by Brianna Bock | Jul 25, 2024 | Campus, News
The beloved pool will close in September, students and community members wonder what’s next On July 2, UVic announced that it will close the McKinnon Pool by September 15 at the latest. In the news release, UVic stated that it was closing the pool due to maintenance...
by Brianna Bock | Jul 17, 2024 | Culture, Film
The 2001 film urges its audience to get lost in surreality It’s impossible to talk in detail about this movie’s plot without spoiling it—so I won’t. Instead, this review is an exploration of what Mulholland Drive invokes in me, and of the movie’s commendable...
by Brianna Bock | Jul 15, 2024 | Culture, Theatre
Why read Shakespeare when you can watch his work performed so well? This season of the Greater Victoria Shakespeare festival features the comedy Much Ado About Nothing; a delightful retelling of one of Shakespeare’s stand out comedies. The Greater Victoria Shakespeare...
by Brianna Bock | May 30, 2024 | Culture, Events
As culture shifts, so does our understanding of prehistoric monuments The first thing you see of the Stonehenge exhibit at the Royal BC Museum is a replica arch which welcomes you into the space. It is almost the size of Stonehenge itself — scaled down just 20 per...
by Brianna Bock | Mar 19, 2024 | Culture, Theatre
This overwhelming and intricate ‘portrait of losers’ is the season’s best show The work of Landford Wilson, Hot L Baltimore’s playwright, has been described by New York Times theatre critic Ben Brantley as “portrait[s] of losers on the margins of life.” Though I can’t...