Whoever plotted the site for UVic’s Department of Writing must have been a farmer. Whether there’s something in the water or the land is just fertile, a substantial number of writers — all with roots in UVic’s writing program — cultivated their careers this past year with publications or award nominations and wins. The most recent to add to the Department’s literary yield is Yasuko Thanh, who earned both her B.A. and M.F.A. in Creative Writing from UVic. Last month she launched her first collection of short stories, Floating Like the Dead.
The popular response to Ignatieff’s comments about the inevitability of Quebec sovereignty was comical — it was as if the separatists gained momentum in a soccer match after the team captain on the federalists’ team kicked the ball into his own net. But Ignatieff was simply stating the obvious.
Donning white cotton gloves, Richard Hebda carefully plucks a fossil from its sterile foam nest. Inside the rock is the jaw of a flying reptile found here on Vancouver Island not long ago. This fossil is one of many exciting new discoveries in B.C. as more and more of the province is explored by professional and amateur paleontologists alike.
Ask a student to describe UVic’s Diana M. Priestly Law Library, and they will often use words like “beautiful,” “new” and “quiet.” Thanks to some complaints about disruptive students in the law library, however, another word has been bandied about: SNAILS. The acronym stands for “Students Not Actually In Law School.”
The real mark of a great concert act is the ability to bring your best, your A-game, even when the crowd is small. It’s the ability to make the audience feel like the place is packed, to shrink a stage and a bar, to draw the audience into you, bring them into your world. At a woefully under-attended performance on May 12 at Club 9one9, Curren$y and his Jets, disciples Young Roddy, Trademark, Corner Boy P and Fiend 4 Da Money, took the crowd deep into New Orleans hip-hop for a highly rewarding show.
Still, selling public lands to private companies may benefit everyone
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In short, the public forum seemed to be a roast of the government’s proposed sale. This seems odd, because to my mind, many of the issues that were raised have already been addressed. In my opinion, the Victoria citizens who voiced concerns are overlooking the purpose of the Official Community Plan (OCP), which applies to the lands in question and ensures a proper amount of public consultation.
A sneak peek at the new Dinosaurs exhibit at the Royal B.C. Museum
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The Martlet's Hugo Wong slips into a Cretaceous world for an afternoon. To read about the exhibit, check out Wong's article "Dinosaurs: a warning about warming."
Black Rock Horse documents the revival — and destruction — of the Trojan Horse
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If you're a fan of Burning Man, you'll love it. If you're a fan of documentary film, you'll like it. If you're neither of those, there's at least enough spectacle to keep you titillated for half an hour.
Do you ever get the sneaking suspicion that maybe summer classes aren’t, well, real classes? Does the prospect of enrolling in a condensed iteration of “fifth-year foot-drumming” (yes, we’ve finally moved on from the hand-drumming jokes) give you pause?
No audience member can argue the entertainment value of a play with well-timed humour and southern accents that leaves a hankering for bourbon, beer or just the sweet days of adolescence.
Jennifer Dalton is the survivor development chair for Relay for Life Victoria. Last year's Victoria Relay raised more than $90 000 ($55 million was raised by relays across Canada). Dalton says that survivors are integral to Relay for Life, which is the Canadian Cancer Society’s largest fundraiser.
Since the release of The Avengers — a superhero flick that unites multiple Marvel characters and marks the culmination of decades of marketing — Hollywood executives have been scratching their pates. They wonder: which hero is next?
For a long time, my only real knowledge of how to make fish involved the use of a can opener and some sharp cheddar; but while a tuna melt is great, it can get a little boring after a while.
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