We made a sand castle at the edge of the water. Sara played architect in a dollar store red swimsuit before raining sand into my hair. We used coke cups to shape the ...

With summer winding down, the season’s to-do list is shrinking. But one still-to-come event you shouldn’t miss is the Victoria Fringe Theatre Festival, which runs from ...

Experimental hip-hop producer Jules Chaz is proud of Toppings, his debut album. And so he should be. The local artist’s music is refreshingly original, engrossing ...

Compost is a glorious thing. What could be more satisfying than watching your moldy old table scraps mush into usable, fertile soil? However, for students who often ...

Die Antwoord $O$ SELF-RELEASED Last year a bizarre video charted on YouTube starring a skinny, white, tattooed South African with a flattop haircut rapping ...

I was the first one to get to the cabin. I wasn’t the strongest paddler out of the three of us, but I was the most cold and wet, so that day, I was the fastest. I ...

A full-toothed grin was plastered on my face as I walked down Main Street in Disneyland’s Magic Kingdom a few weeks ago. It was one of those smiles so big that it ...

Mention the words “summer school” and most students will rattle off hundreds of things they’d rather be doing than sitting in a classroom while the sun shines ...

Cancer Bats Bears, Mayors, Scraps & Bones Distort Yet another excellent band from formerly-quiet Ontario suburbs, the Cancer Bats maintain themselves by ...

Summer is here, and that means it’s time for gardening. But what if you don’t have a backyard or time to play in soil? Fear not. There are cheap, easy ways to grow ...

The streets of Toronto were lit up by burning police cars on the weekend of June 26. But back on the Island, music fans were lighting other things as they danced to ...

I ♥ Europe

Thailand was the first place I ever saw lightning without thunder. Storms would appear with little warning. Some faint flashes would illuminate the clouds in the ...

Solo performance, the raison d’être of Intrepid Theatre’s annual UNO Fest, inspires within me respect, admiration and a good dose of skepticism. A performer must ...