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11MADAMA BUTTERFLY - A gentle heroine, Butterfly has formidable inner strength. A lush score is infused with delicate Japanese harmonies. pov.bc.ca

18CAFÉ SUITE - An evening of band music, snacks, door prizes and a silent auction featuring the Westshore Community Concert Band. westshoreband.org

17DEREK EDWARDS - Just For Laughs veteran’s Baloney and Wine is an uproarious romp through the strange quirks of our daily routines. rmts.bc.ca

5EASTER SUNDAY - The Easter Bunny will be at Dominion Brook Park in North Saanich 1-2:30pm for a free Easter Egg Hunt. peninsulacelebrations.ca

12A TAPESTRY OF ISLAND ARTS - Examples of sculpture, pottery, fibre art, fused glass, watercolours and mixed media. Tulista Art Centre, 778-426-1324

19WORLD RUGBY WOMEN’S SEVENS SERIES - The power and excitement of rugby with a party atmosphere. Westhills Stadium, Apr. 18-19. canadasevens.com

26BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE- Sainte- Marie’s creativity is always in motion. She is currently taking centre stage around the world. marywinspear.ca

6SUICIDEGIRLS: BLACKHEART BURLESQUE- SuicideGirls is back and bringing a revamped version of the sexiest and fun show on the planet. ticketfly.com

13VISIONARIES - Eclectic Gallery is hosting its second Visionaries show with original artwork for sale through April. eclecticgallery.ca

8WHITEHORSE- Whitehorse’s live show is built on mesmerizing guitar work and smoldering vocal chemistry. At the Alix Goolden Hall. alixgooldenhall.com

15JAZZ ALIVE! - Great musicians using music and words to build community and deepen people’s spirituality. First Met United Church. firstmetvictoria.com

7RANDY BACHMAN - This is the kick-off to Bachman’s nationwide tour to promote his new album Heavy Blues. In the intimate Charlie White Theatre. marywinspear.ca

14VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE – Winner of the 2013 Tony Award for Best Play, this is a cheeky homage to all things Chekhov. belfry.bc.ca

9A FISTFUL OF IMPROV - Escape to when tumbleweeds and cowboys rolled through town as Paper Street Theatre brings back the Old West. Apr. 8 -11, ticketrocket.org

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10SHRED KELLY - Humbly pioneering Canada’s modern folk sound and creating “Stoke-Folk” Shred Kelly/guests at Lucky Bar. Ticketfly.com

16SAVING SEED 101 - Join an experienced local seed saver for an introduction to seed saving and how to do a germination test. Register at gvpl.ca or 250-940-4875.

20FORTY QUILTS – Those affected by cancer benefit from this show of 40 quilts which will be redistributed for fundraising purposes. victoriaquiltersguild.org

27MOCK THE NEWS - A British style comedic panel show where they take the news and have some fun with it. Hecklers, 123 Gorge Rd. E. hecklersbarandgrill.com

28COLOUR YOUR PALATE - Victoria’s version of the Iron Chef with a twist is the annual signature fundraising event for the artsREACH program. artsreach.ca

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21FANTASTIC FLORA - Discover Mount Kilimanjaro with biologists Jenny Feick and Ian Hatter. Swan Lake Christmas Hill Nature House. vicnhs.bc.ca

24SCOTT SHEA - Shea’s Let It Storm Tour hits Victoria before heading to sold out Toronto shows. Victoria Event Centre, scottsheasongs.com

23THE LONELY ROY ORBISON TRIBUTE -The Lonely are a group of experienced musicians who share a love of the songs of Roy Orbison. marywinspear.ca

25CREATIVELY UNITED - Earth Week Festival noon to 9pm and Apr 26, noon to 4pm, at English Inn, 429 Lampson St., Esquimalt. creativelyunited.org

29GREAT SCOTT - The Greater Victoria Concert Band and Academy Flute Choir perform to honour the memory of local musician and composer Austin Alan Scott. gvcb.ca

30DINING OUT FOR LIFE – Dine out at one of 80 restaurants and 25% of your food bill will go to AIDS Vancouver Island, supporting HIV prevention. diningoutforlife.com

22ART & PHOTOGRAPHY - Art show with photography by David McCoy, abstract art by Linda Dickson and figurative paintings and drawings by Sid Chow. 1551 Broadmead.

4POPPA DAWG – He presents the blues with a unique view and a deep and respectful appreciation of the music. Upper Deck Sports Lounge, 229 Gorge Road East.

3WHEN THE LIGHTSGO DOWN - Starring Chad Brownlee featuring, Jess Moskaluke, and Bobby Wills. At Distrikt Nightclub. Sunfestconcerts.com

2CROFTS/ADAMS/PEARSE TRIO – The Trio will be joined by drummer Gerry Hemingway in this concert with an emphasis on spontaneity. openspace.ca

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EASTER VINTAGE & RETRO SHOWAPRIL 5Come to the Easter Show/Sale and find your own pieces of nostalgia! 90 tables, 45 vendors with original and repurposed items. Mary Winspear Centre, 2243 Beacon Ave., Sidney 9:30am to 4pm. Admission: $4.

ISLAND BREASTSTROKERS DINNERAPRIL 18The Island Breastrokers dragon boat team is hosting a buffet dinner and auction at the Chief and petty Officer’s Mess, 1575 Lyall St. in Esquimalt. Tickets are $50 available at islandbreaststrokers.com.

BIG TREE FESTIVALAPRIL 18The first Big Tree Festival at Elkington Forest is a celebration of community, conservation, creativity and learning on behalf of The Trust for Sustainable Forestry. Community fair, solar energy demo, eco-home tours, hikes & more. Free. Special guest Ann Mortifee. At Elkington Forest, Trailway Drive & Goldstream Heights,

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SAANICH CYCLING FESTIVALAPRIL 19Cycle the Shelbourne Corridor at the Saanich Cycling Festival 11am to 1:30pm at UVic: Lot #10. Featuring the BIG Family Bike Ride, a mass participation ride celebrating Earth Day 2015. The ride is escorted by the Saanich Police along the Shelbourne Street Corridor. Stage entertainment, bike demos, activities, displays, a bike rodeo, and concessions will round out a day of free family fun. saanichcyclingfestival.ca

HEAVEN ON EARTHAPRIL 23An award winning feature film by

Canadian director and writer Deepa Mehta tells the story of a young woman who travels from India to Canada to marry, and who becomes trapped with an abusive husband. At Cinecenta 7pm, presented by Victoria Women’s Transition House Society. transitionhouse.net

ASTRONOMY DAY APRIL 25The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Victoria hosts international Astronomy Day at the Royal BC Museum. Learn about the constellations through planetarium programs; solar telescope viewing to safely see the sun; hands-on activities and presentations. Free. royalbcmuseum.bc.ca

POETS CONVERSE WITH STREET ARTAPRIL 25A free walking tour of downtown art and poetry hosted by Poet Laureate Yvonne Blomer and Youth Poet Laureate Zoé Duhaime. Tour starts and ends at the Central Library, 735 Broughton and includes a stop at the Open Space Gallery. events.gvpl.ca

URBACITY CHALLENGEJUNE 7The UrbaCity Challenge is Victoria’s own urban adventure race! Teams of two and four will put brawn and brains to the test in our beautiful downtown core on June 7, all to benefit Victoria’s Prostate Centre. Register your team at urbacitychallenge.ca.

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PETE ROCK & SLUM VILLAGEAPRIL 2Distrikt Nightclub is proud to present Pete Rock & Slum Village with HANiF, Nox & Evoke & DJ Murge. Distrikt Nightclub, 919 Douglas. 19 plus. clubzone.com

ROCK OF AGESAPRIL 3 AND 4Live music Fridays & Saturdays at 9pm, showcasing rockin’ local bands at Bartholomew’s Pub, 777 Douglas St. No cover charge.

MIKE EDEL APRIL 10Mike Edel’s album release concert with Towers and Trees. Produced by Colin Stewart (Dan Mangan), India, Seattle

encapsulates four years of Edel’s extensive North American touring, with its 11 tracks boldly displaying his artistic maturity. April 10 at the Roxy Theatre, All ages. ticketfly.com.

APRIL 10 AND 11SOUL SHAKERSLive music Fridays & Saturdays at 9pm, showcasing rockin’ local bands at Bartholomew’s Pub, 777 Douglas St. No cover charge. Enjoy music bingo every Thursday from 7-10pm.

PALM COURT LIGHTAPRIL 11The Palm Court Light Orchestra presents Around the World in 80 Days with San Francisco pianist Frederick Hodges. At the UVic Centre at 7:30pm, tickets: 250-721-8480, palmcourtorchestra.com

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CAFÉ SUITEAPRIL 18The Westshore Community Concert Band, based in Langford, is holding its annual concert and fundraiser. The evening features a variety of concert band music, with delicious snacks, door prizes and a large silent auction featuring a wide array of items donated by local merchants. At The Forge Church, 2612 Sooke Rd., 7 to 9:30pm. Tickets, $12 at the door (if available) or call Andrea Warner at 250-382-2781.

VICTORIA BACH ENSEMBLEAPRIL 18Along with perennial favourites the Brandenburg Concerto No.5, the concert will feature the world premiere of Drislane’s new version of The Musical Offering for winds, strings and harpsichord. At the Church of St. John the Divine, 1611 Quadra, at 7:30pm. Tickets at the door:

HILDEGARD OF BINGEN - VOCAMEAPRIL 25Hildegard was many things, but perhaps above all she was a composer of inspired music. Acclaimed women’s ensemble VocaMe transports audiences to the 12th century and makes it possible to glimpse Hildegard’s religious ecstasy. At the Alix Goolden Hall. earlymusicsocietyoftheislands.ca

BRING HIM HOME - Few people in Canadian entertainment have had the impact of Michael Burgess in the last decade. His major theatre credits includes the role of Jean Valijean in Les Miserables at Toronto’s Royal Alexandra Theatre. At the Victoria Conference Centre April 11. rmts.bc.ca

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SYLVIA PLATH AND TED HUGHESAPRIL 2Poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes amassed a significant archive, before and after their marriage. These encompass multiple letters, financial documents, photos etc. Librarian and Plath scholar Christine Walde will discuss the unique characteristics of these literary archives. From 12:30-1:30pm in Room A003, Mearns

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POETRY WITHOUT BORDERSAPRIL 8Join world-class poets Patrick Friesen, Rhona McAdam, Inge Israel and Beth Kope for an evening of readings and conversation that celebrates Victoria’s talented community of thought-provoking poets. At 7:30pm, Munro’s Books, 1108 Government St. Free. Facebook.com/ReadLocalBC

ON THE ROAD APRIL 14Join some of Victoria’s hottest fiction writers for an evening of exploration and conversation with Julie Paul, Aaron Shepard and Charles Tidler. At 7:30pm, Munro’s Books,

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CHILDREN’S READINGS APRIL 21Writers Lucky Budd, Sylvia Olsen, Penny Chamberlain, Ann Walsh and Carol Ann Shaw will read, tell stories and answer questions about what it’s like to be a writer. At 1pm, Juan De Fuca Branch, 1759 Island Highway. Free. gvpl.ca

NEW BOOKS LAUNCHAPRIL 23Russell Books celebrates the launch of The Death of Small Creatures by Tisha Cull; Transmitter; Receiver by Raoul Fernandes; A Short History of Crazy Bone by Patrick Friesen. April 23, 7:30pm. russellbooks.com.

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JAZZ AT THE GALLERY 2015APRIL 26Another outstanding series of Sunday afternoon concerts awaits lucky music lovers as the Universal Jazz Advocates & Mentors Society brings jazz to the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria. April 26 see Jennifer Scott, Bill Coon, and Rene Worst. Call the Gallery at 250-384-4171 ext 1.

THE RIVERSIDE (MATT JOHNSON)APRIL 23-25Matt Johnson has played in the Juno award winning band 54-40 since 1985. The Riverside features Tom Hooper (The Grapes

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STAGEAN EVENING WITH IANA KOMARNYTSKAAPRIL 4, Sacred Centre Dance presents a workshop weekend, capped off by this Gala show featuring 2014 Star Bellydancer Canada’s Iana Komarnytska. At the McPherson Playhouse, rmts.bc.ca.

SUICIDEGIRLS: BLACKHEART BURLESQUEAPRIL 6Unlike any other burlesque act you’ve seen filled with pop culture references, high energy indie soundtrack and the sexist choreographed strip tease to make your inner nerd explode with glee. At 8pm at Distrikt.


MADAMA BUTTERFLYAPRIL 9-19A young geisha renounces her family to marry an American man. When he leaves to go back to his own country, she waits with their child for his return. Though she is the gentlest of heroines, Butterfly has formidable inner strength. Royal Theatre rmts.bc.ca.

CALL MR. ROBESONAPRIL 16The play chronicles the life of Paul Robeson, the African American actor, singer and civil rights campaigner whose appeal proved so worrisome to US and Canadian authorities his passport was canceled and he was prevented from exercising his right to travel to Canada. Victoria Event Centre. eventbrite.ca.

VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKEAPRIL 14-MAY 17Durang’s cheeky homage to all things Chekhov. The bucolic bliss of siblings Vanya and Sonia is thrown into disarray when sister-turned-movie actress Masha returns home with her new, dimwitted, lover in tow, sparking a fiery bout of rivalry, lust and opportunity. belfry.bc.ca.

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GALLUS DOMESTICUS - WE ARE THE KEEPERSAPRIL 2Solo show at the Gage Gallery, Oak Bay, celebrating the life of the domestic chicken with paintings, scultures, sound and hands on offerings. Opening is April 2, 7 to 9pm. gagegallery.ca

MODERN VISIONARIES APRIL 7 TO MAY 2Original paintings, prints and drawings of Victoria’s Limners: Carole Sabiston, Pat Martin

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VANCOUVERTHE BOOK OF MORMONAPRIL 7-12Broadway’s smash hit The Book of Mormon comes to Vancouver for the first time. The Book of Mormon is a nine-time Tony Award-winning Best Musical from the creators of South Park. Contains explicit language. Ages 18 and up. At the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver.SWEENEY TODDAPRIL 25-MAY 3Vancouver Opera presents Sweeney Todd, a darkly comical and endlessly entertaining show. The indelible cast of characters and the evocatively grimy set-ting combine with Sondheim’s unmatchable lyrics and complex orchestral score for a rich theat-rical and musical experience. vancouveropera.ca

LILA DOWNSAPRIL 26A social activist, world traveler and singer of astonishing power and grace, Mexican/American artist Lila Downs melds traditional Mexican music with blues, jazz and rock into a modern, living and utterly unique sound. Downs will be celebrating the release of her brand new album, Balas Y Chocolate, with this highly anticipated return to the Chan Centre, Vancouver.

SEATTLEARIANA GRANDEAPRIL 14Pop music’s biggest breakout star of the year, Ariana Grande tour sin support of her Billboard #1 album, My Everything. With

songs Break Free, Problem, Bang Bang and Love Me Harder, she spent 34 continuous weeks in the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100 and had the most top 10 singles of any artist in 2014. KeyArena, Seattle, WA.THE MOODY BLUESAPRIL 22For over 40 years, The Moody Blues have been musical mainstays on concert stages, recordings and the airwaves. Their sound, which fuses classical elements with blues and rock ‘n roll, has earned them over 70 million record sales! At the Paramount Theatre, Seattle.ELVIS COSTELLOAPRIL 26Elvis Costello’s Detour Tour celebrates an artist who has cultivated a long career by going against the grain and making his set lists differ from what he would do from tour-to-tour and album-to-album. Paramount Theatre, Seattle, WA.

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FORTY YEARS IN THE MAKINGAPRIL 9-11Victoria College of Art’s 40th year-end student show and sale takes place April 9, 10, 11 at the college. The show includes a range of media with more than 300 artworks of every variety.Reception April 9 at 7pm. vca.ca

HOMAGE TO TREESTO APRIL 11A new collection of paintings by Mary-Jean Butler and Kimberly Kiel at The Avenue Gallery, 2184 Oak Bay Ave. Call 250-598-2184 or go to theavenuegallery.com for more info.

ANNUAL UVIC VISUAL ARTS BFA EXHIBITIONAPRIL 17 TO 25UVic’s annual Visual Arts BFA graduation exhibit in the Visual Arts building is the biggest campus art show of the year with dozens of pieces in all mediums showcasing the work of 35-plus graduating students. Reception 7pm, April 17, exhibit daily and 10am to 5pm Sat. finearts.uvic.ca

ART & PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITAPRIL 18-27Three person art show with photography by David McCoy, abstract art by Linda Dickson and figurative paintings and drawings by Sid Chow. 1551 Broadmead Ave. Mon-Fri 11-4:30pm, Sat & Sun 11-5:30pm.

SPORTSWESTSHORE TRIATHLON & DUATHLONAPRIL 5Westshore Triathlon/Duathlon is the first Tri/Dua of the year on

the island; it’s unique because both the bike and run courses are “closed” to traffic. Bike along Esquimalt Lagoon and then a trail run around the West Shore Parks and Rec facility. At West Shore Parks and Recreation Centre from 8am to 1pm. westshorerecreation.ca

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Dave Morris guestimates fewer than 50 people in Canada make their living impro-vising, and he’s one of the lucky ones.

“When I was younger, I was more shy and closed off. When I found improv, I opened up … became a drama guy,” he says.

Right out of high school he got a job with the Canadian Improv Games, a national theatre festival that brings high school students from across Canada together to explore improvisa-tion, after being exposed to the competi-tion as a student at North Vancouver’s Carson Graham secondary.

He began teaching improv to adults shortly after and then branched out to corporate workshops.

Morris brought his skills from Vancouver to Victoria six

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time. “It’s not a big mar-ket … I feel privileged to be

an improviser,” he says.Improv in Victoria is “boil-

ing over,” adds Morris, who is also artistic director for Paper Street Theatre.

“It’s grown just enough that I need a home.”

He’s found one at 1109 Fort Street next to a martial arts studio. “Improv, martial arts, practically the same thing,” he jokes.

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be an improv guy full time. … For the last six years I’ve earned a living exclusively through teaching improv,” he says.

His 2011 TEDx Victoria talk on the subject has more than 131,000 views on YouTube. Improv, in a nutshell, includes seven steps: Play, fail, listen, say ‘yes’, say ‘and’, play games, relax and have fun, says Morris.

His classes, which are are geared toward adults, help students “become a good listener, (improves) memory, helps you pay attention, be more fun to be around, be a good story teller and know how to accept offers and how to build on them collaboratively – get your ego out of the way,” he says.

The majority of people who come to improv classes are there to break out of their routine, learn to relax or improve their public speaking skills.

“You write a script, direct a play and act in it all at the same time, it’s kind of backwards – like driving by looking in the rearview mirror,” he says. “The amount of people who come back again and again to do level one still surprises me.”

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In 2011, I was broke, living in Toronto, working three part time jobs I hated, and no one would hire me.

I had started doing some stand up to get a bit of unpaid stage time, but it wasn’t enough. I had come to the big smoke to make my mark and the closest I had come was meeting a guy named Mark.

Struggling with my situation, I decided that I needed to make a change and that I should write my own show. I had never written a show before but did have a stable of char-acters to draw from. I realized quick-ly that only one of my characters would be interesting enough for a

full show. In 2007, Jacob Richmond and I created the character

of God for a skit in the cult cabaret Atomic Vaudeville.

In Jacob’s original sketch, the character was meant to be an aggressive Englishman. On the first night, the character bombed. Jacob’s writing was strong but something was off. I went home and tried to figure

out how to make this British head master God work. The next day I traded the fiery, red wig I had worn for a short black bob. I traded my sunglasses for a subtle pair of reading glasses worn at the tip of my nose, and instead of an aggressive English accent, I went with a Scottish lilt. This changed everything.

All of a sudden the character could be as mean and aggressive as before but now, it was a part of the joke. The audience could go along with the bizarre rather than watch it from the outside. This was the first moment I played the character that would change my life. It was this character that would be the star of my first one man show four years later. I booked the Victoria Event Centre for a night. Now I had a deadline. I didn’t have a show, but I had a deadline. The biggest issue at the time was what the hell do I call this show about God?

The title I had been thinking of was “My Invisible Best Friend.” It didn’t have the ring I wanted it to have. I felt I need-ed to let people know what the character was in the title. I wanted people to know that God was Scottish and wore a dress. As I got closer to the date the tickets would go on sale, that description was the one that stayed with me.

So on April 8, 2011 “God Is A Scottish

Drag Queen” had its world premiere. A 7pm show sold out quickly so a late show was added. With a massive amount of improvised material, the first show was 90 minutes long and the second, nearly two hours. The show was a success. Later that year I came back to Victoria to do the show as a part of the Fringe Festival. The 50-seat Fort Street Café was where my show lived for nine days. Tickets sold quickly. One day I walked past the venue hours before the show, and saw a small line had already begun. I thought to myself: maybe I have something here.

The show has since sold out major the-atres and festivals across North America. Last year, part two made its world pre-miere to even better reviews and bigger audiences and right now I’m writing part three.

I am still shocked by the show’s success and that folks still wait hours in line to see my silliness.

At the end of my show I try to take the time to make sure the audience knows how much I appreciate their kindness. The simple fact that they choose to spend their hard earned money, and their time with me in the hopes that I can make them giggle for a an hour or so, means the world to me and I thank them from the bottom of my heart.

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Drag Queen” had its world premiere. A 7pm show sold out quickly so a late show was added. With a massive amount of improvised material, the first show was 90 minutes long and the second, nearly two hours. The show was a success. Later that year I came back to Victoria to do the show as a part of the Fringe Festival. The 50-seat Fort Street Café was where my show lived for nine days. Tickets sold quickly. One day I walked past the venue hours before the show, and saw a small line had already begun. I thought to myself: maybe I have something here.

The show has since sold out major the-atres and festivals across North America. Last year, part two made its world pre-miere to even better reviews and bigger audiences and right now I’m writing part three.

I am still shocked by the show’s success and that folks still wait hours in line to see my silliness.

At the end of my show I try to take the time to make sure the audience knows how much I appreciate their kindness. The simple fact that they choose to spend their hard earned money, and their time with me in the hopes that I can make them giggle for a an hour or so, means the world to me and I thank them from the bottom of my heart.

When you’re lying on a golden beach look-ing out on turquoise water you don’t expect to see a pig body-surfing.

Perhaps that’s why the dozens of other peo-ple I was sharing the Maui sand with didn’t see it, or dismissed it as a dog and stopped watch-ing it. But after the animal caught a big wave, rode into shore and the surf retreated, there was no doubt what remained on the beach was a fuzzy, black pig.

Although I was on vacation with my family, I wished I was working.

This month marks a year since I started doing stories for the end of the six o’clock news. Every day a cameraman and I search for enter-taining or inspiring people and help tell their unexpected stories.

We meet people randomly while driving around and looking. Initially, our only rule was to try and not stop driving. If we hit a red light, we’d turn right. If we hit a four-way stop, we’d turn left. We attempted to leave it up to fate while looking for something unique to catch our eye. Sometimes it takes five minutes, sometimes it takes two hours. But we always find somebody with something extraordinary to share.

A year later, we now know it’s not about driving or looking. Finding happy stories is about seeing.

When I saw the exuberance of the pig and the sparkle in the eye of the man swimming with it, I saw there was something more.

I asked the man the pig’s name. He said it was a Native American name meaning bring-

er of joy. He said he met the pig in the Hawaiian hills while living off the land. The man was eat-ing a wild pig he’d just killed, when his dog ran into the bush and dragged out a baby pig. The man realized he was dining on its mom, and assumed the baby would soon die. So he put the piglet in a sack and used it for a pillow that night. He was surprised to find it still alive the next morning. Impressed by its will to live, the man nurtured the baby back to health. During that process something remarkable happened to the man – he felt something he’d never felt before. After enduring a life-long, debilitating depression that forced him to live alone, the man says he felt joy for the first time. He continues to feel it, which is why he’s committed to caring for the pig for the rest of its life.

It’s the type of story we feel fortunate to share on TV daily. It’s also the type of story you can see on your own. If you’re having a bad day – or are stuck in a rut – look for happiness and you’ll see it. It may be hard at first. But the happiness will be there.

Even if you are the type of person who won’t see a glass as half-full until pigs fly, know that at least it’s possible to see pigs surf.

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Adrian became enamoured with Gilbert and Sullivan, best known for The Pirates of Penzance and HMS Pinafore, when he was a boy in England.

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“I’ve been doing it ever since … it’s a wonderful ice breaker,” he says. In fact, he credits Gilbert and Sullivan for introducing him to his wife Elizabeth, who is the show’s producer.

“It’s a real team effort,” says Elizabeth, of the more than 30 cast members it takes to pull off the musical production.

“The music is so exciting, it’s a favourite of mine,” she says.Iolanthe was written in 1882 and pokes fun at English law, the

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just amazing. … Gilbert was a wonderful wordsmith.”The talented group of performers is led by Maestro George

Corwin who also leads a 13 piece professional orchestra. Exuberant choreography is by Heather-Elaine Day and stage direc-tion by the imaginative Jennifer Hoener.

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Funny comes naturally to Derek Edwards. Talking on the phone with the Canadian comic, our conversation is liberally punctuat-ed with laughter.

As we speak, Toronto is waist deep in snow and enjoying a high temperature of -2, com-pared to Victoria’s 10-degrees and sunshine.

“I have relatives in P.E.I. and they have it a lot worse. They’re jumping out of an upstairs window to get to work. Here it’s only up to my ribcage – there’s no point whining about it,” the pragmatist says.

The 57-year-old comedian was raised in Timmins, Ont. some eight hours north of Toronto, in a town built on forestry and mining.

“In the summers they would hire students for when the fellas would go on vacation. Us students would maintain stuff, clean stuff, shovel stuff and move stuff, get it ready for when everybody came back in September. … It was very exciting,” he deadpans. “I had my own lunchbox – and not one of those plastic ones with the picture of a band on it, a

real, metal lunchbox – you could kill some-one with my lunch.”

The work, though not exciting, did give him material to begin

his comedy career. “I started doing it regularly

at 29 years of age. I did my first set at 28 and it scared the hell outta me so I didn’t go back for a full year.”

His first gig was in a Toronto club; everything painted black and crammed with people.

“They had these little round tables just big enough to fit a drink on and so close together you were rubbing thighs with the person next to you. It gave everyone that awkward social feeling of not having any private space so all the attention was on the stage. It cut through the little chatter that can happen and if they liked you, they really liked you – then, there was the other side …”

After a year, his (now) wife urged him to return. “I was a fan of comics like Bill Cosby, George Carlin and all the guys that were huge, iconic folks before them – Rodney Dangerfield, he was hilari-ous and filthy, really filthy. But it was gut crunching funny – you’re almost ashamed at how much you’re laughing.”

He mustered up the courage to return to the stage and another year later, quit his day job as a carpenter and painter to hit the stage full time.

“As a painter, you do a lot of drinking at work anyway so being a comic was just a natural exten-sion of my painting skill,” he jokes.

“Sometimes you just have to drop everything and go for the dream. Don’t just be practical, take a chance and jump on that rickety boat,” he adds.

The life of a comedian includes taking risks. “There’s no retirement plan – the whole thing’s a little sketchy … but you close your eyes and give it a whirl.”

Edwards’ comedy style is a little old school, every-

day slice of life stories looked at from a slightly skewed angle. “It’s never what you do, it’s how you do it, there’s always a tincture there of originality in everything you do,” Edwards says.

Weather is one thing that gets audiences on his side, he adds. “Climate is the key. If you live in a place that has four distinct seasons and one is a bru-tal winter, like in Minnesota, Detroit, Colorado – you spend a lot of nights with pints watching a hockey game, we’re the same, you know?

“Out east they’ve had 140 centimetres of snow in the last two weeks. We have common difficulties: warming up your car, wearing two pair of socks – everybody’s been through it, it’s a brotherhood. (Now) you take your hat or your toque off, come in where it’s warm and get ready to have some fun.”

And in Victoria where it’s unseasonably warm and the daffodils are blooming?

“You don’t have flowers already do you? … Out in Shangri-La you can come in to a nice theatre for a cheap chuckle,” he says.

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Despite just returning from a cross-Canada tour

that included 47 radio sta-tion appearances in 45 days, 15 live acoustic shows and 14,000 kilometres logged on their vehicle, the twins are still in high gear and eager for their CD release show at UVic’s Phillip T. Young Recital Hall on April 9.

“This CD release show is part of the Alumni Series and it’s so great to be back espe-cially as alumni,” says Julie Kennedy, the violin playing half of the duet.

The identical twins, raised in Powell River and now living in Sooke, are proud graduates of the university’s music program.

“We love UVic, it has an amazing music program, we came here and fell in love with Victoria,” says Carli Kennedy, who plays guitar.

The two began playing piano at age five and were encouraged to pick their own instruments at age seven. “From seven on, throughout our childhood we played in a family band, all the community events in Powell River and Vancouver at the Variety Club Telethon – that was our big TV appearance,” says Julie.

Since graduating from UVic in 2008, where they studied everything from classical to jazz music, the pair have been performing and traveling togeth-er. In 2014 alone, the twins performed more than 60 shows and embarked on four tours, stretching from the Yukon and Northwest Territories to the Article Circle, Cape Breton to Iceland and

Sweden.“We hit a few storms back east so we’re happy to be back home,” says Carli.

“We’re so spoiled living in

Victoria – it’s nice to see all of Canada,

but it’s nice not to worry about winter tires,” says Julie.

“Or getting snowed in before a show,” Carli adds.

Over the last two years, the pair have written 100 songs and with the help of multiple award-winning coun-try music heavy-hitter George Canyon and notable west-coast producer Graham Sharkey, narrowed it down to nine songs for their debut album as Twin Kennedy – It’s a Love Thing.

“It’s been so positive. It’s been a few years in the making and now we’re ready to put our music out there,” says Julie.

In addition to their continued tour-ing, the sisters are ecstatic to have been selected to perform an official showcase during Toronto’s Canadian Music Week in May, and have just been announced as an opening act for Big and Rich at Merritt’s Rockin’ River Music Festival on Aug. 2.

“When it comes down to it, there’s nothing like performing in your own city,” says Julie. “Making an album is such a journey, it takes so much thought and so much time.”

Carli and Julie are thrilled to debut their CD at UVic where they say they received great training for their career in music. “We’re really excited to play at UVic in the theatre where we did our grad recital,” says Julie. “Our live show with a full band is definitely country but we’ll throw in some clas-sical. It’s our journey from classical to country – we’ve come full circle.”


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U.K. group the Kaiser Chiefs bring their iconic sound to Victoria April 20.


Expect the Kaiser Chiefs to mess up the lyrics and play the wrong chords as they hit the stage in Victoria this month.

“It’s our first gig in about two months, so we might get some of the chords wrong – Ricky will defi-nitely get some of the words wrong,” jokes bassist Simon Rix with a laugh.

Rix, frontman Ricky Wilson, drum-mer Vijay Mistry, guitarist Andrew White and keyboardist Nick Baines are all currently on hiatus after a tour of South America and the UK where they continue to fill arenas and stadi-ums.

“We did two weeks in South America supporting the Foo Fighters in various sta-diums, which was great and two weeks in England doing arenas which was really, really nice as well, it was really, really good month,” says Rix, on the phone from his London home.

The indie rock band has been around for more than a decade and haven’t let setbacks, such as the 2012 departure of founding member drummer Nick Hodgson slow them down.

“In our career we made this album under the (band) name Parva, which didn’t even get released and then the next album we made was Employment which is still our biggest selling album,” says Rix. “I think part of the reason we were totally going for it and you can feel the energy on Employment is because of the disappointment and things that hap-

pened in the previous band. All of that pent up aggression and excitement of all that stuff, it came out in Employment and we

were just absolutely going for it.”Employment earned critical and commercial

success with more than three million copies sold. It won the band numerous awards, and also unleashed I Predict A Riot, the group’s most well-known song, along with Ruby, from their second release Yours Truly, Angry Mob.

“I think every record we made is the right one at that time, even the Parva one, we didn’t really know what we were doing,” says Rix. “I mean, we got signed and we were quite lazy and didn’t really do anything. I think it taught us a lot of lessons. Just when you get a record deal that doesn’t mean you’ve made it, in fact it means the hard work’s just starting. By the time we got to Employment, we knew all that so we worked very hard.”

Fast forward a few years and four records, and the Kaiser Chiefs are on the road touring their 2014

release Education, Education, Education & War.

“I think it’s an album that’s really coherent and makes sense … all the songs fit together. We recorded it in Atlanta with a producer called Ben H. Allen III. We

did it in one block of time and it was quite an old-school way of doing it,” Rix says.

After Hodgeson’s departure, band

members rallied to write and record Education, Education, Education & War with a new passion.

“I’m having more fun than I’ve ever had,” says Rix. “In the beginning, it’s like a roller coaster, you don’t know what the fuck’s going on, you’re just sort of on a ride and you don’t know where it’s going. Especially our first album, a lot of bands never get past that stage and then we got a bit complacent and a bit lazy and now … I always think Nick leaving did us a favour, because it was a wake up call. We could lose this thing we love doing. It could disappear from underneath us and we could have quit. I think we could have just called it a day when Nick left, but I think the other four of us who are left – and now Vijay who joined – we love doing it and we want to keep doing it as long as possible, we love making music. I think we’re even better than we’ve ever been.” Hear tracks from their latest album at kaiser-chiefs.com.

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August: Osage County

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Actor Susie Mullen portrays Violet in the Langham Court Theatre presentation of August: Osage County April 23 to May 9.

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April 23 to May 9, audiences 15+


Directors Keith Digby and Cynthia Pronick will take Langham Court Theatre audiences to a hot August in Oklahoma this month.

From April 23 to May 9, they pres-ent August: Osage County, a tragicom-edy written by Tracy Letts.

The couple is no strang-er to Langham audiences, this being the eighth play they’ve directed for the company.

“We started a long time ago,” says Digby, former artistic director of Victoria’s Bastion Theatre, and a screenwriter with a background in pro-fessional theatre. “Last year we took on Rozencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and this year we’re taking on another hugely monstrous play.”Au-gust: Osage County includes a cast of 13. “It’s on the large side,” says Digby. “Langham Court Theatre tends to cast between four and five and upwards. Being community theatre they’re very concerned with giving lots of people the opportunity to tread the boards, so they tend not to do tiny – although 13 is getting up near Shakespeare ter-ritory.”

The Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play exposes a large family in a spectacularly entertaining melt-down. A missing father, a pill-popping matriarch, three squabbling sisters and relentless revelations of indiscretion

launch the audience into a riveting theatre expe-

rience.“The play was

written in 2007 and first produced in Chicago,” says Pronick, who’s

been in theatre “since God was a boy.”

“It’s autobiographical in a way. The matriarch and patriarch of the Weston family represent Letts’ grandfather and grandmother.”

The play deals with a severely dys-functional family during a stressful time, but also includes some laughter.

“The movie, you have to deal with as a separate art object,” says Digby.

“People who have seen it as an enjoyable drama will be delighted to find out in the play, there’s humour – it’s our job to play both masks of comedy and tragedy and find a variety of tones in the subject

matter.”Pronick says they have a “blessed”

cast. “It’s one of those shows. The scary thing is 80 per cent of the job is casting and you have to get it right. … Fortunately we have a tremendous cast.”

The cast includes returning Langham Theatre members Nick Stull and Susie Mullen as Beverly and Violet Weston and newcomers, including UVic theatre student Keisha Palm as housekeeper Johnna Monevata. “She’s a house-keeper hired by Beverly before he disappears, because they’ve let the house and their eating, taking care of themselves, slide away. It’s an interest-ing role, she’s the silent witness to the mayhem,” says Pronick.

The large cast began rehearsals in February with table reads and charac-ter study.

“What people will see on stage eventually, is people in a family, not characters in a play,” Digby adds.

It is the couple’s challenge to achieve that. “We’re fortunate there are a lot of really talented people who choose to have a life, so they live in Victoria,” he says.

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The son of one of Canada’s most influential guitarists, doesn’t let that define him.

Scott Shea, son of legendary guitarist Red Shea – known for his distinctive pick work and memorable leads for Gordon Lightfoot –

carved his own path in the music world. Shea has been writing music since he was a kid and

claims a house filled with silence inspired him. “(My dad) was always on the road. I remember gong to pick him up at the airport and him being very tired and not really wanting to hear much music,” says Shea. “After playing so much on the road, he wanted quiet in the house, so I’d always go out to the car, his old Cadillac, and sit in the backseat and write my own songs.”

From the age of nine, Shea was writing songs, by 12, he was win-ning public speaking awards, in his teens, he turned his skill to winning national songwriting competitions.

“I was songwriting, doing gigs around town, then I moved to New York when I was a teenager and started playing down on the beaches and busking,” says Shea.

For more than a decade, Shea and his brother Brett played together, opening for Canadian acts Big Sugar, Blue Rodeo and Ron Sexsmith.

“Then my wife was pregnant … I had to support my family so I got into working construction,” he says. He soon began to work for himself building custom homes in Toronto.

By 2008, he was 43 and ready to semi-retire. He moved his family, which includes wife Layla and two young daughters, to a rancher in 10 Mile Point.

In the years since, he’s spent time fixing up the house and traveling. “I went to Africa, Cambodia,

Nepal, Southeast Asia. I guess I was searching for answers,” he says. “I was always looking for some kind of god. I was studying, researching and music kept call-ing, so I started writing.”

He didn’t find religious answers in his travels, but something else. “I try to be as good a person as I can be. (The search) ate up a lot of time but it gave me material to write about.”

Shea’s debut solo album, Let It Storm was developed following his father’s death.

“He was a character, he had quite a life. He was wild-er than blazes, he got famous with Lightfoot then he

kind of left it all behind when he found religion,” says Shea.

Recorded at Arlyn Studios in Austin, TX, the album was produced by Gordie Johnson (Big Sugar, Sit Down Servant) and features Willie Nelson’s sister Bobbie Nelson on keyboard and her son Freddie Fletcher (Johnny Cash, Austin City Limits) on drums.

“Gordie liked my writing – he just liked what I was doing. Bobbie said she would do it for nothing and brought in her son Freddie Fletcher … I got sick while we were doing it and I tried to hash through it, but it wasn’t easy,” he

says.“Let It Storm, it’s about losing love and finding love.

There’s some religious connotations, some spiritual. … When you’re in a relationship, it can storm all at once, all around you, and I’ve got love, I’m happy with my kids and my wife and I’m comfortable with me – that’s what the record’s all about.”

The album has a bit more of a country flavour than his live performance, Shea says. “Gordie Johnson, he’s into the outlaw stuff: Waylon Jennings, Townes Van Zandt, Billy Joe Shaver – that style. When I was down there, that’s the direction Gordie took with the record. I’m not 100 per cent comfortable with that – I’m more folk roots with a hint of Americana,” says Shea.

His live performances stay truer to that genre. “Some people say I sound like early Lightfoot, I have no idea, maybe it’s because of my dad’s guitar,” he says of the 1955 Martin D28 he plays at home.

Shea is hitting the road on a cross-Canada tour in sup-port of his album. “I’ve got some great guys with me, Adam Dobres (Ruth Moody Band, Outlaw Social) and I hired this young guy from UVic (upright bassist) Blake Palm. It’s been 15 years, I’m so excited.”

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The majesty of an eagle perched high in a tree, the power of an owl in flight – there’s something about birds of prey that intrigues and

excites the imagination.We are lucky in BC that we are

home to one-quarter of the world’s population of Bald Eagles and seeing one is not rare, however, seeing one

up close is easier than you might think.

Just a short drive north of Victoria, on the outskirts of Duncan is The Raptors, a wild-life habitat that allows visitors to experience these incredible creatures one-on-one.

The Raptors was founded by wildlife biologist Gillian Radcliffe in 2002 and now includes some 130 birds of prey.

“Most are hatched here and help with

demos and bird abatement or wildlife management,” says Robyn Radcliffe, manager of Pacific Northwest Raptors.

The birds are used every day at the Victoria International Airport to help keep runways clear of smaller birds such as starlings, pigeons and geese. “It’s a cool method and it’s environ-mentally friendly. The goal is not to kill the other birds, just move them away,” says Radcliffe.

The birds are also used as natural predators at various landfills and even in movies.

The goal of The Raptors though, is education and conservation. The 15 acre site includes dozens of aviaries housing eagles, hawks, falcons, owls, vultures even kookaburras and Gaston, a Marabou Stork.

Selena Silvester made her first visit to The Raptors when she was nine. “My grandma told me she signed me up for Raptor Camp. I told her, ‘grandma, you can’t go to camp with dinosaurs,’” she says with a laugh. The now 20-year-old has been working at The Raptors for six years and was a regular volunteer prior to that.

It’s Silvester who takes me around the site, introducing me to Manwe the Bald Eagle and Altani, a Golden Eagle, both are large and impressive birds. Silvester tells me that while Bald Eagles eat salmon, in the wild Golden Eagles hunt mountain goats by pushing them over cliffs and are even used to hunt

wolves in other areas.Next we visit Harry, a Swainson’s

Hawk, Harry was hit by a car, suffered a concussion and can’t be released back into the wild. He’s one of the few birds here that weren’t born at The Raptors. Another is Gaston, a 12-year-old Marabou Stork who was hatched at the African Lion Safari in Ontario and sent to live at The Raptors. “They’re sometimes called the Einstein bird or the grandfather bird,” Silvester says. “I’ve looked at a lot of pic-tures of them and believe me, he’s the best looking one I’ve seen,” she says of the large bird that really does look like he has a head of curly grey hair. The docile looking creature has a 10-foot wing-span and uses his beak like a sword.

Next we visit Elton, a spectacled owl. Silvester hands me a thick leather glove and Elton easily sits on my hand for a visit. I fall instantly in love. His large eyes take me in as he puffs his feathers out. I ask if I can take a photo with my phone. “Oh sure. He’s used to selfies,” Silvester says.

Elton goes back to his perch and Silvester brings out Belle, a 16-year-old Saker Falcon. She too sits on my hand and patiently lets me take photos.

Our final visit is with Vega, a Harris Hawk, who we take into the forested area for a fly.

He’s outfitted with a radio trans-mitter in case he gets lost or doesn’t return when she calls him. The birds are all allowed to fly free daily and if Vega is any indication, they love it.

He flies up through the trees and swoops down to my hand, which Silvester fills with chunks of fresh chicken.

Like a bit of a rebellious teen, Vega decides to visit an aviary with a pair of

eagles in it, he seems to be showing off that he’s on the out-side while they must wait their turn.

After a short trail walk, we venture out to the flying field where Vega swoops out into the tall trees, then comes winging in for another treat. Back and forth he hap-pily soars, listening to Silvester’s gentle commands.

In a flash, our two-hour visit has flown by. I feel like I’ve visited another world, a peaceful place where magnifi-cent mythical creatures are real.

The Raptors is open to the public daily 12-3pm with flying demonstra-tion at 1:30pm. pnwraptors.com.

(Clockwise from top left) Vega the Harris Hawk in full flight; The Raptors falconer Selena Silvester with Golden Eagle Altani; Monday editor Laura Lavin with Spectacled Owl Elton; Gaston, a Marabou Stork .

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10 Acres Chef Dwane MacIsaac spent 17 years as ‘chef to the stars’ working in Vancouver’s film industry.

“It was fantastic,” he says. “It was fun, I travelled all over the place. It was great.”

But eventually the lustre of catering to the film industry wore off and he found himself in Victoria.

MacIsaac first met Fol Epi baker Clif Leir in 2008 when he went to pick up strudel. “He asked me to help move his grinding stone,” says MacIsaac. “They were in a temporary space at the Princess Mary until (the Dockside Green location) was built – it was the heaviest strudel I ever lifted!”

The men bonded over their mutual love of fresh, down-to-earth food and MacIsaac’s love for Leir’s pizza.

“They grind their own flour, it’s all organic, the meat is from Choux, Choux … they usually run out by 1:30,” says MacIsaac, as he waits for his pie.

The fare arrives laid atop paper

bags, one for the brisket and one for the blue cheese and carmelized onion. They are piping hot and MacIsaac is more than happy to pose for a quick photo before digging in. “I hate when the cheese burns you right here,” he says pointing to the roof of his mouth.

As the risk of cheese-burn subsides we dig in. “This is smoked, braised brisket and the camelized onion is so beautiful and sweet it’s almost like jam,” he says. “The tomato sauce tastes the same as it did four years ago – it’s very consistent.”

They grind their own flour right at the bakery using an old fashioned stone grinder and it’s baked in a stone oven.

“He builds his own ovens and uses a wood fire, grinds the whole wheat flour,” says MacIsaac. “I love it, it’s so dry on the bottom and the ingredients are really great. Great quality stuff.”

Along with pizza, which is not avail-

able on Saturdays as their ovens are busy baking the in-demand loaves of bread, Fol Epi also has a variety of sandwiches for the lunch crowd along

with decadent pastries and rustic breads.

Their bread is made with two heritage grains – red fife wheat and rye. Stone ground flour is also available to pur-chase from the bakery

in 1kg or 2kg quantities for those who want to do their own baking.

“My son is addicted to their cara-mel macarons,” says MacIsaac. “Their desserts are pretty awesome and the breads are great.”

But the pizza is still his favourite, a treat he stops in for almost weekly.

“It’s not anything complicated,” says Leir. “It’s good ingredients and everyone taking care with preparation at each step – that’s the basic formu-la.” Fol Epi is open seven days a week 7:30am to 5pm at 101-398 Harbour Rd.

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Inspiration: it’s impossible to wax on about it without becoming clichéd, so instead let’s look at examples in the local cocktail world that will

provide the illustrations. Just what interesting gems are awaiting you if you throw caution to the wind, abandon the classics and let the bar man, or woman, lead you to their latest dabbling?

At Little Jumbo, bar manager Nate Caudle entices with a Bovine University. I love rye-based cock-tails with whimsical names and a spirit forward nature. Also worth a try is a Togarashi Maru. The Maru begins with Hayman’s Old Tom Gin and even manages a miso tincture along with some Sake. Hmm, can someone please pass the sushi?

If you too, are a rye fan, my new favourite house-inspired cocktail is at Bodega, it’s called a Butchertown and mixes rye with sherry, cointreau and bitters. The sherry dries the rye and gives it a deliciously smoky finish.

If sherry is on your mind too (and shouldn’t it be?) then check out The Surrealist at Zambri’s with gin, chartreuse, sherry and four other ingredients. I normally don’t enjoy a cocktail with this many components but to my surprise, this one works and I wonder if it’s because of the pear vinegar which holds it all together.

Finally, the grand dame of them all, the Bengal Lounge at the Fairmont Empress where The Prizefighter rings my bell but not to be overshadowed is the Princess Marguerita, a riff that adds ginger to the Mexican classic.

And there you have some great examples of local inspiration in our gem of a city.

Monday’s incognito Lounge Lizard imbibes at all the best joints in town. Do you have a favourite pub or barkeep to rec-ommend? Join the discussion online at mondaymag.com.

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While star status is still on the horizon for San Felix for now, band members Ian Kopp, Brett Frankson,

Mark Bell and Nick Tassell, know how to stretch a penny. In fact, they fund-raised for months to record their new EP, Fire Island.

“We fundraised almost all of it through bottle drives,” says guitar-ist Kopp. “We made hundreds and hundreds of dollars off bottle drives. It definitely made the album more affordable for us.”

The enthusiastic group of young musicians, all Claremont

secondary grads except Frankson, who is a

Stelly’s grad, record-ed the six-song EP with Victoria musi-cian Sam Webber (also a Stelly’s

grad) last fall.

“We recorded it at a series of plac-es, Infiniti Studios and an undisclosed carpentry shop that Sam set up,” says Kopp.

The culmination of 18 months of hard work practicing and playing the festival circuit resulted in an impressive album that is “the best possible repre-sentation of our band currently,” Kopp adds.

Kopp, Bell and Tassell have been friends since Grade 1 and first jammed together at age 15. The group still practices in Bell’s parents’ Saanich garage.

“The garage is lined with egg car-tons, and some of them are going moldy because the egg wasn’t cleaned off,” jokes Kopp.

San Felix’s EP Fire Island is now streaming at mondaymag.com and they’re celebrating with a release party, 7pm, April 5 which also features Winston Wolfe, Bodies and 222 at Intrepid Theatre Club, 1609 Blanshard. Tickets are $10 at the door. sanfelix-band.com.

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YOU GOTTA BE HERE! - Food Network’s John Catucci host of You Gotta Eat Here! was in Victoria celebrating the Ides of March with a foodie feast. Catucci and crew visited and filmed at Mo:Lé, Rebar Modern Food, Ferris’ Oyster Bar and Grill and The Pink Bi-cycle. Catucci (right) is shown here with The Pink Bicycle owner Morgan Hradecky after a day of filming.

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Poetry, dance, music and theatre – a cor-nucopia of offerings from established and

emerging artists awaits your viewing and listening pleasure in April.

April marks the 17th annual National Poetry Month, and I can think of no better way to cele-brate than to encourage the next generation of poets. The sixth annual Victorious Voices, April 13-15, features teams from local high schools in a poetry slam competition April 13 and 15 at the Victoria Event Centre and April 14 at Lacey Lou’s. Tickets at the door.

The University of Victoria School of Music ends the year with two concert of note – celebrating 10

years of The Don Wright Symphonic Winds, April 2 and

an alumni concert with Carli and Julie Kennedy – Twin Kennedy:

It’s A Love Thing CD Release Tour April 9. finearts.uvic.

Now in its third year, Ballet Étoile has grown audiences incremental-ly by presenting a signature mix of superb professional dancing, colourful costumes and multimedia

projection. Join them for their first show in the larger space of the Metro Studio, April 11/12 for Cleopatra. TicketRocket.org

Victoria welcomes nationally acclaimed tenor, Michael Burgess, for a premiere per-formance April 11 at the Victoria Conference Centre. Most renowned for his major theatre credits including the role of Jean Valjean in Les Miserables at Toronto’s Royal Alexandra Theatre, his career spans more than three decades through various musical theatre pro-ductions across Canada and the US. rmts.bc.ca

The Belfry Theatre is staging Christopher Durang’s Tony award-winning cheeky hom-age to all things Chekhov, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike April 14-May 17.

A Place to Listen, April 15, features vocal explorations with respected experimental soprano and voice artist Kathy Fern Lewis. At the James Bay United Church. aplace-tolisten.tumblr.com

To end the year, the Canadian College of Performing Arts presents Smokey Joe’s Café April 16-25 in a new venue, the CCPA Performance Hall (1701 Elgin Rd). This musical revue showcases the fabulous songs of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, and the singers, dancers and actors who will become some of the country’s top emerging stars. ccpacanada.eventbrite.com

Intrepid Theatre recently announced

Victoria’s first queer theatre festival – OUTStages Festival (July 5-12). Victoria’s performing arts community comes together for a multi-disciplinary cabaret in support of the festival April 17 at the Metro Studio. TicketRocket.org

Now in its 11th season, the Victoria Bach Ensemble returns April 18 to the Church of St John the Divine with an exciting program of instrumental and vocal works, including the world premiere of Michael Drislane’s version of The Musical Offering. Victoriabachensemble.com

Local comedian, author, improviser, and actor Kirsten van Ritzen of Broad Theatrics brings back the Funny Women Festival in 2016 but you can still celebrate Victoria’s Funny Women at The Merridale Showdown a fun competitive variety show April 19 at the Victoria Event Centre. funnywomenfesti-val.com/merridale-showdown

Young theatre artists are a bold bunch and don’t hesitate to take the initiative to make their own art and tell their own stories. workingclasstheatre is one of Victoria’s (and Vancouver’s) newest theatre companies. April 28-May 6 they present Henrik Ibsen’s classic play Hedda Gabler at Craigdarroch Castle. workingclasstheatre.com

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For spring 2015, the key colours are soft in nature with cool under-tones, they are meant to be soothing to the eye and an escape from everyday chaos. You’ll notice that most retailers carry similar colours each season so it shouldn’t be hard to spot out the trending colour stories.

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if you’re going to buy one splurge item this spring, i would recommend investing in a classic trench coat. a trench coat is timeless and never goes out of style and you can layer it for extra warmth and add colourful accessories like a bright bag or shoes. With warm weather on the horizon you can even transition your trench coat into the summer, especially on those cool summer evenings by the water.

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Gary Hook (Jack O’Connell, who catapulted to fame via the Japanese internment camp drama Unbroken) is the callow recruit who soon finds himself facing a hostile mob as his squad of soldiers drives to a key IRA neighbourhood to search for illegal guns in the home of a known terrorist. As a small riot

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Terror in Belfast

Locally made films or those with a Victoria connection made it to the big screen in February at the Victoria Film Festival but that’s not the last that you will hear of them. The Best Canadian Feature Award winner Two 4 One by UVic Associate Professor Maureen Bradley is heading to both Cinecenta and the downtown Vic Theatre. Featuring This Hour Has 22 Minutes’ Gavin Crawford as one half of a couple who both end up pregnant, it’s high concept fun.

Locally connected Suzanne Crocker’s film All the Time in the World will also be back after pick-ing up the Cineplex Entertainment Audience Favourite Award. By the way, local composer David Parfit did music/sound for both films.

And on the non-local front, if you missed Foreign Language nominated film Wild Tales at the Festival don’t miss it when it reap-pears at The Vic. I’m certain it is and will remain my favourite film in 2015.

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OK, we need to talk Netflix, for a few reasons, but mainly because I’m a big fan of its original programming, as anyone who reads this column will know.

How many of you have finished the third season of House of Cards yet? At the time of writing it only came out a couple of days ago, so I’m only a few episodes in, but so far I’m sold by this Frank as pres-ident angle. It’s nice seeing him so powerful, but still more of an underdog than he’s been yet.

Another reason is the company has made a cou-ple of announcements worth noting, namely that the third season of Orange is the New Black will be released June 12, so book some time off work. Also announced is the release of new series Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp, a pre-quel series based off the completely insane but very funny 2001 movie. The show, which stars all of the original cast, many of whom have since become big stars (Paul Rudd, Bradley Cooper, Amy Poehler), drops on July 17. So, again, take some time off.

My last bit of Netflix fodder is to mention to pre-miere of another new show, Bloodline, on March 20. From the co-creators of Damages, Bloodline is a thriller about the return of a black sheep brother and the trouble he stirs up. I’m genuinely excited about this show based on the astounding cast, which includes Sissy Spacek, Sam Shepard, Linda Cardellini, Ben Mendelsohn and, Coach Taylor himself, Kyle Chandler, who has been pretty quiet since the end of his last series, Friday Night Lights, one of my all-time favourites.

There are some other shows returning worth mentioning, especially the final season of Mad Men, kicking off its seven-episode final run on April 5. Seven episodes isn’t nearly enough time for me to say goodbye to one of the richest shows of the best decade, but I guess we’ll all have to make due.

HBO is getting fired up too, with the return of Game of Thrones, Veep and Silicon Valley, all on April 12. Not too shabby. The prestigious channel is also premiering its much talked about new docu-mentary Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief. The doc, based on a popular book, has been making the rounds at film festivals and has already been drawing considerable ire from the “church” in question. See what all the fuss is about on March 29.

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erupts, Hook becomes separated from his unit and is quickly being chased by two young gunmen trying to kill him. Suddenly lost in a hostile and confusing landscape, the terrified Hook has to survive a night where it’s impossible to tell friend from foe.

Made on a small budget by veteran TV director Yann Demange, ’71 is permeated with a realism that acts as a sharp rebuke to the many sleekly filmed but morally vacant action flicks that are a staple at the multiplex. The poverty and despair of a violence-wracked city under martial law is hand-ily evoked, while a scene of Catholic boys pitching plastic bags of piss at the loathed British soldiers adds a grubby, blackly comic pungency to the con-flict. But minutes later, when a young private gets fatally shot in the face, it’s obvious just how high the stakes really are.

A work of fiction that is nonetheless true to the violent history of Northern Ireland, ’71 sketches in a few pertinent details – such as how the IRA was splintering into two factions as younger and more violent fighters began butting heads with the disci-plined old guard – before taking off on an immer-sive, raw, and suspense-filled scramble through the madness of war-torn Belfast.

Hand held camera work, frantic chase scenes, and harsh moments of conflict and betrayal add a powerful sense of dislocation and anxiety. And the script never takes sides. By digging for the human truth of ordinary people caught up in this murderous conflict, the well acted ’71 pulls off the neat trick of being both a credible anti-war film and a brilliantly choreographed man-on-the-run thriller. This is a notable piece of work.‘71 ★★★1/2Stars Jack O’Connell, Sean Harris, David Wilmot Directed by Yann Demange

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Will Ferrell co-stars with fellow funnyman Kevin

Hart as a fraudster millionaire who is headed for prison and hires a man he thinks is a street-smart criminal to prepare him for the harshness of life behind bars.

WHILE WE’RE YOUNGIndie director Noah Baumbach (Frances Ha) helms

a comedy about a longtime married couple (Ben Stiller, Naomi Watts) whose stagnant routine gets a shakeup when two 20somethings (Adam Driver, Amanda Seyfried) crash into their lives.

CHILD 44Tom Hardy and Noomi Rapace (Girl With the

Dragon Tattoo) are the leads in a Soviet-era detec-tive thriller about a Russian agent on the trail of a serial child murderer. With Gary Oldman.

WOMAN IN GOLDHelen Mirren stars in a true-life story of an

80-year-old Jewish refugee who takes the Austrian government to court to recover a masterpiece by Gustav Klimt that was stolen from her family by the Nazis decades earlier. Costarring Ryan Reynolds.


ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19) You have the support of lucky Jupiter and reliable Saturn; and this month, the Sun and your ruler Mars are in your sign. It doesn’t get better than this! Plan a vacation at some point this year. Some might expand their family. This is a time of preparation as you approach 2018, when you will be proud of your accomplishments. Shop for goodies for yourself and loved ones and get physical exercise to burn off some of this pumped-up energy! Hooah!

TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20) You can strengthen family and real estate, as well as reduce debt and be successful in negotiations about inheritances and shared property. Your personal year is coming to and. That means this month is the perfect time to set some goals for your new year ahead. Stud-ies show that if you define your goals, especially with

deadlines, the odds of you achieving those goals are way better. Got ideas? Grab a pen and start writing.

GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20) Grab every opportunity to share physical activity

and sports because you’ll love it. Some of you are dabbling in a secret love affair (you love an adoring

peanut gallery). All of you need to be delicate with close friends and partners because Saturn opposite your sign demands this kind of attention. Relations that have outlived their usefulness will end this year. You are very serious about partnerships now.

CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22) This is the only time all year when the Sun is at high noon in your chart acting like a spotlight on you. And this light is flattering! This month, you can do no wrong in the eyes of others – especially bosses, parents and teachers. This is your moment to go after what you want. But do know that you are high viz. People notice you. Meanwhile, Venus will ensure that relations with friends are cozy. In fact, a friend could

become a lover. (That’s real cozy.)

LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22) Even though lucky Jupiter will be with you until August, this month is powerful because the Sun is in a Fire Sign as well. This bodes well for publishing projects and anything to do with higher education, medicine, the law and the media. Travel opportunities will drop in your lap. And travel suits you just fine because you’re eager to expand your world. This is the perfect time to sign up for a course.

VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22) You like to have your ducks in a row. This doesn’t mean you always do, but it would be nice if they were. And this is exactly what you will aspire to this month because now your focus is on taxes, debt, insurance matters, inheritances and shared property. You’re keen to be a better person. You want to get better organized. You need to solidify your home base and figure out where you want to live. Meanwhile, back in the boudoir, your sex drive is amped!

LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22) This is the only time all year that the Sun is opposite your sign. Because it is 180∞ away from you, this means it is as far away from you as it ever gets; and because the Sun is your source of energy – you will need more sleep. Take naps or get to bed earlier. (Li-brans stay up and party forever; and then stop, and for the next three days you live in your robe.) Your year ahead is social – definitely; but the next four weeks are extremely social!

SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21) This is the month to strike! You are so ambitious, you will delegate to others. This month you want to get better organized. Give yourself the right tools to do a bang-up job because when you have the support material you need, things are easier and your results are superior. The next four weeks are a good time to think about how to improve your health through better eating and exercise. (Be careful: Perfection can be off putting.)

SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21)

It’s your month to party! Enjoy vacations and fun times with children. Romance and love affairs will flourish. Anything to do with sports will please you because you want to express yourself creatively and freely. Artists will flourish because they are in touch with their talent and feel courageous about expressing themselves. This is timely because you’re setting off on a 30-year journey to reinvent yourself. This month of confidence-building enthusiasm and freedom is just what you need.

CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19) Your attention turns to home, family and your personal life. Expect increased chaos and activity .Naturally, this will stress everyone at home so patience will be needed. Demonstrate grace under pressure. Fear not because Venus promises romance, parties and social diversions. You deserve some fun! Continue to look for ways to benefit from the wealth of others through inheritances, money back from the government and shared property. Ka-ching!

AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) You hit the pavement running with a month that is jam-packed with a busy calendar, short trips and con-versations with everyone. Some will spend more time with siblings and relatives. This is also an excellent for writing, selling, talking, teaching and acting because your communication skills are tops. Furthermore, you will speak with energy and decisiveness! Plan to entertain and redecorate. Enjoy warm relationships with all because this month is all about relationships with others.

PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20) This month is the perfect time to focus on jobs earnings and how to best handle your cash flow and possessions. You will work hard to earn money and spend it! This year is one of the best years in decades for you to get a better job and improve your career and reputation. Look for ways to do this because they certainly exist; and it won’t be as easy at a later time. Mercury in your sign makes you eager to communi-cate; and Venus ensures you can make money from your words.

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