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What I want to tell Matt Rader goes like this

Matt Rader’s debut short story collection, What I Want to Tell Goes Like This, reveals the ways in which the past continues to influence our understanding of the present through…

SBTRKT: Wonder Where We Land

Wonder Where We Land, the second album from SBTRKT, has a long list of collaborators; Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig and rapper A$AP Ferg are but a few artists collaborating on…

Cooking show teaches students how not to starve

UVic’s orientation committee will be releasing “How Not to Starve,” a segmented cooking show on their events orientation app and YouTube channel from Sept 29 – Oct. 3 as part…

Felicita’s turns up for rap

On Sept. 26, Felicita’s hosted a hip hop show featuring local talent: Downtown Mischief, Pigeon Hole, and Sweatshop Union from Vancouver. I’m relatively naïve to hip hop, but generally focus…

Bend Sinister goes all-out

  Bend Sinister is crazy. Crazy skilled, crazy ambitious. The Vancouver-based group has created a rock opera at a time when nobody does that anymore. Their latest effort, Animals, is…

Taste locally

For entrepreneurs Logan Hayman and Jeremy Becker, their motto is “When you want to create change, there is no time like the present.” Based in Kelowna and Victoria, Taste Locally…

Dream Bingo with The Rez Sisters

As patrons scurried among the aisles and claimed their seats, the muted cry of a loon echoed through the theatre, calling attention to Catherine Hahn’s set design, which transformed the…

This Montreal band is one to watch: Review: Motel Raphaël – Cable TV

From the moment I was halfway through the first track on Motel Raphaël’s debut album Cable TV, I knew that this was going to be one of my newest musical…

Public art in Victoria

“The difference between sanctioned and unsanctioned art is not just a question of legality. It’s more a question of what kinds of artworks get funding from the city or get…

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