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Theatre takes on muchloved musical. Until Feb. 1. langhamtheatre.ca.
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Dweezil Zappa, son of Frank Zappa plays Dad’s tunes at 9ONE9. Tickets, $32, ticketweb.ca.
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Song of the Earth: a Week with Gustav Mahler Jan. 6-11
ring in the new year
On Jan. 11 UVic’s School of Music will conclude a week of open rehearsals and lectures devoted to the late-Romantic Austrian composer Gustav Mahler with a performance of Das Lied von der Erde (Song of the Earth), considered his most significant work. The big performace is set for 8pm at Phillip T. Young Recital Hall, MacLaurin Building, UVic. For a full list of events, visit finearts. uvic.ca/music.
Family NYE - Dec. 31
Swim, skate, craft or try an XBOX Kinect on a giant inflatable movie screen at the Panorama Rec Centre’s annual First Night celebration. $7-15; kids under five are free. rainbow NYE - Dec. 31
Go Gatsby-era glam at Victoria’s LGBTS Paparazzi Show/Nightclub (642 Johnson). Dinner at 10, champagne at midnight. $20/25. Dance party NYE - Dec. 31
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Zonta Club of Victoria Dinner Jan. 16
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Government House levée - Jan. 1
The Lieutenant Governor of B.C. opens the doors to Government House (1401 Rockland) for the annual New Year’s Day levée. With the Naden Band and the Canadian Scottish Regiment Pipes and Drums.10am - noon. POlar Bear Swim - Jan.1
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The Timebenders host the party over at Mary Winspear Centre (2243 Beacon, Sidney). $38, marywinspeare.ca. Heckler’s comedy club once again offers dinner, a favourite comic (Darryl Lenox) and dancing. Tickets, $25. 250-386-9207.
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Join Volunteer Victoria’s Emerging Leaders Network for a participatory lunch hour session centred around the importance of bringing a positive and curious attitude to work and how attitudes can make or break relationships with colleagues and our happiness. At Volunteer Victoria (#306-620 View). $15/20. Register at volunteervictoria. eventbrite.ca.
Scottish NYE - Dec. 31
Atomic Vaudeville’s winter cabaret turns into a NYE dance party at the Victoria Event Centre (1415 Broad). 8pm. $45 gets you a ticket to the show, dance and champagne at midnight. and contemporary issues features speakers Rabbi Harry Brechner, Muslim journalist and author Raheel Raza, CBC science host Bob MacDonald, United Church of Canada Moderator Gary Paterson and Truth and Reconciliation Commissioner Marie Wilson. Full Conference
Join the cast of New Year’s crazies at Elk Lake’s Hamsterly Beach. 2pm. The Victoria Symphony once again kicks off the year with song and dances in the Viennese tradition. At the Royal Theatre at 2:30pm. $45, rmts.bc.ca. malanka, Ukrainian new year - Jan. 11
Join the Ukrainian Canadian Cultural Society of Vancouver Island for a dinner and dance at the Ukrainian Cultural Centre (3277 Douglas). 250-475-2585.
$305; individual sessions $30. epiphany.firstmetvictoria.com. Social Justice Film NIght Jan. 16
The Friends of Cuba host a screening the third Thursday of every month. 7pm, 2994 Douglas. By donation.
theatre skam’s birthday bash Jan. 18
Join SKAM at Oddfellows Hall to celebrate 19 years of theatre in Victoria. Their fundraising evening includes live music and dance, a chance to take home a massive raffle prize
pack, including season tickets and tonnes o’ swag from local businesses – and who knows what else. skam.ca. Open Cinema Jan. 29
The monthly doc/discussion series continues into its 11th season with Island Green an NFB documentary that contemplates the future of farming on Prince Edward Island, celebrates the work of all farmers and asks: what if PEI went all-organic? The screening is followed by a discussion on the topic of Vancouver Island going 100 per cent organic. Doors at 6pm at Victoria Event Centre (1415 Broad). Come early for pizza, drinks and door prizes. Suggested $10 - $20 donation.
Concerts Blue Rodeo Jan. 4
Jim Cuddy and the crew bring their In Our Nature tour to Save on Foods Memorial Centre. Tickets, from $48, sofmc.ca. Cuddy’s son opens up the night with the Devin Cuddy Band, who might just be able to sneak in another show while they’re here... Devin Cuddy Band Jan. 4
Cuddy blends old country influences with jazz and blues for a swinging rockabilly time
at Copper Owl. 10pm, $15 at the door. Beethoven: Chamber Music Jan. 4
Les Amusements de la Chambre presents two works by Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata No. 10 in G major, opus 96 for piano and violin, and Piano Trio in C minor, opus 1 no. 3. Katelyn Clark also presents Beethoven’s Six Variations on Paisiello’s “Nel cor piu non mi sento” for solo piano. Tickets are $10-20, at the door, or in advance at Ivy’s Bookshop or amusementsdelachambre.com. wild ones Jan. 7
The collective of artists from classical and punk backgrounds combine musical experiences to create amazing pop music. At Lucky Bar (517 Yates). Tickets are $11.50 in advance. ticketweb.ca. The Galiano Ensemble Jan. 8
The Galiano Ensemble of Victoria offers up a mix of compositions from Europe, including Josef Suk’s Meditation on an Old
Czech Chorale “St. Wenceslas,” the Serenade Op. 2 by Polish composer Mieczyslaw Karlowicz, and Verklärte Nacht, an early piece by the Austrian composer Arnold Schonberg. At Phillip T. Young Recital Hall, UVic. Tickets $30/33. At Ivy’s Bookshop or Munro’s Books. U-JAM’s Jazz in the New Year Jan. 8
The U-JAM – Universal Jazz Advocates and Mentors – Young All Stars band opens the evening, followed by Jazzin’ with U-JAM, a group featuring singers accompanied by combos, and ensemble with a full jazz band. $5/10, U-JAM members/ non-members. U-JAM’s mandate is to promote jazz education, recreation and performance in the Victoria area. At Hermann’s (753 View). Doors at 6pm, show at 7:30. Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas Jan. 12
Alasdair Fraser, long regarded as Scotland’s premier fiddle ambassador, and the young California cellist Natalie Hass are in Victoria for one night only. This concert is part of the duo’s “Abundance” CD release tour. Youth string ensemble, Coastline, under the direction of approved Ivonne Hernandez opens up the show 7pm, First Church of BARD ROBBIE - Slip on your Christ, Scientist (1205 best tartan and raise a glass to the Pandora). Tickets, $20, haggis Jan. 25 for Robert Burns Day at Long & McQuade . Join the Police Pipe Band at the and Ivy’s Bookshop. 11th annual dinner at Mary Winspear
Centre. $55. marywinspear.ca.
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The legendary Canadian band take 25 years of pop-rock hits, and songs from their latest record, Grinning Streak, to UVic’s Farquhar Auditorium. With Ladies of the Canyon. Tickets, $95-120, tickets.uvic. ca.
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Vince Vaccaro and guests play an intimate set from his latest album KOA plus all the hits. At St. Andrew’s Presbyterian (924 Douglas). $15/20, at Lyle’s Place, Ditch Records and paperbagtickets.com. Goulding plays bruch jan. 20
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MAYOR’S OPEN DOOR Mayor Dean Fortin welcomes the opportunity to meet with citizens to discuss their issues and concerns during “Open Door”.
Award-winning violinist Caroline Goulding debuts with the Victoria Symphony, playing Bruch’s melodic Scottish “Fantasy.” Tickets, from $35, at rmts.bc.ca.
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Have Your Selfie a Merry Populismas! Join AV as they race to write the most popular jukebox musical of all time, Music: the Musical. With special appearances by such populist leaders as George Bailey, Justin Trudeau, and Hodor from Game of Thrones. $18/22 or $45 for the show, plus NYE party Dec. 31. 8pm at Victoria Event Centre (1415 Broad), ticketrocket.org.
THE GIFT - Ballet Victoria presents the story of young
Pandora, who can’t wait until Christmas to open a mysterious present from her uncle. The Gift is a celebration of dance, live music and holiday cheer for the whole family. Dec. 28 - 29 at The Royal Theatre. rmts.bc.ca.
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11 Top 40 singles over six studio albums. Tickets, $60, rmts.bc.ca.
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The New Groovement and The Ponderosas join a night of Latin, funk, soul/R&B, reggae and ska at Upstairs Cabaret (15 Bastion). Presented by the Ska Society. $12. ticketweb.ca. victoriaskafest.ca. zappa plays zappa Jan. 28
Dweezil Zappa, the son of Frank Zappa plays from his father’s songbook at Club 9ONE9 (919 Douglas) on the Roxy & Elsewhere 40th Anniversary Tour. tickets, $32 advance. 8pm. ticketweb.ca. Buckcherry jan. 28
The hard rockers of Buckcherry make their Victoria debut, playing from a songbook comprised of
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The blues-folk power and honesty of Matt Andersen takes Alix Goolden. Tickets, 35.50, rmts. bc.ca. Starlight pops: Rock This Town! Jan. 31 - Feb. 2
Classic rock tunes from Van Halen, Stevie Wonder, The Beach Boys, James Taylor, Adele and The Stray Cats come to life thanks to the Starlight Pops’ 75-voice-strong choir and special guest Sean McCool on guitar and vocals. The Pops present two performances at St. Aidan’s United Church (3703 St. Aidan’s) Jan. 31 at 7:30pm and
Call Mr. Robeson dec. 29
Follow the journey of actor, singer and pioneer civil rights activist Paul Robeson, whose radical activism caused him to be disowned, even by the leaders and descendants of the civil rights movement. With Robeson’s famous songs, such as Ol’ Man River. It was at New York’s Carnegie Hall in February 2012 and now it’s at the Metro (1411 Quadra) at 8pm. A viennese New Years jan. 1
The Victoria Symphony once again kicks off the year by showcasing the most romantic waltzes, song and dances in the Viennese tradition. At the Royal Theatre at 2:30pm. Tickets, from $45, rmts.bc.ca. Home Is A Beautiful Word Jan. 7 - 19
Playwright/journalist Joel Bernbaum, in a work commissioned by the Belfry Theatre, spent over a year interviewing hundreds of people
everywhere from Grade 4 classrooms to senior citizens homes, businesses, homeless shelters and doorsteps to form a portrait of homelessness in our community, in the words of our community. Described as moving, enlightening, funny and surprising. $25. Tickets.belfry.bc.ca. Ignorance jan. 7 - 19
The Old Trout Puppet Workshop presents the original piece, exploring the lost bliss of our prehistoric ancestors alongside the idea of an evolved clever progeny of the feeble tweeters, stuttering SKYPErs and hot yogis. Dubbed a puppet documentary of the evolution of happiness in an attempt to unleash the mightier shrieks that surge within us. Whoa. At the Roxy Theatre (2657 Quadra). Tickets, $26.25-42. 250385-4462. bluebridgetheatre.ca.
RANDIER KING Randy Elvis Friskie relives memorable moments from Prestley, with guests Marilyn Monroe, AnnMargaret and Shelley Fabares Jan. 18 at the McPherson Playhouse. Tickets, $39.50, rmts.bc.ca.
Snowed in comedy tour jan. 11
Four internationally-recognized comedians come together to go play during the day and hit the Royal Theatre stage at night. Featuring Arj Barker, Dan Quinn, Craig Campbell and Pete Johansson. Tickets, $40, rmts. bc.ca. cabaret jan. 16 - Feb. 1
Langham Court Theatre turns back the clock to 1931 Berlin for the classic musical. Directed by Roger Carr, with costumes by Diane Madill (see story, p. 18). Tickets, from $21 at langhamtheatre.ca.
improvised, musical night of comedy from Ryan Bangma and Christopher Vickers. If you like laughing...and learning in the comedy extravaganza you’ve been looking for. $12. Bruce McCulloch jan. 24
Kids in the Hall star, writer, director and comedian Bruce McCulloch, through stand-up, storytelling and the music of Come and PLay with Ryan and The Odds’ Craig Northey tells Chris the tales of his days as a young jan. 21 drunk punk, in the solo-show by The Copper Owl (1900 Douglas) transforms into a 1990s classroom the same name at UVic Jan. 24. $28/35. tickets.uvic.ca. during this new stand-up,
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Roch Carrier narrates the classic children’s story – inspired by his own childhood – about a young boy in small town, hockey-mad Quebec, forced to wear a Maple Leaf’s jersey. Abigail RichardsonSchulte helps Carrier get his ultimate comeuppance with a live soundtrack. At the Royal theatre. Tickets, from $25, rmts.bc.ca. WALKING MAD + OTHER WORKS Jan. 30-31
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hile some have just experienced the most wonderful time of the year, for Victoria’s alcohol aficionados, it arrives Jan. 16 to 18 during the Victoria Whiskey Festival. Sip from the finest spirits and enter the world of whiskies, during tastings and masterclasses at the Hotel Grand Pacific. Workshops feature the top tasters in the biz, from Miss Whisky founder and editor, Alwynne Gwilt to Richard “The Nose” Paterson. The first trick to finding the finest fit for your palate? Finding a pair of tickets to the event. Tickets were swallowed up within three hours of going on sale, quick even for the always-soldout show.
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Ballet BC’s select group of 18 dancers, with artistic director Emily Molnar, formerly of the National Ballet of Canada,
presents a repertoire of Canadian and international contemporary ballet in this rave-reviewed show. At the Royal Theatre. rmts.bc.ca.
ONGOING
MUSIC SUNDAYS: Carolyn Mark’s
Hootenanny continues at Logan’s (1821 Cook), from 4 to 8pm, EVERY SUNDAY. MONDAYS: Deevin Avairis hosts open mike night at Serious Coffee at Millstream Village in Langford at 7pm MONDAYS. Steve Barrie hosts the city’s friendliest – and frequently weirdest – open mike. 9:30pm until closing at Logan’s (1821 Cook). From 9:30pm. TUESDAYS: Newcombe Singers Choir is open to all voices in the community, EVERY TUESDAY from 7:30pm to 9:30. Join the song at 1701 Elgin in Oak Bay. WEDNESDAYS: My Bar and Grill open stage (310 Gorge) runs from 8pm until midnight EVERY WEDNESDAY. FRIDAYS: Take a musical lunch break with UVic’s school of music, from 12:30 to 1:30pm in the Phillip T. Young Recital Hall. By donation. SATURDAYS: Maude Hunter’s Pub (3810 Shelbourne) hosts Live music SATURDAYS with Steve Lezetc and the Atkinson Brothers. My Bar and Grill (310 Gorge Road) hosts a blues jam from 3 to 7pm with house band Summer and the Sinners EVERY SATURDAY. SUNDAYS: The Moonshiners play every SUNDAY at Swan’s (506 Pandora). Enjoy the laid-back retro vibe of the Kemp Lake Music Cafe, like a kitchen party in Sooke EVERY SUNDAY at the Kemp Lake Store Café (7875 West Coast). 3pm. All ages. The Victoria Folk Music Society hosts a variety of featured performers after their open stages EVERY SUNDAY at 7:30pm at Norway House (1110 Hillside). Jan. 05: Christian Bergen and Iain Bell; Jan. 12: Roland Barrett with Roger Plant; Jan. 19: Ivonne Hernandez and Jeremy Walsh; and Jan. 26: Lindsay May.
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NEAT TREATS - Up your liquor literacy when the ninth annual Victoria Whisky Festival returns to the Hotel Grand Pacific Jan. 16 to 19.
COMEDY
MONDAYS: Comedy at Cenote (768 Yates) – FIRST, THIRD and FOURTH MONDAYS of every month: Alternating between five-minute standup and a setlist (improvised standup) comedy shows. Hosted by Shane Priestly and Abdul Aziz. $5. Last Laugh Mondays, the LAST MONDAY of the month at the Moka House on Hillside (103-1633 Hillside). 7:30pm. $5. TUESDAYS: Sin City: Kingdom of Thrones EVERY TUESDAY at 8pm (except Dec. 24 and 31) at Victoria Event Centre (1415 Broad Street). $15/12. Expect love, lust, betrayal, beheadings and laughs as the improv troupe spins an improvised tale sincityimprov. com. WEDNESDAYS: Comedy@ Presents: The Felicita’s Select Show – every SECOND WEDNESDAY of the month at the UVic campus pub. A showcase of the best seven comics in the city. Temple Comedy, a monthly showcase of some of the best locals and headlining guests; usually runs the THIRD WEDNESDAY of the month. January’s show falls on the fourth, JAN. 22) and is hosted by the charming veteran funny man, David Bruce. 8pm at Temple (525 Fort). $10. THURSDAYS: Ratfish, produced by James Ball and Mark Robertson, hits The Ramada Hotel (123 Gorge, upstairs from Heckler’s) EVERY THURSDAY at 8pm. Alternates between arranged lineups of locals, with a headliner and open mikes. $5. FRIDAYS/SATURDAYS: Touring pros come to the big stage at Heckler’s (123 Gorge). $12. Reservations required. SUNDAYS: Sunday Night Improv with Paper Street Theatre’s artistic director Dave Morris runs the FIRST SUNDAY of every month at 8pm at Victoria Event Centre (1415 Broad). $10. Phillips’ Comedy Night, hosted by M Award winner, Mr. Wes Borg hits the Victoria Event Centre (1415 Broad) the SECOND SUNDAY of the month at 8pm. $10. Victoria Event Centre (1415 Broad). Derwin Blanshard’s Extremely Classy Sunday Evening Programme – Wes Borg returns with his millionaire blow-hard character, bringing with him
a cast of special guests for a late-night-style live talk show. The LAST SUNDAY of the month at the Victoria Event Centre (1415 Broad).
VISUAL ARTS
WINTER COLLECTION GROUP SHOW DEC. 27 - JAN. 2
West End Gallery (1203 Broad) It’s the last chance to view works by some of Canada’s most recognized painters at the West End Gallery. westendgalleryltd. com. SMALL WORKS
UNTIL JAN. 4 Eclectic Gallery (2170 Oak Bay) This annual array of original artwork by 20 local artists is priced to suit buyers on a budget (all works under $500). The diversity of subject matter, style and range of techniques provide an exciting mix of contemporary art. NEW ARTWORKS BY: ALANNA SPARANESE AND LISA HEBDEN JAN. 6 - FEB. 1
Eclectic Gallery (2170 Oak Bay)
Alanna Sparanese explores 3,000 year old encaustic techniques used by Egyptian and Greek artists with works of beeswax, pigment and resin fused together under a blow torch and buffed. Award winning Victoria painter Lisa Hebden, works with acrylic on canvas, capturing the essence of winter light. Opening reception from 6 - 8pm Jan. 9. eclecticgallery.ca. PARADOX UNTIL JAN. 12
Legacy Art Gallery (630 Yates) Seven artists teaching in the Visual Arts department at UVic (Daniel Laskarin, Sandra Meigs, Robert Youds, Vikky Alexander, Lynda Gammon, Jennifer Stillwell, and Paul Walde) are show work relating to the theme of the paradox implicit in our experience of art. Wednesday -Saturday, 10-4pm. Free. URBAN THUNDERBIRDS UNTIL JAN.12
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (1040 Moss) Artists and co-curators lessLie and Rande Cook realize this exhibition as a two-part installation exploring issues
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related to urban life and consumer culture through paintings, prints, photography and mixed media. The work uses contemporary concepts while connecting to traditions of Coast Salish and Kwakwaka’wakw culture. aggv.ca. Beginnings: emerging artists Jan. 8 -19
Coast Collective Gallery (3221 Heatherbell) Beginnings – An Art Show for Emerging Artists, is designed to encourage AMATEUR artists by providing them the opportunity to exhibit their best work in a gallery setting, with feedback in the form of ratings by professional art instructors and a lecture providing information important to new artists (TBA). Juror’s ribbons will be awarded for potential. Feedback will be provided about how work might be improved. Meet the artists’ Reception: Sat. Jan 11, 2 - 4 pm Collective Gallery at the Esquimalt Lagoon. coastcollective.ca Paul Walde: Audiospace 10 Jan. 17
Open Space (510 Fort)
Audiospace is Open Space’s exploration of digital sound, originally created as a venue for sound on the Internet (a novel idea in 2003). This year’s curator, Paul Walde, brings the audio back to the physical realm through the creation of a listening room. From 7 - 10pm. By donation. Each month will feature a new artist. Beyond bad UNTIL Jan. 30
Martin Batchelor Gallery (712 Cormorant) Words, the art of Jim Swain, presents a bold collection in tribute to Allan Ramsay, Principal Painter in Ordinary to George the Third. Oliver Swain will join the gallery for an opening reception Jan. 4 from 7 to 9pm. artofwords. ca. hardold mortimer-lamb: The art lover Until Feb. 23
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (1040 Moss)
Robert Amos guest curates the exhibition on the early Canadian art photographer. aggv.ca. Art of the Book until March. 24
Legacy Maltwood at University of Victoria’s McPherson Library Art of the Book 2013 both embodies and defies the traditional definition of what a
book can be – from luggagestyle tags or DNA’s double helix. Drawing from ancient techniques, artists have represented a full history of book making. The juried exhibit is organized by the Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild. Open library hours. Free.
Words
Ten Days that Shook the World Jan. 7
This installment of the Café Historique series entitled: January 30, 1933: Hitler’s Appointment as German Chancellor, is led by Dr. Tom Saunders of UVic’s History Department. 6pm at Hermann’s Jazz Club, 753 View. Free. PLanet Earth POetry Jan. 10
The first installment of the reading series for 2014 goes down at the Moka House on Hillside (1633 Hillside) at 7:30pm. Sign up for the open mike begins at 7pm. Show begins at 7:30pm, with a featured reader closing out the night. Paying Attention to our Place Through Art and Photography Jan. 15
Premier wildlife painter and nature advocate Robert Bateman shares how art and photography can re-connect us with nature. The talk is presented in partnership The Robert Bateman Centre. Royal BC Museum, 675 Belleville. 7pm. $16. Black Holes: MOre than Meets the Eye Jan. 17
Why do astronomers believe that black holes with masses million to billion times the mass of the Sun lurk at galaxies’ centers? Dr. Laura Ferrarese from UVic’s department of physics and astronomy discuses how these black holes might play a much more important role in the evolution of galaxies than anyone had anticipated. 6:30pm at Hermann’s Jazz Club, 753 View. Free, but registration is required. eventbrite.ca/e/cafe-scientifique. Open Word: Readings and Ideas with Gillian Jerome Jan. 22
Open Space, in partnership with UVic’s Department of Writing, hosts Gillian Jerome as part of its literary series, Open Word: Readings and Ideas. She reads from new work, as well as from her latest book of poems, Red Nest, at Open Space on Wednesday, Jan. 22, at 7:30pm, followed by an interview by local
poet Melanie Siebert. Jerome also reads that morning at 9:30am in UVic’s Fine Arts Building, Room 209. Both events are free and open to the public. The Flame Jan. 27
Storytellers from Vancouver and Victoria come together at the Belfry Theatre thanks to Deborah Williams, actor and one of the creators of Mom’s the Word. 7pm. belfry.bc.ca. The Enneagram: Love and Growth Jan. 31
Victoria Multifaith Society and Dewachen Healing Centre host a workshop intended to work through interpersonal exercises, corporal experiences and meditation to deepen the process of self-knowledge and to open the door to self-healing. At James Bay New Horizons Activity Centre (234 Menzies).
Sports
Victoria Royals Jan. 1, 10, 11, 17, 18, 21, 31
Catch some WHL action on the ice at Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre when the Victoria Royals take on the Everett New Year’s Day, Portland Jan. 10-11, Kelowna Jan. 17-18, Medicine Hat Jan 21 and Vancouver Jan. 31. victoriaroyals.com. Victoria Grizzlies Jan. 3, 4, 11, 17, 18, 24, 26
The Grizzlies meet Alberni Valley Jan. 3, Powell River Jan. 4 and 18, Merritt Jan. 11, Prince George Jan. 17, Kelowna Jan. 24 and Langley Jan 26. All games start at 7:15pm at Bear Mountain Arena (1767 Island Hwy), except for Jan. 26, when the puck drops at 2pm. victoriagrizzlies.com. Victoria Cougars Thursdays
The Victoria Cougars play most Thursdays at 7pm at Archie Browning Sports Centre (1151 Esquimalt). victoriacougars.com. Saanich Braves Fridays
The Saanich Braves play junior hockey most Fridays at 6:30pm George Pearkes Arena (3100 Tillicum). saanichbraves.ca.
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playing throughout the month, including a SuperSkills competition to benefit their children’s charity. See the star players show off Jan. 11 at Rogers Arena for $20.
KEITH URBAN - Country fans and closet Idol
lovers, rejoice, Keith’s coming! Keeping it urban, however. Rogers Arena is as close as he’ll get. Jan. 15 with Little Big Town. ticketmaster.ca. WANDA SYKES - Sykes’ has been named
one of Entertainment Weekly’s 25 Funniest People, she’s been the star of her own show and on Jan. 17 she has the honour of headlining the River Rock Casino in Richmond. ticketmaster.ca.
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Keith Urban swings by Rogers Arena Jan. 15.
SHEN YUN - The New York-based non-
profit organization dedicated to reviving authentic Chinese culture presents the story of 5,000 years of history through classical Chinese dance. Accompanied by the music of ancient Chinese instruments alongside full Western orchestra at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre Jan. 23 - 25. shenyun.com/van.
Win tickets to Bruce McCulloch Would you like to check out Kid in the Hall Bruce McCulloch’s Young Drunk Punk show featuring Craig Northey of The Odds on Jan. 24 at UVic? Visit mondaymag.com/contests for your chance to win a pair of seats and keep your eye on the Monday Magazine section of Victoria community papers where we’ll feature interviews with both veteran Canadian performers on their days growing up punk.
premier dancers put on a Romeo + Juliet to remember from Jan. 30 until Feb. 1 at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre. JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE: THE 20/20 EXPERIENCE WORLD TOUR - Watch JT
earn his keep as one of the most popular performers of the day – and Rogers Arena fall victim to his sweet moves Jan. 16. He also hits the Key Arena in Seattle Jan. 17. Both shows are nearly sold out.
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cry for the story of Eva Perón, who used her beauty and charisma to rise meteorically from the slums of Argentina to the presidential mansion as First Lady. Featuring some of theare’s most beautiful songs, including Don’t Cry for Me Argentina. Dec. 31 - Jan. 5 at The Paramount Theatre.
SMOKEY ROBINSON - A legend since the 1950s, Robinson brings his Up Close And Personal tour to the Emeral Queen Casino in Tacoma, WA Jan. 18.
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Barenaked Ladies Owning their legacy
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arenaked Ladies might be the coolest uncool band in the world.” Ed Robertson, lead singer for the Canadian pop-rock icons doesn’t mind trumpeting the latest Twitter review rooted in the popular belief that BNL might not be trendy, but they know how to get the job done. “We get that sentiment a lot,” says Robertson, on the phone from Toronto. “People come out to shows or they’re dragged to shows by friends or significant others and they go: ‘Holy shit. I didn’t think I liked that band, but that was fucking awesome.’ ... That’s the strength of the band: in a live show, we can really communicate to people what we’re all about and all the confusion of ‘What is this? Is it funny? Is it serious? What are they trying to pull here?’ goes away. It all just makes sense.” Ed Robertson (guitar/vocals), Jim Creeggan (bass/vocals), Kevin Hearn (keyboard/guitar/vocals) and Tyler Stewart (drums/vocals) have gone multiple platinum in the U.S., racked up Grammy nominations, two Billboard Awards, a ton of Junos and sold some 14 million records, but have never cultivated that rock star je ne sais quoi. Barring a few years in the late-’90s, when the band [16]
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was on the rise with now-departed co-founder and gone a similar metamorphosis. frontman Steven Page, being seen as cool was someRebuilding after the loss of a key creative force thing the guys never aspired toward – and a title saw four guys – three of whom still sing and song they were never to land, Robertson says. write, and all of whom actually want to be there – From the first show he played with Page, for which struggle to find a new balance in the group. They the two did zero rehearsing, they took a much differ- trudged through initially sounding “like a Barenaked ent tack. Ladies cover band,” with Robertson at the mike full“We just got up and had fun and time, until the 43-year-old eventually discovered the improvised and that’s what people realkey to moving forward with a renewed appreciation ly responded to,” Robertson says. “It for his time on stage. really taught me a lesson in what per“It’s believing in the music. It’s believing in the formance is and what’s really entertainband. It’s believing in the songs, believing in the ing. Seeing people enjoying what I was legacy of the band – just owning all of that. A small, doing and realizing it was me enjoying but over-arching change I made in my own head was what I was doing, makto just be really proud of the band ing them enjoy what I and proud of what we do. ... When “When people was doing – that was a people say: ‘I really like your band,’ I say: ‘I really like real light switch for me.” say ‘Thanks, me too.’ It accomplishes Before that formative a lot in one statement. Yeah, I fricken your band,’ I say late-’80s performance, like what I do and if I wasn’t in this ‘Thanks, Robertson had been a band, I’d listen to this band. I meet me too.’” keen teen band player far too many people who are too in Scarborough, Ont. self-deprecating about their music.” Ed Robertson He diligently prepped Grinning Streak, their latest record, and played in what he validates Robertson’s decision to describes as decent cover bands – that trudge through the trying times. He sees their 12th somehow fell flat. With the chemistry release as their best yet, and though the band is fillof the Page-Robertson songwriting ing theatres rather than arenas these days, they’re machine set to explode, the antics of as committed to the live show as they’ve ever been. the five young guys turned prolific. Hence the third tour in support of the record. Twenty-five years later, following some very dark “It was certainly a huge transition and one that we days – which saw Page’s 2008 arrest for cocaine were all afraid to make at first. It involved an awful possession and split from the group, as well as lot of second-guessing and over-thinking and when Robertson’s survival of a float plane crash while he we finally got down to making music and performing was at the helm – Robertson has once again underin the way that we had for 20 years, it just fell into
place. There was certainly a long period of reflection and transition and self-doubt. Everybody grew into new positions in the band and it freed up a lot of space, emotionally and musically for everybody.” Despite immense challenges, the husband and father never wanted out. “It was difficult to continue, but I feel really strongly about who we are and what we do and why we do it.” Defining just who they are depends on who you ask. Like any band whose releases span a quarter-century, they represent a lot of things to a lot of people. They’re the first of a recent spate of artists who listened to their fans and canceled their SeaWorld show in the wake of the emotionally charged documentary Blackfish; they’re quick to laugh at how misguided their first album cover was – “the worst cover in the history of music,” according to Robertson; and they’re family guys with kids not far off the age they were when they first won over audiences. Barenaked Ladies are also men who embrace the fact that despite decades of creative growth, If I Had $1,000,000, which Robertson penned in high
school, remains among their most recognizable. He still plays it at every show. “I feel like that’s the audience’s song. I wrote it when I was 18 years old and it’s amazing the way it resonates with people,” he says. “It’s not like our first record was really goofy and novelty and throw-away. It certainly had that element to it, but that was just a part of what we were doing and it still is. We still have a silly element and that sense of humour is intrinsic in how we communicate, not just with each other, but with our audience. It’s fundamental to the band. Without that, I think being in a rock band would be awfully boring and I think that’s how it seems for a lot of other bands.” The track was on the aforementioned graphically challenged Gordon, a record that also included songs weighted by heavy undercurrents, notably Brian Wilson, a song Page wrote about depression as a teen. The song would foreshadow Page’s lifelong struggle with mental illness, mania and self-medication, a facet to his life he began speaking about publicly following his arrest. For Robertson, that darker element remains in the writing. For listeners attuned to the marriage between Page’s often emotionally raw vocals with the accessibility of tightly knit harmonies and guitar heavy melodies, it comes with an undeniably different sound. And for Page, now carving out a much quieter career as a solo artist and no longer in contact with Robertson, the door to the studio appears open. “There’s nothing that makes me go: ‘Oh, I’d love to get together with Steve again and try some writing, because I did that for 20 years, but I don’t think working together again is out of the question at all. We did a ton of great stuff together. There’s a lot to be proud of there and there’s a lot of material there that we created together. There’s a lot of living left to do. I’m a never say never kind of guy.” In no hurry to disturb the current status quo, Robertson continues to write at his lake house northeast of Toronto, to stay grounded in his marriage of 20 years and to embrace the not-so-new era for the band. It’s a time when, despite the wisdom of experience, sheltering himself from adulation and maintaining a private life still takes constant attention along the quest for continued success. “I think we made our best record and I think we’re doing some of the best shows of our career. That is success in and of itself. The record sales are nowhere near where they once were. We’re not playing in arenas and selling out stadiums anymore, but we’re walking off stage having had a great time,” Robertson says. “My primary responsibility is to make good music and put on entertaining shows. As long as I keep doing that, what people think about it or feel about it is out of my hands.”
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Madill will know the full story of how they arrived. “It’s a process,” Madill says. “It’s the first play I’ve ever done alone and it’s baptism by fire. … You just have to use your imagination and sew all night and day.” Madill – who immeSHARON TIFFIN PHOTO diately gives kudos Costume designer for Langham Court Theatre’s production of Cabaret Diane Madill goes over to the help of sewers costume sketches in her home studio with show star Chelsea Kutyn. Trish MacDonald, Erica Sweitzer and her describes as a classic take on the Jon Van Druten sister, Sharon Madill – has been maintaining a schedplay. Madill, who studied fashion at the University of ule of waking at 3am and sewing at least 12 hours Alberta and spent a portion of her professional life daily since the play was cast in September. Some teaching design, then begins to pour countless hours days, it’s more like 24 hours at the sewing machine, of research into the entirely volunteer task. Each cosnever stopping to sleep. tume signifies a blend of historical accuracy and cre“I don’t have much of a personal life,” she says ative expression: from the cloche hats adorned with with a little laugh. “I’m crazy about theatre and I’m flowers, that double as swastika-embellished helmets crazy about design.” when reversed and the ornaments are removed, to Madill begins the process by creating a spreadthe beaded flapper dress she re-designed twice over sheet of all the characters and costumes in the script, about 100 hours of labour. making note of each quick change – some in as “I ponder things,” Madill says. “You start with little as 30 seconds. In the summer, Madill sat down an idea and sometimes it works the first time. with director Roger Carr, who she worked with on Sometimes you re-work it. I really love the design the Drowsy Chaperone, to create a look, which she part. It really feeds me creatively.”
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Jan. 7-19 The Belfry opens its doors to the world premier of Home is a Beautiful Word, verbatim theatre by playwright and journalist Joel Bernbaum, who crafted the portrait of homelessness in Victoria from collected and edited interviews. A kaleidoscopic view of homelessness in Victoria from dozens of angles, described as moving, enlightening, funny and surprising. In an effort to make the production accessible, the Belfry is offering 50 paywhat-you-can tickets to each performance. Single tickets are $25. belfry.bc.ca.
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y three-year-old son is constantly in motion. He moves while playing, thinking and even eating; it’s how he connects with his world. As I sit to write this – after sitting all day – I wonder how movement stopped being a necessary role in my life. I should resolve to spend the New Year exercising more. But my mind is also already making excuses about having no time to go to the gym – and not knowing how to begin. It’s the same set of excuses we can make for not realizing our creative potential in 2014. Victoria painter Linny D. Vine says an easy technique to get your artistic energy flowing is to reach your hands out in front of you and “wiggle them and the rest of yourself all about like a carefree child.” The artist does it before painting and says the physical movement “awakens a playful, experimental energy and the posture says dive in, create, explore. See what happens next, allow your creation to go wherever it takes you.” You can see how the “wiggling” has inspired her dynamic views of Victoria’s landscapes and architecture at linnydvine.com. Peter Zambri also suggests moving physically. The owner of Zambri’s restaurant says he faces the culinary equivalent of writer’s block two or three times a day. Instead of becoming
stagnant, the chef keeps his creativity going by moving on to a different task. “There’s always something to do in the kitchen. I put the problem on hold. Let it rest. And come back to it with fresh eyes.” He learned the technique before pursuing cooking as a career. He was studying to be graphic artist but found he couldn’t sit still long enough to complete an art project. Instead he’d get up and make something to eat. Zambri’s decision to keep moving ultimately lead him in the creative direction he was meant to go. If a painter and a chef can overcome their obstacles through physicality, I wonder what creativity I might release by setting my body free to move and play more. And maybe there are other ways to do it that would be more appealing than the gym. Maybe I’ll ask my three-year-old. It looks as though he knows the answer I’ve forgotten. Adam Sawatsky reports on arts & lifestyle weekdays on CTV News Vancouver Island with Hudson Mack. On weekends he hosts Eye on the Arts on CFAX 1070.
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Year begins with a blitz In January we welcome the New Year, and sally forth, full of good intentions and resolutions. If one of your goals is to make the arts an ongoing part of your life, you’ll be pleased to see the wide variety of events available. Opening a month brimming with theatre, music, dance and celebrations is a very special project commissioned by the Belfry Theatre, Home Is A Beautiful Word (Jan. 7-19). Playwright/journalist Joel Bernbaum spent over a year interviewing hundreds of people and then edited these conversations into a verbatim play, a portrait of homelessness in our community. It will move and challenge you. belfry. bc.ca Blue Bridge Repertory Theatre presents Ignorance by the Old Trout Puppet Workshop (Jan. 7-19) a puppet documentary about cavemen and the evolution of bliss. Where did happiness come from, and where did it go? It’s been almost seven years since the Old Trouts have been to Victoria. This is puppetry like
you have never seen before. TicketRocket.org If, like me, you’d like to learn how to think on your feet, or make off-the-cuff presentations, workshops by master improviser Dave Morris will be of interest. Classes for beginners and more advanced students start Jan. 12. davemorrisisa.com. After the hubbub of the holiday season, I crave quiet and introspection. Over the past year, regular visits to A Place to Listen concerts (founded by Daniel Brandes) have helped me achieve this. Vancouver-based flutist Mark McGregor performs besandro el tiempo Jan. 15 at James Bay United Church. Take time to become immersed in the experience of now. aplacetolisten.tumblr.com. From quiet to incredibly raucous; from present-day Victoria to Berlin in the 1930s, Langham Court Theatre presents Cabaret Jan. 15-Feb. 1. This classic of modern theatre is provocative, sexy and chilling. I saw snippets at an art showcase in September. LanghamTheatre.ca. Two of my favourite theatre companies, both masters of sketch, comedy and improv - Launch Pad Productions and Paper Street Theatre Company - have joined forces to create The Half Time Show (half scripted and half-spontaneous) and the theme is a mystery. Two companies, two styles of comedy, one hell-of-a-night, case closed. Jan. 17-18 at Intrepid Theatre Club. bringingyouthestars.com. Theatre SKAM is finally legal, and celebrates
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hythmic drumming fills the air, fireworks crackle and bang, a gong sounds, the scent of incense and smoke wafts through the Gates of Harmonious Interest. When the mythical lion leaps and dances through Chinatown as part of the Chinese New Year Celebration on Feb. 2, it will be the Wong Sheung Hung Fut Kung Fu Club members bringing it to life. “Traditionally all lion dancers are kung fu practitioners as the basis of the lion dance is a series of stances derived from kung fu,” says Terrence Lim. The senior student and instructor has been with the Wong Sheung club for nine years. Upwards of a dozen students take part in the club’s lion dance workshops while at other times of the year it can be as few as two people. “Not all students are interested in the lion dance at first but we heavily insist on participation. Usually every student comes around to it.” Others show interest in the lion dance, or the drumming that goes with it, but only those with kung fu and martial arts backgrounds need apply. “We are a diverse group that changes, often with a lot of university students who eventually
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leave,” Lim says. “We are for hire but we also do charity and nonpaid events.” They’re an annual fixture at the Victoria Dragon Boat Festival and have been asked to perform for an event at the Royal Conservatory of Music this winter. From Monday to Thursday, students and instructors train in the ways of kung fu. And on Friday nights their Government Street studio is a place where lions prance and drums pound. The club has been the home of the lion dance in Victoria since 1974, the year Sigung Wong Sheung started the club. He died in 2001, but the tradition and his legacy continue. There is more to the lion’s New Year dance than onlookers might gather. For example, should a shop owner want to feed the lion lettuce, a common occurrence to bring luck, the lion will tip off the drums with a non-verbal cue before proceeding. They feed off each other, as the drums cue the lion and the lion cues the drums, Lim says. A lion dance team is comprised of lion dancers and percussionists on the drum, cymbal and gong, and, though optional, a Buddha. Be there at noon as the procession takes an approximate 1.5 hour journey through Victoria’s Chinatown.
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MATT ANDERSEN Jan. 28- 31 The first Canadian to ever win the International Blues Challenge is coming to the island for shows in Victoria (Jan. 31) and Nanaimo (Jan. 28). Andersen plays the Alix Goolden Performance Hall (900 Johnson) at 7:30pm. Tickets, $35, rmts.bc.ca.
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Blue Rodeo back in the game CHRISTINE VAN REEUWYK arts@mondaymag.com
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idway through our phone call Jim Cuddy hints at why he’s given me 15 minutes wedged in between radio interviews. “We realized long ago that we had the power to do whatever we wanted,” he says – without an evil laugh. “We could control our schedule and timing and didn’t have to listen to other people imposing on us.” “We know we have to work hard,” he adds. Longevity: Blue Rodeo slides into three-decades in the Canadian music scene this year, a heavy investment of sweat equity. The 2014 tour for In Our Nature (released Oct. 29) kicks off on the West Coast. Victoria boasts the third show of the tour, Jan. 4. “In the last three or four tours we’ve been starting our tour out there so Victoria and Vancouver get the rough version of what is going to become the show,” Blue Rodeo plays Cuddy says. “We found the Save-On-Foods that the West Coast peoMemorial Centre ple were a little quicker to learn the new record. On www.CanadaTESL.com on Jan. 4
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the East Coast it just took a little longer to germinate.” Taking the stage, warmed up by the Devin Cuddy Band (absolutely related, they’re father and son), Blue Rodeo plans to perform two sets. “We’re going to do the whole new record … and then a greatest hits set,” he says. It reminds Cuddy of a performance of Neil Young doing Greendale. “I hadn’t heard one single note (of the album), and I was just so blown away by hearing something new by such a genius that I almost didn’t stay for the second set, which was a greatest hits.” My eye on the time counting down, fingers flicking over the keyboard, listening and composing the next question, I have to know: what songs are a must, Lost Together or Try? “Those are the ones that you definitely hear about if you don’t sing them. Those would be in the set anyway. They’re good moments in the night and we like doing them. We’re well past the level where we have fatigue with songs.” Again, they’ve found balance in experience and formed solid lines. Putting on a show is “the ultimate team sport” says Cuddy, an avid hockey fan, and player. “The greatest team sports are the ones where
you have to marry individual strengths. They have to contour what they’re playing to the whole.” While that’s always been the endeavour for Blue Rodeo, in recent years Greg Keelor’s hypersensitive hearing hampered the game and even pulled him off stage for a while. Now there’s a keen sense of awareness on stage, and a near silence as they listen and again, balance, each other. Keelor, who has shared duties with Cuddy since the start, returned to performing on a regular basis. “He’s totally back. What we did was took all our sound sources off stage now,” Cuddy says. “Our stage is incredibly quiet. We’ve learned over the last tour and two records how to communicate this way. We were saved by technology.” The clock blinks beyond 15 minutes. I slide out one last question: Who is Five Days in May about? “Twofold,” he says, without hesitation. Cuddy watched a producer write he and his wife’s name in the sand in New Zealand, an effort repeated on beaches everywhere. “I thought that was very romantic,” he says. “(And) I had a love at first sight experience with my own wife who was a stranger to me at that point.”
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now falls outside the James Bay workshop of luthier Marcus Dominelli. Following a sign telling the visitor to come in, one hears a distinct sound of fingerpicking coming from behind a downstairs door. This is, after all, a man who not only enjoys the challenge of making quality, custom-made classical guitars, he still loves to play. Dominelli emerges wearing an apron, looking very much like the artisan he is. His two-room work space is split between a storage room, where thinly milled pieces of wood are stacked and dated, and the main assembly and finishing room. “This is a lot cleaner than it is sometimes in here,” he says. Dominelli, 45, appreciates the subtleties involved in his unique trade, especially when compared to his original pursuit: furniture making. “I couldn’t find a workshop that was creative enough,” he says, adding he became tired of “churning out” pieces without soul. “I just really wanted to build guitars.” After training under veteran luthier David Freeman in Saskatchewan, the Vancouver native was hired as a repair specialist by Dave Cahill at Old Town Strings in Victoria. After five years repairing instruments and experimenting with building various types of guitars, Dominelli struck out on his own in 2003 focusing on classical. “It was a risk. I didn’t have much money,” he recalls. At first he was building instruments on spec as he worked to develop a reputation. These days, the majority of his work comes from custom Video orders, for which he has a wait list of eight months to online a year. While his website contains detailed information Marcus Dominelli about his guitars, he estimates roughly 90 per cent of his strums a tune. sales come from word of mouth. mondaymag.com Most of his customers are guitar teachers or touring professionals, but he has bigger goals in mind.
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“One day I hope to be selling to more famous people. That way you can set your price higher and your wait list grows longer,” he says. Easier said than done, he admits, given most top players already have many instruments. “I’ve shown my guitars to a lot of people. But the market is difficult. Unless you have something that’s going to blow their socks off, it’s (a tough sell).” Dominelli’s specialties are a hybrid cedar lattice-brace guitar and a more traditional concert model, but he has begun building more double-top guitars. Designed with concert players in mind, the double top has a bigger sound, a ring that seems to shout, ‘I am here, listen to me!’
To demonstrate one of his hybrid lattice models, he plays a soothing version of George Harrison’s While My Guitar Gently Weeps. The difference between this guitar and the double top is evident – both have amazing presence, but the latter would clearly be more effective in a larger concert hall. Asked whether he ever gets emotional hearing one of his instruments played in performance, the humble craftsman thinks for a moment, then answers. “It’s a good feeling when someone who is a really good player appreciates the instrument.” Find out more at dominelliguitars.com
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n a Victoria operating room, a nurse makes pre-surgery small talk. “You’re a singer?” she says prior to beginning a routine procedure. “You should sing something for us.” Her patient then launches into La Vie en Rose, the smooth French lyrics rise up and fill the OR. The nurse breaks down in tears. “She said: ‘That just made my day. That just made my day,’” recounts jazz singer Maureen Washington. “And then she cut me up.” Washington calls herself a storyteller. Her tales, in song, are woven from pieces of her own experiences, of which this single mother of five has plenty. Washington somehow played 99 shows in 2013. Still, she seemed just a little disappointed when that nurse didn’t request an encore performance at a follow up appointment. The vocalist, songwriter and self-described procrastinator had a holiday song ready and though she can grow a little tired of giving her goods away for free – cut to last January when she was held hostage taking requests at a karaoke night on vacation in Mexico – she revels in her calling as a songstress. “I love the magic of being captivated in a song. Sometimes I just sing, but I love the magic that takes you away. It sometimes takes me away in a different way than the listeners, but I love that you can say so much in a song and be taken away to someplace else for that little moment.” That love was strong enough to take Washington away quite literally – from her home town of Prince George, despite plenty of notoriety and work as a vocal coach and lounge singer. The shift can be attributed to a friendship with a man known-well around the Victoria music scene, singer-songwriter Daniel Cook. Washington met Cook while he was living up north and after a successful run in a dance band together, Cook began encouraging Washington to move to Victoria. For someone entrenched in a life with five kids and a mortgage, her answer was plainly: no. “He’d still phone and say: ‘When are you coming?’” In August 2006, a 39-year-old Washington arrived in Victoria with four of her five kids (the fifth has since moved to the island to join her). That night, asleep in Cook’s basement, where the family stayed for their first month in the city, Washington awoke startled. “I actually sat up and said ‘Oh my gosh, what did I just do?’ I just sold my house and moved my family here and I didn’t even know Victoria.”
With no job and no plan, coming off a hectic work/ life schedule back in Prince George, Washington took advantage of her first months here to recharge. By Christmas, she began performing. Fast forward a few years and her gig schedule is once again non-stop. “Some things you can look at logically and say: ‘That’s not going to work.’ I say: ‘What if it does work?’ Then I jump. Sometimes I don’t even have that conversation with myself. I just go and mid-jump I realize I didn’t look at the risks. But then it’s OK. I have a lot of confidence in who I am.” This mom calls herself a diva for the glitz and glamour, not the attitude. But like others with the title, she’s bold. She’s a powerhouse vocalist in false eyelashes who doesn’t mind wiping a bandmate’s face if need be. And when she sees that diva strength come out in her daughters, she doesn’t mind at all. “Some of the things that I’ve done in my life that my kids have watched, or seen me struggle through have brought in that confidence. Even the quiet ones have strong personalities.” The next two leaps on the horizon for Washington: recording Video more music and heading out on online tour. She considers both money-losers, but integral to telling Maureen Washington her stories to new audiences. sings “I always hope that people Over the Rainbow feel inspired. That they felt loved. mondaymag.com That they felt sorrow. That they actually felt emotions. That they stopped their lives and actually just got to breathe. That they actually stopped their lives, whatever was going on and just had those moments to feel embraced, loved, angered. That they got to feel something other than stressed and busyness.” Even if those moments happen in a hospital room.
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he whole world is going crazy folks. I don’t know if it’s the time of year, or the odd and unwelcome cold weather, but right now it seems like the whole world isn’t playing with a full deck. I wanted to say that it’s going to hell in a hand basket, but I will be honest and say I have no idea what a hand basket is. For some reason, at this time of year, we do things that we would never even think of doing when the weather is hot. How do you think this conversation would go in August: “Hey hun, do you want to get in the car and slowly drive by strangers’ houses?” People would call the cops on you. But in the winter they go so far as to print a map in the paper to tell you the best neighbourhoods to do that in. Why is winter so different than other seasons? If I asked
you in May if you wanted to sit on the side of a road downtown with me and watch trucks with lights drive by, you would look at me like I was high. But in December, when it’s well below freezing, it’s perfectly normal. There are well over a billion people who celebrate the idea of a man breaking into our house via the fireplace, only because he might have presents to give us from his sack. I don’t know about you, but when somebody knocks on my front door when I’m not expecting it, I treat it like a home invasion. “Oh my god! Who do you think it is?” “I’ll hit the lights, you hide the children!” When the winter season arrives it means one of my most hated activities of all time is coming to town. The ballet. Why people? As a man, I will admit that I am rarely the one my lady chooses to bring with her to the ballet. Maybe because I hate it so much I get a little drunk and spend most of my time giggling at the man pouches, but likely because I just don’t appreciate it. But this time of year brings out the fact that I have no idea why ballet even exists. It is the strangest performance style in the
world. “They shall dance and prance with the most ornate and expensive jackets and hair pieces!” “What about pants sir?” “... no pants!” Why? I thought we as a society had decided that tights aren’t pants, but apparently if you are a small wooden soldier it’s okay? You can’t just not wear pants! Could you imagine if I did that? Walked out in a comedy club with my blazer and a nice clean dress shirt tucked into a skin tight pair of leggings with my festive holly and berries on the mantle for all to see? It might add to the comedy but I think people would likely tire of vomiting from disgust and not enjoy the show. And the Nutcracker is the most convoluted plot in the world! Nobody cares by half-time! (Half-time can’t be the right term, sorry) But because it’s winter people do the dumbest and strangest things and it’s apparently okay and we have to accept it. Well I’m sick of it. Just do the sugar plum song so I can go home and watch A Very Mr. Bean Christmas and eat bread crumbs out of a turkey’s ass like a normal person.
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et’s imagine for a second that I am a skilled basketball player. (I’m not, in case you were curious.) So skilled, in fact, that I was signed by an NBA team. At a towering 5-foot-9-ish, I’d just barely avoid making the top 10 list of the shortest NBA players ever. Basketball at a high level is a sport where 6-foot-7 is the average height of an athlete. So I can use that as my excuse for not being skilled. Chris McLaughlin, on the other hand, is 6-foot-10 and has helped steer the UVic Vikes to a 9-1 record this season so far on the court. “Basketball’s just something I’ve always played and something I’ve always enjoyed. I’ve always been big and it’s something that people kind of push you towards naturally: ‘Oh, you’re big. You must play basketball,’” he
says. “That turned into me playing more and more. And once it got more competitive, I kind of fell in love with it and played it ever since.” Playing one-on-one with McLaughlin is intimidating and completely unfair. His reach, his vertical jump and his speed make it impossible for me to ever touch the ball. At 2-0 I concede, and suggest a game with a more level playing field (where skill is all that counts): 21. The game’s over in under two minutes – his 21 points to my 2. But that doesn’t deter me from pushing ahead. New rules: we play until I make 21, and Chris can just keep racking up the points until I get there. As the number of air balls I get surpasses my points total, Chris effortlessly sinks ball after ball after ball. It’s kind of hypnotic watching swish after swish, and I’m now convinced he’s part robot. Some 20 minutes and dozens of missed shots later, I finally sink my last basket to end the game. Watch Kyle and Chris Final score: 282-21. play at little “You did…” the on-on-one. 21-year-old geography mondaymag.com student says before taking a long pause, “… better
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than I thought you’d do. It takes practise. I feel like you haven’t been practising very much. You don’t look too confident out there.” I haven’t been practising and I’m certainly not confident, but he says those attributes are more important than my height. “Yeah, height does factor in, but at the same time there are a lot of small point guards that have made it very far,” he says. Okay, I have no excuses now. I just suck at basketball.
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In November McLaughlin was named one of the best university athletes in Canada West for the week, after leading the team to two victories against the University of the Fraser Valley. He has 160 points in 10 games. The UVic Vikes men’s basketball team is currently on winter break, but the second half of the season starts up again in mid-January. Home games happen Jan. 10, 11, 24, and 25, and Feb. 7, 8 and 14 in the McKinnon Gym at UVic. For tickets, visit govikesgo.com/tickets.
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ennis, the sport of a lifetime, doesn’t take a lifetime to learn. My tennis playing parents introduced me to the game early and I now look back with gratitude at the many, many fond and exciting chapters in life tennis has provided me. It’s not too difficult to sell the game of tennis as an instructor. Today’s game includes shorter, lighter racquets and slower, softer balls. Combining this with the graduated length principals of the court, allowing students to progress only when they feel comfortable in the rally, is a great recipe for success. This progressive tennis style builds confidence and leads to more engaging rallies and tends to captivate students in the long run. Parents that come to watch their kids participate enthusiastically in lessons are sure to find themselves thinking: “How about me?” Tennis can quickly become one of those sports where you find the full mix of grandparents, parents and kids all playing on the same court. Also, this year-round sport has many solid attributes other than its physical components, these include social and travel opportunities. Programs abound in the city, none greater than the selection at Recreation Oak Bay. Try family night drop-in Saturdays from 6 to 7:30pm starting Jan 18. Kids are $5 and one parent is free. Check out details at recreation.oakbay.ca. If there is a sporting cause that you would like to rally for, why not try tennis? Ed Bakker began swinging a racquet at age 11 and is the tennis coordinator and instructor for Recreation Oak Bay.
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ootcamp waits for no one. It starts at 6am. Bootcamp doesn’t care if you were out at a comedy club until closing time the evening prior. You fool. Bootcamp seems like a great idea until you’re in a disfigured mountain climber position, watching the sweat pour from your chubby little cheeks into the pit of hopelessness that is a black rubber floor. Then I know it’s a great idea, because clearly, it’s time to get back in shape. Like so many people do, this year I hit some major roadblocks to maintaining good physical fitness. After two major foot surgeries – one in January and one in June – I had the humbling experience of knowing what it feels like to run a breezy half-marathon while spacing out to my tunes, and the next week surrendering to synthetic morphine, total mom-dependency and about six months on crutches, wherein walking was nowhere near an option. With the go-ahead from my doctor, this backstory is suddenly irrelevant. At 5:56am, I bust into Westcore Training Centre in the role of garden-variety out-of-shape girl, a blearyeyed sausage in stretchy pants. There are many of us and each January we band together to re-commit to our fitness goals and clog up cardio machines at gyms across the nation. Trainer and owner of Victoria Bootcamp,
Sue Pritchard, introduces herself in the three minutes I have left to back out before the dance music begins. And now I’m doing jumping jacks at the front of the open-concept gym. Burpees, mountain climbers, lunges, push-ups and we’re off. I would much prefer to be at the back of the room, but I’m here now and this is happening. The clients reflect a range of physical fitness levels – from me to those who look like they could be in ads for protein powder. After a brief warm up, I meet Danielle Bion, my partner for the circuit exercises. Without so much as a hint of disappointment on her face for clearly drawing the shortest straw in terms of partner ability, we begin suspended mountain climbers in TRX bands. This is the kind of painful fun I was hoping for. My feet swing wildly as I pull my knees to my chest, and, despite feeling a bit like I’ve been trapped in a stage harness accident, I feel like maybe I can do this. With patience and clarity, Bion adds positivity into the equation, during one of my most physically trying times since going under the knife. “Looks good,” Bion says as I heave my already exhausted body upward into squat jumps. “I’m sorry?” “You’re doing a great job. Looks good.” Let’s pause here and take in this classic example of how a few, simple, well-timed words can mean so much during desperate moments. Pritchard will later delve into the story of one of her biggest cheerleaders in the same class, a woman who rose above a broken ankle and hand, and still lost some 150 lbs. “She said she was so embarrassed to work out that she used to start walking at nighttime,” Prichard says. “That’s how she first started losing weight because she was too nervous to walk into a gym.” This motivated woman was even at class the same day she broke her hand – after she had it casted, of course. “It’s amazing how, when other people are feeling lazy, she goes around and helps motivate
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hinese New Year, like most celebrations from any culture, revolves a great deal around food, which happens to be the passion of Don Mee Seafood Restaurant chef Wai Sin Quon. Quon has been the chef at Don Mee for more than 20 years. He started cooking when he immigrated to Canada with his family from Shanghai in 1980 at 25 years old, learning to cook under a former chef at Don Mee, as well as a chef at the former Mandarin Place. Quon preps and cooks everything on Don Mee’s menu and says he enjoys all aspects of his job. “Everything. Everything cooking. Barbecue cooking, cooking the sauce, the soup, everything,” Quon said. “I enjoy my job.” Georgina Wong, the restaurant’s managing director, translating for Quon, said he particularly enjoys cooking for weddings and in other situations where he gets to pay a little more attention to his craft. “It depends on how busy we are,” Wong said. “If we’re not that busy I
think he can spend more time cooking equivalent to the word meaning “abunthe foods that are more complicated.” dance.” Chinese New Year, which falls on “The fish dish means you will always Friday, Jan. 31, brings with it many food have abundance,” Wong said. “It traditions, giving Quon a chance to means you always have leftovers, abunreally break out his skills. dance in your food, so it continues to Each Chinese New Year, Quon will feed you.” develop two menus, one primarily for A dish of slow-cooked pork hock, the non-Chinese crowd called ti tiu, has a meaning Celebrate which comes to the restauof good fortune in gambling. rant to celebrate, and anothThe tie to gambling is the the new er for the more traditional reward of riches that should year with crowd. come easily to you, just as fortuitous The significance of most the meat does. food. of the dishes is found in the To finish this important very sound of their name in meal, a New Year cake is Cantonese, which will have the same served, called nian ago, it’s something sound as another word, with an often like a sweet, fried dumpling. fortuitous meaning. “The sound of it means the kids, they “The Chinese very much like the will grow taller and if they study their sound of a word,” Wong said. marks will get higher, just keep going The translations and English-alphabet up,” Wong said. “Or if you have a job, spellings here are thanks to a little help you’ll get a promotion. Just going up.” from Wong and a lot of help from an The dishes created by Quon are repiPhone. resentative of only one area of China, A traditional fish dish, for instance, Wong and Quon point out. Each region consists of a whole rock cod which is has its own traditions and foods and called shì ban yú. The sound of the there is a great variety to how the New Cantonese word for this fish is the Year is celebrated.
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Start the new year right with a three-session cooking bootcamp with Chef Jason MacIsaac at Cook Culture. The series runs Jan. 16-23-30, 6 to 9pm. Go to cookculture.com for info.
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Get out your Chef’s hat and get into the kitchen with this Opa! Greek kids cooking class at London Chef. Jan. 18, 10:30-noon for ages 4 and up. Go to thelondonchef.com for more info.
A TOAST TO THE BARD
Join the Greater Victoria Police Pipe Band Jan 25 for a tribute to Scottish poet Robbie Burns. Dinner includes traditional haggis, with an optional whisky tasting. Go to marywinspear.ca for more info.
Monday’s incognito Lounge Lizard imbibes at all the best joints in town. Do you have a favourite pub or barkeep to recommend? Join the discussion online at mondaymag.com. epending on when you are reading this you have either survived New Year’s Eve or are about to plunge in. I tend not to indulge in New Year’s celebrations anymore, it seems to be a night hijacked by amateur drinkers (as is St. Patrick’s Day). So with New Year’s in mind and the possibility of resolutions, why not think about healthy cocktails – all in the aid of making your life better, of course. With that in mind, I thought that since a lovely revelry spot is the Westin Bear Mountain why not see what’s on their Master’s Lounge menu that would soothe the associative guilt from over-indulgence. My first health rule: food and water when drinking which made me take a gander at the tapas menu. Right away I was in trouble – or so I thought. I should have ordered wilted greens and grilled artichokes but instead went for the calamari that I assumed was deep-fried. Instead it came grilled, sitting atop spinach, garlic and onions. Someone must be looking out for me. Onto healthy drinks, what better way to make amends than with a Caesar – tomato, pickled beans, it’s like health on wheels, right? The drink includes horseradish, known for fighting cancer and sinusitis! Not stopping there, the next cocktail was the Midnight Mojito. Blueberries, lime and mint positively made me radiate good health with all those fabulous antioxidants. So if you were skeptical that cocktails could be healthy, go forth and drink with impunity!
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Happy year ahead for food lovers No, I’m not going on a “diet” in the New Year. Instead of restricting my foods, I just resolve to eat more local, seasonal produce as part of a healthy regimen. I also prefer to look back at the year in food and offer a gaze into the near future. I think the best thing that happened on the food scene in 2013 was the long-awaited opening of the Victoria Public Market in the Hudson Building. Congratulations to everyone who was involved in that years-long endeavour. I have heard some people say that, outside of lunchtimes, the market seems empty and mostly a place to have a quick lunch or pick up food to go. But it’s still early days for the market, which will become even better with the addition of a green grocer and butcher in 2014. Then you’ll have what everyone wants on a daily basis: baked goods, fresh seafood, fresh produce, and meats. Before Christmas I was there on a Wednesday when the centre aisle was full of day vendors from farms and bakeries and artisan foodstuffs. There was a comforting buzz and vibe and lots and lots of shoppers. That vibe will only increase in the New Year as more vendors become aware of the Public
Market as a place to sell their goods during the week, outside of their regular farmers’ market venues. Also on my radar for 2014 is the creation of the Victoria Community Food Hub. At the hub, local food artisans can rent facilities at a reasonable rate to help them produce and store their products. For small producers, purchasing a special piece of equipment to aid their efficiency is quite often out of reach. But if they can rent a bottling machine, or filler, or even have access to a greater number of ovens to bake their products, it can make a huge difference to the success of their enterprise. The number of agencies contributing to the project, including the Island Chefs’ Collaborative and VanCity, is another reason that 2014 will be a happy year for food in the city. Don Genova is a Vancouver Island-based award-winning freelance journalist specializing in food and travel. Find him online at dongenova.com.
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Dern as Woody, a peevish old coot who has received one of those “you may already be a winner” notices in the mail and is convinced he’s won a million bucks. A long-time alcoholic who doesn’t drink much anymore, Woody is sliding towards senility and stubbornly keeps setting out – on foot, no less – from Montana to Nebraska in order to claim the prize. His harpy of a wife keeps threatening to stuff “the crazy fool” in an old folk’s home, so the younger son, David (Will Forte, of SNL fame), decides to drive his dad the 800 miles to Lincoln. David knows it’s a scam, but just wants to show his dad some kindness while he’s still alive. David also decides to stay at his dad’s brother’s house for
a family reunion while en route. It’s the place where Woody grew up, and so this becomes a road picture with an extended layover in a small town full of folksy Nebraskans. Hard of hearing and sometimes hard of thinking, old Woody tries, with some success, to reconnect with his past. And once word gets out that he’s supposedly a millionaire, the reactions of long-ago friends and many relatives run the gamut from “happy for ya!” to “how about some money for me?” Unaware of the chaos he’s creating, Woody ultimately provokes unexpected understanding within his own family as David learns a surprising amount about both of his parents and how they ended up the way they did.
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Much like the Coen Brothers got into trouble with some critics INSIDE for allegedly condescending to the LLEWYN DAVIS rural folk in Fargo, Payne has been Ecstatic reviews accused of the same offense for this have greeted the film. The fact that he’s actually from latest Coen Brothers Nebraska doesn’t seem to matter film, this one pormuch. traying the scrappy The politically correct may find folk music scene in some of this mean-spirited, but Greenwich Village in much of the film’s laugh-out-loud 1961 – a year before comedy is refreshingly honest and a guy named Bob unsentimental. And sharp as the Dylan changed everySet in the near future, Her follows Theodore (Joaquin Phoenix), a man who makes his writing is, equal credit goes to the thing. Starring Oscar living writing personal letters for others. actors. Dern has already won for Isaac, Carey Mulligan, best actor at Cannes and is tipped Justin Timberlake, and for a career-topping Oscar nomination. Stacy John Goodman. Soundtrack produced by the fabuKeach is surprisingly good here, playing an old lous T Bone Burnett. business partner of Woody’s with a mean streak that doesn’t stay hidden long. And little-known 47 RONIN June Squibb, who plays Woody’s take-no-prisonKeanu Reeves heads up this epic martial-arts ers spouse, is the Wife of Bath with a taser for a thriller about 47 samurai who seek revenge on the tongue. Clear-eyed and bittersweet, this is a road ruthless shogun who killed their master. Shapetrip well worth taking. shifting witches, mythic beasts, and other supernat(Nebraska continues at the Odeon) ural terrors add to the fun. NEBRASKA ★★★ 1/2 Stars Bruce Dern, THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY Will Forte Ben Stiller directs himself in this elaborate adapDirected by Alexander Payne tation of the famed short story by James Thurber about a daydreaming dweeb who becomes a hero in his own imagination. With Sean Penn, Kristen COMING SOON: Wiig, and Shirley MacLaine. HER Joaquin Phoenix stars as a lonely writer who THE WOLF OF WALL STREET develops an oddly intimate relationship with the Martin Scorsese reunites with Leonardo DiCaprio Siri-like “personality” of his computer’s operating for this true-life tale of Jordan Belfort, a sleazy system (mind you, Scarlett Johansson’s sexy voice Wall Street stockbroker at the centre of a massive is quite the enticement). Written and directed by financial scandal in the 1990s. With Matthew the incomparably weird Spike Jonze (Being John McConaughey, Jonah Hill, and Jon Favreau. Malkovich, Adaptation).
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Here is a sneak peak at the fast approaching Victoria Film Festival. Want a sweet lovely film? Look no further than The Stag, a light Irish comedy about a gentle soul forced to attend his own stag party. Directed by writer John Butler it treks familiar ground but does it better than anything coming from the mainstream. I love Francois Ozon films, they’re cheeky, satirical and quite diverse. He moves from playful to disturbing to quirky with barely a missed beat. Think 8 Women featuring
every great French actress, In the House (VFF 2013), and Swimming Pool with Charlotte Rampling. If you’re looking for a body of work to explore take his on. His latest Young & Beautiful is hot and explores one of his favorite topics, human sexuality. Around town: Kill Your Darlings at The Vic Theatre. It’s Daniel Radcliffe all grown up in a 1944 murder that draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.
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anuary can be a long blah month. Once the glitter of Christmas is gone, winter is still around for a while. To get over the dullness and the mere thought of cold, dark and rain for two more months, I find January the perfect month to pick a fresh new paint colour, even for just one room. Every year the paint companies select their pick for the top new trends in colour. They choose a new palette from their existing lines and re-market it. I love to research what the forecast is, and find it quite comical at times, because it can be so confusing. Here’s what I found from Benjamin Moore and Sherwin Williams. Benjamin Moore has predicted a very soft, almost pastel palette. Many of the 24 colours are shades of neutrals with a third of the palette being in the blue, grey, mauve families. Its top choice for colour of the year is “Breath of Fresh Air 806.” It’s very soft, calming and quiet. This is a great colour for us west coasters, it works very well
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against our ocean and sky. One of the other 24 colours I like is “Wickham Gray HC-171.” I have been using this warm, soft grey for years. Even though it’s not a new 2014 colour, it can be paired with darker greys, blues and white. It’s easy on the eye and subtle. Sherwin Williams has gone with plum for its 2014 colour pick. I used a version of it a lot in the late 1990s and I am not sure if I’m quite ready for its resurgence. It is a very neutral plum, easily paired with greys, taupes, and off whites. My prediction for the year is go with what you love and what speaks to you. If you’re having a tough time deciding – call a professional. It’s the best money you’ll spend without buying five cans of test paint.
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RESOLUTIONS AND REFLECTION I spent New Year’s Eve 1979 alone, by choice. I had been invited to a couple of parties, but I decided that rather than go to a party with someone I really wasn’t interested in romantically, I should stay home. It was a good choice. It was a time for me to think about what I wanted in life. I was a single woman with a good job. I lived on my own and for the first time in my adult life I wasn’t in a relationship. By the time I was counting down to midnight, I had made a few decisions. The first one was that I would never spend New Year’s Eve alone again. Even if I was still single I would spend it with friends or family.
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say it was the right choice. I don’t really make a lot of resolutions on New Year’s Eve, and most of the ones I’ve made I’ve broken a few weeks or months later. But, I do think it is a wonderful opportunity to reflect, a time to stop and re-evaluate your goals, to be grateful for what is good in your life and maybe identify something that you need to eliminate. I am spending New Year’s Eve with a small group of friends and the man, who is really lucky I spent New Year’s Eve alone 34 years ago. Jo-Ann Roberts is an award-winning, veteran journalist who is host of CBC Radio’s All Points West, 3-6 pm weekday afternoons, 90.5 fm. Married to Ken Kelly, they have four children.
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the wealth of a partner or friend. “Drinks on me!” You’re in the mood to work hard and party hard. Clean up loose details with inheritances, taxes, debt and insurance matters. This will be easier than you think.
Cancer (June 21-July 22) Aries (March 21-April 19)
This is the only time all year when the Sun is at the top of your chart, putting you in the limelight. Please note: This light is flattering! This means others see you in super positive terms. To them, you are capable, attractive and talented! Naturally, people will ask you to take on increased responsibilities. Just say yes because this dazzling light will make you look good. In other words, you don’t have to do anything special to impress everyone.
Taurus (April 20-May 20)
This month promises adventure, travel and exciting groundbreaking experiences that will please you and broaden your horizons. You’ll enjoy art, beautiful buildings and natural scenery, probably in very different surroundings, perhaps other countries. Some of you will begin a cozy relationship with someone from another culture. This is a great time to take up a new study, a new hobby or pursue an intellectual discipline because you want to stimulate your mind. Demand more for yourself.
Gemini (May 21-June 20)
This month will be intense (at every level) and sexually passionate. (Get out the castanets.) Not only that, others will be generous to you, which means you can expect gifts, goodies and favours to come your way plus a chance to benefit from
This is the only time all year when the Sun is directly opposite your sign, which means it is as far away from you as it gets all year. Since the Sun is your source of energy, this means you will need more sleep in the next four weeks. Respect your need for more rest. In addition, this oppositional Sun makes you more aware of partnership and close friendships. You can learn something about your style in these relationships. Observe your behavior. (Smoother relationships will boost your own happiness.)
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)
Now and for months ahead, Mars will make you more forceful in your speech. It amplifies your every day energy. In part, this is why you want get better organized at home and at work. You want everything running smoothly in its place. You might even get on a health kick a about eating better and getting more exercise. Meanwhile, a work-related romance could begin for some of you. New romance always makes it easier to lose weight. (And the exercise is fun, too.)
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
Lucky you! You have a wonderful, fun-loving, promising month ahead. Now is the time for mini-vacations, parties, social diversions, sports events, flirtations, new romance, and increased opportunities to enjoy the arts and the entertainment world. Go to hotels and restaurants. Make plans to see friend for lunch
or dinner. Enjoy hanging out with younger, creative people. It’s fun city for Virgos! (Mom always liked you best.)
(You’re clever at this.) This continues to be a time where you benefit from the wealth and resources of others. Ask for what you want. Good time to get a loan or mortgage or join forces with others.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
Now your attention turns to home, family and your private Georgia world. You might entertain at Nicols home (almost certainly). In particular, you will enjoy the company of younger, artistic people. Naturally, you will tweak your digs to make everything look elegant and inviting. You like beautiful rooms. This is because you have a discerning eye and also because you are affected by your surroundings more than other signs. (“Please turn off that overhead light.”)
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
You’re busy! This is because your daily pace is accelerating with short trips, increased reading and writing plus errands and conversations with everyone. You’re on the go with high energy. Don’t stay at home. Get out and hustle thy buns. In particular, you want to enlighten others about something. (“I have a dream.”) This month is full of opportunities for of you who write, edit, sell, market, teach and act because your words will be golden.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
This month the Sun switches your focus to money
matters. Ka-ching! This is why you’re fixated on cash flow, earnings and taking care of what you own. Expect to spend money on beautiful things for yourself and loved ones. However, you will also think of ways to boost your earnings.
This is your month! Expect an energy boost that recharges your batteries for the rest of the year. The Sun attracts important people to you, as well as favourable circumstances. You’ll find it easy to make a great impression on others. At work, you will want to run your own show and be your own boss. You also need to express yourself to others. This is the one time of year when your first duty is to yourself.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)
Your personal year is coming to an end, which means you have a month before your new year begins. That’s why this month is the perfect time to give yourself a report card. What’s the picture? How are things going? How do you want next year to be different from this year? Lay out a few guidelines – in fact, write them down. People who are successful have goals, which means they know where they’re going.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) Get ready for a popular month because the Sun and fair Venus will really push your social calendar. You’ll enjoy good times with friends as well as group activities. In fact, any kind of group setting, whether it’s business or personal, will be a positive experience. Romance can flourish. Friends can become lovers and lovers can become friends. It’s also a good time to do some goal-setting. And why not buy some sexy shoes?
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