25 Years Ago in Nexus: November 13, 2023 issue

Freedom torches: There is nothing more effortlessly cool than a cigarette. It’s true, however, that the cigarette is a dangerous drug that possesses lingering effects beyond Rita Hayworth allure. On a two-page spread in our November 15, 1999 issue, we covered the hows, whats, and whys of smoking. Writer John Overall says in his article […]

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News Briefs: November 13, 2024 issue

Camosun Coastal Centre gets $5.26 million grant The Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation in conjunction with Seaspan have announced a $5.26 million grant to go toward building a new trades training centre at Camosun College’s Coastal Centre, as well as allocating $200,000 to scholarships. Adopting an “Indigenous first” approach, the new training centre—which will support […]

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New Music Revue: Enforced lay down solid thrash and nothing more on new EP

Enforced 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 […]

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Fellas, Let’s Figure It Out: Don’t get burnt out

“Burnout” has become somewhat of a buzzword in the last few years; it’s a concept we’ve all almost certainly heard thrown around but may not truly know what it means. Burnout is when your body and mind have worked past the point of exhaustion, signalling that you need to rest. I’m willing to bet that […]

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Lydia’s Film Critique: Meantime

The period between the end of one act and the beginning of another is called the meantime, a dull and aching stretch of patience and irritation. The meantime is where the Pollock family lives, in the company of three million other unemployed Brits under 1980’s Thatcherism, while they scrape by and grow restless.  There is […]

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