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“There’s nothing new under the sun” is an adage claiming that anything that can be done has already been done; in entertainment, this tends to be true. Supposedly, there are only seven basic story plots rehashed ad nauseam. Stories that resonate are those that ring true across time and cultures. If you watch a movie, […]

Throat singing, traditionally known as khoomi, is a form of overtone singing from Mongolia, where the throat is used to create a raspy sound that can resonate at many frequencies. Appearing at UVic’s Farquhar Auditorium in March, Anda Union is a group of nine musicians formed in 2003, hailing from the Xilingol Grassland area of […]

Even if we never see it, our golden sun will dip beneath the horizon thousands of times throughout our lives. Within the vast universe there are countless immutable beauties which exist despite and beyond us, and the reality is that we lose sight of simple pleasures and joys as we grow up, and our flight […]

In an era of YouTube, Spotify, SoundCloud, and Soulseek, it’s easier than ever to find music, and audio technology has advanced to the point where listening to an album on a set of closed-ear, noise-cancelling headphones with 20,000 Hz drivers is almost as good as the real thing.  Almost.  Early Music Vancouver dabbles in classics […]

On the night of Monday, February 24, Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre hosted two iconic bands best known from the early ’90s. With over 6,000 fans in attendance, Collective Soul and Our Lady Peace delivered an engaging and nostalgic performance in the city of Victoria. Collective Soul was formed in Stockbridge, Georgia in 1992. On Monday night, […]

There’s something familiar to me about a raging deadly pandemic sweeping through a population, laying waste to its inhabitants and sparking political unrest, and through the residual trauma, I want nothing more than to just laugh and laugh at all of the fresh gravestones and ruined lives. This, at least, is the conceptual basis behind […]

Behind the Moon is a gloriously triumphant victory of stage theatre. I went into it not knowing much, aside from the fact that it takes place in a Toronto-based Indian restaurant and stars one of Schitt’s Creek’s most endearing actors, Rizwan Manji. Aside from that, I was blissfully unaware of what I was sitting down […]

Absurdism is a philosophical movement arguing that the universe is illogical and meaningless, and absurdist theatre, such as Eugene Ionesco’s The Killing Game, highlights this through a study of ridiculous human nature in response to extreme tragedy.  Although written in 1970, The Killing Game, being presented through UVic’s Phoenix Theatre, will feel familiar to modern […]