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Director Jeff Baena’s made-for-Sundance sex comedy The Little Hours (which opens on Friday, July 21 in Victoria) is a ribald gallop through a pair of related stories from Giovanni Boccaccio’s 14th-century masterpiece The Decameron. Dave Franco stars as Massetto, a servant to font-of-deadpan-farce Lord Bruno (Nick Offerman). When Bruno discovers his illicit affair with the lady […]

Camosun College recently added a rainbow design to the bus loop at the Interurban campus and a rainbow crosswalk at the short-term parking at Lansdowne. Victoria company Scho’s Line Painting did the painting work, which CUPE local 2081, the union that represents Camosun College support staff, is not happy about. An internal email announcing the […]

Although I don’t play Dota 2, I can respect it for being one of the leading esports in current times. The game, developed by Valve in 2013, is a MOBA-type game like League of Legends and has always been a  direct competitor to LoL. Naturally, Dota became an esport pretty fast. While the initial leagues […]

It’s been a while since Ken Stringfellow flipped his long jet-black hair rocking out playing guitar and singing with The Posies. He takes the stage solo these days and looks back on his time with the band with an appreciation, but he doesn’t miss the large audiences. For Stringfellow, music is about sharing sensations and […]

For me, picking up a guitar is a slightly embarrassing experience. Maybe an odd sound or two comes out of the guitar, and I deliver a self-conscious laugh and a pledge to only enjoy the sounds the instrument makes in the hands of others. But if you find yourself playing guitar and the next thing […]

John Williams Raiders of the Lost Ark (Concord Music Group) 4.5/5 Jaws, Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Superman, Raiders of the Lost Ark: aside from being some of the greatest films ever, they all have incredibly memorable scores. I bet you could hum the themes for each of those films if you […]

It’s not all about changing policies for City of Victoria indigenous artist in residence Lindsay Delaronde, who’s currently putting the final touches on ACHoRd, her multi-medium art piece that takes stories and transforms them into what she hopes is a meaningful and communal spiritual experience through dance. “This ACHoRd piece was inspired by really looking […]

Before you pack two shopping carts full of mass-produced goods at IKEA, talk to Camosun Fine Furniture and Joinery program leader and instructor Ken Guenter. Guenter has been practicing the trade for over 30 years, and says that Camosun’s end-of-year fine furniture exhibition is a place where the future of the industry can congregate to […]

Nick Middleton and Duncan Smith met on Galiano Island; the two soon started attending music festivals together, and then playing music together as The Funk Hunters. Now, the electronic DJ duo is going to be performing at Canada’s 150 birthday party bash here in Victoria. Not bad for a band that started out playing house […]

Vancouver indie band Rococode released their new EP, Young Ones, today; this is particularly noteworthy to Victorians because Rococode vocalist Laura Smith was born here in town. Smith says that their new EP was a product of spending some time away from the studio and getting to play with some old synthesizers. “It was the […]