by Cormac O’Brien | Feb 18, 2016 | Culture, Music
“It’s time for big changes.” So said Cheryl Boone Isaacs, the president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, following widespread criticism of the Academy’s failure to nominate any minority actors for the second year in a row. Changes did follow, with...
by Cormac O’Brien | Feb 4, 2016 | Campus, News
Despite a protest designed to expedite a divestment decision from the UVic Board of Governors on Tuesday, Jan. 26, a future without fossil fuel investment seems as far away as ever for Divest UVic and the University of Victoria. A group of about fifty students,...
by Cormac O’Brien | Feb 4, 2016 | News
“I’ve actually watched it. And it’s very realistic. It will definitely have a market. It will have a lot of clients, if you want to call them clients. But it’ll work, though I could see it being really addictive.” “I don’t really know anything about...
by Cormac O’Brien | Feb 4, 2016 | Culture
If anyone deserves to be “the champion for youth and the literary arts” in Victoria, it’s probably Ann-Bernice Thomas. A second-year Theatre and Creative Writing student at UVic involved in poetry, theatre, creative nonfiction, and screenwriting, there aren’t many...
by Cormac O’Brien | Feb 4, 2016 | Culture, Music
It’s midnight on Valentine’s Day and something’s gone wrong. After a consensual and sober-minded decision to get in bed together, you and your boyfriend/girlfriend/significant other/Tinder pity date are knocking boots, as it were. But something’s just not clicking....