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WEB EXCLUSIVE: Victoria Fringe 2011 preview: Houdini’s Last Escape

August 25, 2011
- Arts

Tension builds through the audience as they watch their hero struggle. He’s upside-down in a glass cage full of water, and bound in...

WEB EXCLUSIVE – Victoria Fringe 2011 preview: Grim and Fischer

August 24, 2011
- Arts

It’s a fact of life that death comes for us all. So when Death literally comes for Mrs. Fischer in the Fringe production...

WEB EXCLUSIVE – Victoria Fringe 2011 preview: Smartarse

August 23, 2011
- Arts

All the way from the UK and returning to the Victoria Fringe Festival this year is standup comedian, slam poet, and ex-psychiatric nurse...

WEB EXCLUSIVE – Victoria Fringe 2011 preview: Phone Whore

August 22, 2011
- Arts

Cameryn Moore is challenging audiences with her one-woman show, Phone Whore. But the play, featured at this year’s Victoria Fringe Festival, isn’t just...

WEB EXCLUSIVE: Mob flashes for Fringe Festival's milestones

August 18, 2011
- Arts

It's been 25 years since the Victoria Fringe Festival first began, and for this year's milestone Fringe producer Janet Munsil and company are...

WEB EXCLUSIVE – Easy riding with Ryder Hesjedal

August 16, 2011
- Sports

Everything about Ryder Hesjedal's career has been about progression. Since attending Belmont High School in Langford, the Victoria native has gone on to...

WEB EXCLUSIVE – The Electric Bungalow: Top tablet software for school

August 11, 2011
- Columns

With the right software, the iPad 2 can be a student’s best friend. They can help manage all aspects of a scholastic life,...

WEB EXCLUSIVE – Against Me! stay positive

August 11, 2011
- Arts

The trick to having the time of your life is to stay positive. That's the belief of Against Me! bassist Andrew Seward, who...

WEB EXCLUSIVE – Talking about good Fibrations

August 10, 2011
- Life

After Fiber Fest was cancelled this past June, Victoria’s fibre artist community responded by creating an event to take its place. The result...

WEB EXCLUSIVE: Big Screen Review: The Rise of the Planet of Apes

August 8, 2011
- Arts

The Rise of the Planet of Apes

3.5 / 5

The Rise of the Planet of the Apes will no doubt get many...

WEB EXCLUSIVE – Camosun expands West Shore courses

August 8, 2011
- Campus

For some students the commute to school involves spending long hours stuck in traffic on a daily basis. Luckily for those in the...

WEB EXCLUSIVE – The Electric Bungalow: A new way to take photographs

August 8, 2011
- Columns

By the end of the year, Lytro will have a photo camera that doesn’t care how out of focus your vacation shots are....

WEB EXLUSIVE - Big Screen Review: Cowboys and Aliens

August 4, 2011
- Arts

Cowboys and Aliens

3/5

Cowboys and Aliens is a comic book property that director Jon Favreau reigned in to have some fun with....

WEB EXCLUSIVE – Arena Rock: Rob Zombie

August 4, 2011
- Arts

Rob Zombie

August 2, Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre, Victoria, BC

A promise of hell on earth was recently delivered to a surging crowd of...

WEB EXCLUSIVE – The Curtain Call: Shakespeare in the Summer’s The Comedy of Errors

August 2, 2011
- Arts

It would be surreal to enter a new town where all the residents already know your name, even more so when strangers approach...

WEB EXCLUSIVE — The Electric Bungalow: Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3DS impressions

August 1, 2011
- Columns

Nintendo’s 3DS handheld console finally has a winner on their hands with Ocarina of Time. After a weak introduction into the market, with...

WEB EXCLUSIVE – Norwegians value liberty over security

July 28, 2011
- Views

The world could learn a thing or two from how Norway is handling the attacks perpetrated by right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik last...

WEB EXCLUSIVE – Sleep-deprived songwriting with Wax Mannequin

July 27, 2011
- Arts

The best way for Hamilton-based indie singer/songwriter Chris Adeney to capture the strange stories of his tours as Wax Mannequin may be through...

WEB EXCLUSIVE - Quick Bites: Jackalope Bistro

July 27, 2011
- Columns

Jackalope Bistro 760A Yates Street, 778-430-5673

3.5/5 bites

Be very, very, quiet: I’m hunting Jackalope.

While no rabbit meat is being served here...

WEB EXCLUSIVE – Anticipated metal fabrication boom leads to new courses at Camosun

July 26, 2011
- Campus

Coinciding with an anticipated local boom in the shipbuilding industry, Camosun College is launching the new sheet metal and metal fabrication foundation program.

...

WEB EXCLUSIVE - The Electric Bungalow: a decade of eBooks

July 25, 2011
- Columns

eBook readers are finally coming of age and there's enough hardware variety to fill a book shelf. Ignoring the fact that a tablet...

WEB EXCLUSIVE – Die Roten Punkte are serious about their humour

July 22, 2011
- Arts

As a teenager, orphan Otto Rot was teased for die roten punkte—the red dots—that decorated his face. Now Otto and his older sister...

WEB EXCLUSIVE – Said the Whale tries to win America, ends up documenting freaky weirdness

July 20, 2011
- Arts

Vancouver indie rockers Said the Whale are making their film debut this weekend with Winning America, a character-driven documentary about Canadians chasing the...

WEB EXCLUSIVE – Electronic music festival experiences growing pains and gains

July 20, 2011
- Arts

Children experience growing pains; it’s part of growing up. The Victoria Electronic Music Festival (VEMF) is in its eighth year and is now...

WEB EXCLUSIVE – Bookstore casual staff halved, students to wait in line longer

July 18, 2011
- News

Camosun students waiting until the fall semester starts to get their textbooks have to endure long lineups more than ever this fall after...

WEB EXCLUSIVE - Big Screen Review: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part Two

July 18, 2011
- Arts

3/5

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows moves with the same zest and appeal as Kill Bill—give audiences a thirst for more, and...

WEB EXCLUSIVE - The Electric Bungalow: fade to black, enter digital TV

July 18, 2011
- Columns

Television is going digital in Canada on August 31 and not everyone knows exactly what that means. For those with cable, there'll be no change...

WEB EXCLUSIVE – Curtain Call: Ride the Cyclone

July 15, 2011
- Arts

It might seem like an obnoxious overachiever, an overly nice small-town girl, a shy and awkward nerd savant, a ballet-dancing foreign rapper, a...

WEB EXCLUSIVE – Austra are bursting with pride

July 13, 2011
- Arts

It’s hard enough for musicians to break into the music scene when their genre of music isn’t conventional. When a band also has...

WEB EXCLUSIVE – The Electric Bungalow: summer tech toys

July 12, 2011
- Columns

No true geek can be without their tech nearby. Even when camping or vacationing, something’s needed to keep those nights bright. Honestly, it’s...

WEB EXCLUSIVE: Camosun student society represents at Victoria Pride parade

July 12, 2011
- News

An enthusiastic crowd of Camosun College Student Society Pride supporters gathered at the corner of Pandora and Broad on July 10, adding to...

WEB EXCLUSIVE – Camosun makes more abrupt program cancellation possible

July 12, 2011
- News

Some Camosun College students returning this fall will be surprised to find their programs have been suspended or cancelled. At a recent board...

WEB EXCLUSIVE – Rocking the woods for the children

July 11, 2011
- Arts

After going back to school for academic upgrading, Surge Ahead founder Dave Bain saw a number of struggling students. So when Bain created...

WEB EXCLUSIVE – Rob Zombie's recommended dosage of hell

July 8, 2011

"It sounds like I'm kidding, but I'm serious,” says shock filmmaker and rocker Rob Zombie, as he discusses the idea of adapting his...

WEB EXCLUSIVE – Royal frock coverage a crock

July 6, 2011
- Views

It’s impossible to digest any form of media right now without being bombarded with information about the Royal visit. The fascination with Kate Middleton and...




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