Entertainment

Pulga Muchochoma’s journey to Canada reads like the script for a film sure to sweep the Oscars.

Victoria Spoken Word Festival aims to foster innovation

Spectrum does Urinetown, UVic revamps Twelfth Night, Blue Bridge reads Of Mice and Men, the Maritime Museum manipulates images and more.

Canada’s first war poet endured suffering

POV’s La Bohème lives up to its reputation

For Monique Salez, The Dream Cab is all about letting go, both onstage and off. The popular local dancer and flamenco instructor describes her upcoming multimedia stage show at the McPherson as “saucy, surreal flamenco fusion” — and a huge undertaking.

Many parents might consider navigating between work and family life with three children in tow to be enough on a bulging plate. But for mom, actress, dancer, singer, make-up artist and costume designer Jen Clark, it’s just all part of the adventure.

Ira Hunter is all about finding niches. When he saw that the west coast didn’t have a magazine covering punk, hardcore and metal music, he got to work on Absolute Underground Magazine, which is now distributed all over Canada and in parts of the U.S..

In talking to actor Jenny Young days before The Cryptogram opened, she said director Daniel MacIvor described the work as “a play that you feel.” Judging by the reaction from the audience opening night — there were plenty of gasps and observations in the crowd — it’s safe to say people were indeed getting emotionally involved in David Mamet’s brief play about loneliness, restraints of 1950s society, the disintegration of a family and a child’s loss of innocence.