New Music Revue: Joy Buzzer fail to deliver anything new with debut albumJoy Buzzer Pleased to Meet You (Wicked Cool Records) 1.5/5 Joy Buzzer is a New York City power pop band formed in 2021. Since then, they’ve received high appraisals for some of their singles, with “You Don’t Even Know My Name” being given the weekly “the coolest song in the world” title on Little Steven’s […] Continue Reading |
The end of the Victoria Event Centre a reminder to stay loud and unitedThe Victoria Event Center (VEC) has given Victoria a space for its locals in the music and art communities for 21 years. But, facing a 40-percent rent increase, the venue is now closing its doors, leaving a massive hole in the city’s art scene, with people struggling to find a new home to host and […] Continue Reading |
New Music Revue: Enforced lay down solid thrash and nothing more on new EPEnforced A Leap Into the Dark (Century Media) 3/5 I was promised thrash metal and Enforced delivered with their new six-song EP A Leap Into the Dark. Sadly, I’m not very moved by the songs here. Although well mixed and the pacing is great for headbanging, the songs themselves are fairly standard-issue thrash; other than […] Continue Reading |
Victoria Choral Society to celebrate 90th anniversary with MozartConsidering a requiem is meant to honour the dead, it’s intriguing to speculate on Mozart’s state of mind as he was allegedly dying of kidney disease while he wrote Requiem. Victoria Choral Society will be performing Requiem alongside Mozart’s Laudate Dominum and Ave Verum Corpus at the first concert of their 90th anniversary season. Requiem […] Continue Reading |
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee gets collaborativeThe 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is a comedy that centres around six teens who must battle each other in a spelling competition while struggling to find their place in the world, and it brings the audience into the performance in a very unique way. Jaques Lamay is directing and choreographing the play at […] Continue Reading |
Improvised murder coming to Craigdarroch CastleThe Craigdarroch Castle, with its regal stone towers and polished red oak interior, transports the visitor into the posh life of a wealthy coal baron, and also serves as a perfect setting for a mystery, such as Paper St. Theatre Co.’s Murders on Paper St., which combines improvisation with drama to create a wholly unique […] Continue Reading |
1939 as clever as it is braveArt about trauma is hard, and art about atrocities still being reckoned with by the people who experienced them is even harder. Despite that difficulty, 1939 gracefully and powerfully shows the diverse and peopled history of residential schools in a way that honours the horror endured while taking pains to celebrate the hard-earned triumphs and […] Continue Reading |
Blue Bridge Theatre’s Sleepy Hollow delivers with a twistBlue Bridge Theatre’s adaptation of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow has a bit of a twist. Sleepy Hollow was primarily chosen for its autumnal atmosphere and Halloween associations, but the more Blue Bridge president and art director Brian Richmond and adaptation playwright Andrew Bailey dove into the story the more intrigued they became with the […] Continue Reading |
New Music Revue: moondaddy’s new EP a dreamy experiencemoondaddy Lightwave Lightwave (Maps Music) 4.5/5 Cara Politker, the woman behind moondaddy, has a talent for creating a dreamy atmosphere through music, and she proves it on the California-based dream-pop quintet’s new EP Lightwave Lightwave. Lightwave Lightwave, which follows up their 2023 debut, Poet Lies, is a mesmerizing release, perfectly capturing dream-pop with its moody […] Continue Reading |
Dark Sounds unearths human condition through innovative flamencoDark Sounds is a series of flamenco literary performances by the members of Palabra Flamenco and poets Garth Martens and Jan Zwicky. In this unusual way of reinventing the flamenco tradition, two poets perform with a dancer and a guitarist who improvise and respond to the English-language poetry and storytelling. They dive into themes of […] Continue Reading |
