Camosun Chargers’ Charles Parkinson joins CBC Olympic broadcast teamCamosun Chargers men’s volleyball coach Charles Parkinson will be part of the CBC/Radio Canada broadcast team during the 2016 Olympic Games, which are being held in Rio. Parkinson will be commentating from the CBC office in Toronto during the Olympic volleyball events. Parkinson, who is a former captain of the Canadian men’s volleyball team, says […] Continue Reading |
Photo gallery: Camosun’s Fine Furniture and Joinery students display final projects at art galleryIf you haven’t made it down to the Gallery at Cedar Hill Rec Centre to check out Chairisma: Seating in Western Maple (gotta be honest: we love the name), you still have a chance. The exhibit, which displays the final projects of Camosun’s Fine Furniture and Joinery students, is open to the public until 8pm […] Continue Reading |
The Man Who Knew Infinity more trailer than movieThe Man Who Knew Infinity (2016) 2/5 The Man Who Knew Infinity (2016) is a poor-boy-cum-genius flick set mainly in the politically and socially incorrect era of early 20th-century England. It tells the true story of Srinivasa Ramanujan (Dev Patel), a mathematics genius who gets the opportunity to study at Cambridge University with G.H. Hardy […] Continue Reading |
Theresa Caputo connects with emotions, wallets in VictoriaLong Island Medium personality and, well, Long Island medium Theresa Caputo brought a good-sized crowd into Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre on Monday night. After she got through telling the audience all about her hair and her shoes, and how they could join her fan club for $19.99 (to be fair, she did say all proceeds go […] Continue Reading |
The Meddler shows moms in a real light, with much successThe Meddler 4/5 The Meddler (2016) is so much better than you think it’s going to be. Don’t read a plot synopsis before watching, as the wonderfulness of this film isn’t found in the storyline; The Meddler is most exceptional in the moments in between, when it sits back and allows Susan Sarandon to really […] Continue Reading |
Anti-Flag brings spirit of punk to Victoria“Welcome to the goddamn punk rock show,” sang Anti-Flag bassist Chris #2 during the bridge of their song “Fabled World” at their April 29 show at Victoria’s Distrikt Nightclub. And it made sense: Anti-Flag is a band from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania that embodies the very essence of punk. The band members sport mohawks and black skinny […] Continue Reading |
Social Media Camp teaches more than marketingAttention marketing, communication, and social-media fans: Social Media Camp is coming soon. Co-Producer Paul Holmes started doing events based around website software WordPress in 2008, and things have been going strong since. “We ended up running those for five years,” he says. “People were very interested in what was happening with WordPress.” The strong interest […] Continue Reading |
To See or Not to See: The Lobster best served with butter and perseveranceThe Lobster 3/5 “Now, the fact that you’ll turn into an animal if you fail to fall in love with somebody during your stay [at the hotel] is not something that should upset you, or get you down.” These are words spoken by the hotel manager to David (played by Colin Farrell) in The Lobster […] Continue Reading |
Iceland does a great deal with very littleThree actors, three chairs, and one empty set were all that carried Iceland, and it worked. The performance, part of the 2016 Spark Festival at the Belfry Theatre, was a series of monologues, with the occasional chime-in from another actor in one of the opposing chairs. The carefully timed monologues described the death of a […] Continue Reading |
Summer and Smoke fizzles outGoing to see a play that’s set in the south and is about a romantic love story should be an ideal date night. And Summer and Smoke has a beautiful set, interesting costumes, and big southern personalities, but that’s about it. I sat down to watch this adaptation of Tennessee William’s Summer And Smoke at […] Continue Reading |
