Dying Downtown Victoria BC Part 3

March 23, 2011

Welcome to the third in a series of now three posts about Victoria BC’s dying downtown. Read the first one here (3/21/11) and the second here (3/22/11). As you can see in the second post, one of my commenters on Facebook remarked that for her, that stretch of Fort Street isn’t really downtown. I answered […]

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Dying Downtown Victoria BC followup conversations

March 22, 2011

Yesterday’s post (Dying Downtown Victoria BC) generated a fair bit of comment on Facebook. I decided to take screenshots of the comments and post them here. (However, since I haven’t had time to ask the people who commented whether they were ok with having their comments taken from Facebook’s walled garden into the open access […]

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Dying Downtown Victoria BC

March 21, 2011

If downtown Victoria BC storefronts were teeth, this city would need a new bridge. …Oh, wait. That’s a bad joke (see posts tagged with Johnson Street Bridge)… We are getting a new bridge. But as the following photos will show, what we really need is economic revitalization. This afternoon, I was walking down Fort Street […]

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The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

March 20, 2011

Caterina.net» Blog Archive » FOMO and Social Media This post could also be applied to glean insights into how the Sendai earthquake and subsequent tsunami and nuclear disasters were mediated (both in the mainstream and via social media). QUOTE FOMO [fear of missing out] is a great motivator of human behavior, and I think a […]

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The Last 15 Seconds

March 18, 2011

Tonight I saw The Last 15 Seconds, currently playing in Victoria at the Metro Theatre. If you have the chance, go see it. I will admit upfront that the subject matter made me a reluctant theater-goer, and I was almost sure I would dislike the play. The teaser says, “You have 15 seconds left before […]

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It’s expensive.

March 16, 2011

Safety questions and radiation aren’t the only things to worry about when considering nuclear power. The question of nuclear’s huge cost (to build, maintain, renew) is the glowing elephant in the room.

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The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

March 13, 2011

Heidi Grant Halvorson, Ph.D.: The Trouble with Bright Girls Important reading for ‘girls,’ irrespective of age (it seems): QUOTE Girls, who develop self-control earlier and are better able to follow instructions, are often praised for their “goodness.” When we do well in school, we are told that we are “so smart,” “so clever, ” or […]

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Sign Language, created and performed by Denise Clarke

March 10, 2011

Last night I wrote about the play I saw at the Belfry Theatre‘s Spark Festival and thought I was done with local theater review. But tonight I saw Denise Clarke‘s Sign Language (also part of the Spark Festival), and it really blew me away. Go see it if you can. Clarke’s one-woman show is subtitled, […]

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Until March 13: A Craigslist Cantata

March 10, 2011

If you appreciate theater and live in Victoria BC, you have until March 13 to see Do You Want What I Have Got: A Craigslist Cantata, now playing at The Belfry‘s Spark Festival. Written and composed by Veda Hille and Bill Richardson, the currently 70-minute long production (still being workshopped, under Amiel Gladstone‘s direction) is […]

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Oh, the irony

March 9, 2011

Today our city “leaders” voted to go ahead with a new Johnson Street Bridge project that excludes rail. See this article for skeletal information: Victoria council decides not to include rail as part of the new Johnson Street bridge. See also Ross Crockford’s piece in yesterday’s paper, No need for panic on bridge decision, which […]

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