Ska Fest announces majority of 15th anniversary lineupVictoria’s annual Ska Fest recently announced the bulk of its 15th anniversary lineup. Headlining the annual summer music festival, which takes places in downtown Victoria in multiple outdoor and indoor venues July 1-5, are Los Angeles ska/punk/funk legends Fishbone. Led by hyperactive singer Angelo Moore, the band is celebrating its own anniversary this year, having […] Continue Reading |
ZZ Top bring timeless rock to VictoriaThe night’s mission was simple: to figure out if ZZ Top guitarist/vocalist Billy Gibbons really is the coolest man alive. All signs pointed to the affirmative, from the pictures of the man I’ve been looking at for the past 30-odd years to the endlessly and effortlessly swingin’ and swaggerin’ licks every ZZ Top album is […] Continue Reading |
Yes come through on promise of lofty prog rockThis week, some 45 years into their career, Yes made their first ever appearance in Victoria. On this current tour, they are promising to perform three of their sprawling progressive rock albums from the ’70s in full. You may wonder how a band can fill arenas worldwide with a promise like this in 2014. The […] Continue Reading |
A pleasant night at the opera: Charpentier’s OrphéeAs a previously un-opera-ed student, attending my first opera was a bit like eating quinoa or acai berries for the first time; you wanted not to like it because it’s so pretentious, but it actually turns out to be pretty good. I approached Charpentier’s Orphée (a combination of two operas) without prior comparison and was […] Continue Reading |
Wake Owl and Lyon bring experimental indie fun to VictoriaThe dimly lit ex-loading dock known as Lucky Bar was completely sold out for a great night of musical talent with Lyon opening for Wake Owl on Thursday, March 13. It was the first stop on Vancouver Island for the bands that have been touring across Canada together; the next venues they’re hitting will be […] Continue Reading |
Zed: Chapter 1The following is a theatrical retelling of a Humans vs. Zombies event, hosted by UVic Urban Gaming. During these events, the last of the human race fights off the zombie horde with everything NERF at their disposal, accomplishing missions as they try to survive. Rain pounded against the train windows as we zoomed down the […] Continue Reading |
Camosun’s annual Cultural Showcase moves to new, larger venueIf you were one of the standing-room-only attendees at last year’s Cultural Showcase event, held on the Lansdowne campus in the Young building, you might be relieved to hear of the event’s biggest change this year. The annual event, a talent show of sorts for Camosun’s international students, will take place at the Victoria Conservatory […] Continue Reading |
Langham Court’s The Graduate too frantic for important subtletiesThe Graduate, originally a novel written by Charles Webb in 1963, was made into a film in 1967. Now it’s in Victoria as a play, but it just doesn’t pack the same punch. The storyline follows the awkward and unsettled tendencies of post-graduate Benjamin Braddock, who finds his idle self lured into the web of […] Continue Reading |
Goo Goo Dolls make Victoria women scream with limp rockLast night was the first time the power balladeering/power pop stars Goo Goo Dolls (read our recent interview with them here) had played in Victoria for about 200 years (okay, since 1988), so it was no surprise that I was surrounded by women of varying ages (okay, mainly middle-aged) singing along to every word of […] Continue Reading |
Noms! web exclusive: A return to Pizzeria Prima StradaPizzeria Prima Strada is a pizza place featuring classical Italian thin crust pizzas fired in a wood stove, focusing on simple ingredients with a lot of flavour. I reviewed Prima Strada some months back, and at that time left the pizzeria feeling somewhat salty… No, seriously; what I had was so salty I had trouble […] Continue Reading |
