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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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]