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It’s a director’s worst nightmare: after months of preparation, something unexpected happens that requires a last-minute cast change. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street director Brian Richmond told the crowd just before the show started last night to go easy on Kieran Foss, who replaced Taylor Fawcett as a member of the chorus at […]

British blues-rock band The Temperance Movement have been busy building themselves up to something pretty damn good. The band aren’t afraid to go heavy, but they also slow things down on the title track of their third album, Deeper Cut, highlighting lead singer Phil Campbell’s ability to sound great whether he is backed up by […]

The third installment of Mom’s the Word—Mom’s the Word 3: Nest 1/2 Empty, playing now at the Belfry Theatre—brings the laughs as five comfortably middle-aged women share their experiences of parenting children in their 20s and beyond. When I arrived at the theatre, I was a little trepidatious because I hadn’t seen the first two […]

With the scorching heat of the past week, I was amused to see blankets being handed out at the Greater Victoria Shakespeare Festival’s outdoor performance of Pericles last night. After all, my apartment has fans blowing hot air around 24/7—how cold could a field at Camosun’s Lansdowne campus get at 8 at night? The answer: […]

Two things I wish I had known about Blue Bridge Repertory Theatre’s current production of The Drawer Boy: one, it’s pronounced drawer (like an artist), not drawer (like the thing in a desk); two, bring tissues—lots of tissues. Even though Michael Healey’s play is considered a landmark in Canadian theatre, I must admit I had […]

Canada’s RJ Barrett answered the nation’s questions about how he would adapt to the challenges of coming up against senior players in the Pacific Rim Basketball Classic (PRBC). The six-foot-seven Mississauga, Ontario athlete earned player of the game on Sunday night at Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre, as he and the Canadian senior men’s basketball team cruised […]

Growing up in a time of oppression for the 2SLGBTQ community, trumpet player Shaun Brodie grew used to living a lie. He had girlfriends. He stuffed his queer reality away, refusing to acknowledge it. “You know about gay because [of the phrase] ‘Oh, that’s so gay,’ or somebody called you a ‘faggot’ on the playground; […]

Filmmakers Nova Ami and Velcrow Ripper got inspiration for their new film Metamorphosis from wanting to create a poetic love letter to a planet rocked by climate change. Ami says it all started just over four years ago when Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines, killing over 6,000 people. Due to her close connection with the […]

Hermann’s Jazz Club is holding the Hermann’s First Annual Jazz Festival from June 20 to 30. Hermann Nieweler—who opened the club in 1986—passed away on June 10, 2015; after hard times involving legal issues with the club following Nieweler’s death, Hermann’s has been revamped and is ready to focus on jazz again, and the club […]

Ray LaMontagne Part of the Light (Sony) 3/5 Ray LaMontagne is back with his seventh studio LP, Part of the Light, a return to form after the 2016 Pink Floyd-inspired concept album, Ouroboros. Part of the Light is more reminiscent of 2014’s Dan Auerbach-produced Supernova. Musically, LaMontagne is drifting. The first single, “Such a Simple […]