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My evening at the opera—La Traviata—began last night with a compelling pre-performance lecture from Pacific Opera Victoria’s Robert Holliston. The stories he told of the the inspiration for La Traviata were intriguing, and immediately made clear the opera’s influence on familiar stories such as Moulin Rouge! and Pretty Woman. The opera was first performed in 1853, but the story […]

The last few days have been a bit of a blur. I have spent 48 hours inside, either staring dreamily out the window at the mountains of snow, or staring somewhat less dreamily at Netflix. Irritability was rising; both my partner and my cat were snapping at me. Hence, I welcomed the chance to break […]

Love finds itself briefly in the dusty streets of Nairobi as two young Kenyan women attempt to tackle the complex emotions within while facing the hostile world outside in <em>Rafiki</em> (which translates to “friend”). Director Wanuri Kahiu’s movie follows Kena, the daughter of a divorced politician and a disgruntled schoolteacher, as she coasts across town, […]

Updated: Camosun College campuses are closed today, Wednesday, February 13. Updated: Camosun College campuses are closed today, Tuesday, February 12. On Monday, February 11, just after 6:30 am, Camosun College announced that both campuses would be open despite snowfall overnight continuing into today and Saanich Police urging people to not drive if at all possible. […]

306 Hollywoodmakes it clear that it is neither a documentary about a famous person, nor one about anything even all that remarkable. In fact, the film revels in its everyday mundanity, for that is where life’s essence lies, and, in this case, where grandma’s heart still beats.  After death, the soul has 11 months to […]

Written and directed by Matthew McKenzie, Bearsis the story of a First Nations man intimately engaged with the mountains, the rivers, the animals, the fish, and the insects he encounters on a life-changing journey. This is multidisciplinary work, bringing together dance, electronic music, spoken word, and science. Bearsis little bit jarring at first, the mystery of […]

What could go wrong when an eccentric anthropologist and 11 men and women from vastly different backgrounds board a shoddy raft with nothing but wind and currents to propel them across the Atlantic Ocean? For Santiago Genovés—the Spanish maestro of one of the most unusual social experiments ever conducted—hopefully, a lot. Is war intrinsic human […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]