For 14 hours, some of Canada’s poor and homeless spoke to other Canadians as part of the ninth annual Canadian Homelessness Marathon on Feb. 23 and 24. Put on by McGill’s campus community radio station CKUT, the marathon puts radio programming into the hands of society’s most marginalized citizens.
WHAT: The Lady in the Van
WHERE: Langham Court Theatre,
WHEN: Now through March 19 (see langhamcourttheatre.bc.ca for details)
Radiohead
King of Limbs
Self-released
On Feb. 14, Radiohead announced to the world that they would be releasing their eighth studio album in five days time. The ensuing hours were filled with agitation and online hysteria. As a conventional unconventional response, Radiohead released the album a day early, accompanied with the single and music video “Lotus Flower”, the freakiest vaudeville spaz-dance ever witnessed, performed by no other than front man Thom Yorke.
Pearl Jam
Live on Ten Legs
Monkeywrench
Can a band sound better live than they do in the studio? Yes, if they have been playing for 20-years and are called Pearl Jam.
WHAT: The Vagina Monologues
WHEN: March 12, 7:30 p.m.
WHERE: The Alix Goolden Hall
HOW MUCH: $22, $15 for students, available at Lyle’s Place and at the door
There’s a point in every successful musician’s life, while still in the fledgling and hopeful stage of their career, he or she realizes that it might just be possible to make a living while still living the dream. For UVic student, Mike Edel, that time could be now.
In the 2009 film Pirate Radio, pirate radio was all about getting pop music on UK airwaves in the 1960s, and the radio hosts were all about sex, drugs and rock and roll. But Islands of Resistance: Pirate Radio in Canada, a book of essays published by New Star Books in 2010, shows that “electromagnetic deviance” can be about much more than just good times.
WHAT: Hey Rosetta
WHERE: Sugar Nightclub
WHEN: Monday, March 7, doors at 8 p.m.
HOW MUCH: $20, available at Ditch Records, Lyle’s Place or online at ticketweb.ca
What the hell is wrong with the spoken word poetry scene in Victoria? It never ceases to hit literary, urban, modern — nay, postmodern — nails on the head. It also never ceases to systematically disassemble my heart and humour, only to delicately reassemble it and place it back, warm and truthful in its home under my ribs.
My toes hang 150 feet above the Nanaimo River. Those next in line cheer from the bridge behind me. Clothed spectators watch from a distant landing. It’s a bit chilly, and not just on my toes. I’m naked, about to jump.
Where does the data saved on the Internet live? Why, in a cloud, of course.
Sending half a shoebox into space could allow a team of UVic students to accomplish some firsts in the Canadian space industry. But to do that, they need to beat out 12 other student groups from universities across Canada participating in the first-ever Canadian Satellite Design Challenge (CSDC).
Although billed as an affecting love story — and it surely is — La Bohéme could as easily be dubbed the original ‘bromance’ (or at least a close second to the adventures of Jesus et al. on the timeline of notable bro sessions).
Apparently there is something James Franco can’t do. The guy can carry a comedy, he can carry a TV show and he can carry a serious dramatic film in which he is the only living thing on screen for a solid hour. He can write and he can seduce. But he can’t host live television.
Another Victoria Film Festival (VFF) is now behind us.
In their 17th year the festival offered some fantastic fare. No Fun City was an interesting watch. Biutiful was beautiful. The Shrine was horrifically stunning. The People vs. George Lucas was delightfully tongue-in-cheek, and it was a surprisingly relevant piece of film history criticism. Two Indians Talking addressed the questions of Indigenous land rights and cultural oppression in an interrogative way that invited all members of the audience to participate in the machinations behind two very personalized and ingenuous First Nations men grappling with the reality of their social positions and their revolutionary decisions.
On Feb. 14, sorry seemed to be the hardest word at Elton John's performance at Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre. Small wonder, as the nearly 30-song set was unapologetic and rife with a brand of showmanship that can only be described as Oompa Loompa meets confederate orator meets The Three Tenors.
The Mills Brothers sang it right — you always hurt the one you love.
Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams give new meaning to the iconic song in the film Blue Valentine, a heartbreaking portrayal of a disintegrating marriage.
“Who am I? I am a poet. What do I do? I write. And how do I live? I live.”
Finger Eleven is out to prove that a fifth album is by no means a loss of quality. The mission brought them to Victoria on Feb. 8, where they played Club 9One9 as part of their Life Turns Electric tour.
Sweatshop union is far from grown up.
“Sometimes not growing up is a good thing though,” said Mos Eisley, a rapper in the Sweatshop Union collective. “People just throw away their life working right? And well, we do what we love.”
