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William Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors, adapted by Jeffrey Renn, brought me great joy last night at the University of Victoria’s Phoenix Theatre; it’s a creative and colourful farcical comedy and the soundtrack to this “pop musical reboot” of the play is great. As those who are familiar with the play know, it’s all about […]

Women’s voices reach out across the pitch-black room in a tune that sounds almost mournful. When the lights come up, two women wearing bathing suits sitting in a soaker tub are illuminated on centre stage. The floor, ceiling, and curtains shroud the stage in funerary black, contrasting the virginal white bathtub and swimsuits. So begins […]

I’m just about done with Victoria Beer Week. You shouldn’t be able to attend this many fun beer events in one week. No, you should. Victoria Beer Week is probably the best festival of its kind you’re going to find anywhere. This is not hyperbole. If you wanted to have one night of fun during […]

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 […]