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Canadian punk rockers D.O.A. return after 2 years for their CD release. At the Tally Ho Sports Bar. diyobo.com

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Pacific Opera Victoria in all its glory at the Royal Theatre runs Feb. 12 14, 18, 20 and 22. rmts.bc.ca

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AN EVENING WITH ROBERT BATEMAN - The Rest Haven

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- Irish singer and songwriter James Vincent McMorrow with Kevin Garrett at Alix Goolden Performance Hall.

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TSUKINO-CON FEB 13-15

Featuring Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Batman and Harry Potter.

The Sidney Family Weekend (Feb 7-9) feature is a 6-feet Seaspan International tug boat that will be on display at Sidney Museum, 2423 Beacon Ave. Open daily 10 – 4. Admission by donation.

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Enjoy brilliant melodies, tempestuous passions, and murderous deeds – not to mention the most celebrated mad scene in all of opera. At the Royal Theatre. rmts.bc.ca

VICTORIA YOGA CONFERENCE JAN 30 TO FEB 01

The Victoria Yoga Conference features big names in the local community. Experienced yogis and new practioners are welcome to attend with 60 classes, 40+ exhibitors plus entertainment. Victoria Conference Centre, 720 Douglas.

VICTORIAN VALENTINE’S TEA & FASHION SHOW FEB 14

An elegant high tea, featuring live harp music and a fashion show presented by Victorian Vogue.

Beautiful door prizes. You are welcome to attend in period costume. All proceeds go directly to For the Love of Africa Society. Cordova Bay United Church hall, 813 Claremont Ave., 2pm. fortheloveofafrica.ca

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Anthea Browne facilitates a very special dance jam. a lighthearted workshop, 3-7pm. crimsoncoast. org

PALM COURT LIGHT ORCHESTRA: VALENTINE DIVA FEB 13 TO FEB 15

Palm Court Light Orchestra presents Valentine Diva, featuring Lambroula Pappas as soprano. This Valentine’s Day concert warms the heart with opera arias from Madame Butterfly, Tosca, La Boheme and more. Feb 13, 2:30pm Mary Winspear Centre, Sidney; Feb 14, 7:30pm UVic. palmcourtorchestra.com

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Pot activist Marc Emery joins a panel of representatives from British Columbia’s law, medical, and political communities to discuss Marijuana laws in a Canadian context, particularly legalization. University Centre Farquhar Auditorium, 7pm.

Chinese Commerce Association hosts a Gala Dinner and Live Auction Feb 11 at 5:30pm at Don Mee Seafood Restaurant, 538 Fisgard St. Tickets online at VCCA.ca/unitedway

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CACGV’s first members only Sip and Sketch event at the Robert Bateman Centre, 6pm. Tickets include VIP access to the definitive collection of Robert Bateman’s work, an interactive sketch station with local artist host, light refreshments, local beer and wine. eventbrite.ca

Tsukino-Con is a not-for-profit event organized annually at the University of Victoria. The first official Tsukino-Con ran in February 2010 and continues to run annually during Uvic’s winter reading break. tsukinocon.com A PIONEERING BLACK ARTIST IN VICTORIA FEB 15

A presentation by UVic associate professor of history John Lutz, telling the story of Grafton Taylor Brown, the first documented professional artist to make his home in Victoria. His presentation is part of a BC Black History and Heritage Day celebration that includes displays by the Victoria African Caribbean Cultural Society, Saanich Pioneers Society, Old Cemetery Societies, and Victoria Genealogical Society. At James Bay New Horizons, 234 Menzies Street, 1:30-4:30pm. By donation.

BELFRY BOOKSMACK FEB 16

Come for a free evening of great book and film recommendations with GVPL’s finest. A team of five librarians will speed review as many books and films as they can during the evening. Bring your library card for a chance to sign out books. No registration required. At the Belfry Theatre, 1291 Gladstone Ave., 7:30-9pm.

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Black Pioneers of the Area Feb 21

Karen Hoshal, a descendant of the Alexander pioneer family, provides information on a number of other BC Black pioneers. Register at gvpl.ca or call 250-940-4875.

Seedy Saturday Feb 21

Hosted by the James Bay Market Society, highlights include gardening talks, exhibitors, seeds for sale, seedlings, a seed exchange, fertilizers, a used gardening book exchange and a seedy cafe. At the Victoria Conference Centre, 10am-4pm.

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vocals on his breakout Canadian country debut, Jumped Right In, which netted five 2013 CCMA award nominations, BC’s awardwinning country music powerhouse Dallas Smith plays the McPherson Playhouse Feb 13. rmts.bc.ca

Spoken Word Festival Feb 23

Poetry as you’ve never heard it. For our fifth year we’re bringing in spoken word artists from across Canada for a week of shows combining poetry with dance, improv - even beer. Tickets at Ticket Rocket or at the door. victoriaspokenwordfestival.com Annual Flower Count Feb 25 to Mar 03

A lighthearted community challenge, this annual event promotes gardening culture and local pride in Greater Victoria by encouraging municipalities to count blooms in their community to determine who is “bloomingest” flowercount.com An Evening with Robert Bateman Feb 26

A wonderful event with the iconic Robert Bateman as the special guest speaker. The evening will also include an opportunity to have your favourite Bateman book autographed, art display, silent auction and dinner. At the Mary Winspear Centre, doors open at 5:30pm. marywinspear.ca Be A Tourist In Your Own Hometown Feb 26 to March 01

Great deals on attractions, restaurants, lodging, shopping and transportation. See the sights for less.

Order a savings passport, valued at over $300, and get free or discounted access to over 30 attractions, tours, museums and more. attractionsvictoria.com Vintageous Vintage Fair Feb 27-28

This fun vintage event features many great, local vintage dealers offering all sorts of vintage & retro clothing, jewelry, decor & more. At the Fernwood Community Centre 5pm-9:30pm Friday and 10am-5pm Saturday.

GottaCon 2015 Feb 27-March 1

GottaCon celebrates science fiction and fantasy genres, covers many related hobbies and offers a one stop experience for the fans and enthusiasts of those genres. Victoria Conference Centre. gottacon. com Awards Gala and Black & White Party Feb 28

music. Alix Goolden Hall 250-386-5311.

The Righteous Floater + The Melon Project

Saturday • Jan 31 • 7:00 pm Sunday • Feb 1 • 9:00 pm

Celebrate eight generations of music, featuring award-winning hits from The Beatles, Adele, Rolling Stones, Petula Clark, Elton John, Sting, U2 and others. Tickets: $20, at starlightpops.com, and at the door (cash only).

Two Iranian-Canadian brothers, Arash and Aryo Khakpour, create a dangerous world where boundaries are constantly being defined. “surprising and moving…in turns playful and deadpan to devastating emotional effect.”

Marcus Roberts Trio JAN. 30

Marcus Roberts has overcome the challenges of blindness to create a legacy of critically acclaimed music and become one of the world’s most skilled pianists. First Met United Church, 932 Balmoral Rd. 250-388-4423.

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Tickets $22.50 Theatre SKAM Remixed presents BALLET VICTORIA Aerwacol • WORLD PREMIERE!

Saturday • January 31 • 9:00 pm Sunday • February 1 • 7:00 pm

The Lonely share an appreciation of the songs of Roy Orbison. The band approach the music with humble spirits and attempt to recreate the sensitivity and soul of the original recordings. At the Mary Winspear Centre, 7:30pm. marywinspear.ca

Ballet Victoria’s Paul Destrooper transforms a gritty work of outdoor theatre — originally produced by Theatre SKAM — into contemporary ballet.

Tragically Hip Feb 4

Iconic Canadian rockers the Tragically Hip hit Victoria commemorating the re-issue of the band’s Fully Completely album – the Hip’s third full-length album – played in its entirety. The tour visits Saveon-Foods Memorial Arena. sofmc.com Andy Shauf Feb 4

Surge presents Andy Shauf plus guests live at Upstairs Cabaret. Tickets $12 – available at Lyle’s Place, Ditch Records and TicketZone.com

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WEN WEI DANCE (Vancouver) in collaboration with BEIJING MODERN DANCE Made in China • WORLD PREMIERE!

Thursday – Saturday February 5 – 7 • 7:30 pm

D.O.A. Sweathogz & Couchthieves Feb 7

Dancers Wen Wei Wang and Gao Yanjinzi perform to live music by Qui Xia He (Silk Road Ensemble) and video artist Sammy Chien.

Through music, dance and storytelling the ensemble mine their own stories to create a window on another world.

Hype Bot presents D.O.A. with The Sweathogz and Couchthieves at The Tally Ho Sports Bar. Tickets $17 advance/$22 at the door, available at diyobo.com Mark Farina w/ Soloman Potashnick & Primitive Feb 8

Whitebird Events presents Mark Farina with Soloman Potashnick and Primitive at Distrikt Nightclub. Tickets $25, available at Lyle’s Place, The Strathcona Hotel and TicketZone.com

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All performances at Metro Studio Theatre (Quadra at Johnson) Box Office: 250-386-6121 or online DanceVictoria.com

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Community Recognition Awards Gala Black History Month 4:30pm to 8pm. Admission by donation followed by Black & White Party $10 in advance / more at the dance 9:30pm to 2am. The Copper Owl 1900 Douglas St. vaccsociety.com

Victoria’s first French Film Festival. Documentaries, feature films and workshops all presented in French.

The weekend starts Friday night with a documentary and a main feature, moves on to two days of workshops, presentations, discussions and films, and ends with a screening of the Oscar-nominated Monsieur Lazhar, followed by a shared community snack. Tickets on sale at CILS-FM, 535 Yates St., École Victor-Brodeur, Salon Modello, 2590 Cadboro Bay Rd.

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Singer/songwriter and MCA Nashville recording artist Kip Moore unleashed his major label debut Up All Night in 2012. When the casual, baseball cap-clad country crooner takes the stage nowadays he belts out fan favorites like Beer Money, Something ‘Bout a Truck and Hey Pretty Girl. commodoreballroom.com

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JIM HENSON’S DINOSAUR TRAIN LIVE! FEB 14

Sam Roberts was living in a hobbit hole on a mountain in Spain, watching the sun set on the hills of Andalucia when the lyrics of Golden Hour came to him. If that were the only unusual thing about the making of Lo-Fantasy, his fifth studio album, it would still be remarkably strange, but this is no ordinary Sam Roberts Band record. commodoreballroom.com

Jim Henson’s Dinosaur Train Live: Buddy’s Big Adventure, celebrates the fascination that preschoolers have with both dinosaurs and trains. The series encourages basic scientific thinking skills as the audience learns about life science, natural history and paleontology. Join Buddy, Tiny, Don and their friends in this fun-filled, interactive trip back in time to an age when dinosaurs roamed the earth … and rode in trains. Paramount Theatre

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A Scottish heiress pays with murder and madness for loving the wrong man

FLY MOON ROYALTY FEB 13

Surge presents Fly Moon Royalty live at Lucky Bar. Tickets $15, available at Lyle’s Place, Ditch Records and TicketZone.com DALLAS SMITH FEB 13

BC’s award-winning country music powerhouse Dallas Smith plays the McPherson Playhouse. rmts.bc.ca VICTORIA DJANGO FESTIVAL FEB 13, 14

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Elliott Brood with The Wilderness of Manitoba live at Alix Goolden Hall. Tickets $20, available at Lyle’s Place, Ditch Records and TicketWeb.ca TRAVELLING ROADSHOW FEB 14

Bop to the sounds of The Hardly Boys, Paradise Street and fearless female foursome CURL. Then boogie the night away to Victoria’s favorite bluesman, Bill Johnson. Norway House, 1110 Hillside Ave., 7pm. Tickets at Lyle’s Place.

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Featuring some of Handel’s most glorious music, Theodora depicts the self-sacrificial love between a Christian virgin and a Roman imperial bodyguard. At the Alix Goolden Hall 8pm., pre-performance discussion at 7:10pm. earlymusicsocietyoftheislands.ca PACIFIC BAROQUE FESTIVAL 2015 FEB 19-22

Discover the scope of Handel’s music, from his grand works for royal occasions to some rarely performed, more intimate cantatas and arias. The Festival features the largest baroque orchestra in its 11 year history, with strings supported by oboes, flutes, bassoons, natural trumpets and horns, timpani drums. Add the Victoria Children’s Choir and soloists to the Saturday evening concert, and the Alix Goolden Hall will be a special occasion that should not be missed. pacbaroque.com ARKELLS FEB 21

Arkells plus guests live at Sugar Nightclub. Tickets $22.50, available at Lyle’s Place, Ditch Records and TicketWeb.ca.

VSHJ PRESENTS THE KLEZ FEB 22

Enjoy a medley of toe tapping, wildly rhythmical klezmer music, lovely Sephardic ballads, and traditional Hebrew, Yiddish and Ladino folk songs, performed by the Victoria quintet The Klez.

Suggested donation of $10.

Jewish Community Centre of Victoria, 3636 Shelbourne St. 7:30pm.

CHANCE LOVETT QUARTET AND JUSTIN CARTER FEB 23

Back by popular demand, songstress Chance Lovett will be joined by Nicholas Mintenko, Sean Thompson and Dakota Hoeppner to perform a soulful set of gospel, jazz, and blues in celebration of Black History Month. Call the Belfry Theatre at 250-385-6815 for info. Co-sponsored by the BC Black History Awareness Society, Greater Victoria Public Library, and the Belfry Theatre.

Admission by donation.

JAMES VINCENT MCMORROW FEB 27

James Vincent McMorrow plus guests live at Alix Goolden Hall. Tickets $25, available at Lyle’s Place, Ditch Records and TicketFly.com

COMEDY SHUT UP AND LAUGH JAN. 22

Wes Borg headlines a night that will have you busting a gut with giggles. Paparazzi Show/ Nightclub, 642 Johnson.

MOCK THE NEWS JAN. 26

A British style comedic panel show where we take the news and have some fun with it.

Hecklers Upstairs 123 Gorge Rd. E. 250-386-9207 GERRY DEE JAN. 28

Check out the star and creator of CBC’s hit sitcom Mr. D, and author of Teaching: It’s Harder Than It Looks. McPherson Playhouse. rmts.bc.ca

SIN CITY: SPACE TO MARCH 31

In the near future, a team of astronauts are on a mission to replace crew at an interstellar space station. Expect the unexpected as an original tale is improvised before your eyes in weekly installments. Tuesdays at 8, Victoria Event Centre, 1415 Broad St.

STAGE PEOPLE TO JAN. 31

Alan Bennett’s exploration of what happens when an aging dowager can no longer manage her aging manor house and jumps at the chance to shoot a film on site (unknowing, it’s a porn flick). Bennett, in great comic style, underscores the reality that everything has a price. Ages 15+. Langham Court Theatre, 805 Langham Court 250384-2142. langhamtheatre.ca MALADJUSTED JAN 31

Maladjusted engages audiences with powerful images and authentic voices weaving together three personal narratives. Performed by a very talented cast of patients and caregivers who really know the mental health system. theatreforliving.com YULE BLEED FEB 6-7

What happens to the family that bleeds together? Find out as the Hoffmans make a family trip to the shopping mall to donate blood on Christmas Eve. A part of the Intrepid Theatre YOU Show Series. ticketrocket.org SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE FEB. 12

The traveling stage show starring So You Think You Can Dance’s 11th-season Top 10 finalists comes to Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre. sofmc.com LION IN THE STREETS FEB 12 TO 21

Judith Thompson’s work follows Isobel, a nine-year-old Portuguese girl – lost, frightened and desperate to find her way home – who finds herself on the dark side of human experience, witnessing the troubled lives of the people in her community.

(Mature subject matter. Ages 17+) Phoenix Theatre, UVic, 250721-7992. finearts.uvic.ca/theatre/ phoenix ALIEN CREATURE – A VISITATION FROM GWENDOLYN MACEWAN FEB 17-MARCH 7

Gwendolyn MacEwan was one of Canada’s greatest poets and Linda Griffiths was one of Canada’s finest playwrights.

Griffiths has created a magical text of story-telling in which the ghost of MacEwan visits a contemporary audience to tell tales of her life, work, inspiration – and death. theatreinconnu.com AN EVENING WITH DAVID SEDARIS FEB 24

NPR humorist and best-selling author of Let’s Talk About Diabetes with Owls, Naked, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Sedaris brings his sardonic wit and incisive social critiques to the local stage. Royal Theatre, 250386-6121

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he Health, Wellness & Sustainability Festival is a yearly celebration and education on any and all things leading to a healthier body and mind.

Held annually at the Victoria Conference Centre, the festival is host to dozens of local and international guests and vendors specializing in a wide range of health enhancing, gluten-free food, acupuncture, naturopathy, massage therapy, health-minded cosmetics and skin care, fitness studios, yoga, martial arts and more.

Guest speakers include New York Times bestselling author of The Art of Fermentation, Sandor Katz.

Through entertainment, education and experience the Health and Wellness Festival strives for a sustainable future with a focus on creating a better, stronger, healthier and more vibrant community in both body and mind. At the Victoria Conference Centre, Feb. 7, 10am-5pm. healthandwellnessfestival.ca

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FERMENTATION FETISH - Sandor Katz has explored and experimented widely in the realm of fermentation, and his mission is to share information and resources, in order to encourage home fermentation experimentalists and propel more live-culture foods into our culture. Tickets and information: healthandwellnessfestival.ca artists’ Sarah Cowan and Connie Michele Morey at Xchanges Gallery. Cowan and Morey’s work focuses on the back and forth reverberation of their overlapping artistic practices in felt, paper and mixed media.

Opening reception is 7-9pm, Jan. 9. Artist talk begins at 7:30pm.

LOVE YOU TO BITS: AN UPLIFTING COLLAGE EXHIBITION JAN. 29-FEB. 28

Enjoy artist Helga Strauss’ vibrant mixed media work showcasing an ongoing crush with bright bold hues, snippets of vintage, handmade, recycled papers, and thoughts that go beyond the traditional Valentine sentiments.

Opening Jan. 29, 7-9 pm. 833 Fort St. helga@artchixstudio.com OAK BAY ART CLUB SHOW JAN 30-FEB. 25

The Oak Bay Art Club presents its winter show with featured artist Jacqueline Macdonald. Jan 30-Feb. 25 (weekdays only) at Goward House, 2495 Arbutus Rd. The opening reception is on Feb. 1, 1:30-3:30pm.

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Constructed Works, 1960s to Present continues at Winchester Modern, 758 Humboldt St. ECLECTIC GALLERY ARTISTS SALON TO FEB 28

Salon-style exhibits showing several gallery artists who really immerse themselves in their vision of discovery. Eclectic Gallery, 2170 Oak Bay Ave. SPECTRUM: AN EXHIBITION OF FINE LOCAL ARTWORK TO FEB. 28

Experience the diverse works of Vancouver Island’s artists and the spectrum of creative possibilities they discover. Featuring work

by Paige Bowman, Maureen Calkins, Johanne Hemond, Jill Fitz Hirschbold, Guillermo Mier, Blythe Scott, Shelley Wuithchik.

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A series of Sunday afternoon concerts awaits music lovers as the Universal Jazz Advocates & Mentors Society brings jazz to the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria. The series draws on the great wealth of talented west coast musicians in four jazz soirees. Feb 22 see kNu Standers with the Brooke Maxwell Trio.

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Visual artist Gillian Redwood opens her solo show of 12 large canvases Energetic Universe at 7pm, Feb 7. Fascinated by the science of optics and the behavior of light, the artist uses dynamic lines to express relationship. At the Martin Batchelor Gallery, 712 Cormorant St. 10am-5pm.

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Ron Parker Revisiting Beacon Hill new paintings. The Avenue Gallery, 2184 Oak Bay Ave. 10am-5:30pm. theavenuegallery. com WEST END GALLERY FEB 14-26

Downtown Victoria’s West End Gallery’s winter calendar includes an exhibit of new paintings by Guy Roy. 1203 Broad St. 10am-5:30pm. guyroy.ca THE LOOK SHOW 2015 FEB 28-MARCH 21

Join the CACGV in its 16th year of the LOOK Show, at The Bay Centre. Preview reception Feb 26, 6-8pm. All artists from emerging to professional on display. cacgv.ca

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THE BIG PERSONALITY

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“You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone.”

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he gravel road will bring singer Lucinda Williams to Victoria this month where her soulful, sandpapery voice will play off the aged wood in the Alix Goolden Hall.

Williams has been maneuvering down a path all her own for more than 30 years, emerging from Lake Charles, Louisiana (a town with a rich tradition in all of America’s indigenous music, from country to the blues) having been imbued with a “culturally rich, economically poor” world view.

Several years of playing the hardscrabble clubs of her adopted state of Texas gave her a solid enough footing to record a self-titled album that would become a touchstone for the Americana movement.

For much of the next decade, she moved around the country, stopping in Austin, Los Angeles, Nashville, and turning out work that won respect in the industry (including a Grammy for Mary Chapin Carpenter’s version of Passionate Kisses) and a gradually growing cult audience. While her recorded

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output was sparse for a time, the work that emerged was invariably hailed for its indelible impressionism – like 1998’s Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, which notched Williams the first of three Grammy awards as a performer.

The past decade brought further development, both musically and personally, evidenced on albums like West (2007) and Blessed (2011), which the Los Angeles Times dubbed “a dynamic, human, album, one that’s easy to fall in love with.” Those albums retained much of Williams’ trademark melancholy and southern Gothic starkness, but also exuded rays of light and hope, hues that were imparted by a more soothing personal life, as well as a more settled creative space.

Her latest album Down Where The Spirit Meets The Bone is the first release on her own Highway 20 Records label.

“I felt like I was really on a roll when we started working on the album,” said Williams, who produced the album with Greg Leisz and her husband Tom Overby. “I usually have enough songs to fill an album, and maybe a couple more, but when I started writing for this, the inspiration just kept coming, and the people I was working with kept telling me the songs were worth keeping. It’s not like I was reinventing the wheel – there are only so many things you can write about, love, sex, death, redemption, and they’re all here – but I felt like I was really in a groove here.”

While there’s no shortage of eureka moments on

Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone, Williams digs deepest on Compassion, which is based on a poem that was published in 1997 by her father, accomplished poet Miller Williams, who died Jan. 1.

“It was challenging, to say the least,” she said before her father’s death. “For years, I’ve wanted to take one of his poems and turn it into a song. You really have to take the poem apart and put it back together, you can’t just sing it as is. Tom had said he felt it might work with Compassion, so I finally started working on it and came up with something. I told my father about it and he loved the idea, which made me really proud.”

With Down Where The Spirit Bone Williams conjures Meets The Bone, up the spirit of classic ‘70s country soul and the resulting warmth of tone gives the album a late-night front-porch vibe – one that could be accompanied by either a tall glass of lemonade or something a little stronger, all the better to let the sounds envelop the listener like a blanket of dewy air.

“I didn’t set out to do a whole album of country-soul, but once I started working, a stylistic thread kind of emerged,” she said. “It’s a sound I can relate to, one that’s really immediate and really timeless at the same time – kind of sad in an indefinable way.

It’s like something my dad said to me many years ago, something I wrote down and included in my song Temporary Nature (Of Any Precious Thing) because it was so profound to me: ‘the saddest joys are the richest ones.’ I think that fits this album really well.”

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his month the Belfry Theatre presents two plays, both connected by the theme of motherhood.

“We have this unique evening of two plays, connected by their theme of mother-son relationships, by their charm and intelligence and by creative artists who have been part of seasons past, returning with new gifts to share with us,” says artistic director Michael Shamata.

Itai Erdal has relived his mother’s last days on stage since 2011. For him, it’s not an unpleasant experience.

“It’s more joyous that anything else,” he says. “It shows her humour.

My mom would make fun of me. It was fun hanging out with my mom.”

Erdal was just 25 and fresh out of Vancouver film school when he returned home to Jerusalem to care for his dying mother.

Although he had gone to film school, he planned on being a lighting designer. But his mother had a different plan. “She was the one who gave me the camera and said make this,” he says. “It was her idea.”

Erdal filmed hundreds of hours and eventually his mother turned the camera on him. “On the video you see the 25 year old me. … It was emotionally hard, but it was also playful and fun. I loved to do it and it was not depressing at all. I think it was her way of

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Itai Erdal narrates his film How to Disappear Completely.

having a say in my future profession.”

Erdal says making the documentary changed his life. He turned the footage into a performance piece with lighting he runs from the stage as he tells his mother’s story.

How to Disappear Completely was formed with the help of director James Long and dramaturge Anita Rochon at Vancouver’s Chop Theatre. The pair helped “clarify and crystallize the show,” says Erdal.

“One reviewer said it shows humour,

beauty and tragedy with the expertise him for one of his stage of a tightrope walker – I think that is works. “I said to the best way to explain it,” he says.

Iris, ‘I don’t have Mery Erdal died of lung cancer 13 anything,’ and she years ago leaving her son with a fassaid: ‘What about your play about the cinating legacy. “She would approve. dog?’”

She would be happy for me. It is a To which he replied, “What play?” remarkable thing to do, to touch and and Turcott produced a file of notes reach people.” she had kept from all his puppy tales.

••• The dog stories, plus his polar oppoDaniel MacIvor’s play The Best site older brothers gave MacIvor the Brothers attempts to address the agebasis for The Best Brothers. “But that old question: Who did mom love best? ain’t my mom. It ain’t my mom,” “It’s about three says MacIvor, with a brothers – two human laugh. “It’s probably and the third’s a dog,” the mother I wish I had, Belfry plays says MacIvor on the but all works are autoshare phone from his home biographical in one way on a Nova Scotia acreor another – well, PD mother-son age.

James probably didn’t relationships The play had its experience all those debut at the Stratford murders – but the type Festival in 2012. of plays I write.”

The story, which follows Kyle and In life, one of his brothers is a unionHamilton Best as they divvy up mom’s type, the other in management. For estate after her untimely death due the play the Best Brothers are an archito a freak accident at the Gay Pride tect and developer. “Plus, I was interParade, was written “unexpectedly,” ested in giving the actors a challenge, says MacIvor. so they each play a brother and also He and writer Iris Turcott were work- they both play the mother, who only ing on Was Spring when he adopted speaks to the audience. It’s the version an Italian Greyhound he named Buddy. of the mother they identify with,” he “I got my first dog when I was 45 says. years old and every day I would tell A heartwarming comedy, The her these horror stories about this Best Brothers runs 90-minutes withpuppy that was destroying my life,” out intermission following How to MacIvor says.

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or local film fans there is no better time of the year than mid-February, when the ever-growing, ever-popular Victoria Film Festival comes to the silver screens of our fair city and brings the world with it.

Documentaries, feature films, short films, local, national, international, drama, comedy, horror, indigenous directors, female filmmakers; whatever your favourite flavour, the festival has something for you.

For those who like to shop local, there is a truly impressive lineup of features and shorts produced right here in the provincial capital.

Gone South: How Canada Invented Hollywood is directed by local talents Leslie D. Bland and Ian Ferguson and takes a look at the influence Canadians have had on Tinsel Town, from its earliest pioneers to the current crop of Canadian talent who have headed south of the border to pursue careers.

Victoria’s own Maureen Bradley will be screening her first feature film, Two 4 One, at the festival.

A funny, sweet, filmed-in-Victoria look at a truly modern family, the movie stars This Hour Has 22 Minute’s Gavin Crawford as a transgendered person who has managed to end up in a bit of a pickle: he’s pregnant. And so is his ex-girlfriend. From the same donor sperm.

Trunk: The Movie, from Martin DeValk, is a single-location thriller that perhaps isn’t for those who have problems with claustrophobia. Shot in Victoria, the movie features murder, revenge and a man locked in the trunk of a car.

Quebec director Magnus Isacsson’s Granny Power also has a strong Victoria connection, as it focuses

Gavin Crawford and Naomi Snieckus star in Victoria filmmaker Maureen Bradley’s first feature film Two 4 One.

on telling the story of the Raging Grannies, a widespread movement of aging activists that began in

Victoria in the late 1980s.

There are plenty of local shorts to get excited about too, including Jeremy Lutter’s Gord’s Brother, written by Ben Rollo and starring Jack Irvine (Gracepoint), Instance, directed by Michael Farrell, and Whistler Film Festival BC Student Shortwork Award winner Godhead, directed by Connor Gaston.

For those who prefer a more international flavour, there is a wide range of documentaries and feature films from around the world, made by some of the most respected names in the business.

There are too many to name, but a few are worth making the special effort to see.

Two internationally-acclaimed documentaries are coming, including filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer’s Look of Silence, his follow-up to the excellent The Act of Killing. Also in the schedule is Frederick Wiseman’s National Gallery, a behind-the-scenes look at the titular London, UK art gallery that’s been getting a lot of attention.

One of last year’s most divisive, and best, films was Vic and Flo Saw a Bear. This year Quebec director Denis Côté is back with Joy of Man’s Desiring, described as an “exploration of the energies and rituals of various workplaces.” If it’s half as interesting as Vic and Flo, it’s worth checking out.

Other titles of note include Colin Farrell and Jessica Chastain in Miss Julie, indie horror darling It Follows, Juliette Binoche and Kristen Stewart in Olivier Assayas’ Clouds of Sils Maria, acclaimed French film Girlhood and the new Lone Scherfig (An Education) joint The Riot Club.

So get out there, try something different; you’ll surely find something you like. Go to victoriafilmfestival.com for more information.

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pring is a time of renewal. For those of us lucky enough to live in Victoria we can already see the signs all around us.

Buds are popping up from the ground, the grass is greening and each day we see more and more blue sky.

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Take time to reflect on your New Year’s resolutions. Are you still on track to becoming a better you? Often we resolve to do things that will help improve our lives like drinking more water, working out regularly and

remembering to take our vitamins or other healthy supplements. Now is a great time to check in with yourself and grab those carrot sticks from the grocery instead of the liquorice whips.

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Spring style: what you need now denim. So you get the same look, it’s just even more relaxed.”

The spring look includes work-suits – an updated rey skies are gonna clear up and what twist on the jumpsuit which includes a full sleeve, better to go with your happy face than made of linen or chambray with a button front. some fresh, new fashion?

Also on trend are softer, less constructed jackets and Boulevard Magazine fashion and dresses in soft textures. style contributor Lia Crowe spoke with Faulkner’s spring line includes a motorcycle jackMonday Magazine recently to give us the goods on et with a relaxed feel. “The motorcycle jacket is a what’s new for spring 2015. classic piece that is found in many women’s closets.

“If I could narrow it down into one word, it would I wanted to give it a west coast feel and so I used be soft,” says the former high fashion model, now a linen to relax the look and make it lighter weight for mom of two active daughters. the summer,” she says.

“The last couple of seasons things have had a “Sheer is still here,” adds Crowe. “There’s plenty harder, more graphic edge,” she says. Now the trend of sheer detailing.” is toward a softer, more This includes skirts with feminine look. sheer overlays and hems, as This summer, look for well as sheer sleeves. softer fabrics, including soft “There’s a lot of beaudenim and plenty of flower tiful colour,” she adds. prints.

“Not the black and white “The common denomcolour blocking we’ve seen. inator is soft. … textures Spring is more soft and like suede, which we see whimsical – that’s sort of a lot of in spring clothing, the theme you see running with a softer 70s feel. And through everything. Lots a lot of denim, but the soft, of sheer stuff with movechambray denim – and not ment – sexy, swishy, flowy just in jeans,” she says. textures.”

Local designer Eliza Continuing to be in Faulkner agrees. style is the cropped pant.

“Denim (is) a really big “I think this one will stick trend for spring 2015. I around, a lot of women wanted to play with the love it,” she says.

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Anything goes in hair style trends LAURA LAVIN editor@mondaymag.com When it comes to hair style trends, Fish Hair Salon stylist Yasmin Morris says, “anything goes.”

Morris, who has been working as a stylist for more than 16 years, says more and more, people know what they want and what they want is individual style.

“There’s no Jennifer Aniston (musthave style) anymore. People sit in my chair and they’ve seen a statement or want to create a style that suites them and their lifestyle. It makes for everyone looking extremely different,” she says.

Social media has definitely changed the way people look at fashion and style, says Morris. “There’s Pinterest now and Instagram. People used to look at hair magazines and celebrities for ideas, now they’re influenced by selfies of people using Pinterest or Instagram.”

People are trying new looks with colour these days, although pastel colour is not a strong look. “I do maybe one pastel hair colour a month.

The stronger trend is root shading. …

It’s different from ombre, it’s a more melting of tones. It doesn’t look as dipped with high contrast, now it’s softer, more sun-kissed,” she says.

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two it will be a very big thing,” says Morris. “They’re very soft, diffused highlights.”

Every client is different, says Morris, but most know they need to communicate with their stylist to get the look that suits them best. “You have to work with people’s natural hair texture – not try to straighten the heck out of natural waves,” she says. “I would say people are more hair-savvy, or hair-intelligent, it makes us stay on our game.

Sometimes clients come in and they know abut a product before we do.”

Fish provides a variety of hair care products for their clients.

“People are more interested in the science for sure. They like to know how the colouring products work. I think they’re more interested in how they work, than what’s in them.”

More and more men are into styling their hair – and colouring as well. “Fish has a large male clientele. I think men are paying more attention to how they look now,” she says.

“We often do colour for men to camouflage grey. It’s really fast only takes five to 10 minutes and you don’t get that distinct line when it grows out.”

If you’re looking for a new stylist, Morris says find someone you can talk to. “Find someone who really listens to you. Someone you can sit down with and have a conversation. And find someone who’s excited about what they do.”

All EYES are on you One of the newest trends in beauty is long, thick eyelashes – and you don’t have to be born with them or spend tons of time applying false ones daily.

“I’ve been doing lashes for about eight years; for the last five I’ve been doing them full time,” says Johnna Ahrens, owner of Everlash Studio.

The popularity of lash extensions has grown over the last three years and many women are adding lashes to their regular beauty routine.

“There are pros and cons (to the growth),” says Ahrens. “The industry is largely unregulated – it’s scary – it’s our eye area. Some people who have tried it are having negative experiences.”

Her advice is to research where you go for lash extensions and ask questions. “Do your research on where you go, on what products they are using and their experience. … I’ve been working with Health Canada for five years to try and get some standards in place and they don’t want to do it – it’s challengELASH_8836_ELASH_0003_monday_ad.pdf 1 2015-01-12 ing.”

Lash extensions add length and volume to your

eyelashes by attaching one lash extension to each single natural lash.

“I started as a consumer. I started to get my lashes done and I fell in love with them,” says Ahrens, a makeup artist and esthetician who learned to do lashes from a Russian lash master.

Everlash does classic lashes, one-to-one, and volume sets, thinner, lighter lash extensions that are bundled together in 2-8 groupings and placed on one individual natural lash.

“The most important part is the consultation with the client. Finding out what their needs are, what their lifestyle is like. Certain people don’t want a dramatic look, they want a more natural look. We look at eye shape, facial structure and what they hope for.

Unfortunately we’re limited by what they have naturally, we don’t touch the skin at all.”

A full set of classic lashes runs $300 and maintenance runs from $45 to $115, depending on the length of time it takes for your lashes to grow out.

Most take three to four weeks, says Ahrens.

“People just want to get up and go. They don’t 11:26 to AM have to do eye make up every day. There’s want freedom in that. Our common client is busy, they

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If you lived through the 90s and your eyebrows show it, clap your hands, because Johnna Ahrens has the fix.

“I hate the term brow extension. It sounds like you’ll end up looking like a grandpa,” she says.

Brow extensions use very small fibres which are applied to your natural brow and even the skin to create a thicker brow line.

“The adhesive is completely safe for that,” she says.

“If you lived through the 90s and plucked your brows out to that thin line and now you want a thicker, natural looking brow, we can do that. It doesn’t add length, it adds volume.” want to be able to run to the grocery store and not worry about running into someone.”

For older clients, those over 40, Ahrens says the lash extensions provide an eye lift without surgery.

“It give eyes definition and makes wearing eye makeup unnecessary. As you age the skin around your eyes ages, eyeshadow doesn’t wear as well … this way you can show off your best asset – your eyes are what you want to draw attention to.”

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at the mic MIKE DELAMONT

Avoid the sumo wrestler Four years ago I lost a good amount of weight. It was the first time I was below 300 lbs. since my teen years.

I have always been a tall guy. I was 6’1 in the seventh grade – it made me a dream for the basketball coach.

Of course, to take advantage of the height, that person must also have some kind of athletic ability.

As evidence, I bring to the court’s attention the time in my childhood I played soccer and scored on my own team, as well as the time I played baseball and hit a pop-fly right up towards the sun which then fell and hit me on the head.

So, I was 6’1 with the sporting ability of Stephen Hawking, and because I had grown so much in two years, I was also lucky enough to have knees made entirely of Fabergé eggs.

In 2011, I moved to Toronto. I was in a terrible relationship, I had two jobs that I hated, and I couldn’t get stage time to save

my life. I was tired and fat. So I went to the gym. It was at this magical place that I found the secret to weight loss. I hope you are sitting down my friends. Buckle up my friends, as we are about to take a trip of Narnian proportions. I discovered that the way to lose weight is to eat slightly less than you normally do and try to be a little more active. I KNOW! I was as shocked as you are. Please … tell no one. What would the world do if they found this out? MADNESS I tell you.

There would be madness.

When I lost the weight I was happier, a little bit healthier and I found that my body craved water and the workout.

After a death in the family, I moved back to Victoria and started a relationship with a wonderful woman who just so happens to now be my wife. She met me when I was well above 300 pounds and had a nice dark nest of patchy, pathetic sideburns for a musical I was doing. If that’s not love – what is?

Over the past few years I have packed on more weight in a chapter of my life I like to call Happy Fat. It’s like the movie Happy Feet – but no dancing and pollution – it’s more poutine and a beautiful woman. This chapter has led me to today. When I weighed myself last week,

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I discovered that I am the heaviest I have ever been. I don’t need to disclose the number, but I will say I can now technically qualify for sumo wrestling. Which, I would do if I wasn’t worried that the sight of me and my man boobies in a thong would cause the Armageddon.

So what have I decided to do about this issue? Well, I have decided to drop the weight. And I never do anything in a small way, so my wife and I have set a goal. On our first anniversary we are going to run a 10K. So we have started training. I have started running. Day one was hard but it felt good. Yesterday was harder and it felt even better. It’s not a huge, detailed plan. It’s just getting up and doing something. There isn’t a weight goal, though I am down a few pounds from last week. Since I talk about weight in my stand up, somebody asked me what I would talk about if I lost the weight. I honestly don’t know. What I do know is that if I don’t do something now I can joke on stage about how fat and tired I am until I probably die in my 40s, or I can make a change today and make jokes about something else well into my 70s. Tough choice.

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The cameraman and I discovered it while driving-up Mount Tolmie, searching for a story for the end of the 6pm news. That’s where we met Vera and Charlie who were walking up Mount Tolmie. You don’t expect couples in their mid-80s to walk up mountains, but the Coleys do it almost daily. Charlie says they do it because, “it’s better to wear out than rust.” Vera says it’s because they’ve always enjoyed being active together. But that wasn’t always the way – at least not when they first met 79 years ago.

Charlie: “My wife used to play with my

brother in the sandbox at school. I threw rocks at her.”

Me: “Why did you throw rocks at her?”

Charlie: “She was so annoying.”

That’s when he was seven and she was four. She preferred playing with his young brother as a child and ended-up dating him in their teens. And then, Charlie jokes, “she developed common sense.”

Vera laughs. They both laughed often during our conversation. While the cameraman was capturing footage of them sitting on a bench and walking-up the road, they teased each other like teenagers flirting. There was chemistry between them that I assume was concocted when a rock-throwing boy transformed into a love-struck young man. They both say

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Charlie: “It really was. Just bang! A sudden realization – what have I been missing here?”

As the cameraman gets one last shot of Charlie and Vera reaching the top of the mountain, they reveal they’re celebrating their 60th wedding anniversary this year.

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ny performer would be envious of international opera star Tracy Dahl’s resume.

Regarded as a Canadian treasure for bel canto vocal performance, Dahl has performed with the San Francisco Opera, Washington Opera, Los Angeles Music Center Opera, Houston Grand Opera and Metropolitan Opera. Internationally, she has performed at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, Aix-en-Provence Festival and the Hamburg Opera. She has appeared with the Manitoba Opera, Canadian Opera Company, Banff Centre of Fine Arts, Calgary Opera, Opera Hamilton, Edmonton Opera, Vancouver Opera and Opera Lyra Ottawa.

She appeared alongside opera star Placido Domingo and among her numerous opera awards is a Juno nomination, but at home in Winnipeg, she still makes the beds, does the laundry, and as we chat on the phone, she is making a roast for dinner with her 13- and 16-year-old sons and husband Raymond.

“Please excuse the noise. I’m chopping potatoes,” she says in a light, age-defying voice.

Born and raised in Winnipeg, Dahl has been singing all her life. “I was the fourth of four girls and three out of four of us took singing lessons.

POV’s It was just the thing you Lucia di did,” she says.

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Manitoba Opera opened an opera in the schools in our church helped look after the family, brought program and she applied. “I got the job and I liked meals and took great care of me. We were very well it so much I thought I would do that. It was fast and supported,” she says. exciting, I really had to work to keep up.”

But the stage continued to call and she was happy She studied at the Banff School of Fine Arts and when she was able to begin performing again. made her operatic debut as Barbarina in Marriage of “I was 48 when (cancer was diagnosed) and when Figaro, with the Manitoba Opera in 1982.

I turned 50 I was really happy. I know people who Her career quickly took flight and she appeared are not happy to turn 50 or a couple of years older at Carnegie Hall in 1986, made her US opera debut and I just want to say, ‘you’re alive another year, be at the San Francisco Opera House with Domingo in happy you’re alive – celebrate your birthday.’”

1987 and appeared as Adele in Die Fledermaus in Many sopranos have left the stage by the time her Metropolitan Opera debut in 1991. they are in their 50s, says Dahl. But her drive to “I was not aiming for the metropolperform is still strong. “Every time I itan, I just ended up there,” says the threaten to (retire) the kids say, ‘don’t Despite a modest singer. “It was super, duper, do it, not yet,’ they still like the travel, duper exciting performing the role. It is but I’m sure there are a few young family feud, just a perfect, perfect, perfect comedy.” sopranos who would like me to shut Lucia and Her Met debut was a surprise to up - excuse my language.

Dahl as she was understudy for the “I teach in the city, that keeps me Edgardo have role. “It was unscheduled, they just in shape. I still think it’s what I do best fallen in love. called and said, ‘we need you to do it though, performing. It’s where I feel tonight.’ It was not like I got to anticimost at home.” pate it or anything.”

This month Dahl will grace the stage Her CBC recording Glitter and Be Gay was nomat the Royal Theatre with Pacific Opera Victoria in its inated for a 1995 Juno award. “Glitter and Be Gay production of Lucia di Lammermoor. Dahl portrays was the first opera aria I learned,” she says as the Lucia. “I love that this is the dramatic side of it. For sound of dishes clatter in the background. “I peryears my career was as the comic relief, that’s the formed it last year in Calgary. I’m happy to still be last thing Lucia is – it’s all about the drama. It’s a able to do what I did when I was 19.” compelling story, she’s really a tragic person.”

Dahl knows she’s fortunate just to be alive. In POV’s version of the Italian opera, loosely based 2010, she was diagnosed with invasive breast cancer. upon Sir Walter Scott’s historical novel The Bride of “It was a difficult time for me and my friends and Lammermoor, is set in the Depression era. “It’s the family. And then we were told it was as bad as it story of a family facing financial ruin, she’s forced to possibly could be. I had to cancel all my jobs … I had marry to save the family fortune,” she says. a very good year lined up.” She underwent a double It’s a role Dahl has taken on before, but, she says, mastectomy followed by chemotherapy. She stopped every performance is like the first. “I still get nervous singing and focused on regaining her health. “And I – there’s nothing blasé about it.” still tried very much to look after my family. People

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She helped develop his drive to tell the stories of other strong women.

His newest is Lillian Carter A Compassionate Life, which takes a look into the life of the woman who, as nurse, mother and social justice activist in segregated southwest Georgia, made a lifelong habit of breaking the rules defining a woman’s place in and out of the home and the status of blacks in society.

“I was taken into the family,” says HayterMenzies, who wrote to former President Jimmy Carter for permission to tell his mother’s story after reading Carter’s memoir, A Remarkable Mother.

“He told me I was welcome to do it and he invited me to an event honouring his mother with an award in Georgia.” Hayter-Menzies hopped on a plane and met with the 39th president of the United States, who wrote the foreword for the book.

“Of immediate concern to Lillian was the civil rights issue. If she was alive today she would be marching with a sign: ‘black lives matter,’” says Hayter-Menzies.

He says the Carter matriarch was ahead of her time and only held back from protesting by her protective son. “She grew up in a household of compassion whose motto for everything the family did was not to recognize the colour of people but to take them on their merits.”

Not one to sit on her heels, well into her 60s, Lillian Carter joined the Peace Corps, spending two years in India caring for the poor in the slums of Mumbai.

“She knew it was impossible to do what she wanted to do for black people (in the U.S.) and not have rocks thrown through the window. She wanted to go where there were people of colour she could care for (without retribution),” says Hayter-Menzies.

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930s Paris comes to Victoria as Django Festival turns a local hall into a gypsy jazz club.

Victoria musician Oliver Swain is once again at the helm of Victoria Django Festival which takes place at the White Eagle Hall in James Bay which will be transformed into a 1930s Paris cabaret.

“It’s the fourth annual Victoria Django Festival, I can hardly believe it,” says Swain.

He took his experiences playing at a variety of Django festivals and worked them into the Victoria festival which now takes place over two days, Feb. 13 and 14. “The response has been NAZLI SHAW PHOTO Gonzalo Bergara with quartet member Leah Zeger on violin. amazing,” he says.

Swain, a Juno nominated folk musiBergara, though demurs to the flatOne day the jam session included a cian, spent more than a decade in tery. “I think I’m the worst,” he says viewing of blues guitarist Stevie Ray some of North Americas most popin a phone interview from his home in Vaughan’s Live at the El Mocambo. “I ular roots bands (Outlaw Social, The Buenos Aires. “But I have that kind of was into the blues before but by then Duhks, The Bills) before releasing In a personality. I work to play as well as I I was into older rock, the Stones and Big Machine in 2011. He felt a lack of can.”

AC/DC, then I saw that video and my music festivals in his hometown and Bergara grew up in Argentina and life changed.” took a risk on Django. began playing the guitar at a young At 19, his parents split up and he “There are places in the world age. “When I was very young, moved to Miami with his father. “At like Montreal and Winnipeg about age 11, I met a guy at the time I had a big passion for the even, that have great culgrade school whose dad blues and I wanted simply to learn to tural festivals. … and it’s Win tickets to played bass and every play the blues. What better way than nice to orient it around Victoria Django weekend he would host a to move to where the blues started? I Valentine’s day for jam session at his house know it wasn’t Miami, but Miami was Festival’s people who celebrate with his older friends. My my (ticket) to the rest of the States.” main event at that.” friend told him I played and He got a student visa and began Django Reinhardt mondaymag.com I got invited to jam – I was college classes but at night, he played was a jazz guitarist, just a kid, but already I could guitar wherever he could. “I slowly known for his music stemplay a little.” started to meet people and started to ming from French gypsy Argentinian culture embraces play until I was playing six nights a culture and for composing standards family dinners and get togethers that week with fake ID so I could get in.” such as Minor Swing, Swing ‘42 and begin as late as 10pm and include After just 18 months, he realized the Djangology. even young children. “We eat very Miami music scene was far from where Respected in his own time, late, go out very late in my commuhe wanted to be, so he packed up his Reinhardt is now considered one of nity. You meet your friends at 1:30 in Toyota Corolla and hit the road. “I the greatest guitar players of all time the morning and have long dinners drove across the country to LA illegally and legions of modern day musicians that start at 10pm and end at 1am. It’s – I had no driver’s licence – to pursue honour him through his style and a fun town, a passionate culture,” says my passion.” songs.

Bergara.

Woody Allen’s 1999 movie The “I’m so excited to bring in the From age 11 to 16, he would play Sweet and Lowdown about fictitious Gonzalo Bergara Quartet, he’s a top long into the morning. “They wouldn’t jazz guitarist Emmet Ray who regards artist originally from Argentina who let you sleep, it was a healthy environhimself as the second greatest guiis a world-class instrumentalist,” says ment, no drugs or alcohol. (My partarist in the world after Reinhard – Swain. “He’s innovative in the genre ents) knew at least I was at someone’s and includes Reinhardt’s music – set in a way that’s very, very interesting house and not out all night,” he says.

Bergara down a new road after years musically.”

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of studying the blues guitar.

“When I started to play the guitar I was very obsessive. It’s my personality.

Whatever I love I become super-obsessed about. The blues were limited in trying to learn the instrument. Blues is not just about what you play, it’s how you play it. You can do a lot with very little; it’s mesmerizing music in general, there’s not one definition of blues. I’ve always been a fan of classical music, but I didn’t want to stay in one little box, so when I heard Django Reinhardt it was like the doors opened and I had a chance to dominate an instrument.

“You can play anything you want to play with a knowledge that goes deeper than the blues.”

Bergara was in California just a short time before he was in a band that was going down both roads. “I was keeping blues and gypsy jazz alive as much as I could, then gypsy jazz took off and I started to become more recognized in the gypsy jazz world than for the blues.”

His current California-based quartet evolved over the past six years and Bergara moved permanently back to Argentina just last year, now travelling to play with the band.

“It’s common for jazz and blues players to go it yourself,” he says, but he enjoys playing with the group.

“Most of the music is written by us and arranged, heavily arranged. We work less, but more intensely.

“These guys formed old-school. In the beginning we travelled for three weeks in a van all together sharing a room. When we first started we all slept in one room. We get along as friends not just with the music. To find that is very lucky. It’s very lucky to find guys with the attitude and energy to make it work,”says Bergara.

The Gonzalo Bergara Quartet includes Bergara on lead guitar, Jeffrey Radaich on rhythm guitar, Leah Zeger on violin and Brian Netzley on upright bass, they headline Feb. 14.

Marc Atkinson Trio, Daniel Lapp, Dennis Chang, The Capital City Syncopators and Sound of Light Circus act round out the Valentine’s weekend event. Go to victoriadjangofestival.com for more information.

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But the few times I noticed a small group of people mucking about with swords in Rutledge Park, I thought to myself, “that looks fun.”

When I saw that UVic’s Blood and Iron club had gained such a following that it was opening as a business in Esquimalt, I was excited to call and give it a try.

Blood and Iron Martial Arts is the brainchild of Lee Smith, a Vancouver man who has had a lifelong interest in history and swordsmanship and his wife Nicole, one of the world’s top female Historical European Martial Arts practitioners.

Erik Bailey, a student of Smith, is the founder of Victoria Blood and Iron, and it’s Bailey who gives me the lowdown on each weapon and its use.

“We teach the dussack, longsword and dagger and when you get a bit more experienced you can move on to the rapier and my favourite, the single stick.”

Bailey is one of the top single stick fighters in North America, placing second in his first Pacific Northwest Historical European Martial Arts Gathering in 2013.

We start the class with a good warm up, sprinting around the classroom space in Esquimalt’s industrial area. The pushups, situps, squats and lunges continue until the class is puffing –

or maybe that’s just me.

We begin training with the dussack, a practice weapon that represents a short, single-edged knife.

The dussack is light and fairly easy to wield. Bailey shows me how to stand, right foot forward, knee bent, step forward as you take a swipe at your opponent … I’m sure swipe’s not the technical term, but I’m going on memory and there’s much to remember.

It’s like a slow motion dance: position; step; advance; blade comes down and around; retreat.

Bailey has been studying a variety of martial arts since he was eight years old. He found Blood and Iron after he returned from living in Japan for a number of years.

“When I came back, I just wanted to try something different. I was walking in antique alley (in New Westminster) and saw the sign,” he says. He began training with Blood and Iron in 2010 and began teaching in 2013.

The art is growing. The draw, says Bailey, is fitness, self-defense and

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HEMA competitors treat sword fighting as an organized sport. Matches have complex rules and use a scoring system based on ancient dueling regulations. Fighters wear modern protective equipment, which looks like a hybrid of fencing gear and body armor. They use steel swords with unsharpened blades and blunt tips.

“people who are into swords.”

The practice session is organized and relaxed, the students, who are dressed in workout gear and t-shirts, many with bare feet, go through their moves and gently spar with one another while Bailey shows me the ropes.

We move onto the dagger, this one is made of heavy-duty nylon. He shows me how to stand, how to hold the weapon, how to move the blade, how to block.

I just feel like I’m just getting the hang of it when he adds the other hand. Now I have to remember to block and step and not “cut” my own leg off, let alone allow him to get a poke at me. I don’t and he does.

The last weapon I try is the longsword. This one, also made of a nylon material, is held in both hands, arms up over your head. The long blade is tricky to maneuver and although it only weighs some two pounds, after an hour of training, my arms are feeling the weight.

When we finish, a few of Bailey’s students suit up in protective gear to demonstrate what they’ve learned with the dussack.

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BREAD with Chef Sean Bodie The weather outside is frightful, but the staff and atmosphere at the Yates Street Meat and Bread are absolutely delightful as Jam Café Chef Sean Bodie and I meet for lunch.

Despite a typical Victoria downpour, patrons file in at a steady pace to grab a sandwich to go or sit at one of the long tables that fill the warm space.

Meat and Bread gives you just what you expect – amazing, fresh ciabbatta buns and tasty, moist meat. The buns come from Crust Bakery down the road on Fort Street.

They are par-cooked, then fresh-baked at the restaurant, creating a perfect bed of chewy richness for them to pack on the good stuff.

We’re greeted at the door by Shae Nakano who gives us the run down. Behind the wood counter stand a line of neatly dressed men with an oven full of ciabatta baking behind them, a plump boneless pork roast sits at the ready. We order and watch the sandwiches built.

The menu at Meat and Bread is simple: four sandwiches, one soup and one salad.

“I’m a huge fan of their menu,” says Bodie.

“It’s so simple. They change the special daily, but they always have the porchetta and jerk chicken.”

Today, the special is Rossdown

Farms Buffalo chicken thigh with iceberg, Victoria shop opened last year. tomato, red onion and blue cheese ranch, We bite into the sandwiches, Bodie’s and the vegetarian – which changes weekly face lights up immediately. “It’s heavy on – is pineapple curry tofu with pad thai peathe cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, allspice. nut slaw and tamarind aioli.

Normally jerk chicken uses Scotch bonnet Bodie orders the jerk chicken and I go (peppers) but I think this is jalepeno … for the vegetarian. “This is mmm, and pickled onion, Meat and the best jerk chicken I’ve ever that’s nice.” eaten in my entire life,” says The chicken is slow Bread brings Bodie. The sandwich is covcooked, tender and Bodie the humble ered in spicy jerk chicken, jicasays, delicious. As he chews sandwich to ma cabbage slaw, pickled red he describes the porchetta. onion and cilantro lime aioli.

“It’s a roast loin with skin new heights We skip the chili carrot crackling all through it with coconut soup and cucumber tabouli salad. salsa verde – it’s to die for. It’s a toss up with The man behind the roast tells Bodie they Roast as to who’s better.” As the sound of just started a Happy Hour: from 3 to 4pm a gauntlet being thrown fades behind him, get a sandwich and a beer for $10. “That’s Bodie tells me he recently had a turducklike a buck a beer,” says Bodie. “Nice.” en sandwich at Meat and Bread. The fare We take a seat and Nakano checks on included chestnut stuffing, charred brussel us, then introduces Meat and Bread chef sprouts, pan dripping mashed potatoes and Carmen Ingham. “Meat and Bread is a cranberry mostarda. “It’s like Christmas dinrefreshing concept,” he says. “The menu is ner in a sandwich.” small so you have to focus, you have to pay The veggie sandwich is not quite a holattention to the details and produce a great iday in my mouth, but delicious and filling product – that’s led to our success.” enough for me to take home half for later.

The sandwich shop is the brainchild We comment on how fast the line of of Cord Jarvie and Frankie Harrington people moves. “It’s the new fast food but who opened the first Meat and Bread healthier and more honest,” says Bodie. in Vancouver four years ago, a second “It’s quick, wholesome and delicious at the Vancouver location followed and the same time.”

VALENTINE TEA

Love of Africa Society hosts high tea and fashion show Feb.14 at 2pm. Guests are welcome to attend in period costume.

Proceeds to the Society’s projects in Tanzania. Call 250-891-0762.

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Join Silk Road’s tea experts to taste and explore a variety of unique teas using the techniques used by tea professionals, Feb. 18. Register at gvpl.ca or call 250940-4875 for more information.

SEEDY SATURDAY

Victoria’s Spring Seed and Garden show includes gardening talks, exhibitors, seeds for sale, seedlings, a seed exchange, fertilizers, book exchange and a seedy cafe, Feb. 21, Victoria Conference Centre 10-4.

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There’s a shift to high quality gin and with it a predilection for gin cocktails. The liquor store shelves now host a wide variety and the big brands are being challenged – take that vodka!

There is a booming micro-distillery movement that has swept the world, and since the BC liquor law changes, our province has joined in. Ampersand (Duncan), Phrog (Hornby Island), and many others have recently started up. A new distillery out of Courtenay with the fanciful name of Wayward Distillation House currently has Unruly Vodka on offer but soon they promise its cousin, Unruly Gin, will make an appearance.

What else is coming on strong?

An Italian classic – the Negroni, a legendary cocktail created in the 1920s by, yes, Count Negroni who took the soda out of an Americano (Campari, Sweet Vermouth, soda) and replaced it with gin. He later toured America as a rodeo cowboy (this is starting to sound like the plot for a Fellini movie). The Negroni might even make the move on the Old Fashioned particularly now that Mad Men is over and I see a trend toward the bitter – no, not me – the flavour profile.

On a brown note, whiskeys are likely to make their way further into the mainstream, and include interest in single grain rather than single malt. Oh, and while I wish I could say it isn’t so, I think flavoured tequila will become a trend.

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We also need to teach children to respect their parents, even when they have no idea of everything their parents are doing for them.

Children learn this respect from how parents treat each other.

Another form of love that gets short shrift is the love people have for the arts. For example, my friend, Brian Groos, loves music, in particular, Baroque music. For the last 10 years he has organized the Pacific Baroque Festival. He does it so he can share the music he loves with the people of the city he loves. He gives his time and energy to make this festival a reality.

Many of those who attend the concerts have no idea of the love that has made this festival a reality. Like a parent, Brian doesn’t do this for reward or recognition. Seeing others share the music he loves fills his soul, but it would be nice if Brian and the art lovers like him who make our community a richer place could feel some of our love in return.

On Valentine’s Day, absolutely, do something romantic with the love of your life, but in addition, take time to show love to your parents, or parents you know, and show your love for the arts and buy a ticket to something wonderful.

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There will be a lot of talk about love this month. But I want to talk about more than just romance.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m a big believer in flowers, chocolates, romantic dinners and walks on the beach.

However, I’m worried that romance is overshadowing other forms of love.

Let’s face it, they’re not making a lot of movies or writing novels about the love that is hard work and doesn’t involve fun and excitement. It’s too bad, because it’s exactly that kind of love that lasts a lifetime, makes the world a richer place and sees you through the rough spots in life.

It is a bit of cliché to say that a parent’s love is what drives him or her to get up every two hours with an infant for what seems like an eternity, but it is that same love that pushes them to work an eight-hour day then come home and spend hours helping with homework or driving to soccer practice and finishing the day doing laundry after the kids have gone to sleep. It’s a love that won’t have an immediate reward. Parents meet their children’s needs out of love, not for reward. However, society’s respect and honouring of this act of love seems to be diminishing these days. I think we need to give more support to parents and celebrate what they are willing to sacrifice for

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In the arts it’s especially important to recognize that many have been honing their craft for a number of years by the time they enter high school, college or university. February, traditionally the month of love, sees performances

by Company C – the Canadian College of Performing Arts Year Three students, University of Victoria Phoenix Theatre and Kaleidoscope Theatre’s young company, as well as the fifth iteration of the Victoria Spoken Word Festival – celebrating emerging spoken word artists. Here’s an opportunity to catch the newest Canadian rising stars.

The month begins with the Company C production of Luigi Pirandello’s seminal absurdist work, Six Characters in Search of an Author, directed

by James Faigan Tait (Helen’s Necklace), Jan. 29-Feb. 1 at the CCPA Performance Hall in Oak Bay. ccpa.eventbrite.com Ramp up your Bond for Casino Royale 006 Never Say Never Again Feb. 5 at the Oak Bay Beach Hotel. This glittery evening

of entertainment and glamour, in support of CCPA, was voted Favourite Artsy Fundraiser

by Monday Magazine readers. ccpa. eventbrite.com The YOU Show, sponsored by Intrepid Theatre, is a series for emerging artists which assists them to bring new work to life. The first YOU Show of 2015 is by lawyer-turned-playwright Laura Simons. Yule Bleed Feb. 6/7 is a snappy comedy about a family who makes a trip to the shopping mall to donate blood on Christmas Eve. The play asks some zany questions about our everyday foibles and the shortcomings of the modern medical machine, says Simons.

TicketRocket.org Kaleidoscope Theatre’s young company presents Alice, based on the stories of Lewis Carroll, adapted by artistic director Roderick Glanville, Feb. 14-15 at the Atrium.

Kaleidoscope.bc.ca Victoria’s longest-running alternative theatre company, Theatre Inconnu, opens its 2015 season with Alien Creatures A Visitation from Gwendolyn MacEwan by Linda Griffiths Feb. 17-March 7. The ghost of MacEwan, one of Canada’s greatest poets, visits a contemporary audience to tell tales of her life, work, inspiration, and her death, in this magical text of storytelling.

Ticketrocket.org Oak Bay is a busy arts hub this month.

Distinguished Professors Lecture The title University of Victoria Distinguished Professor is the highest academic honour that the university can bestow on a member of faculty.

This lecture series offers the community the opportunity to hear and meet these outstanding faculty members.

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Susan Boyd Distinguished Professor in the Faculty of Human and Social Development University of Victoria

Marijuana Grow-ops: The construction of a social problem

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David Turpin Building, room A102 This lecture will demonstrate how “marijuana growops” have come to be identified and constructed in particular ways. Drawing on socio-historical perspectives on the regulation of marijuana and an analysis of more than 2,500 newspaper articles published in national, provincial, and local newspapers in British Columbia from 1995 to 2009, focusing on the origins and impact of the discourse

surrounding marijuana grow-ops, this presentation demonstrates how marijuana grow-ops have been portrayed by law enforcement and the media as criminal, violent, and of epic proportions. In addition, civil and criminal justice responses to marijuana growing, in and outside of Canada, will be considered, including the movement to legally regulate marijuana.

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In addition to the theatrical offerings of the CCPA, Oak Bay Music, founded by Erik Abbink, presents I ♥ Composers Feb. 14/15, a two-day festival of new music featuring work composed and performed by the Victoria Composers Collective, mezzo-soprano Kristin Hoff (Montreal), and pianist Daniel Brandes. Oakbaymusic.ca Local choreographer Constance Cooke presents the world premiere of Liminal – a hauntingly ephemeral inter-disciplinary contemporary work for three performers animated by sound, paper installations and video that pushes the boundaries of dance and digital media. Feb. 19-21 at the Metro Studio. TicketRocket.org The Victoria Spoken Word Festival celebrates its fifth anniversary Feb. 24-March 1 by bringing back favourite poets from the past four years for an all-star line-up of spoken word in the heart of downtown Victoria.

This year’s Poet of Honour is Brendan McLeod, a Vancouver-based writer and musician (The Fugitives) who is a former Canadian SLAM poetry champion. Nightly shows include Poetry in Motion (Feb. 26) with Broken Rhythms and Sunday Night Improv (March 1) with local improvisers.

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implify. We hear the word constantly. The trend for purging, streamlining and reducing is a freeing process. One feels uplifted and calmer in a streamlined, uncluttered environment. Every facet of interior design/decorating has incorporated this trend, especially when it comes to window treatments.

Gone are the days of fussy sheers, drapes with valances with tons of trim and frills. Windows are now often dressed with innovative blinds, beautiful finishing trim work and perhaps, if needed, side panels to soften the edges.

Hunter Douglas has led the way in window blinds always and their new Silhouette A Deux is no exception. These blinds are everything in one, keeping the window uncluttered and clean. They provide three choices of light control: translucent, light dimming and room darkening.

Basically they are a Silhouette shade system with a darkening roller blind behind under one headrail valance. A cool feature available to them, is they can be operated without cords, making them really smooth and clean looking.

To see the full example, Ruffell and Brown Interiors at 2745 Bridge St. has a wonderful and extensive display area where you can see this blind and a large variety of other options available in window coverings. I have visited this showroom many times over the years and I am always dazzled with the options available to make window coverings functional and look beautiful for any room.

Another big showroom with a great Hunter Douglas display gallery is Saffron Window Fashion Drapery and Blinds at 2220 Sooke Rd. in the West Shore. Again, I was impressed with the amazing variety of window blinds available on display along with so many different options, fabrics, colours, and textures. They specialize in Hunter Douglas products, so the staff really know their product.

If your windows are in need of simplifying, check out one of these retailers – you won’t be disappointed with what’s available to you.

Sheri Peterson has been an interior designer for 22 years in Victoria. She designs for commercial, residential and hospitality clients.

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ebruary is a very important month – not because of the Super Bowl – but because Feb. 14 is Valentine’s Day. You read it here first, so mark your calendars because Valentine’s Day only comes once a year. Growing up, Valentine’s Day consisted of making heart-shaped crafts out of pink construction paper while eating cinnamon heart candies. Now it usually consists of over indulging on cheap chocolate and romantic comedies.

Whether you are single or attached, Valentine’s Day can be a day to escape from reality and a chance to pamper yourself.

The day holds endless possibilities: you could have a spa day, go out for dinner and a movie or even treat yourself or a loved one to something unique such as lingerie or a bottle of perfume from Knickers Lingerie Boutique, 561 Johnson St. Shopping for a Valentine’s Day present can be a daunting and intimidating task, especially if it’s a new romance.

There are so many other gift options out there besides the typical box of chocolates and roses. It’s always nice to receive a gift like perfume or lingerie, that you can use all year and be reminded of the day – or the person who gave it to you.

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So, instead of looking at Valentine’s Day as another commercial holiday, think of it as another excuse to have some fun and splurge on something nice and unique, after all, it only happens once a year.

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ith black-white relations in the United States at their worst in a decade or more, the smart satire of racial tension by newcomer Justin Simien seems uncannily well timed. The sharply written Dear White People, a Sundance award winner, chronicles the efforts of a group of African American students to negotiate the complexities of campus life at a predominantly white college – one where racial politics are heating up.

The chief agitator at Winchester College is a biracial young woman named Sam White (Tessa Thompson, Selma), a film student and DJ whose radio show Dear White People is full of sly provocations such as announcing that the quota of black friends for any white student who wants to be considered non-racist has just been bumped up from one to two (“and your weed dealer, Tyrone, doesn’t count”). Sam has just won the presidency of the black on-campus residence, ousting the moderate Troy, whose father (Dennis Haysbert, 24) is the campus dean.

Sam represents a faction opposing campus policies that are thought to be undermining black identity. But not all the black students appreciate her strident commentary (one says of Sam,

“It’s like Spike Lee and Oprah had some kind of pissed-off baby”).

And many of the white students are annoyed with all this black power posturing from the beneficiaries of affirmative action – and none moreso than Kurt, son of the university president and head of the most party-hearty fraternity on campus.

Writer-director Simien is juggling a lot of balls here – Sam and Troy are both dating interracially; a black woman who hopes to get hired for a reality TV show is cynically manipulating events on campus; there’s an ongoing power struggle between the black dean and the college’s white president; and a gay black man, a double outsider, is getting cozy with the white-dominated campus paper. All these subplots come crashing together when Kurt’s bad-boy fraternity decides that this year’s theme for their traditionally epic Halloween party is “bring out your inner black,” a showcase of crude racial stereotypes. Let’s just say the party is a riot – one with unintended consequences.

People is a savvy, cleverly constructed, and even-handed satire, with both sides getting spanked for bad behaviour. And Simien is sensitive to the emotional nuances of his characters as much as he is ready to

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★★★ 1/2 Stars Tessa Thompson, Dennis Haysbert, Tyler James Williams Directed by newcomer Justin Simien

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Alan Cumming, Evan Rachel Wood, and Alfred Molina provide the voices for this madcap fairy tale that riffs on the storyline of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

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Johnny Depp, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ewan McGregor, and Paul Bettany star in an unabashedly goofy spy spoof about a debonair art dealer helping British agents vanquish evil terrorists in pursuit of Nazi gold.

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Debonair art dealer and part time lover Charlie Mortdecai must traverse the globe, armed only with his good looks and “special charm” in a race to recover a stolen painting containing the code to a lost bank account.

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Andy and Lana Wachowski (The Matrix) are back with another mind-bending sci-fi tale, this one about a seemingly ordinary woman with an interstellar destiny – and some very powerful enemies.

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This month I want to talk about a few new shows coming up, and it’s admittedly going to be a bit of a potpourri.

Hopefully there will be something for everyone.

First off, for those of you still lamenting the loss of your beloved Breaking Bad, the premiere of Better Call Saul on Feb. 8 on AMC may provide some solace. Even though it’s being touted as a drama, this spinoff, focusing on lawyer Saul played by Bob Odenkirk, will no doubt lean towards humour a little more than its parent show did, but maybe that’s just what the doctor ordered to get you out of your meth-cooking funk.

Those as sad as I was to see The Colbert Report go will rejoice in the fact that Last Week Tonight with John Oliver returns to HBO on Feb. 5. Oliver, another The Daily Show alum, is quite a different creature from Colbert, but, like many it seems, I enjoy his dry English humour and his commitment to longer pieces with some genuinely impressive investigative journalism.

Also literally filling the Colbert gap will be The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore, another comedy news program from a Daily Show correspondent.

Honestly, I’ve been watching more Colbert than Jon Stewart these last few years, but Wilmore has been a standout

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Watch for Monday Magazine’s online film reviews to help you make your ‘must see’ movie list for the 2015 Victoria Film Festival.

Go to mondaymag. com then check under Arts and Events for our film and movie reviews and add your thoughts in our comments section.

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Since mid-December we have been treated with the usual late releases of quality films as they set themselves up for the award season.

Not to be missed include the brilliant Force Majeure, The Humbling, and Citizenfour making the rounds at The Vic and Cinecenta.

The Victoria Film Festival is on Feb. 6 to 15 and has a host of delights including Sturla Gunnarsson’s Monsoon (word is that ‘himself’ will be attending). Also showing is Lambert & Stamp, a film about the two cool gents who managed The Who to … shall we say infamy?

For the culture-y types there is the surprisingly accessible inside look at the New York Review of Books in Fifty Year Argument featuring great interviews with people who have shaped, not just the Review, but also history.

And let one of today’s greatest documentary filmmakers Frederick Wiseman take you on a behind the scenes tour of the London National Gallery in National Gallery. For those of you who share my love of Danish directors, the VFF brings you Lone Scherfig’s latest The Riot Club, oh, and don’t miss Dukhtar and …

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There’s a couple of reasons The Slap, an NBC miniseries premiering Feb. 12, intrigues me, but the main one is the people involved in it. On the acting side we have Peter Sarsgaard, Uma Thurman, Brian Cox and Thandie Newton, all impressive actors, and behind the camera we find Lisa Cholodenko, no slouch herself as the director of movies Laurel Canyon and The Kids Are All Right.

A remake of an Australian program, The Slap is about, well, a slap, inappropriately given at a birthday party that sets off a “chain of events that will uncover long buried secrets.” It sounds a little strange, so I’m sold.

I’m also sold on Night Will Fall, a Holocaust documentary airing on HBO Jan. 26. This sounds as though it’s going to be a tough watch, but perhaps an important one, with this premiere of a new documentary about the making of a British documentary about the liberation of the concentration camps at the end of the Second World War. So there you go; an hour-long drama, a couple of comedies, one miniseries and a documentary. Take your pick.

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look forward to in the month ahead because things will be the way you like them to be.

a stronger, more flexible body. (Sex is as good as yoga if you do it right.)

Cancer (June 21-July 22)

The month ahead promises playful romance and pleasure! Grab every opportunity to get away for a fun-filled adventure. Younger, artistic people will boost your enjoyment and make you feel younger. Old flames might be back on the scene; and this could make things interesting (or hysterical). If you plan a vacation, it will work out best if you return to a place you have been before. New love might surface for some of you, especially with contacts from your past.

Meanwhile, fear not. Mars guarantees mucho productivity at work.

Your month ahead will be intense and passionate. In fact, you will feel passionate about everything!

Aries (March 21-April 19) Romance will be sizzling for a number This month is popular for you! Old of reasons. One of them could be Georgia Nicols friends will be popping up on the because someone from your past is horizon once again. Expect to be more involved back on the scene. This person could be a ‘perwith younger, as well as artistic, creative types. son of interest’ or they might trigger jealousy on This is also the ideal time to talk to others about the part of someone else – either way, this will your hopes and dreams for the future because heat things up! This is an excellent time to tie up their feedback will help you. Meanwhile, opporloose ends with inheritances, taxes, debt and tunities for vacations, romance, fun, pleasure, shared property. You will make great progress the arts, sports and playful times with children finishing something. continue to flourish. Oh yes; the thrill of the Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) chase!

This week the Sun moves opposite your sign Taurus (April 20-May 20) to stay for four weeks. This is the only time all This month the Sun is at the top of your chart. year this occurs, and because the Sun is now This is the only time all year this occurs. This as far away from you as it gets all year, and the is favourable for you because the Sun is like a Sun is your source of energy – naturally, your powerful spotlight on you, and this light is flatenergy will be lower and you will need more rest tering! This means others see you as capable, and sleep. Factoid. In addition, your focus on competent and talented, which is why you will partnerships will be much stronger. Many of you be approached by people to take on increased will be back in touch with old partners and past responsibilities. Just say yes because, rememsituations because Mercury retrograde is taking ber - the light is magical. You will look wonderful place opposite your sign. and meet the expectations of others.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

Gemini (May 21-June 20)

Good news for Gemini! Opportunities to travel will fall in your lap. Whatever happens will broaden your horizons either through travel, further education or a chance to enjoy adventure and new experiences. Romance with someone from another culture is likely; and this might be connected to travel for pleasure. Meanwhile, you’re not sitting around getting dusty. Oh no.

Your ambition is strong! You have much to

Roll up your sleeves because you are busy!

Primarily, this is because you want to get better organized. Act on this motivation. Make the most of it. Give yourself the right tools so that you can do a bang-up job. Your desire to get better organized applies to both work and home – yes, you want it all. In fact, you will want to boost your health as well through better diet, increased exercise and exploring new ideas that promote

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)

Your attention turns to home, family and your personal world. In part, this is because you are busy with decorating projects, as well as home repairs. However, many of you are more focused on your home and family because relatives, especially people you haven’t seen for a while, are back in your life again. They might be sleeping on your sofa and eating out of your fridge. Fortunately, this is a great time for a family reunion and opportunities to talk about the bad old days.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)

Short trips, increased errands, conversations with everyone plus increased reading and writing will give you a jam-packed schedule this month. The pace of your days will accelerate.

The only snag is retrograde Mercury is along for the ride causing confused communications, transportation delays, lost paperwork, broken equipment and lots of silly, goofy mistakes. On top of this, your situation at home is chaotic and busy, due to residential moves, renovations or visiting guests. (‘I child-proofed the house, but the kids keep getting in!’)

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)

As the Sun shifts signs this week, it increases your focus on money, cash flow, possessions, earnings and assets. In the next several weeks, you will think how to boost your earnings or make a little money on the side. In the bigger picture, you want to feel you’re on top of what you own, and that you are making your possessions work for you and not vice versa. However, Mercury retrograde will create late cheques in the mail, delays and confusion about financial matters and possibly, a dispute about the ownership of your own possessions.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)

The Sun, retrograde Mercury and Venus are all in your sign. Naturally, the Sun will energize you by giving you the opportunity to recharge your batteries for the rest of the year. Venus will make you charming and diplomatic. Venus will also enhance your ability to buy attractive wardrobe goodies. Retrograde Mercury will attract people from your past back into your world; but Mercury will also cause silly mistakes and make you forget things, misplace things and miss meetings. Ouch.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20)

This month is the perfect time to contemplate what you want your new year to be all about.

If you have defined goals, especially with deadlines, your chances of accomplishing these goals are much better. Think about where you want to be five years from now, two years from now, one year from now. What do you have to start to do in the coming year, to go in that direction? You can either plan your future, or just respond to whatever happens, willy-nilly, like management by crisis. More than other signs, your belief about what is possible controls what will manifest.

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