PACWEST basketball championships to be held at Camosun

Camosun College Athletics will be hosting the 2012-13 Pacific Western Athletic Association (PACWEST) Provincial Men’s and Women’s Basketball Championships from February 28 to March 2, 2013. It’s the first time that Camosun has hosted the event, which will go down on the Chargers’ home turf: the Pacific Institute for Sport Excellence (PISE) at Interurban. “This […]

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Reasons to Be Pretty tackles sensitive issue of beauty with success

How do you know the reason someone is pretty? Perhaps a few things pop into your head; perhaps nothing does. The play Reasons to be Pretty handles a sensitive and controversial topic. The advantages of beauty are the issue; obviously, the heated discussion is ongoing. At the beginning of Reasons to be Pretty, the audience […]

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Shakespeare in Love delights with unconventional methods

Love in all its wonderful, terrible, and complex forums is presented in Shakespeare In Love, a play using scenes from Shakespeare’s various works, showing both the light and dark sides of being in love. Directors Ian Case, Kate Rubin and Karen Lee Pickett guide an engaging cast though the historic Craigdarroch Castle in this unique performance. […]

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Camosun students use candy-grams to help African orphanage

Students at Camosun College are planning a Valentine’s Day candy-gram service that will not only raise the spirits of that special someone on campus, but also raise awareness and funds for an orphanage in Tanzania, Africa. Second-year sociology students Carly Charlebois, Amanda Roberts, and Ashley Pollari are undertaking the candy-gram service for a service-learning project […]

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Speaking in Tongues uses unique techniques to entertain

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 […]

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The devil is in the details for Twisted Theatre

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 […]

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Gabrielle Bernstein may cause miracles

Depending on who you ask, she’s now a messenger, translator, and spiritual leader. Some even call her a spiritual lexicon. But, like most leaders, it took a hard journey for her to get here. Gabreille Bernstein spent her early twenties partying at New York nightclubs and quickly fell into the lifestyle of living fast-paced and […]

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Real-life super-heroine comes to Victoria Film Fest

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 […]

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Cineplex screens classics flicks on digital screens

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 […]

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