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A common misconception, at least among the older generations, is that hip-hop is angry and hard, even negative. Oakland hip-hop crew Zion I proved on their recent stop in Victoria that this is simply not the case. In fact, their smooth performance in front of a generous Wednesday night crowd at Club 9one9 was all […]

Speaking in Tongues begins with a seductive dance between two couples on stage; Jane is married to Pete, Sonja to Leon. Jane and Sonja unknowingly swap husbands and engage in a one-night stand. As each couple’s infidelities unfolds, the on-stage chemistry becomes overwhelmingly powerful, just enough to make a girl blush. Even though you want […]

A time before YouTube. A time before the internet. A time even before television. This is the stage upon which This is Twisted Theatre presents their unique performances: live readings of classic radio plays. On February 1 and 2 the troupe performed The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, the second installation of Douglas […]

Veteran comic book author Trina Robbins has spent the past 30 years battling against misconceptions in order to truly forge a place for super-heroines alongside their male hero counterparts. Robbins’ work on female-led titles like Wonder Woman and the first all-female comic, 1970’s It Ain’t Me Babe, as well as her books on other female […]

Jaws. Raiders of the Lost Ark. 2001: A Space Odyssey. Goodfellas. An American Werewolf in London. Pulp Fiction. Imagine if those were just some of the choices for a night at the movies, instead of whatever pap is playing at the local Cineplex these days. On February 1-7, Cineplex has put together a cross-Canada movie […]

Okay. Deep breath. Canadian songbird Nelly Furtado’s performance at the Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre on January 8 was special. Very special. The kind of special that makes you want to kill yourself. Now-deceased tyrannical Lybian leader Moammar Gadhafi got a full dose of Nelly when she and other pop stars like Usher and Mariah Carey played a […]

The crowd at the recent Pink Mountaintops show at Upstairs was such a diverse mix of young, old, and in-between. I saw a couple in their 60s, people in their 20s and 30s, and the oddball standing alone at the side of the club holding a beer. Everyone in the diverse crowd was here to […]