Victoria Film Fest review: Stockholm’s subject matter intriguing, delivery lacking

In the summer of 1973, a convict, fresh off parole, entered one of Sweden’s largest banks and took four employees hostage for six days in a bungled robbery. Director Robert Budreau’s re-imagining of the infamous event casts Ethan Hawke as Lars Nystrom, a raucous walking American stereotype who marches into Kreditbanken like a hurricane of […]

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Victoria Film Fest review: The Stranger a cautionary tale with unique approach

Budding romance is a powerful drug. In the early moments of an intimate relationship, it’s all too common to get in over your head and ignore the red flags and oddities in exchange for human connection. Danish director Nicole N. Horanyi’s documentary The Stranger vividly explores the remarkable account of one such encounter with wildly unimaginable […]

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Mother Mother get off to slow start but end up rockin’

It was a Monday night in Victoria and I was walking through the ghostly downtown streets wondering where the heck everybody was. Next thing I knew I was in the Royal Theatre, surrounded by the warmth of friends and families awaiting their island icons, Mother Mother, playing their first of two nights in town. The […]

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Fresh from Off-Broadway, James and Jamesy set to deliver laughs

If you thought Vancouver performers Aaron Malkin and Alastair Knowles were British after leaving last year’s performance of O Christmas Tea, you’re not alone. The stage actors—who go by the names James and Jamesy—grew up watching Monty Python, Mr. Bean, and other English shows that set the tone for their careers. Having just come from shows Off-Broadway, the […]

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“History being made”: Camosun College Student Society joins Canadian Alliance of Student Associations

On Friday, November 30, the Camosun College Student Society (CCSS) was officially accepted into the Canadian Alliance of Student Associations (CASA), a national student organization based out of Ottawa.  CCSS external executive Fillette Umulisa and CCSS executive director Michel Turcotte attended CASA’s lobby week in Ottawa, during which a plenary took place where the CASA […]

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Sugar plum fairies dance at the Royal in The Nutcracker

While the last couple weeks have seen Victoria saturated with Christmas lights and holiday greetings, I usually don’t even start thinking about Christmas until after exams. However, that transition came a little early this year, as I went to see The Nutcracker at the Royal Theatre on Friday night. Despite the show being a joint […]

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Editorial: Nexus stands with The Gateway

Alberta Conservative MP Kerry Diotte is taking legal action against The Gateway, the University of Alberta’s student newspaper, for alleged defamation; Diotte may seek up to $150,000 in damages, although the paper has retracted the statements in question. (To put that in perspective and as a reminder that student media operates on a shoestring, that’s […]

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Canadian College of Performing Arts puts fresh spin on Atwood’s The Penelopiad

Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad—a contemporary retelling of Homer’s The Odyssey—is proof that adaptations can make room for a personality and heartbeat of their own while remaining free of expectations, so long as the viewer is willing to do some mental gymnastics. From a metatextual-adaption point of view, ThePenelopiadthrives. The play is incredibly dark, horrifying, and, […]

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Camosun arsonist charged after weekend Interurban incidents

A Victoria man who was arrested at Camosun’s Interurban campus early Sunday morning went to court yesterday. Aaron Vince Raschke has been charged with three counts of break and enter with intent to commit offense, one count of mischief under $5,000, one count of theft under $5,000, and five counts of arson damaging property. He […]

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Updated: all Interurban buildings open for classes Wednesday

Camosun College has announced that the Centre for Trades Education and Innovation, the Pacific Institute for Sport Excellence, and the Centre for Business and Access will all be open for classes tomorrow, Wednesday, November 28. The buildings are not open today as clean-up is still being done. PISE will have limited first-floor access tomorrow as […]

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