Time to Buy BC campaign encourages consumers to buy from local alcohol producersAs of April 14, BC’s alcohol industry has united in an initiative to mitigate the economic downturn resulting from the COVID-19 crisis. The Time to Buy BC campaign encourages consumers to prioritize smaller manufacturers from within the province when purchasing beer, wine, and spirits. BC Craft Brewers Guild executive director Ken Beattie says that the […] Continue Reading |
Ghostly Walks looking at spooky Victoria locales a Halloween hitWith the start of the Halloween season comes a chill in the air. The smell of fallen leaves floats on crisp, chilling winds. Also, warm drinks are back in full swing. But, yes: it’s the time of year when people start to think of ghouls and ghosts. I recently went on one of Victoria’s Ghostly […] Continue Reading |
The Great Canadian Beer Festival 2019: The Nexus reviewThere’s not much we won’t do for you, our faithful readers. We work around the clock when we need to, we file Freedom of Information requests, we sprout early grey hairs doing stressful interviews, and, sometimes, we drink a lot of beer. For you, faithful readers, of course. Usually we spread out our review of […] Continue Reading |
The Great Canadian Beer Festival returns with more breweries than everIt makes sense to assume that The Great Canadian Beer Festival—Canada’s oldest beer fest, now in its 27th year—is a well-oiled machine, stumbling along status quo, quaffing a few sours and stouts along the way. But there’s big changes behind the scenes in 2019: the Victoria Beer Society (VBS) took over operations of the fest […] Continue Reading |
Maritime Museum launches exhibit about the state of oceansThe Great Pacific Garbage Patch is exactly what it sounds like it is: 80,000 tonnes of our shit floating in the ocean. Broken down, that’s the weight of roughly 500 jumbo jets, or about 250 pieces of garbage for every human being walking this planet. The Maritime Museum of BC’s exhibit The Great Pacific Garbage […] Continue Reading |
Speaker to discuss the importance of urban forestryCecil Konijnendijk has travelled the world giving talks about the importance of urban forestry. Now Konijnendijk, who is also an Urban Forestry instructor at the University of British Columbia, is coming to Victoria to speak. His goal with these talks is to show people the benefits of having trees in urban areas—trees can cool our […] Continue Reading |
Florian Schulz explores conservation work through photographyMost people would dread the idea of travelling to an isolated part of the world; photographer Florian Schulz isn’t one of those people. Instead, Schulz—who is speaking in Victoria in February at a National Geographic Live event—is intrigued by the idea of the deserted and unknown places. He sees them as an opportunity to spread […] Continue Reading |
Victoria Beer Week back for sixth year of education and sudsy good timesHosting 21 events over 9 days, Victoria Beer Week (VBW) is coming just in time to save us all from these lonesome winter blues. Back for its sixth year, the event is shaping up to be the best VBW yet. 50 craft breweries from all across BC will showcase beers exclusive to the event, and […] Continue Reading |
Christmas Craft Beer Show brings more than just brewsTrevor Thors has a vision of what the perfect beer event is, and he’s throwing everything he has into making sure that each incarnation of his annual Christmas Craft Beer Show at the Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre is as close as possible to that vision. The event—now in its third year—is a carefully curated and meticulously […] Continue Reading |
Primatologist who discovered mouse lemur to speak in VictoriaAs a young girl, Mireya Mayor was told it was too dangerous to join the girl scouts. Today, she has claimed the title “the female Indiana Jones.” Mayor is now a primatologist, correspondent for National Geographic, and a mother of six kids. “When I decided to head off on my first expedition, I had never […] Continue Reading |
