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Garson Kanin’s Born Yesterday lives up to its name: while the language may remain of a certain era, its themes of corruption, integrity, and ignorance remain topical today. Following a blowhard crook attempting to pass legislation through a gutless congressman, the crook’s mistress finds a greater sense of self through education. This timeless story also […]

Selkirk College Students’ Union (SCSU) has attempted to put forth a motion that, if passed, would allow a vote to be held at the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS)’ upcoming semi-annual general meeting on whether or not to remove CFS chairperson Bilan Arte from office. Nexus was shown recent correspondence between SCSU chairperson Harkanwalpreet Kaur […]

Victoria’s Matt Franceschini has a few musical notches in his belt. While working with local bands Domesticated and Rosacea, the winds of inspiration directed the 17-year-old to create his own works into the instrumental Perspectives album. Franceschini says he draws inspiration from artists such as Tiny Moving Parts and he focuses on how happiness is […]

Good poetry always makes me question the hardest elements of being alive. The difference between reading poetry and sitting through a hard counselling session is simple: the words are painted on the page in such a way that no matter how hard they make me cringe in an introspective, damn-I-wish-that-came-from-my-brain-first kind of way, I always […]

Stars on Ice is a mixture of dance, theatrics, and—of course—ice skating, blending in a gloriously campy experience sure to bring a smile to any audience members’ face. The show—which came to Victoria’s Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre on Tuesday, May 16—provides a balance between the dark and light, although the glitzy ensemble opening to Bruno Mars’ […]

The Fitting Room and Snowfrog may display drastically different situations, yet on a deeper level, the two plays—on now as a double bill at Intrepid Theatre—manage to connect. The intensity the actors brought to their roles on opening night was astounding. While it is at times a little over the top, their characterizations allowed me […]

Within the pages of Victoria author Tom Hawthorn’s new book, The Year Canadians Lost Their Minds and Found Their country: The Centennial of 1967, readers will discover the history of Canada’s 100-year-anniversary and how our nation was forever transformed after 1967. “Canada was marking its 100th birthday of its founding and the government had decided […]

Students at Camosun College have varying opinions over which candidate to cast their ballot for in the upcoming BC provincial elections. About a third of the people Nexus spoke to on a recent May morning said they supported the Green Party, a third said they supported the NDP, and another third said they were undecided. […]

As anyone who is familiar with the plays of Harold Pinter—who won the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature—will attest, his works are notoriously unconventional, requiring a deft and figuratively minded hand for everything from set dressing to movement direction to be executed effectively. I’m happy to report that Jacob Richmond’s production of The Caretaker has […]