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The Victoria Film Festival (VFF) is upon us once again, running from Feb. 3 to 12. More than 70 feature-length films from around the world will be screened, as well as almost as many shorts. As a Canadian film aficionado, I was delighted to notice that Canadian films are at a premium this year, accounting for a whopping 25 of the feature-length productions.
No one likes change but babies in diapers,” once said Barbara Johnson, American literary critic and poststructuralist professor at Harvard University who died in 2009.
I stay up late at night to watch androgynous Korean boys battle each other in space, and it costs me $9.99 a month.
With the Canadian Western Championships taking place this weekend in Edmonton, the UVic swim teams are busy preparing for competition.
Beats Antique’s electro-acoustic collection will be performing in Victoria’s Club 9one9 on Jan.31. The cultural soundscape and energetic live set that artists Tommy Cappel, David Satori and Zoe Jakes have created hails from San Francisco. Beats Antique creates an eclectic fusion of world beats and electronica, constructing a sound reminiscent of a gypsy circus whirling it’s way through a lightening storm.
HEMPOLOGY 101 REFERENDUM QUESTION TO BE VOTED ON BY STUDENTS
The UVic Students’ Society has passed a motion of approval for the following referendum question to be put to students during next month’s election:
Students with disabilities need access to housing on UVic’s campus. Otherwise, they may not be able to go school. Period.
JANUARY 28, 1999, “STINKY CHERRIES”
In 1999, the front page of the Martlet ran a story covering a visual arts grad exhibit entitled “Stinky Cherries” on display downtown.
The UVic Students’ Society (UVSS) has agreed to move forward with the installation and ongoing maintenance of needle disposal boxes in designated areas around the SUB.
The fountain in front of the Victoria Legislature froze solid on Wednesday, Jan. 18, in solidarity with most of the rest of the city. Yet under 13 centimetres of blowing snow, through bus delays and temperatures dropping to −13°C with wind chill, the University of Victoria trudged on.
In this latest instalment in the Mission: Impossible franchise, the Impossible Missions Force is shut down after its implied association with the bombing of the Kremlin. The president of the United States invokes “Ghost Protocol,” which disavows the IMF agency. With no back-up or help, Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his team must find the terrorist who bombed the Kremlin — a terrorist who has acquired Russian nuclear launch codes that could destroy the world. The team travels around the world to Russia, Dubai and Mumbai to track down the terrorist known as Hendricks.
Now, before I start dealing out the advice you’re all pining for, let me slap a warning label on this bitch.
Canoe is Victoria’s brewpub. It’s housed in the “City Lights” building, originally used to light Victoria’s streetlamps and dating back to 1894. The handcrafted beers are uniquely West Coast, with names like Siren’s Song pale ale or Amber Artifact lager, which was brewed in celebration of the Royal B.C. Museum’s 125th anniversary. To top off the local feel, Vince Vaccaro often plays on the in-house speakers.
I listen to a lot of music — really, it’s almost all I do. No matter what I’m doing, there’s always some aural pleasure accompanying me. This constant need to be basking in sonic sweetness extends to my viewing of movies: I have an unwavering love of band documentaries. I’m fascinated by the inner workings of the musical process, and even on-screen documentations of bands or artists that aren’t in my usual listening canon often keep me riveted. 2011 brought an incredible film on perhaps the most important band in my listening life, Pearl Jam (Twenty). In honour of this momentous movie, here I look at a few of my favourite in-depth artist portraits from the last few years.
