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Victoria (British Columbia)

  • Blogs

    November 1, 2011

    Penninsula Daily News Sold to David Black's Media-Buying Machine--Layoffs Announced

    ​The Peninsula Daily News, one of the last small, community newspaper to boast its own printing facility, is about to lose that unique trait, along with a handful of key staff members as part of a purchase deal with an infamous Canadian media buyer.

  • Blogs

    September 29, 2011

    Apparently Idiots Throw Pumpkins at People in the Fall

    There are few more cowardly acts than the throwing of unpleasant items at pedestrians while in a moving vehicle (or vice versa). But apparently idiots do this around this time of year.

  • Blogs

    June 24, 2011

    Librarians Lament Demise of Afternoon Tea

    ​Summer marks the start of peak season for tourist tearooms across the Puget Sound in Victoria, B.C., but the formal tea tradition has largely vanished from libraries and reading rooms, perhaps the last stateside bastion of the daily ritual. "I regret we no longer have a formal tea time," e-m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 29, 2011

    New SIFF Review: Winds of Heaven

    ​If you haven't heard of Canadian artist Emily Carr (1871-1945), this documentary is a dull but informative account of a career that had only a second act. The headstrong daughter of a Victoria, B.C. merchant, she trained a painter there and in London and Paris. Only in 1927, however, were her ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 8, 2010

    Tommy Lee Wants SeaWorld to Stop Jerking Off Orcas With Cow Vaginas

    ​No, that headline is not just a random collection of words we pulled out of a Mötley Crüe madlib. Drummer and Kid Rock arch-nemesis Tommy Lee just sent a letter to SeaWorld, demanding that they stop using warm water-filled cow vaginas to jack off Tilikum, the homicidal orca, who used to kil ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2010

    Say Hi's Um, Uh Oh Out January 25, Listen to Dark and Grumpy New Track, "Devils"

    Jenny Jimenez​Barsuk Records will release Say Hi's sixth studio album on January 25, and it will be entitled Um, Uh Oh. A Barsuk press release says of the album: Say Hi has broken up 37 times in the last decade. If the band were a traditional four-piece rock outfit, things would have run their ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2010

    Drunk Women Brawling Over Male Strippers In Canada Shows Successful Dude Skin Joints Require Booze

    ​More than 100 drunk women brawled after a dispute over the view at a male strip show in Nanaimo--just north of Victoria, B.C.--over the weekend. "I guess one woman assaulted another woman who was blocking her view and then all hell broke loose," Royal Canadian Mounted Police spokesperson Gary ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2010

    Tilikum the Killer Whale Gets Profiled in Outside Magazine

    ​Tilikum is the orca made infamous when he killed a SeaWorld trainer back in February. Shortly after the death, it was revealed that Tilikum had been at the center of two other fatal "accidents" while at Sealand in Victoria, B.C. Now, Tim Zimmerman of Outside magazine has written a profile of ... More >>

  • Food

    April 14, 2010

    Sustainability Award: The Herbfarm's Carrie Van Dyck and Ron Zimmerman

    ​Tilikum is the orca made infamous when he killed a SeaWorld trainer back in February. Shortly after the death, it was revealed that Tilikum had been at the center of two other fatal "accidents" while at Sealand in Victoria, B.C. Now, Tim Zimmerman of Outside magazine has written a profile of ... More >>

  • News

    September 9, 2009

    Bay Area to Puget Sound: Thanks for the Ferries

    While Bremerton commuters saw half their service get cut last week, San Francisco enjoyed smooth sailing on the backup boats that Washington State Ferries sold.

  • Blogs

    February 20, 2009

    Leonard Cohen Comes to Seattle!

    Leonard Cohen If you're not sitting, you better: the venerable Leonard Cohen will be in Seattle at WaMu Theater on April 23 as part of his first US tour in 15 years. Tickets go on sale March 2 at 10 a.m. and will cost anywhere from $69.50 to $250. Excuse me my teen-girl moment, but: eeeeee! When I ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 23, 2008

    If You Want to See Dylan Next Month ...

    Leonard Cohen If you're not sitting, you better: the venerable Leonard Cohen will be in Seattle at WaMu Theater on April 23 as part of his first US tour in 15 years. Tickets go on sale March 2 at 10 a.m. and will cost anywhere from $69.50 to $250. Excuse me my teen-girl moment, but: eeeeee! When I ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 14, 2008

    New Black Mountain Video

    Leonard Cohen If you're not sitting, you better: the venerable Leonard Cohen will be in Seattle at WaMu Theater on April 23 as part of his first US tour in 15 years. Tickets go on sale March 2 at 10 a.m. and will cost anywhere from $69.50 to $250. Excuse me my teen-girl moment, but: eeeeee! When I ... More >>

  • News

    July 16, 2008

    Betting on David Black

    Major dailies are shedding employees, hemorrhaging cash, and losing advertisers to the Web. So why is David Black swimming in ink?

  • Food

    April 13, 2005

    The Year in Beer

    Where to go, what to drink.

  • Arts

    January 21, 2004

    This Week's Reads

    Mark Kurlansky, Leslie Miller, and John Pollack.

  • News

    August 20, 2003

    Letters to the Editor

    If everyone gets busted eventually, it is hard to envision how marijuana has become our No. 1 cash crop in this country.

  • Music

    December 6, 2000

    Party girl

    If everyone gets busted eventually, it is hard to envision how marijuana has become our No. 1 cash crop in this country.

  • News

    May 24, 2000

    Off the charts

    Summer music events that'll have you tearing off your shirt (or reaching for a sweater).

  • News

    August 11, 1999

    Proper Victorians

    Summer music events that'll have you tearing off your shirt (or reaching for a sweater).

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