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Around Town: Bond parties shaken and stirred

Around Town: Bond parties shaken and stirred

James Bond fever was in full swing at Strathcona Hotel’s Distrikt nightclub long before Daniel Craig inevitably said, “Bond, James Bond” during Thursday night’s Spectre preview at the Odeon.

Nellie McClung: If the church is impotent, it’s because we’re indifferent

This column first appeared in the Victoria Daily Times on Nov. 16, 1940.
Our Community: Taking the long way home for Dad

Our Community: Taking the long way home for Dad

Victoria man Ian Bos initially sent pictures of 200 Victoria parks to his father, who was battling cancer in Nova Scotia. When his dad was pronounced terminal, Bos flew himself. After his father died Jan.
Just like the sign says, and more

Just like the sign says, and more

Don’t let the sign, or signs, fool you. Good Used Cars is still a pre-owned car lot, although it’s fair to say for years it has been stretching the definition to encompass descriptors like curiosity, museum or portal-through-time.
Around Town: A chronicle of our earliest residents

Around Town: A chronicle of our earliest residents

If you happened to wander off the trails on the eastern side of the Saanich Peninsula’s largest urban forest on Thursday, you might have found yourself in a time warp.
Filming of the Apes sequel is big business for Ucluelet

Filming of the Apes sequel is big business for Ucluelet

Filming of sequences for a Hollywood movie scheduled for release in summer of 2017 has yielded an estimated economic impact of $1.5 million for coastal communities near Pacific Rim National Park Reserve.
Robert Amos: Sculptor found spiritual nirvana

Robert Amos: Sculptor found spiritual nirvana

In my imagination, Katharine Maltwood sits in a 16th-century English oak chair, looking out over Victoria from her home at Royal Oak. It’s about 1945, yet the house named the Thatch is, to all appearances, an English country manor.
Our Community: Helping homeless, one bag at a time

Our Community: Helping homeless, one bag at a time

Almost 100 homeless people living rough on city streets will sleep warmer this winter, thanks to a donation of sleeping bags by a social-action group.
Around Town: All’s Fare in the love of art

Around Town: All’s Fare in the love of art

Organizers of last weekend’s Art + Fare celebration couldn’t have found a more suitable host for the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria fundraiser than the Union Club of B.C.
Robert Amos: Sooke museum presents retrospective of Jan Johnson

Robert Amos: Sooke museum presents retrospective of Jan Johnson

Jan Johnson died in 2011, but as his widow, Mary Alice Johnson, told me: “After someone dies, you still have this growing relationship with them. So, I’m still learning.