“If a baby can do it, so can we.”

That tasteless allusion to the Capilano Bridge baby became the motto of our bungee day trip. Four history students in one white jeep, traveling north: Ryan Hunt, Olaf, Lovedoll and I.

WHAT: The Yoshida Brothers WHEN: Friday, May 22, 8 p.m. WHERE: Alix Goolden Performance Hall TICKETS: $35 plus service fees, available through the McPherson box office

It’s no secret that Victoria, often hailed as a Canadian mini-Britain, has a strong association with tea. Victoria’s love for tea and North America’s budding gourmet tea culture came together for a good cause on Feb. 14 and 15 in the third-annual Victoria Tea Festival at Crystal Gardens.

There’s something in the air this century. It’s not the leaf mulch, the pumpkin pies, the odor of wet rabbit, but something else. Something more pervasive. Inhale deep: that’s the fragrance of gullibility.

In a brick-lined room full of well-dressed young Victorians, Ohbijou and The Acorn serenaded the ceiling with inspiring talent on Wednesday, Oct. 15 at Lucky Bar.

Amos Lee

Last Days at the Lodge (2008)

Blue Note Records

Need to take some time to relax? Amos Lee is here to help. His newest release, Last Days at the Lodge takes all of the smooth vocals and sultry melodies Lee is known for and adds a new earthiness to the mix.

Victoria is the second smartest city in Canada, says Maclean’s magazine.

In their Sept. 8 issue, Maclean’s covered a study published recently by the Canadian Council on Learning. Designed as part of the Composite Learning Index project, it aimed to assess Canada’s overall lifelonglearning standards.

September 24 is National Braai Day.

A proper braai party needs five main ingredients: beer, friends, a good open-pit grill (preferably wood, but charcoal is fine too — not gas), braaivleis and pap. Good weather is nice too, but tragically beyond the host’s control. To be truly authentic, the beer should be a refreshing lager, preferably Castle, Blacklabel or Lion, but anything will do in a pinch.

Neal Stephenson, award-winning author of Diamond Age, Snowcrash, and The Baroque Cycle, has produced another landmark addition to the genre of science- and speculative-fiction. Anathem is a hefty addition to Stephenson’s own oeuvre of inventive and cerebral titles.

With just a laptop, his ingenuity and a wealth of chart-topping tracks at his fingers, Greg Gillis (the mash-up artist known as Girl Talk) created a memorable night at Sugar nightclub on July 23.

Dungeons and Dragons is a game that provides the structure of consistent rules to support the limitless inventiveness of your imagination — so says the new 4th Edition Player’s Handbook.

The line wrapped around the block outside of the Alix Goolden Performance Hall on Pandora Street. Victoria was in for a treat: the first Canadian performance of powerful shamisen duo, the Yoshida Brothers.

Female gamers already know they aren’t really an anomaly, but now the Electronic Software Association has completed a study that confirms it.