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April 15, 2019 update: Aaron Raschke has been found not criminally responsible for his actions because of a mental disorder, according to a story in today’s Times Colonist. A psychiatrist said that Raschke suffers from a long-standing psychosis, according to the story. Update: Thirty-year-old Victoria man Aaron Raschke is facing 11 charges, including arson, break and […]

At 2:20 am on Sunday, November 25, alarms at the Pacific Institute for Sport Excellence (PISE) building at Camosun College’s Interurban campus went off after someone broke into the building and started a fire in it. The Saanich Fire Department responded to the alarm, and at approximately 2:45 am an intruder alarm went off in […]

With a heart attack, three divorces, and a music career spanning four decades, John Mellencamp knows that, as he says in “Jack & Diane,” “Life goes on long after the thrill of living is gone.” He perhaps even knows that better today than he did in the early ’80s when he first wrote those legendary […]

Goodnight Mister Tom is an incredibly moving story of a young World War II evacuee and a seemingly callous elderly man whose forced meeting grows into a heartwarming friendship. On the evening I went, the magical atmosphere of the night began far before the show, which is held in the timeless Langham Court Theatre. The […]

The premise of The Drowsy Chaperone is simple: there’s a musical (also called The Drowsy Chaperone) about a wedding within a play about a lonely man listening to the soundtrack of said musical. Simple. The execution of the show, on the other hand, is a complex undertaking that UVic’s Phoenix Theatre tackles with valiant effort. […]

In 2016, Kent Nerburn’s novel Neither Wolf Nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads with an Indian Elder was adapted into Neither Wolf Nor Dog, an independent film that’s been getting accolades from viewers all throughout North America since its release. In the film, which is screening in Victoria next week, Nerburn is invited to the Pine […]

Searching for parking in Fernwood in a pitch-black stormy November night has got to be some kind of metaphor for life. By the time I arrived in my seat at the Belfry Theatre to see Mustard on Thursday night, I was soaked, petulant due to vague parking signs, profusely perspiring, and thankful to forget it all […]

It’s a running joke among my friends that every concert I go to is the best one I’ve ever been to, but if I was expecting The Glorious Sons and Beaches show at the Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre to be the one to finally put an end to that joke, I hoped in vain. This show […]

Looking to amp up the spook factor these autumn evenings? One of Victoria’s creepiest locales, Craigdarroch Castle, is hosting its first Classics at Craigdarroch Movie Series this month. Every Thursday and Saturday evening in October, the castle will hold a classic horror movie screening. Halloween lovers and film aficionados alike have reason to celebrate, as […]

Confession time: on October 17, 2018, I lost my virginity. My Rocky Horror virginity, that is. On a night I shan’t soon forget, I swapped my Rocky Horror v-card for an evening of ecstasy with Atomic Vaudeville. From the moment the band came out in corsets and rubber suits, I knew I was in for a ride. […]