Open Space: The Canadian medical-school system needs to changeIt’s almost impossible to see a doctor in BC. We’ve all seen the long lineups at walk-in clinics at 7:00 am, all the people waiting since before the sun was up to get the chance to see a general practitioner. Almost everyone has been stuck waiting in emergency because a small medical issue has gotten […] 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 |
Nexus newspaper October 30, 2024 issueRead the full issue here. Continue Reading |
News Briefs: October 30, 2024 issueCamosun Chargers partner with Rogers TV The Camosun Chargers have announced that all 2024-2025 season volleyball and basketball home games will be broadcast on the Rogers South Vancouver Island community channel. In partnership with Rogers TV, Chargers games will include commentators, high-quality graphics, and instant replays. Home games will be available on the Rogers TV […] 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 |
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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 |
Lydia’s Film Critique: Horrors of womanhoodIt’s common knowledge among my peers by now that horror is, generally speaking, the genre I least admire. That’s not to say I don’t like creepers and crawlers—I most certainly do—however, it’s for a variety of reasons, beginning with tasteless shock and ending with the perpetual fear I already experience as a young lady, that […] Continue Reading |
