Islander

If audiences were to rely solely on Hollywood for a comprehensive depiction of Jewish culture, history and religion, they would see and hear a mere fraction of the stories that deserve to be told.

The season is over on the causeway, Victoria’s front window to the world.

As most Royal B.C. Museum visitors know, a lot has changed since a citizens’ petition inspired its creation in 1886.

This column first appeared in the Victoria Daily Times on Nov. 18, 1939. How real is the war to you? This was the innocent question that broke the stillness of a drowsy afternoon and produced a dramatic moment that I will not soon forget.

Times Colonist columnist recounts the genesis of his first book of humour and human interest

Aqua Vitae: A History of the Saloons and Hotel Bars of Victoria, 1851-1917 By Glen A. Mofford Touchwood, 269 pp., $19.95 Watering holes have been a vital part of Victoria’s history for more than a century and a half.

Bucolic Salt Spring Island boasts a lot of sheep, artisans, well-aged hippies and world-class waterfront.

Pioneering B.C. disc jockey Red Robinson gives credit to rock ’n’ roll for the social move toward racial equality.

Halloween is still a week away, but that didn’t stop Alice Cooper fans from getting into the spooky spirit early at the gleefully macabre metal icon’s concert in Colwood last Tuesday. “He’s amazing.

The landscape paintings of Dorothy Jarvis were hardly what I was expecting at Alcheringa Gallery.