Ballet Under the Stars - off to a great start!

Photo courtesy of The Canadian Pacific Ballet

Tonight’s must see is Ballet Under the Stars: Dochas and mixed repertoire performed by the Canadian Pacific Ballet. It is a fantastic sampling of artistic director Roberta Taylor’s choreography interwoven with a well [...]

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a delicious TASTE of Victoria

TASTE is a 4 day culinary festival from July 15-18 that I have been eagerly awaiting all year!

Photo credit: Caroline West

We have many amazing culinary events in Victoria, but I would put this one right at the pinnacle as this [...]

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Somewhat summer

We’ve been feeling under attack by the weather lately. Spring was cool and wet, and summer seems to be blowing into town with full gale force winds.

For a bicycle rider, it’s always about the weather. How wet, how cold and which way is the wind [...]

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the perfect balance of the raw & the cooked

Forty years ago, the French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss coined the term “the raw and the cooked ” to describe the dichotomy between what is found in nature (raw), as opposed to that which is a product of human culture (cooked).  Lévi-Strauss felt that this duality exists in all societies to varying degrees, and that human [...]

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