Theatre: Ghosts of the Plaza looks at Victoria’s Plaza Hotel historyThe play Ghosts of the Plaza has elements of comedy and drama, and it also has a musical number. However, that’s not all it has to offer. Between all that, it manages to incorporate a part of Victoria’s history into the show. “A history that hasn’t really been looked at,” says play co-writer Sarah Smith, […] Continue Reading |
Belfry presents Let’s Make an Opera to Victoria theatre audiencesMost people have never thought about being in an opera. Now, everyone walking through the Belfry’s doors can have a chance to do just that. Let’s Make An Opera & The Little Sweep is a unique piece by Benjamin Britten, a main player in 20th-century British classical music. It’s a play about the making of […] Continue Reading |
A message from the Camosun College Student Society: Tuition increases unfairGovernment policy is not protecting students at Camosun College against excessive tuition increases. In 2005, the BC government set in place a tuition limit policy that limits post-secondary institutions to increasing tuition fees for existing programming by a maximum of two percent a year. New programming, however, can be set at any tuition level that […] Continue Reading |
Eye on campus: March 6 – 19ongoing Cookbook contest The Camosun College Student Society wants you! Or at least they want your recipes. Why, you ask? They want to make a healthy college cookbook to help students eat healthy and cheap. Why should you contribute, you ask? Apart from helping out a great cause, there are prizes. Three prizes of Thrifty’s […] Continue Reading |
Sour Grapes: Sous-vide fine dining from plastic bagFor the humble home cook, the options for making food edible are mostly limited to the basics: sauteing, steaming, baking, broiling, and perhaps the occasional flambe. But these days, more and more people are getting fancy in the kitchen. And fancy foodies love a complicated cooking method. Sous-vide, French for “under vacuum,” is a method […] Continue Reading |
Speaker’s Corner: Nothing to fearWhen it comes to public speaking, according to common “top fear” lists, some of us would rather be dead than deliver a speech. On listverse.com, writer Caty Medrano compiled her idea of “top 10 strong human fears.” What I like about her list is that it deals in the drives behind fears: Losing your freedom […] Continue Reading |
New textbook program to save Camosun students moneyA new program will grant BC students easier and inexpensive access to their textbooks. Under the new open textbook program, which could be implemented as early as September, postsecondary students in select courses will be able to read their texts online, download them for free, and print them for a fraction of the price of […] Continue Reading |
Local, Live, and Loud: March 6 – 19Thursday, March 7 Masta Ace, Stricklin, Wordsworth, The Bundles, Ill Tone & The Kids Lucky Bar, $18, 9 pm I’m consistently amused by the way a story can be transformed from one mouth to another. It’s like that game Telephone. You know the one? Remember it from when you were a kid? In it, it’s […] Continue Reading |
New Music Revue: Hollerado, KEN modeHollerado White Paint (Royal Mountain Records) 3.5/5 Sharing the stage with both Weezer and Jack White, Ottawa-based indie-rock band Hollerado have been sweeping the globe since debuting Record in a Bag back in 2010. Building steam over the past two years, their hit single, “Pick Me Up” from latest album White Paint does not […] Continue Reading |
Ability’s Muse: The many layers of suicideToo often I hear of families and friends losing loved ones to suicide. Those left behind are wracked with guilt, wondering what could have been done differently. There is much conflict and controversy as to how those no longer with us should be viewed. Suicide has been labelled as the ultimate act of cowardice, as […] Continue Reading |
