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Music Rags: New festival brings funk and soul to Victoria

For Nathan Ambrose, known to many as the host of “Music of My Mind” on 101.9 CFUV, hip-hop was the key to opening up the rabbit hole of funk and…

Cinecenta to spotlight foreign films

This September, Cinecenta will present an ambitious selection of films. Among these, I would like to spotlight two interesting, must-see films that exemplify uniqueness in the medium: The Hunt and…

Prison puppetry pioneering

Co-founder of SNAFU Dance Theatre and UVic alumna Ingrid Hansen discusses the progress of William Head on Stage’s (WHoS) new production, Fractured Fables: The Prison Puppet Project. The William Head…

Familiar Wild talks Dark Dreams and Rifflandia

Veteran of the indie music scene, Melissa Bandura is back, this time with a new sound and a new album. Familiar Wild, a band made up of Bandura, Melissa Hammer,…

Music rags: ‘Rap-landia’

One of the best things about the proliferation of festivals, much like the Internet, is the exposure to new music of all genres. It’s representative of the changing way many…

Eats, chews and leaves: Food and fashion at Mo:Lé

You can tell a lot about a person based on what they’ll wait in a line for. Midnight releases of novels, films and video games usually garner a large fandom…

Regular comedy nights come to Felicita’s

If you’re looking to score some cute comic action on a Wednesday, standup nights at Felicita’s may be the place to do it—that is, if you trust the advice of…

Gather and game

Victoria is about to get a unique addition to its downtown core in the form of a board game café. Jack Pinder, owner of Interactivity Games and Stuff, is about…

‘The Virgin Mary Had a Little Lamb’

A Victoria Fringe Fest interview