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 |
Phoenix Theatre’s Picnic: strong performances, strong messageThe UVic Phoenix Theatre’s production of William Inge’s Picnic is exactly what you would expect to experience at a family picnic: some laughs, some awkwardness, and lots of family drama. Picnic is a story of young love, ambition, and the classic yearnings of the human heart, all set in one location over a 24-hour period. […] Continue Reading |
Inside Llewyn Davis will leave some viewers out in the coldThe latest Coen Brothers film, Inside Llewyn Davis, left me feeling like an outsider in more than one respect. Without any real knowledge of the world of folk music or any real connection to the characters, I waited patiently outside to be invited into the story. I was left disappointed when what I expected to […] Continue Reading |
Kitt & Jane win Fringe lottery, plan Canadian tour this summerOne of Victoria’s more successful independent threatre productions recently received the rather exciting news that they’d won a chance to tour their show at various Canadian Fringe festivals this summer. The creators of Kitt & Jane: An Interactive Survival Guide to the Near-Post-Apocalyptic Future, a local theatre favourite the past couple of years, won the […] Continue Reading |
