Local, Live, and Loud: April 4-10Friday, April 6 The Sentimentals, Lovers, Capital Region Logans, $8, 9:30 pm Lovers had one of my favourite releases of 2010, and, to my understanding, the release went virtually untouched. Darklight is a fantastic album and has some really enjoyable, mellow pop songs. The trio has a lot of energy and emotion behind their music. […] Continue Reading |
Eye on Campus: April 4-10Wednesday, April 4-Thursday, April 5 CCSS Elections The last two days to vote in the Camosun College Student Society elections are Wednesday, April 4 and Thursday, April 5. Fill out a ballot and enjoy participating in democracy. Polling stations are located in the Campus Centre at Interurban and the Fisher building at Lansdowne, open from […] Continue Reading |
News briefs: Chargers, BoG, BC Transit, ban bottled waterCamosun students named academic all-Canadians Camosun College Chargers basketball players Jordan Elvedahl and Caitlin Marshall have been named academic all-Canadians. The Sport Information Resource Centre (SIRC) and the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) recently announced the 2011–2012 SIRC-CCAA Academic All-Canadian Award recipients, which included 162 student-athletes from across Canada. The SIRC-CCAA Academic All-Canadian award is […] Continue Reading |
Gone but not forgotten: A look at the Missing Women Commission of InquiryIt felt like a turning point. After years of requests by advocacy groups, the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry was finally about to begin. This was back in September, when Nexus covered the epidemic of missing and murdered women in BC. Many hoped that justice would be served. As the commission was preparing to launch […] Continue Reading |
High-school poetry slammers to claim victoryThere won’t be any dusting off of tomes or reciting of iambic pentameter at Victorious Voices, the third annual high-school poetry slam championships. Instead, teams of students from six Greater Victoria high schools will perform spoken-word poems for a panel of judges including mayor Dean Fortin and poet laureate Janet Rogers. The performances will be […] Continue Reading |
Charger Hilary Graham plays it coolThe Chargers women’s volleyball team were missing key players that day against the Douglas College Royals. Two powers were injured; a middle had dislocated one of her fingers. Coach Chris Dahl had considered second-year right side Hilary Graham as an outside hitter, but these depletions meant other players had to try different positions. “We had […] Continue Reading |
Fernwood-based pirate radio station reflects on raidA local pirate radio station called Fernwood Autonomous Radio (FAR) was recently forced to shut down after Industry Canada caught wind of the station tapping into local FM airwaves and raided the station’s domestic location. Joey Chaos, the individual who started the pirate radio station in Fernwood that was raided on February 23, first came […] Continue Reading |
Longwalkshortdock comes full circleA childhood deeply immersed in gaming has come full circle for Dave King, the Vancouver-based electronic musician better known as Longwalkshortdock. “Growing up, those video games were what was the most interesting to me,” he says. “Other than sports and school, vids were my main interest because I didn’t really give a damn about girls […] Continue Reading |
Music/theatre troupe tackles WaitsL’Orchestre d’Hommes-Orchestres (LODHO) is a band of one-man bands: six of them, to be precise. And the half-band, half-theatre troupe (made up of Québec City natives) are taking a shot at Tom Waits on their current tour. “We’re six people working together around the notion of being a one-man band, which to us means being […] Continue Reading |
Comics: March 21, 2012 issue |
