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You know what goes great with tasty fucking craft beer? Tasty fucking cheese! Victoria Beer Week is in full effect right now, with the intimate Beer, Cheese, More Beer event going down last night at the Victoria Public Market. Having eaten only instant ramen for dinner, I was feeling peckish on arrival. Thankfully, the moment […]

Let’s not beat around the bush: craft beer is fucking delicious. Friday night’s Lift Off! event at the Victoria Public Market made that abundantly clear. After five years in operation, Victoria Craft Beer Week—which runs until March 10—kicked off the night with 12 new-to-market brews, and some tasty snacks from the market’s in-house food stalls. […]

Theatre is humbling. In a world of crazy CGI backdrops and extravagant crane shots we sometimes forget that all one really needs to tell a story is a soapbox to stand on. UVic’s production of Crimes of the Heart by American playwright Beth Henley takes place exclusively in the kitchen of the Magrath family house. […]

Representatives from six different faiths spoke before a diverse audience at the eleventh annual World Religions Conference at UVic on Sunday night to discuss one thing: how do we work together to perform good works? The panelists included a speaker from each of the following faiths: Islam, Christianity, Baha’i, Metaphysical, Hinduism, and Sikhism. Rizwan Pirzada, […]

Man Proposes, God Disposes, Vancouver-based director Daniel Leo’s first film, is an artful movie about the beauty and chaos that comes with the decisions and consequences associated with adulthood. It’s a story about an unplanned interracial and intercontinental pregnancy and the ensuing struggle to make things work. Set in Poland and Brazil, with powerful, artistic […]

Photon, directed by Norman Leto, is an impressive documentary presenting current scientific theory regarding the formation and the behavior of the cosmos. It starts at the beginnings of the universe, goes through various ages of the Earth and evolution, and gives some predictions of the future. Using an effective combination of models and microscope footage […]

Award-winning Canadian-Jamaican director Charles Officer presents a passionate observation of the Greater Toronto housing crisis in Unarmed Verses. The film takes a heart-wrenching look at a low-income ethnic community’s struggle in the looming threat of becoming displaced due to condo development. In the movie, one 12-year-old girl from the Caribbean island of Antigua is followed […]

“They sit at the bar and put bread in my jar and say, ‘Man, what are you doing here?’” These Billy Joel lyrics certainly ring true for Montreal-born, Victoria-based musician Vince Vaccaro, especially when he’s playing live. A few songs into Vaccaro’s show at Capital Ballroom on Saturday, January 20, I found myself wondering, after […]

Getting that perfect photo can be hard; for photographer Ami Vitale, getting the right photo means spending time learning the stories of wherever she is. Vitale is a photographer for National Geographic and an ambassador for Nikon; she has spent time in almost 100 countries honing her art and telling the stories of the people […]

It seems the powers that be have succeeded in erasing Canada’s diverse identity and left her citizens apathetic, resentful, and intolerant. We’ve been sold the notion that we mustn’t draw attention to what makes us different from one another because “they” are too delicate to handle our differences. But Canada was founded on cultural differences. […]