht’s classic work) to audiences in November. Brecht asks many important […] Continue Reading |
Comics: October 31, 2012 issue |
In search of lost time: Acceptance not toleranceEveryone has multiple dimensions to their lives and develops specific and sometimes specialized social instruments to function. We all have sets of behaviours and social guidelines that we follow in varying social groups. If we are to, for example, accept and support a person in a specific sector of our lives but in other sectors […] Continue Reading |
Sour Grapes: Cauliflower CrueltyMove over, kale: there’s a new food fad out there and, believe it or not, it’s even more boring than you. Yes, kale, it’s time to relinquish the healthy-eating crown to your awkward and anaemic cousin, cauliflower. Cauliflower is the new game in town when it comes to health-food trends, popping up in place of […] Continue Reading |
Speakers Corner: Powerful Points on PowerpointPowerPoint slides that dazzle by fading in and out don’t engage anyone anymore. Those days are long gone. Here’s how it’s done. Chicago-based slide-ology guru Nancy Duarte tells us all great speeches have a discernable pattern of “what is” and “what could be” until they wrap up in “a new bliss.” Does that sound like […] Continue Reading |
New Music Revue: October 31, 2012 issueKISS Monster (Universal Music) 4/5 Rating a KISS record is sort of like rating your grandparents. What can you say? Everything’s weird. Here, on their first studio album since no one really cares, the long-running pseudo-parody/rock band lay down the goods with surprising authority. It’s impressive that a band so out of touch with […] Continue Reading |
Plants and Animals embrace their FrenchnessSometimes a Canadian indie rock band gets to record their latest album in a pretty cool spot. But a recording studio in a 19th century mansion just 15 minutes from downtown Paris? Plants and Animals have to be kidding us. “We did it in a big house and that house itself is an instrument,” says […] Continue Reading |
