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hen newly minted Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was asked about filling cabinet with 50 per cent female MPs, the Liberal leader replied: “Because it’s 2015.”

Meanwhile on the Internet, thousands of women – and probably some men – were sharing photos of Trudeau looking decidedly more G.Q. than P.M. along with the hashtag #PMILF – Prime Minister I’d Like to Fuck. After Trudeau’s win, British tabloid The Mirror ran a story with the headline “Is Justin Trudeau the sexiest politician in the world?” which went on to describe the 43-year old as a “heartthrob”, “luscious” and “spellbinding”.

Is it reverse sexism? Is it gender equality on some weird level? Or is it ‘just because it’s 2015?’

Speaking of Trudeau’s cabinet, Vancouver south representative Harjit Singh Sajjan, our new minister of National Defence, comes with a ton of street cred. A former highly-decorated lieutenant-colonel, Sajjan has four operational deployments, one to Bosnia and three to Afghanistan, was a member of the Vancouver Police Department for 11 years serving as a detective for the Gang Crime Unit – sounds like we’re in good hands.

If you’re tired of politics and just want to have a good laugh, there’s a new venue in town for that. The Mint, 1414 Douglas, is adding a weekly open mic on Wednesdays giving anyone who wants to try their hand at making a bunch of strangers laugh, three minutes to give it a shot. Doors open at 7pm, comics sign up at 7:30pm and the fun starts at 8pm. Check out comedyinvictoria.com for other venues and shows.

Now here’s a real discovery, Monday columnist Robert Moyes tells me Masia F, a Spanish “vino tinto” made entirely from Tempranillo grapes that has oodles of red-berry flavours and is supple and spicy on the palate is perfectly potable. And the $9.30 price makes this probably the bargain of the year.

The only problem is you can only buy it from the LCB by the case (they bring it in for some private stores, who sell it by the bottle, but at a much higher price). He knows people that have been buying this beauty three cases at a go, so make room in your closet!

Is Justin Trudeau Canada’s JT? Or is it all BS? Let us know what you think - editor@mondaymag.com.

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Oak Bay Gallery Walk Enjoy music and activities 6-8pm while shops and galleries in the Village open their doors to feature artists, activities and seasonal treats.

THE NUTCRACKER - The Alberta Ballet transports you to 19th century Russia with the captivating magic of this beloved holiday classic.

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Davis Guggenheim’s inspiring portrait of Pakistani teenager and 2014 Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai. cinecenta.com

Treat yourself to a seasonal sampling of Victoria’s choirs in the Central Branch courtyard, 12-1pm. gvpl.ca

mix of hits from great artists like the Beastie Boys, Coldplay, Michael Jackson, Fleetwood Mac, and Outkast at Darcy’s. darcyspub.ca

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Canadian singer/songwriter returns to Victoria Symphony to delight audiences with her versatile and distinctive voice. rmts.bc.ca

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A Christmas wish come true The day was December 23, 2013.

I had thought a lot about this day for a long time. I was nervous, scared, and endlessly excited. This was the day that I would ask my best friend, the love of my life, if she would be silly enough to spend the rest of her life with me.

A month earlier, I was standing on the deck of her parents house in the freezing cold trying to kick up the courage to ask her dad for permission. I finally did. He said he would think about it. What I didn’t know at the time was that he wanted to make sure that his daughter was happy and that I was the one for her.

He is a small town, blue collar man of few words. If I am being honest, I didn’t know if he was keen to have his daughter spend the rest of her life

with a Scottish Drag Queen. He gave me his blessing the next morning as I packed up the car.

On the big night, with ring in pocket, we made our way to our favourite winter spot, Butchart Gardens. An absolute Christmas wonderland.

I have never met anybody more excited for the Christmas season than my wife. This time of year has never really started until I hear her high pitched squeal of “IT’S CHRISTMAS!!!” the first time she sees festive lights. It is one of my favorite sounds in the world.

As we walked around the gardens, I kept trying to find a spot to pop the question, and anytime I thought I found one, we were always surrounded by hundreds of tourists.

As we got to the end of the tour, I asked if we could go back to the sunken gardens one more time. When we got there, my plan was to propose in the tiny house at the top, but as we walked around to the door I saw a path with nobody on it. We walked down the path and came to a lookout that

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has the best view in the entire place and not a soul around. I looked at her parents and then knew what was going to happen.

The rest is a blur of nerves and emotion. I asked her the question and she said ‘yes.’ We cried. We laughed. We shouted off the edge of the lookout “WE GOT ENGAGED!” When I was just a little kid, my dad unexpectedly passed away a few days before Christmas. After that, Christmas was less about presents and more about family. For years it was just my mom and I, enjoying the lights, the music and the food. After my mom passed in 2011, I was alone, and I was pretty sure I wouldn’t ever have that feeling of family again.

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I married a woman who is more excited about the spirit of the holidays than anybody I have ever known, and who has always shown me that even if life has gotten you down, that the loving feeling of family is always … possible.

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anadian jazz singer Holly Cole is big in Japan – and that’s no joke.

“At a certain point I was going four times a year. I like it a lot there, it’s so different though,” she says.

After the release of 1993’s Don’t Smoke in Bed, Cole made her first visit to the island nation. “I don’t really know what it was, but holy mackerel, did we fly out of the gate.

The first time I went there it was like Beatlemania at the airport and I’ve never experienced that.

I’m used to paying my dues. And paying them, and paying them, and paying them – that’s what jazz musicians usually do. And there I was just like, ‘you’ve got to be kidding me.’”

One of those trips left Cole and her band quite shaken up, no pun intended.

“We were there for the earthquake, the bad, bad, bad earthquake,” she says.

“We were in the hotel and it was swaying back and forth, stuff was falling from the ceiling on our heads. People were screaming and running and wiping out in the hallways … I was on a different floor than my band, and I was (thinking) ‘my band’s going to die, my crew’s going to die, it was absolutely horrible and so scary.”

The group was in Tokyo during the magnitude 9.0 Tohoku earthquake that triggered a deadly tsunami, and all suffered post traumatic stress after returning home to Canada. “Any shuddering sound like if my washing machine went on the spin cycle, it was, ‘oh my god, oh my god,’” she says.

And though a trip to Victoria from her home in Halifax carries a risk of earthquake, it’s not the first thing on her mind.

“I love it there, and so does the band. We’re playing with the symphony there which is wonderful. I always look forward to coming there and the band does too, because we always have great gigs. The symphony’s great – and even if we don’t play with the symphony – the crowd is great. People come and are vocal, active participants and really are clearly into the shows and I think there’s a really reciprocal vibe that happens.”

Cole loves performing her Christmas show and feels a strong connection to the holiday. “My first name’s Holly which is pretty Christmassy, then Cole, like a lump of coal in your stocking and I’m born on Nov. 25, exactly a month before Christmas so there’s a lot of Christmas stuff in my life.”

In fact her first EP, released in 1989, was a Christmas record. “It was on vinyl too, that was a long time ago,” she says.

She describes the show, Christmas with Holly Cole as about sharing the Christmas spirit along with having some fun.

“I find I spend a lot of time poking a stick at Christmas a little bit in the commercialism and stuff – it’s kind of easy to make fun of that … But I’ll tell you one thing, I’m working hard making Santa seem sexy up there. It takes a lot of work to make Santa seem kind of sexy.”

The show includes favourite Christmas tunes along with Cole’s unique interpretations of jazz and pop favourites.

“I’m craving and loving coming back to Victoria, it’s been a few years. I love the venue, I love the symphony and I just love the Holly Cole with the vibe of the city and the energy of the crowd, there’s no bad gigs there, and not only that, I feel like the crowd anticipates me Victoria Symphony coming and I anticipate going there.”

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aksha Narsing began cooking with her mother before she was a teen.

“My mom was an amazing cook. She learned from my grandmother who taught us how to clean the spices as well as how to grind them. I could make full meals by the time I was 10, my sister could as well,” she says.

Now a mother herself, Narsing has been sharing her secret spice mixes since the early 1990s when she and her family lived in Williams Lake.

“It started when my neighbours came over, they said, ‘We can’t stand it anymore, what smells so good? What are you cooking?’” she laughs.

From then on she began to teach Indian cooking and share her spices and recipes, and in 1996, stapled some together in Ziploc bags and sold them at a neighbourhood craft fair.

“That’s where it all began. People loved it.”

She brings in whole spices, cleans and grinds them together which blends the oils, creating the unique taste in Daksha’s Gourmet Spices.

Daksha and her husband Bhaskar were both born in Africa but are of Indian descent. The pair met in England where they married, and settled in Canada to raise their family.

All three children attended the University of Victoria, and Narsing said with each visit, she and her husband were drawn to the area. “Every single time it felt like home.”

So when the time came to take their business to the next level, they had to choose a life in Calgary or Victoria, although the business opportunity seemed brighter in the east, Victoria had won their hearts.

Over the years, the pair have created a variety of delicious spice mixes. They also make chai spice – a recipe that has been in their family for more than 300 hundred years.

Recently Narsing released her fourth cook book, Daksha’s Gourmet Kitchen: Indian Fusion Cuisine. She says it’s the best of traditional recipies along with new creations. “My daughter mixed vegetables with dahl and created a dahl strew, it’s nice for cold, fall weather … comfort food,” she says. “My son and his girlfriend created a butter chicken pizza – it’s really good. We are really pleased with the recipe.”

With beautiful colourful photography to go along with the nearly 100 recipes, this is a cookbook that won’t just sit on the shelf. Meet Narsing at the Last Chance Christmas Craft Sale in Sidney, Dec. 12. Narsing’s spices and books are available at Save-On-Foods. spicesgourmet.com

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o thumb through Lorna Crozier and Ian McAllister’s new book The Wild In You: Voices from the Forest and the Sea, is to take a journey to the heart of the coastal rainforest and feel its call.

Crozier, professor of poetry in the University of Victoria’s department of writing, and an Officer of the Order of Canada, has written 16 books, The Wild in You: Voices from the Forest and the Sea, is her first collaboration.

“I’ve had my poetry set to music, everything from classical and jazz to honky-tonk and I’ve had various artists use my poetry for inspiration in painting or pottery but this is my first time collaborating on a book,” she says.

It began with a trip to the Great Bear Rainforest where she met McAllister, his wife and mother. “Ian is a very busy guy but his wife and mom are big fans of my poetry and my husband Patrick Lane – the fact that he would give up time to see me was remarkable – and we hit it off.”

Crozier was “blown away” by the beauty and majesty of the area. “I’ve taken a couple of trips to Africa to read my poetry, while I was there I went on the typical safari and saw elephants, lions, cheetahs, wild buffalo and I thought that would probably be the most thrilling natural setting – but this is better,” she says.

She was eager to collaborate with McAllister and to call attention to the area. “To know that this is one of the last, large, pristine rainforests left on the planet makes the place even more special.”

Crozier’s poetry accompanies McAllister’s 32 full-size photographs, capturing the raw emotion of the coastline including many rare and endangered species.

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Now in its 75th season, the VSO continues to carry on the tradition of music worthy of a tuxedo, while playing to an entirely less formal audience.

“The music is being created by a really young orchestra … there’s a lot of young people in their 20s and 30s,” says Maestra Tania Miller. “We’ve really tried in Victoria – and I think achieved – the sense we’ve shaken things up and kind of created something that’s diverse and unexpected.”

What’s not unexpected is the symphony’s spectacular December, highlighted this year with a special appearance by superstar cellist Yo Yo Ma, Dec. 7.

Soprano Eleanor McCain brings Sentimental Christmas to the stage Dec. 11 to 13.

“It’s going to be an exciting December, kicking off with Yo Yo Ma. It’s one of those concerts that you just wish bilities and his acceptance came quite literally at the midyou had the opportunity to get everybody in and maybe night hour before we went to print with our brochure, so even have two concerts,” Miller says. “It’s one of the big it was really very exciting for us,” she says. foundational parts of our 75th anniversary celebration.”

The excitement of Ma’s performance will be enhanced Ma will perform Dvorák’s Cello Concerto in his first by the fact the orchestra will only have a brief rehearsal appearance under Miller’s direction. with him prior to the performance.

“In a sense it’s no different than preparing the piece “One thing that I’ve witnessed with Yo Yo Ma is his and the experience with any other extraordinary ability to encompass the soloist,” Miller says. “With Yo Yo Ma entire hall with the force of his being, Yo Yo Ma highlights of course, I’m going to be extremely the force of his own personality. He Symphony’s 75th well prepared and just do what I shares his music very, very strongly, very normally do, which is to follow him tangibly, with everyone; through his and try to create the best possible connection (with the face, through his body, he’s constantly turning around and orchestra).” looking at the musicians and sharing moments with them, The drive to score Ma took more than three years of connecting to them. Basically without saying anything he’s organization. “By the time we found out that he would making it very clear that he is performing with them and actually be able to come we had juggled our schedule sharing a musical moment with them and likewise with many times to accommodate a variety of different possithe audience, he’s very effusive and warm and extraordi-

narily communicative so that everybody feels a big part of the experience,” Miller says.

The holiday theme continues with a Sentimental Christmas Dec. 11 to 13 with soprano Eleanor McCain.

“We are really excited because this year it’s going to be an enormous, traditional Christmas concert with a big choir, the Victoria Choral Society,” Miller says. “Also we’re excited that the St. Michaels Children’s Choir will be joining us for some John Adams music from Home Alone so we’re gearing up for a beautiful concert there with the whole community involved. That concert is very warm with singalongs involving the audience and traditional jokes and things about Christmas. It’s just a fun time to bring your whole family to it.”

Guest conductor Robert Franz leads the Victoria Symphony for the annual presentation of Handel’s Messiah Dec. 18 and 20 while Christmas with Holly Cole continues the month of festivities Dec 19.

“The Christmas pops concert is a perfect concert for people to experience if they’ve never been to the symphony before,” says Miller. “The repertoire is very mixed, it’s full of hits from movies or from classic or jazzy or popular or secular sort of Christmas hits. There’s a lot of humour involved, same thing with Holly Cole. For an audience member who hasn’t been to the symphony before, try out Christmas pops, try out Holly Cole and you’ll see how much fun it is and how beautiful music makes the Christmas season. I think that’s why people do gravitate towards the symphony in the Christmas season, they want to make their lives special, they want to make their month and their season, their holiday special. They want to bring together not only family – but I think everybody’s searching for that deep meaningful good feeling that life is all about and that’s what music does on a regular basis.”

The festive season finishes Jan. 1 with A Viennese New Year’s as conductor Brian Jackson returns to lead the seventh annual New Year’s Day tradition, featuring dancers from Ballet Victoria and two delightful vocalists.

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orn and raised in Victoria, singer-songwriter Claire Coupland is making a name for herself in Toronto, but has yet to make her professional debut in her own hometown.

“I’ve been gigging a ton in Toronto, but not in Victoria, it’s all happening here. I have friends and family in Victoria who have no idea what I do,” the Toronto-based artist says.

Coupland graduated from Vic High in 2004 with an eye to a career in sports.

“I was really into sports, I thought I’d go into field hockey then I auditioned for the Vic High Rhythm and Blues Band – it was great.”

A gap year spent in England and Greece, turned her in a different direction.

‘When I came back to Victoria to go to school I took Camosun’s applied communication program … It was a program I was mildly interested in. I was thinking about doing radio, I was always doing funny voices and everyone would say, ‘you should go into radio, do voice-over work’, so that’s what I thought I would do,” she says.

But her heart wasn’t really in it. “Then I met someone at work and he suggested we start a band together. He really encouraged me to go into music.”

After getting her degree at Camosun, she decided to study at the Victoria Conservatory of Music. “I’d never studied music so in the summer of 2010 I took a theory course, it was awful, but I had to do it to get into the program,” she says.

A year of jazz studies in Victoria led her to another music program at Humber College in Toronto.

“At Humber, in spite of huge fears of song writing, I finally got through my fears and started writing in 2012. I now have an album (Lonely Heart, 2014) and my newest EP (For You, 2015) which was recorded at Humber College Studios.”

Throughout college she would return home to Victoria for Christmas but never found the time to play for an audience here. “When you’re in music school, the last thing you have time for is music,” she laughs at the irony. “School is great but it keeps you really busy.”

Having graduated last April, Coupland knew she couldn’t put off her official Victoria debut any longer.

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e didn’t expect to see Santa Claus walking along Dallas Road. But there he seemed to be – with a big, white beard and a furry, red hat.

He said he was just visiting Victoria and “getting limbered up, preparing for the big night.”

The videographer and I smiled, appreciating how the man played along with how he looked and what he was wearing. But I wondered about the truth – why the Santa hat?

The man laughed a jolly laugh and said “I’ve got dozens of them at The Pole of course.

But I needed one out here.” So he said he stopped at a thrift shop in Crofton on his way down from Tofino and, “picked it up for 75 cents!”

The woman he was walking with – who was introduced as Mrs. Claus – said it was nice to see how the hat put a “sparkle” in the eyes of people passing by. The videographer started getting pictures for our story at the end of the News, of people smiling, doing double-takes, and proclaiming “Merry Christmas.”

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And then Dave turns to smile and wave at a frowning stranger passing by. A man who looks back when he thinks the camera is no longer pointing at him, and smiles the biggest of smiles back at Santa.

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& The Open Door Choir. Proceeds to Mount Doug’s music program and Our Place. In the heart of Cadboro Bay Village, 6:30-8:30pm.

Menorah Lighting at the Legislature Dec 6

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Share the love with a kiss or a hug under the city’s biggest mistletoe, 12 to 3pm, Market Sq. main gate, 560 Johnson. Bring

returns, along with some of the best-loved Dickensian characters of all time. A story of love, generosity and second chances, it takes us through the darkness and into the light of true joy and celebration! belfry.bc.ca

Montreal Massacre Memorial Dec 6

This year’s commemorative service will honour missing

and murdered Aboriginal women, with First Nations activist Bernice Kamano as speaker. 2:30pm at the First Met United Church, 932 Balmoral Rd. 250-388-5188 Santa Scoot Dec 19

A parade of Vespas and vintage scooters will make their way through city streets collecting donations, 11am to 2pm. Then rally at Market Square for a pizza party! $1 from every pizza sold at Famoso Pizzeria will go to Help Fill a Dream. marketsquare.ca

stage A Christmas Carol Dec 1 to 20

A ghost story for Christmas, the Belfry’s acclaimed 2012 production

Theatre Inconnu looks at a man displaced who desperately searches for identity. Theatre Inconnu, 1923 Fernwood Rd. theatreinconnu.com

THE GREAT GATSBY DEC 3 to 6 approved

Jay Gatsby, lives his life in the pursuit of one dream: to live happily with the love of his life, Daisy Buchanan. Company C is CCPA’s Year III studio ensemble program. ccpacanada.com MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS Dec 4 to 13

Meet Me in St. Louis is a classic romantic musical comedy that focuses on four sisters on the cusp of the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair. rmts.bc.ca ALBERTA BALLET’S THE NUTCRACKER Dec 4 to 6

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Christmas Bluegrass Dec 5

John Reischman and the Jaybirds’ live show has a genial blend of story-telling and humor behind their studied performance of original songs and freshly arranged traditional material.

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A Crooner’s Christmas - Join rising star Kristina

Helene and surprise guests, Dec 4 to 24, as they lovingly recreate the sounds of Christmas past with holiday hits from Frank Sinatra, Brenda Lee, Dean Martin, Marilyn Monroe, Elvis and other great stars. There’s trivia, prizes and laughter. Oak Bay Beach Hotel’s David Foster Foundation Theatre. oakbaybeachhotel.com

is accompanied by the Victoria Symphony. rmts.bc.ca Ho Ho HO SHOW! Dec 5

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A festive night of stand-up hosted by comic Kirsten Van Ritzen. Cheer as her fall comedy students make their stand-up debuts! At the Ramada Inn (main floor lounge) 123 Gorge Rd. 8pm. Tickets, $5 cash only at the door/doors open 7:30pm. RSVP broadtheatrics@yahoo.ca, 778440-0408. Licensed event 19 + adult language/mature content.

Popovich Comedy Pet Theatre Dec 12

Former Moscow Circus star Gregory Popovich leaves his regular Las Vegas gig to tour his juggling, clown and pet tricks act.

His pet theatre features domestic animals, all of whom Popovich, a fourth-generation Russian circus performer, rescued from animal shelters. events.uvic.ca It’s a Wonderful Life the Radio Show.

Dec 17 to 20

Blue Bridge Theatre’s perennial favorite It’s A Wonderful Life – The Radio Show returns! At the Roxy Theatre, 2657 Quadra St. bluebridgetheatre.ca Mother Goose Dec 18 to Jan 2

Mother Goose, her large family and their goose Priscilla are happy living in their big old boot, but the King’s evil Chancllor plots to evict them all and take their land. St. Luke’s Players tell this tale in a traditional Christmas panto with plenty of songs, dance and laughs. stlukesplayers.org The Best Christmas Pageant Ever Dec 19 and 20

A fun play about a parish family.

At St Dunstan’s Church, 806 San Juan Ave. Dec 19, 2pm and Dec 20, 10am. Email abharry@shaw. ca for info.

Comedy For A Cause Dec 22

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Award winning comedian Mike Delamont will perform.

All proceeds support local families after pregnancy and infant loss. At Hecklers Bar and Grill- 123 Gorge St E. healingheartsfoundation.ca THE GIFT Dec 27 to 29

Ballet Victoria and the Victoria Symphony will whisk you away to a fantasyland where nothing exists except you, the music and the wonder filled story of The Gift.

Each year their interpretation of Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker offers new vignettes and characters. rmts.bc.ca

Music TUESDAY MUSIC Dec 1

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Take an afternoon break to enjoy a concert of varied repertoire and instruments featuring School of Music students, 12:30pm (Admission by donation).

Phillip T. Young Recital Hall

AFRICAN PERCUSSION CONCERT Dec 3

The thirty-member percussion ensemble from MUS 108 African Hand Drumming perform a repertoire of rhythms on djembe, balafon and dundun, 10:30 am (Admission by donation). Phillip T. Young Recital Hall

Eggleston is an artist of great range who has inspired audiences all over the world with her strong, clear voice and masterful fingerstyle guitar technique. After Open Stage, 7:30pm at Norway House (1110 Hillside), $5. victoriafolkmusic.ca CUBAN CHRISTMAS JAZZ VESPERS DEC 6

The 50th edition featuring Pablo Cardenas, Miguel Valdes De La Hoz, Ross Macdonald and Bob Watts. Admission by donation to St Philip Syrian Refugee Fund. 8pm at St Philip Anglican Church, 2928 Eastdowne Rd. stphilipvictoria.ca Two Giants Dec 6

University of Victoria Orchestra with Louise Hung, piano (UVic Concerto Competition Winner), Ajtony Csaba, conductor.

Performing: Tchaikovsky – Symphony No. 5; Beethoven – Piano Concerto No. 4, Op. 58. University Centre Farquhar Auditorium, 2pm ($15 & $10)

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Authority Zero and guests Dec 3

Victoria BC Ska Society presents Authority Zero, Everybody Left, Jesse Lebourdais (full band) and Versus the World at Upstairs Cabaret. This four band bill will converge to give us a night mixed with punk, Ska and reggae.

Tickets in advance at Lyle’s Place, & ticketweb.ca. Doors at 8:30pm. skafest.ca DON WRIGHT SYMPHONIC WINDS Dec 3

Dr. Michael Keddy, conductor, featuring student musicians from across the UVic campus. At the University Centre Farquhar Auditorium, 8pm ($15 & $10)

Sing, Choirs of Angels!

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Featuring the UVic Chorus, Chamber Singers, Women’s Choir and Vocal Jazz Ensemble. The UVic Choirs return by popular demand to present a gift of choral music to the Greater Victoria community in their second annual joint concert. At Christ Church Cathedral), 8pm (Admission by donation)

HART & STONE Dec 4

Drawing from folk, roots and blues, Hart & Stone aim to bring back the appreciation of a song well written, well played, and well sung. Early Show Fridays at The Duke Saloon open Dec 4. thedukesaloon.com Music in Market Square Dec. 5

Enjoy a grand performance of holiday favourites by the Greater Victoria Concert Band, 1 to 3pm. Free. marketsquare.ca

Lethal Christmas - Action movies and holidays

make for some explosive fun in Paper Street’s second show of the season, Dec 16 to 19. Inspired by 80’s films like Die Hard and Lethal Weapon, make sure you hold onto your seat for this unrelenting, action-packed holiday show! eventbrite.com Fred Penner Dec 6

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One of Canada’s leading children’s entertainers and host of CBC’s Fred Penner’s Place from 1985 to 1997, Penner performs a family concert at 5:30pm at Alix Goolden Performance Hall. vcm.bc.ca Sarah Jane Scouten Dec 10

At The Duke Saloon the BowenIsland-raised singer breathes new life into mining and cowboy songs from British Columbia and Alberta. thedukesaloon.com KEN LAVIGNE CHRISTMAS Old Time Radio Road Show Dec 7 & 10

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Internationally renowned singer and entertainer Ken Lavigne performs Christmas favourites, while playing host to a talented crew of performers including the tight harmonies of special guests, the Company “B” Vocal Trio. Dec 7, 7:30pm at the Charlie White Theatre & Dec 10 at Alix Goolden Hall. kenlavigne.com mondaymag.com MONDAY MAGAZINE DECEMBER 2015

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Bennett and L.J. Mounteney at Upstairs Cabaret, 15 Bastion Sq. beaconridgeproductions.com DIEMAHLER CHRISTMAS DELIGHTS Dec 12

The DieMahler Ensemble specializes in musical artistry, leaving no musical path unexplored. Dec. 12 brings Christmas Delights at St Mary’s the Virgin (Oak Bay). rmts.bc.ca approved

TUBA CHRISTMAS REPRISE Dec 13

YOUNG EMPIRES & Dragonette

Toronto’s Young Empires are showing no signs of slowing down as 2015 wraps up. The band released their debut full-length album, The Gates in September and play with Dragonette – famous for their international hit songs Hello, Outlines, Let it Go and Fixin to Thrill, Dec 12 at Sugar Nightclub. sugarnightclub.ca WINTER HARP Dec 11

Returning for the 20th year, Winter Harp presents an evening of seasonal music and stories. Harps, flutes, medieval instruments plus the spoken word. At the Alix Goolden Hall. winterharp.com A SENTIMENTAL CHRISTMAS Dec 11 to 13

Celebrate the season with the Victoria Symphony’s traditional concert of Yuletide cheer featuring soprano Eleanor McCain. rmts.bc.ca

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Jon & Roy Holiday special Dec 12

Line-up: Jon and Roy, Daniel Wesley, Kandle, Ryan Boldt at the Alix Goolden Performance Hall,

Joe Coughlin Dec 12

Frank Sinatra. Coughlin has rounded up the Vancouver Island All Star Big Band and will be performing the Sinatra Songbook at the theatre in the new Oak Bay High. The event supports a new scholoarship for indigenous students graduating from Oak Bay High.

Tuba Christmas Dec 12

A tradition that began in New York City’s Rockefeller Centre some 40 years ago; more than 65 tuba players from BC and the Pacific Northwest come together to play much loved Christmas songs in a big way! From 1 to 3pm, Free. marketsquare.ca Van Django Bells – A Gypsy Jazz Christmas Show Dec 12

Van Django’s variety show is a merry Christmas mix of nostalgic favourites, jazz standards, sing-alongs, pop tunes, some classical touches, and a few surprises. With Keith

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Victoria’s Coughlin is considered one of the very best jazz singers in Canada. Join him as he honours the 100th birthday of

Paul Beauchesne, conductor, featuring soloists and ensembles from his class. Money raised will benefit local tuba and euphonium projects. At the Phillip T. Young Recital Hall, 8pm (By donation) The BVD’s Country Christmas Dec 13

The BVD’s all sing, and have been playing around the South Island as a group for eight years. Their Country Christmas show is patterned after an East Coast Ceilidh, which invites audience participation with singing, clapping, and dancing.

After Open Stage, 7:30pm at Norway House (1110 Hillside), $5. victoriafolkmusic.ca THE NADEN BAND Dec 14 to 16

The Naden Band and special guest vocalists deliver a diverse musical repertoire of popular and traditional favourites again this year. All toys donated go to The Salvation Army Community & Family Services for needy families. Tickets: $10, plus an unwrapped toy. rmts.bc.ca Blind Boys of Alabama Dec 15

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Alabama return to Victoria after an eight year absence for a spectacular holiday show, performing songs from 2014’s Talkin’ Christmas! album as well as the band’s previous Grammywinning Christmas recording Go Tell it on the Mountain. Opening act Maureen Washington. events. uvic.ca CHRISTMAS CAROL SING ALONG Dec. 17

Violin and vocal presentations.

Carol singing accompanied by the organ. Refreshments.

Free event, everyone welcome, 11:45am - 1:15pm at St. Andrews Presbyterian Church. (Enter corner of Douglas and Broughton St.). standrewsvictoria.ca CHRISTMAS WITH THE RAT PACK Dec 17

Don’t miss this fun-filled evening of good music, good fun and tom-foolery with Andy DiMino as Dean, Lambus Dean as Sammy and Gary Anthony as Frank portrayed exactly like the originators did so many years ago. rmts.bc.ca Messiah Dec. 18

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Guest conductor Robert Franz leads the Victoria Symphony for the annual presentation of Handel’s Messiah Dec. 18, with an additional matinee performance Dec. 20 at 2:30pm.

Huron Carol Dec 18

Actor, singer and philanthropist, Tom Jackson releases his new album, Ballads Not Bullets, and brings a new twist to his nationwide tour, The Huron Carole, by presenting galas in a dozen cities across Canada this Christmas. Honouring 28 years

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ather your family and join the Delta Victoria Ocean Pointe Resort and Spa for the First Annual Breakfast with Santa Victoria, in support of BC Children’s Hospital Foundation. A oneof-a-kind event that promises to be the highlight of your holiday season! Taking place in the fabulous Arbutus Ballroom at the Delta Victoria Ocean Pointe, kids of all ages will be treated to Trent Arterberry and his Think Bigg Show that includes mime, storytelling and interactive fun; make holiday crafts, gingerbread people, decorate ornaments or help create a Christmas card for BCCHF; holiday elves will provide balloon animal creations and the guest of honour will make a grand appearance, host Story Time on the main stage, then each kid can visit in the Four Frames Photo Booth with Santa! It all happens Dec. 6, 9am-noon. breakfastwithsantavic.com

of fundraising history, the Huron Carol aids the Mustard Seed.

Twin Kennedy Dec 18

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Celebrate Christmas with Twin Kennedy! They will be performing a mix of originals, country tunes and Christmas favourites for the entire family to enjoy!

Upstairs Lounge at Oak Bay Recreation Centre, 1975 Bee St. beaconridgeproductions.com CHRISTMAS WITH HOLLY COLE Dec 19

Juno-winning Canadian singer/ songwriter Holly Cole returns

to the Victoria Symphony to delight audiences with her versatile and distinctive voice. rmts.bc.ca A PRAETORIUS CHRISTMAS VESPERS Dec 19

13 vocal soloists, a string band, cornetti and sackbuts, three theorbos, multiple keyboards and the St. Christopher Singers recreate the joyful celebration of Christmas Vespers as it might have been heard under the direction of Michael Praetorius in 17th-century Germany. At Christ Church Cathedral. rmts.bc.ca

year-end party. Rig-A-Jig will provide the music, guest callers the dancing instructions, and Morris Dancers their unique style of entertainment. 7pm at Norway House (1110 Hillside), $5. victoriafolkmusic.ca

COOKEILIDH Making Spirits Bright!

Dec 19

A festive evening of lively Celtic and Yuletide music performed in the historic setting of St. Saviour’s Church, with special guests, the Maple Leaf School of Ballet. St. Saviour’s Church, 310 Henry St. cookeilidh.com UNCLE WIGGLY’S HOT SHOES BLUES BAND Dec 20

Township Classics Dec 27

Township Classics is proud to bring a second season of passionate performances on the last Sunday of the month at the English Inn, a true house of style, charm and character, and the perfect venue for our house concert series. Dec 27 features Mozart’s Divertimento K563. For information email townshipclassics@gmail.com

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Join Uncle Wiggly’s Hot Shoes Blues Band and guests along with special guest David Vest for an evening of Christmas Blues Songs from the ‘20s to ‘60s. This a refreshing take on a Christmas Show not the same old carols. At the Alix Goolden Hall. rmts.bc.ca

Kooler Dec 31

VFMS Christmas Party Dec 27

New Year’s Eve 9pm Live music Fridays & Saturdays at 9pm, showcasing rockin’ local bands at Bartholomew’s Pub, 777 Douglas St. No cover

Bring your dancing shoes, some finger food, and a whole lot of seasonal cheer (non-alcoholic, please!) to the club’s annual

charge. Enjoy music bingo every Thursday from 7-10pm.

New Year’s Eve with the Timebenders Dec 31

The Timebenders will be rocking through the evening, bringing along a few surprises to make this year’s show the best yet.

Included with your ticket is a wacky photo booth for unlimited pics with your friends and a glass of champagne for a midnight toast. marywinspear.ca NEW YEAR’S EVE with Jesse Roper Dec 31

Ringing in 2016 at Victoria’s Sugar Nightclub, Roper will be joined by a few of the city’s best to countdown to the ball drop.

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Travel through time with Live Nativity

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Jeremy Orrego, left, as one of the three kings, Rebecca Nish as Mary and Elias Orrego as Joseph prepare for the First Christmas Nativity Pageant, running for three nights starting Dec. 21 at Topaz Park.

rganizers of the live First Christmas Nativity Pageant on Topaz Avenue know firsthand actors can be as stubborn as a mule, particularly if they are one.

There is a donkey which is relied upon every year for the performance’s manger scene that has memorized his cues so well he refuses to stray from them.

“I said to my daughter, ‘We’ll take

the donkey on the set before the crowd comes.’ Well, we were trying to drag this donkey on, he would not go on the set,” says longtime pageant actor Peter Gill. “As soon as he heard his music he just walks on the set.”

The donkey is just one part component of a production featuring a cast of 120 people and a few other fourlegged friends. With the crew behind them, in all about 200 people come together every holiday season to bring the story of Jesus’ birth to life.

New Life Community Fellowship Christmas Eve, December 24 Candle Light Service, 8:00 pm

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Thursday, Dec. 24; Two masses at 7:00 pm & 10:30 pm Friday, Dec. 25; Mass at 10:30 am Thursday, Dec. 31; Mass at 5:00 pm Friday, January 1; Mass at 10:30 am

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Dec 20 “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing” Children’s Christmas Pageant 10:30am

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Every year the pageant, put on by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, attracts more than 6,000 people to take in the performances, which run four times per night for three nights, starting on Monday, Dec. 21 at 6:30pm. Each performance is a half-hour long.

The nativity pageant first came to life 29 years ago, when a member of the church began to eye up Topaz Park as a perfect location for a pageant.

“It changed our Christmas,” producer Lyanne Jaubert-Sanderson said.

“Everybody who participates, all of a sudden it brings back Christmas and presents don’t mean as much. Even the kids say ‘This is Christmas.’”

The location itself is a pocket of peace and quiet in a city buzzing with preparation for Christmas. Topaz Avenue is closed to traffic for the event and the streetlights are turned off, leaving a still, quiet setting in the park.

“It’s like we’re in another world,” Jaubert-Sanderson said. “It’s quite close to Blanshard (Street) but it’s amazing, it’s like it all disappears.”

The production starts at the begin-

ning, when the Bible says the angel Gabriel told Mary she was to have a child. The pageant then moves through the birth of Jesus and the visits of the shepherds and wise men.

The whole thing ends in the singing of the finale to Handel’s Messiah.

Mary and Joseph are the most carefully selected roles, with the actors chosen for being people who best represent the spirit of their characters. Many people vie for the roles, although not always for the most obvious reason.

“We’ve been actually pretty successful, we’re up to four marriages I think,” said director Wendy Yzenbrant.

Gill’s granddaughter met her husband by playing the role.

“All the girls want to be Mary,” Jaubert-Sanderson said. ‘Will you make us Mary this year, because there’s some really cute guys.’ … It’s just a running joke.”

Bleachers and chairs are available but the event does get busy, so it can be standing room only. The free show will go on rain or shine. The first two shows of the evening, at 6:30 and 7 pm, are typically the busiest.

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ST. GEORGE’S Cadboro Bay, Anglican Church REFUGEE SPONSORSHIP CONCERT - December 4 at 7pm CHILDREN’S PAGEANT AND CAROLS - December 13 at 10am LESSONS AND CAROLS - December 20 at 10am CHRISTMAS EVE

4:30 pm Family Carols & A Children’s Story 7:30 pm Festive Christmas Eve Celebration with Choir & Brass 10:30 pm A Gentle Christmas Eve Communion CHRISTMAS DAY - 10am Christmas Day Eucharist Call (250) 472-2090 • Click stgeorge_cadborobay@shaw.ca • www.stgeorgescadborobay.ca • Visit 3909 St. George’s Lane, Victoria

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Shelbourne Street Church of Christ “a place to call home”

Christmas Pageant 20 Dec. 5pm Followed by refreshments Christmas Eve Worship 24 Dec. 7pm Followed by refreshments Join us then and on Sundays at 10 am

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Thursday, December 31, 11:00 pm Quadra @ Rockland “The City’s Victoria BC 250.383.2714 Cathedral” www.christchurchcathedral.bc.ca

Carols in the Candlelight Dec. 24, 7:30 pm Candlelight Carols & Readings Dec. 24, 11:00 pm Music for Meditation Jan. 1, 2:00 pm

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Seniors Christmas

The secret to living happy The Christmas season is supposed to be a joyful time spent with family and friends. But often the holidays can also be a time when feelings of loss and loneliness surface for seniors, making them feel blue and left out in the cold.

But there are ways to improve these feelings, which is why Victoria’s Silver Threads Service has partnered with the Canadian Mental Health Association, B.C. division to deliver the four-week program, Living Life to the Full for Seniors.

“We just thought it would be a good time to give seniors some skills to help them cope with this time of year and life overall,” said Tracy Ryan, executive director of Silver Threads. “You can certainly learn tricks and techniques to help

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The program teaches participants that all the things we experience, think, feel and do are interconnected. Using cognitive behavioural principles, participants learn how to reverse negative habits and develop new processes to rebuild happiness.

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One way is to call a designated driver service.

When you call one of these services, two employees will arrive in one vehicle. One will take the customer, in their own vehicle, to his or her destination. The second driver will follow in the other car to collect the first driver.

In Victoria, you can call Drive Smart Designated Driver at 250-661-0181, or go online to drivesmartvictoria.com. Operation Red Nose, a volunteer-run organization, is not available in Victoria.

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Christmas shows worthy of Santa’s list The holiday season is one of tradition, or not. That is definitely the case with the region’s arts groups and organizations this December.

Whether your tastes run to classics like A Christmas Carol and It’s a Wonderful Life, or you grew up on Lethal Weapon and comedy marathons, there is an event just for you.

Start the month with local playwright David Elendune’s adaptation of Winnie the Pooh & Tales of the 100 Acre Wood as part of Intrepid Theatre’s New Play Reading series, Dec. 1 at the Intrepid Theatre Club.

Intrepidtheatre.com A Christmas Carol, adapted by Michael Shamata, returns to the Belfry Theatre Dec. 1-20 with many original cast members from Victoria’s inaugural 2013 production.

This family-friendly show was a big hit then, and is sure to be again. Belfry.bc.ca Add art to your holiday with the Oak Bay Gallery Walk, Dec. 3 from 6-8pm. Stores are open, the streets are closed and a festive air reigns supreme. While in Oak Bay that night, why not stay and take in The Great Gatsby,

presented by Company C, the third year repertory company of the Canadian College of Performing Arts. Dec. 3-6. Return later in the month for the TD Festival of New Works (Dec. 15-17) featuring original works by Year II students. ccpacanada.com If you like your holiday entertainment with a cheeky and slightly risqué bent, don’t miss Winter Happening/Homo for the Holidays as the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria teams up with Intrepid Theatre to create a unique night of art, performance, camp, cocktails, and frivolity on Dec. 4. intrepidtheatre.com aggv.com Broad Theatrics celebrates with the fifth annual HO HO HO Show, a festive night of stand-up comedy as students of comedy diva Kirsten Van Ritzen make their debuts at the mic. Heckler’s Upstairs at the Ramada. Limited seats. RSVP broadtheatrics@yahoo.ca The young adult chorus Sing Your Joy performs in concert with Thank YOU for The Music Dec. 4 at the Christian Reformed Church. Singyourjoy.ca Victoria’s emerging opera company, Fear No Opera presents Marriage and Misdemeanours (two comedies sung in English, and lightly staged: The Telephone, and The Old Maid and the Thief) Dec. 5 at the Phillip T Young Recital Hall. Fearnoopera.com Oak Bay Music’s December concert is by the On the Verge Trio with members: Shima Takeda (violin), Erik Abbink (saxophone), Josh Layne (harp) Dec. 6. oakbaymusic.ca A Place to Listen, Victoria’s newest monthly

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experimental music series, provides an opportunity for respite in the midst of a season that can become quite frantic. Dec. 23 at James Bay United Church. Aplacetolisten.ca In the vein of non-traditional fare, Lightning Theatre offers A Very Pantalone Christmas (a commedia dell’arte) Dec. 11/12 at the Intrepid Theatre Club (TicketRocket.co) and Paper Street Theatre continues their fifth season with A Lethal Christmas, an improvised action movie, inspired by 1980s films like Die Hard and Lethal Weapon. Dec. 16-19 at the Intrepid Theatre Club. Paperstreettheatre.ca Traditional pantomime is alive and well in Victoria, and extremely popular. If you are fortunate indeed you will be able to obtain tickets.

St Luke’s Players present Mother Goose Dec. 18-Jan. 2 and the Peninsula Players, Jack and the Beanstalk (Dec. 11-13 at Berwick Royal Oak, Dec. 18-27 at the Charlie White Theatre).

Stlukesplayers.org thepeninsulaplayers.ca Blue Bridge Theatre’s perennial favorite Its A Wonderful Life: The Live Radio Play returns Dec. 17-20 to the Roxy Theatre. Ticketrocket. co. No holiday arts calendar is complete without a ballet. Join Ballet Étoile for The Holiday Ballet Dec. 18-20 at Berwick Royal Oak. Wrap up the month and celebrate the year to come with the inimitable Atomic Vaudeville New Year’s Eve Cabaret, one of Victoria’s most fun year-end parties Dec. 29-31. Ticketrocket. co Janis La Couvée is a community builder, writer and arts advocate.

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here is something very romantic about looking back to simpler times when it comes to fashion inspiration.

Now more than ever, I look to the past for inspiration when it comes to fashion and photography inspiration for my blog and daily life.

I grew up watching old movies with my parents and Her look fondly rememW & J Wilson ber being introduced to Alfred Poncho: Barbour $395 Hitchcock by my Coat: Barbour $540 dad at a young Jeans: Betty Barclay $299 Rebecca Carroll photo age. It seems that Gloves: Barbour $75 trend forecasters Purse: Barbour $295 are always recycling popular styles from the past while adding a modern twist to it instead of reinhis style venting the wheel.

W & J Wilson My theory is if it isn’t broken, don’t fix it, and for the most part the majority of people enjoy Shirt: Viyella $135 the sense of nostalgia associated with vintage Cardigan: Viyella $195 inspired fashion.

Sports Coat: Harris I love how popular television shows like Mad Tweed $595 Men have had such an impact on contemporary Jeans: Coppley $225 fashion trends. Designers look at media trends in popular culture for inspiration and trend forecasting as it is such a huge part of our culture and daily lives.

W & J Wilson takes a timeless approach to fashion representing old world brands like Barbour and Harris Tweed. These brands have been around for decades and will remain timeless for decades to come. The first thing that comes to my mind when I think of Barbour and Harris Tweed is the Royal Family and the English countryside. I drew inspiration from this theme when styling these looks to create an old world country look.

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The Cold Reading Series CINEVIC is launching the Victoria Chapter of the Cold Reading Series on Nov 30.

Local community and professional actors will read local writers’ screenplays, teleplays and plays in front of a live audience at the Vic Event Centre on Broad Street.

This is a non-profit event run by volunteers where the audience becomes part of the artists’ process in this entertaining and collaborative environment.

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With Christmas dinner just around the corner, every cook needs essential tools to make that turkey golden and perfect. So, I thought it would be a good idea to check out some local kitchen stores and see what cool kitchen ware is available to make your holiday dinner a little easier.

Cook Culture, 1317 Blanshard St, is a fabulous source for those who love food and cooking. They sell a beautiful array of essential and fun kitchen ware in an open and bright new store located in the The beautifully designed All-Clad Stainless Roasting Set, above, is at Cook Culture. You can find the Acacia Atruim building.

Cooking classes are wood carving board at Penne and Co. in Broadmead. also offered for all interests and skill levels, given by local chefs, passionate about their trade.

So with Christmas dinner in mind, I was shown the beautifully designed All-Clad Stainless Roasting Set. It comes complete with pan, rack and poultry lifters. This roaster holds up to a 25-lb. bird in its nonstick rack and the roaster’s designed handles make it easy to get a family-size feast into and out of the oven. I can’t imagine going back to the old black speckled roaster, my mom had for years!

Penne and Co., in the Broadmead shopping centre, is another local store for those who love to cook. They too, sell a wide variety of colourful cookware, dishes of all shapes, utensils and everything kitchen.

There, I found out where to put that beautifully roasted bird after it’s out of the roaster. This Acacia wood carving board is perfectly designed to carve the meat and have the juices drain to a small pool where you can keep your slices moist. Good functional design is everything!

With that in mind, before you start carefully planning a festive meal for friends and family, pop into one of these local specialty shops and find out what will make that bird easier to get to the table.

Sheri Peterson has been an interior designer for 22 years in Victoria.

She designs for commercial, residential and hospitality clients.

Bravo to the arts for enriching our community!

Carole James

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classic All The President’s Men when watching Spotlight, as both films celebrate the work of dedicated journalists who toil for months but with no guarantee of success. Dusty records are checked, endless phone calls placed, and reluctant witnesses interviewed by the four dogged reporters. Aside from the discouragement of many false leads they are further challenged by an uncertain work environment: one boss thinks the story is a mirage fed by the fantasies of lapsed-Catholic cranks, and the paper itself has just acquired a new editor parachuted in from Florida who admits that part of his mandate is to reduce manpower. How sympathetic ROBERT MOYES will he be to an expensive team on a arts@mondaymag.com possibly foolhardy mission?

The movie’s director, Thomas he list of plausible Oscar frontMcCarthy (The Station Agent), runners for 2015 has been pretty eschews visual flash, and his minishort up until now, so the arrival malism gives maximum latitude to a of Spotlight has been heralded superb ensemble cast to create comby critics and audiences alike. pelling characters (the actual journalists The title refers to a four-person team at the have praised the exceptional accuracy Boston Globe called “Spotlight” that works of the performances and the story). on special investigative projects; the movie focuses on their Pulitzer Prize winning efforts Whether it’s the slightly weary head of Spotlight (Michael Keaton), the 13 years ago to uncover a vile sex abuse enigmatic new editor (Liev Schreiber), scandal involving the local Roman Catholic the waspish and over-worked attorney Church. Aside from exposing several dozen pedophile priests, even worse was how these (Stanley Tucci) quixotically representing a huge number of abuse survivors – as crimes against more than 1,000 children well as the unctuous Cardinal Law (Len were covered up for several decades by a Cariou) and his creepy enablers (Paul conspiracy involving the Church and many high-ranking members of Boston’s legal and Guilfoyle, Billy Crudup) who have convinced themselves they’re doing the government establishment. right thing – these characters, noble It’s hard not to think of the Watergate

Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber and Stanley Tucci star in the true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered a massive, decades-long scandal of child molestation and cover-up perpetrated by the local Catholic Church.

or ignoble, are all utterly convincing.

Understated in style but searing with its emotional honesty, Spotlight illuminates the hard work of investigative journalism while meticulously recreating a story that had global resonance.

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By The Sea

Angelina Jolie directs herself and hubby Brad Pitt in a drama about a crumbling marriage. Expect edgy chemistry and a visual style reminiscent of a European art film.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens What’s really going to awaken is the

box office, as zillions of impatient fans queue up to take a trip to a galaxy far, far away courtesy of hip director J.J. Abrams (who finessed the Star Trek reboot).

Joy

Acting phenom Jennifer Lawrence reunites with director David O. Russell (American Hustle) in a drama about a struggling woman who becomes a successful entrepreneur. Costarring Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro.

Trumbo

Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad) stars as renowned screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, who became a victim of the infamous blacklist in Hollywood during the 1940s commie witch hunts of the McCarthy era. With Helen Mirren and John Goodman.

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Your stars for December 2015 horoscope Aries (March 21-April 19)

This month is exciting because you will do everything possible to broaden your horizons through study and travel. You Georgia Nicols will seek out adventure and unfamiliar experiences. You will delight in meeting people from different backgrounds and other cultures. It will also be a great time to sign up for a course or start a new hobby. You will be fascinated by profound discussions about religion, philosophy, metaphysics, astrology and politics. You want to be smart; and you want to feel smart; and you want to look smart! Yeah!

Taurus (April 20-May 20)

This month you have a strong desire to experience life on a feeling level – the nitty-gritty truth. Sex and physical intimacy will be intense; but you will be equally intense about psychological self inquiry and soul-searching. Einstein said, “Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape you.” At another level, you will focus more on financial matters, especially the finances, wealth and assets of others. One reason you’re focused on money is you’re planning a vacation. Packing tropical?

Gemini (May 21-June 20)

This is the only time all year when the Sun is opposite your sign, which means it’s as far away from you as it gets all year. Since the Sun is your source of energy, this means you will be exhausted and will need more sleep. Factoid. Respect your need for more rest by taking naps and going to bed earlier. Venus and Mars will continue to bring party opportunities your way, which in turn, will be fun but exhausting. More

sleep! This oppositional Sun will help you see that for your own good, you must be as beneficial to your partner as he or she is to you.

Cancer (June 21-July 22)

You’ll be keen to get better organized this month because you want to manage your life more efficiently.

You want to arrange duties and tasks so they flow easily and you feel good about what you do. You will refine your techniques because you want the most bang for your buck in terms of your energy output.

This desire for an improved way of doing things will be expressed in your desire for better health as well. You might also explore a new exercise regime.

Maybe it’s time to stop eating cold Chinese take-out for breakfast?

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)

All Leos have a playful month ahead! This will be a happy time because you will grab the freedom to express yourself any way you want. For starters, you want to get out and have a good time! You will feel lighter about life! You’ll enjoy playful times with children, as well as romantic dates and social diversions.

Get dressed up and go out in full dazzle because this is the one time of year where you can really be yourself. Venus and Mars will make you charming and direct in all your communications with others.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

Home, family and your private life will be your primary focus this month. In part, this is because many of you will tackle home repairs at this time. In addition, family discussions will be significant. This makes sense because in the coming year, your focus is primarily about securing a home base for yourself and establishing a firm anchor in life. You need something for yourself and your family that you can rely on.

Meanwhile, you’re working hard to earn money and enjoying purchases of beautiful things, perhaps for your home?

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

Your daily pace will begin to accelerate now because this month, you will be busy with a jam-packed schedule! Short trips, increased reading and writing, visits, mucho errands plus conversations with everyone will keep you off your heels. Lately, you have been enjoying buying clothes for yourself, and you will continue doing this because it’s fun! Venus and Mars in your sign make you proactive about being more attractive. Libra is the sign that rules haute couture, which is another way of saying you like clothes and you like looking good.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)

This month you will think about money, cash flow and earnings. Your thoughts will be more than just, ‘Where’s the money?’ You will seek ways to have greater control over your life through what you own.

You also want greater happiness in general by handling your money more wisely. This will be your goal.

That’s because the Sun will make you reflect upon your values; as well as your relationship to the resources in your life and how they serve your needs.

You might also be pleased with a new purchase or gift and want to show something off.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)

Happy Birthday! The Sun is now in your sign recharging your batteries for the rest of the year, and making you want to express yourself with more force than usual. You make a great impression on others at this time, which is one reason you will notice that others are attracted to you. It’s all good! Meanwhile, Mars and Venus will hype your popularity. You will enjoy socializing with others, especially creative, artistic types. You might also be in competition (physically) with someone. Expect a fun, busy month with you leading the pack.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)

Two opposite energies are at play. One makes you

withdraw from the busyness of the world, which is appropriate because you need to think about your goals for your new year. How do you want your new year to be different from this last year? Ideas? Be specific. Make goals with deadlines. So yes, you will need solitude for some navel gazing. The opposite influence is that Venus and Mars, are cranking up your ambition and giving you opportunities to schmooze and make a great impression on everyone, especially bosses. In fact, this impression might be quite cozy.

Hmmm.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)

You’re popular! Everyone wants to see your face this month. Enjoy spending time with friends, colleagues, groups, clubs and associations. This is an excellent month to sit down with others and share your ideas and goals for the future. Not only can you build upon each other’s ideas, but if you share your dreams for the future with others, their feedback will help you.

This is also a good time to study your friends because they are a reflection of who you are. And remember, your friends influence you! Meanwhile, travel for pleasure appeals majorly.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20)

This month others, especially bosses, are impressed with you! This is why someone will ask you to do a special job. Don’t worry because whatever you do – you will please everyone because good lighting is everything! This is also the time of year when you ponder your life direction, and also the reputation that you have with your peers. This is serious stuff.

Meanwhile, expect a sexy month because you feel passionate! Romance will be sweet and memorable.

Plus, gifts, goodies and favours from others will come your way! Not too shabby.

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