East meets west with Beats AntiqueIt all started when one of their members was asked to make a belly-dance record. The result was Beats Antique, a genre-bending band based out of San Francisco. All three members of the group – Zoe Jakes, David Satori, and Tommy Cappel – play a plethora of instruments, which helps give them their unique edge. […] Continue Reading |
Comics: January 25, 2012 issue |
Getting Fracked: BC allows extensive fracking, but at what cost?Jessica Ernst can light her tap water on fire. At least, Jessica Ernst could light her tap water on fire until she recently had the water disconnected from her home because it posed such a safety risk. Natural gas corporation Encana began drilling near Ernst’s property on the outskirts of Rosebud in southern Alberta in […] Continue Reading |
Earthy Edibles: Bean dreamsBasement Dweller Bean Dip In one of my past lives I worked in a low-ceilinged, dingy basement kitchen making dips and tapenades. We made such high volumes of these sumptuous spreads that we had to use the mother of all hand blenders, or what we dubbed the Bazooka. This baby was three feet long and […] Continue Reading |
Green Your World: Worth the risk?The Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline hearings are underway in Kitimat, BC. If Enbridge and the federal government have their way, two pipelines will be built: one carrying crude oil from Edmonton to Kitimat, and another transporting condensate in the reverse direction. Their reasoning: open up the oil taps to the Asian markets and create jobs. […] Continue Reading |
What’s Up With Her?: Professional valuesProfessions such as law, business, medicine, and economics have been deemed in our society as prestigious work that pays well and is well respected. These are also professions that have been and still are male-dominated and have required qualities of having a business mentality and being emotionally detached, like a bull ready to bulldoze through […] Continue Reading |
Double Teamed: A tooth for a…We’d both heard the myth about vaginas that have teeth; then we found an article online about this myth becoming a reality for one woman due to a dermoid cyst. Regardless of if vagina teeth are real or myth, we thought it was worthy of some discussion: Clorisa: Okay, on the count of three, say […] Continue Reading |
New Music Revue: January 25, 2012 issueYoung Jeezy TM103: Hustlerz Ambition (Def Jam) 1/5 The third and final installment in the Thug Motivation series, TM103: Hustlerz Ambition is a comparatively aimless and vapid attempt to close out the TM trilogy. Although the concept of a rap-saga gives the idea of a painstaking endeavour, it seems the only motivation the Young Hustler […] Continue Reading |
Film fest celebrates local and globalIt may be a cliché, but sometimes there’s truth in those things: Victoria Film Festival (VFF) director Kathy Kay says to “expect the unexpected” from the 18th annual celebration of film, running February 3-12. “There’s a lot of variety,” she says, “from Swiss films, horror films, Sarah Polley’s latest film [Take This Waltz], there’s an […] Continue Reading |
Local, Live, and Loud: January 25-February 7Wednesday, January 25 Bone Thugs-n-Harmony Club 90NE9, 10 pm, $25 There’s essentially nothing I can say as a skinny white guy from Victoria that can accurately portray, let alone rep, the legend that is Bone Thugs. Don’t be a dweeb—these guys are pros—go see the show. Friday, January 27 Slim Sandy & the Hillbilly Boogie […] Continue Reading |
