New Music Revue: Exhumed deliver appropriately gory new record for October

Exhumed Horror (Relapse Records) 4/5 Exhumed, the death-grind legends from San Jose, California, are back with their seventh full-length studio album, Horror. Horror will satisfy the cravings of fans of brutal music. Horror contains 15 tracks, each as scary as the album title. Each song depicts scenes coming out of a slasher horror movie, with titles such […]

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Opera tells story of missing and murdered Indigenous women

Missing is an opera set in Vancouver’s downtown eastside and on Highway 16, also known as the Highway of Tears; it tells the story of missing and murdered Indigenous women, and, according to Stó: lō mezzo soprano Marion Newman, that’s a story that needs to continue to be told. “Probably [Missing is] one of the operas that […]

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Blue Bridge’s The 39 Steps a huge success

A boisterous jaunt from start to finish, Blue Bridge Theatre’s The 39 Steps is a must-see piece of theatre. Patrick Barlow’s satirical adaptation of the classic Hitchcockian thriller of the same name manages to create real suspense while pulling big laughs from the audience from the moment it starts. The idea is that the entire cast […]

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How a Liberal-NDP minority government will impact students

The 2019 Canadian federal election ended on Monday with the Liberal Party forming a minority government. The Liberals can negotiate with either the NDP or Bloc Quebecois to form government, although, realistically, they are far more likely to end negotiations with the NDP. How would a Liberal-NDP minority government impact students? Examining each party’s platform […]

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Temper-tantrum talks of western secession after election ridiculous

The 43rd Canadian national election came to a close last night with the Liberal Party in the clear lead for seats in Parliament, leaving them in a strong negotiating position as a minority government. This leaves the NDP and Bloc Quebecois both with the potential to negotiate their way into the Canadian government. However, the […]

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Weaksauce earns its name several times over

I expected Sam Mullins’ Weaksauce and Other Stories would be a show where one man takes possession of a small stage, bringing it alive with story. This came partly true. At some points, Mullins (a UVic alumnus and two-time Canadian Comedy Award-winner who has contributed to This American Life, Definitely Not the Opera, and more) owns the […]

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Griffin Poetry Prize winner Billy-Ray Belcourt brings poetry to Camosun College

Billy-Ray Belcourt—a poet who currently teaches at the University of Alberta and is reading at Camosun College on Thursday, October 3—had his most recent book, NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field, published earlier this month. It’s just the latest achievement for Belcourt, who became the youngest person in history to win the Griffin Poetry […]

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$10,000 in landscaping equipment stolen from Camosun’s Lansdowne campus on Labour Day Weekend

News reports circulated this weekend about $10,000 in gas-powered landscaping equipment being stolen from Camosun’s Lansdowne campus on Saturday. However, Camosun has confirmed to Nexus that the thefts actually happened on Labour Day Weekend. The equipment was stolen from a storage building in the main parking lot off Foul Bay Road. Camosun executive director of communications […]

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Dead Man’s Cell Phone looks at the human-phone relationship

Chicago playwright Sarah Ruhl’s Dead Man’s Cell Phone, playing now at Victoria’s Theatre Inconnu, fits completely into the category of “mind-bender,” which, in a nutshell, covers anything that can dramatically and rapidly cause your thought pattern to go “…eh?” The play’s protagonist, Jean, played by Inconnu regular Melissa Blank, is one of those likeable and slightly […]

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Over the River and Through the Woods proves everything comes beautiful

Sometimes really difficult decisions have to be made. We make them based on feelings, values, and information that we have at that moment in time. They don’t always feel like the right decisions, but, hopefully, they turn out to be the right ones. Langham Court’s first play of the season, Over the River and Through […]

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