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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. […]

About a third of the way into Anthropocene: The Human Epoch, a man installing an electric car battery is wearing a T-shirt that states these words: “Don’t know, don’t care.” Director Jennifer Baichwal, who grew up in Victoria, has created a meditative film (the third in a series, following Manufactured Landscapes and Watermark) that introduces us […]

If you are in any way tempted to run away with Cirque du Soleil, I hope you have nerves of steel and the grace of a snowflake. Have you ever tried the hula hoop? On your foot? While doing the splits? Suspended upside down by two people? I didn’t know where to focus—the entire 360-degree […]

My face hurts. I haven’t laughed this much in… I don’t know how long. I just went to see Potted Potter at the McPherson Playhouse with my best friend; we both walked in with high expectations and out with big grins. “Is this my Maurauder’s Map?” I asked the usher as she handed me a scroll […]

Believe it or not, Victoria’s Langham Court Theatre has just celebrated the opening of its 90th season. And what better way to kick off the year than with a tried and tested favourite? In this case, it’s Blithe Spirit by Noël Coward (it’s so much a favourite that this is the company’s fifth rendition of […]

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: […]