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Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan will direct Ryan Reynolds in the psychological thriller Queen of the Night.

EXHIBITION URBANITE Where: Art Gallery of Greater Victoria When: Friday, 8 to 11 p.m. Tickets: $15 ($11 for AGGV members), available online at urbanite.eventbrite.com or at the door William Kurelek: The Messenger exhibition runs until Sept.

The Podleski sisters are back with a new Looneyspoons collection that puts fun into preparing recipes

Any food that can make your tongue tingle has got to be worth a taste. I'm not talking a seltzer-like zippiness or even a searing chililike heat. I mean literally tingling because your tongue is at once numb and buzzingly alive.

Dear Helen: Are there nonvining types of clematis? Dear C.L.: Yes. I have three in my garden. The one I bought as a plant, about 10 years ago at a local nursery, is Clematis recta (ground clematis).

Victoria's Alex Reid, an active Mason for more than 20 years, has helped raise enough money recently to bring hope to premature babies in B.C.

Olive is one of the hottest colours, farm kitchen one of the great looks

Dear Condo Smarts: Our strata corporation is three years old and we are starting the process of having the depreciation report done for our building. One of the challenges we are facing is that we have no plans or records of our building systems.

Dear Dr. Donohue: I have herpes. I am a 28-year-old woman who never previously had a venereal disease. I am shocked to have one now. I have always been careful about choosing my male partners. I can't believe this has happened to me.

What do you wear to an awards show where the typical audience member is under the legal drinking age, the main attraction is the cast of the Twilight film series and the awards are rainbow surfboards? The correct answer is whatever you please.