Lydia’s Film Critique: Everybody Rides the Carousel

If one is so lucky, they will be granted all eight stages of life. They will weave through the grandeur of age collecting landmarks of maturity and, even often, losing them simultaneously. They will ferment, find themselves, find each other, learn to love, learn to care, and then, when nothing more could be left to […]

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New Music Revue: Tate McRae delivers more ambitious third album

Tate McRae So Close to What (RCA Records) 2.5/5 Canadian pop star Tate McRae has released her highly anticipated third studio full-length, So Close to What.  The album is more ambitious than her last, 2023’s Think Later. The production is much better this time around, with more interesting beats and sounds, however, her vocals again […]

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PhD student to deliver talk on shipwrecks on Indigenous shores

The history of Vancouver Island relies heavily on the ocean, but what remains regularly travelled is something locals take for granted. The previously unknown stories that lay under the waves can make their way ashore, revealing remarkable adventures and people. University of Victoria PhD student Jesse Robertson has done the work deep-diving beneath the surface […]

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