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What a way to end a fantastic week. On Saturday, March 11, I headed down to Centennial Square for Victoria Beer Week’s final event, Lift Off. Luckily, the rain stopped for the better part of the festivities, which was a chance for BC brewers to show off new beers to the public for the first […]

Elton John, two weeks shy of 70, kicked off a double header in Victoria last night. I saw him on his last visit to the city in February of 2011, not all that long ago, but there is still next to nothing that can prepare you for an Elton John show. His extended piano solos […]

In Intrepid Theatre, which is so tiny and intimate that the audience feels like part of the action, three women occupy a room, sometimes at once and other times alone. The play is Blind Portrait, featuring three women, and three thirds of a single mind tangled up in an inner conflict with herself. These three […]

If you’d asked me a year ago if I liked sours, I’d have said no. However, I do my best to welcome change, and I’m open to trying new things. Victoria Beer Week’s Pucker Up event on Thursday, March 9 went the extra mile to change my opinion. While sour beers are a relatively new […]

Rallies will be taking place all over the world this week in honour of the day that the Tibetan uprising against the Chinese People’s Liberation Army began. Tenzin Lhundup is an event organizer for the local Victoria march and the son of two Tibetan refugees who fled the country after the failed uprising in 1959. […]

Anyone who feels that the world is not hitting its full potential, or that it’s actually descending into an even deeper mess of discrimination, pollution, and corruption, will want to check out the Sierra Club BC’s upcoming event at Camosun College, When We Are Bold. Four activist women will speak at the event: Casey Camp-Horinek, […]

Part of the Victoria Beer Week series since it began three years ago, the Drink in the Story event held on Tuesday, March 7 put the spotlight on three men that have not only become stars in their own right but have also helped to shape the industry. The first speaker of the night was […]

Where can you learn the basics of brewing and the history of provincial prohibition in BC while drinking some delicious craft beer, all in one afternoon? If you answered “beer school,” move to the head of the class. Beer School is of interest for students studying microbiology, business, hotel and restaurant management, engineering, and digital […]

Victoria Beer Week kicked off on Friday, March 3 with the Friday Night Casks event; a diverse group of craft beer fans braved chilly temperatures outside the Victoria Public Market on Douglas Street to sample brews. The non-profit Victoria Beer Week Society organizes this event each year, for the betterment of the Victoria craft beer […]

Camosun College students who are nervous about exams, stressed out by an overload of work, or feeling kind of gloomy because of the weather this time of year are in luck: the Camosun College Student Society (CCSS) is hosting their annual De-Stress Fest on March 8, at the Interurban campus’ main causeway. CCSS clubs and […]