Often, packing salads the night before you plan on having them for lunch results in a soggy mush of oily veggies. Packing your salad in a jar can help keep your ingredients fresh. While you can do this with pretty much any salad, this recipe takes the classic caprese salad ingredients and stacks them, so the fresh mozzarella marinates with the dressing at the bottom, and the lettuce at the top stays crisp.
Ingredients:
Pesto Vinaigrette:
1/2 cup - fresh parsley
1 cup - fresh basil leaves
3 tbsp - lemon juice
1 tbsp - lemon rind
2 garlic cloves
3 tbsp - ...
Wolfville (CUP)—Safety Not Guaranteed, a newly released indie film, has garnered much intrigue since its release. With a 94 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes and an unlikely, engaging plotline, the film is a definite must-see.
The story is triggered by an ad in a newspaper: “Wanted: Somebody to go back in time with me. This is not a joke. You’ll get paid after we get back. Must bring your own weapons. I have only done this once before. Safety not guaranteed.”
A magazine reporter and two young interns are sent off to find out more about this man, to see if his story is newsworthy ...
History can sometimes weigh on a film like an albatross around its neck. The importance of getting things right while being entertaining, making it something respectable, and making it broad enough to get an audience to justify the larger budget for period sets can be overwhelming. When the subject matter is the man on the U.S. penny, and his fight to pass one of the most important pieces of legislation in U.S. history, that weight of history could easily turn any film into a dusty textbook. But Steven Spielberg does not make dusty textbooks, and Lincoln is possibly his best addition to ...
Local authors balance moods at dual-reading
Mady Ritzker
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Tuesday, Jan. 8 was a stormy day. In Nanaimo there was a blustering blizzard that gradually transformed into an icy rainstorm down the highway towards Parksville. Wind warnings were raised by Environment Canada across the Island, and it was a miserable day to be outside. However, in the back of the Parksville branch of the Vancouver Island Regional Library and away from the biting air and vicious wind, all weather was forgotten. Family, friends, and interested locals like me filled the rows of ...
There’s a fine line between influence and prevalence, retro-sound and retro-revival, ‘these guys sort of sound like,’ and cover band syndrome. It’s impossible for new artists today to not emanate the work of anyone who has put out an album sometime in the past, not to have been impacted by previous rock or pop records of some sort. Nor should they try to avoid doing so. We’ve seen some legendary groups and solo acts over the past 100 years that have shaped the music world into what we know it as today. Through a natural process of evolution, assisted by technological growth, we are now ...
VISFF Tickets Now On Sale:
Tickets for the 8th annual Vancouver Island Short Film Festival (VISFF) are now on sale. This year’s festival will be comprised of 14 films, 12 minutes or less in length, created by talented local filmmakers of all levels of experience from Vancouver Island. The festival is a juried event, and the judges, as well as the shortlist of participants, can be viewed at <www.visff.com>. VISFF will take place in the Malaspina Theatre (bldg. 310), on Feb. 1 and 2. The first night of the festival will feature a question and answer period after screenings of the ...
We are lucky to be able to boast that Canada is home to many great musical groups that have extended their success and faithful followers beyond our country’s borders, reflecting, through their own individual achievements, the unique and worthwhile talent that exists in our nation. We can take pride in the fact that Montréal is the birthplace of Arcade Fire, Calgary that of Tegan and Sara, Toronto the location where Metric began, Saskatoon where The Sheepdogs got their start, while Vancouver gave us Dan Mangan. While there are many other groups who have risen from the Great North, these ...
The annual One Act Festival, presented by VIU’s Theatre club, the Satyr Players, will take place at the Malaspina Theatre, bldg. 310 at the Nanaimo campus, from Jan. 29–31.
This year’s line-up includes five shows. In addition to two mystery plays, three original scripts written and directed by VIU students will be performed. Mathew Snowie’s The Busking Routine is a comedy that was partially published in the 2012 issue of Portal magazine. The story follows the unlikely friendship of an adventurous student and a street performer, and the humorous situations they get themselves into ...
The Mariners men’s basketball team passed the midway point of the season earlier this month, and is looking solid heading down the stretch to Provincials. VIU is second in the PacWest standings but there is still room for improvement, said head coach Matt Kuzminski.
“Some of our ball movement slows down late in the game when [the opposition] cranks up their defensive pressure,” Kuzminski says. “We just need to be able to stick with our system and run what we want to run in pressure situations.”
That improvement includes star players like Brandon Jones, Clayton Billet, and Tyler ...
British Columbia’s under-18 football team defeated Team USA 38–18 to win the FBU International Games championship on Jan. 5 in San Antonio, Texas.
Team B.C. crushed Team Europe 49–14 in the semi-final to reach the championship game, despite surrendering a touchdown on the game’s first play. B.C. scored on seven of twelve total drives in the contest and held Europe to just one additional touchdown.
B.C. scored five majors and a field goal in the championship game, including three rushing touchdowns from Qualicum quarterback Liam O’Brien. Mason Swift and Marcus Davis, teammates from ...
While the PGA golfers were blown off the golf course on Maui, the Mariners badminton team battled the Hawaiian winter weather to turn in convincing results in the Honolulu Open on Jan. 4–6. Hosted by the Honolulu Badminton Club, this year’s tournament featured players from Japan, Hawaii, California, Ontario, and Alberta, including CCAA rivals NAIT and Concordia.
Fourth-year player Pat Thompson had a very strong weekend finishing second in Men’s Singles A to a very quick and deceptive Chinese player who had recently moved to Edmonton. Thompson also took the Men’s Doubles A consolation ...
National Hockey League clubs knew there were disgruntled fans to be won back after announcing the end of the lockout earlier this month, and many are doing so with an apology and plenty of perks.
The Vancouver Canucks opened the season last Saturday with a post-game “jerseys off our back” giveaway to 24 fans at centre ice. A season ticket holder made the ceremonial puck drop and two fans had the chance to win a road trip with the Canucks on the team charter.
For the first three games of the season the team store is half price and hot dogs, popcorn, nachos, and soft drinks are ...
Most people use the weekends in Jan. to relax after a crazy Christmas season, but the hockey world is anything but quiet. Oceanside kicked off their busiest weekend of the season on Jan. 13 as hosts of the 2013 Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League (VIJHL) All Star Classic.
Each year the VIJHL puts on the Classic as a full day event. The day includes a prospects game for rookies, a skills competition for players to showcase their individual skills, and an All Star game with the most talented players on the Island.
Oceanside General forward and VIU student Cam McCarrick was selected ...
After winning the CCAA National Championship last season at home in such dramatic fashion, there was some concern for this season’s Mariners lacking the same motivation to repeat. But that hasn’t been an issue as VIU has another successful season underway.
The squad is sitting in second place, just two points behind the University of Frasier Valley (UFV), and has a comfortable lead over third place Columbia Bible College (CBC). The M’s have only lost two matches all season and head coach Shane Hyde is happy with where his team is at so far.
“The only area for slight concern was ...
Every sports fan has a favourite moment in team history, and it’s accompanied by a spine-chilling commentary call. Here are the top ten in Canadian history (and let’s face it, most of them happen on ice).
10. Punch-up in Piestany— “They’ve turned the lights off in the arena, but that isn’t going to solve anything!” Don Wittman exclaimed during the 1987 World Junior Championships when tournament officials turned off arena lights to quell a Canada/Soviet bench-clearing brawl. The game was cancelled and both teams were disqualified.
9. “He’ll play!”—Even non- Canuck fans can get goose ...
Clayton Bambrough
Contributor
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One of the most iconic slasher villains in film is the machete wielding, ultimate momma’s boy, with his trademark hockey mask, known as Jason Voorhees. To date, there have been a dozen films featuring this unstoppable killer, including a 2009 reboot and a 2003 crossover with other slasher favourite Freddy Kruger from the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise. There have been comics, novels, and television shows all inspired by this renowned character, and even his hockey mask is synonymous with horror fans and a staple of every Halloween costume ...
WINDSOR (CUP)—A new survey suggests Canadians are becoming addicted to their smartphones; good news for those in the business, but phone dependency is a real problem.
On behalf of Canadian cellphone provider, Wind, Vision Critical recently conducted an online survey of 1501 Canadians to determine what they would give up in order to keep their smartphones.
“The response to pets was the most surprising,” says Alexandra Maxwell, a spokesperson for Wind. The survey shows that 17 percent of smartphone users would give up their pets. “I just didn’t see that coming, but I guess some ...
Internationally acclaimed performer Karina Strong, of Nanaimo, has been entertaining audiences across Vancouver Island with her troupe, Vesta Fire Entertainment. Strong, a social worker trained as a professional circus artist, founded Vesta Fire two years ago as a way to share her knowledge of performance with others.
In 2012, Strong, her husband Kevin, and their two young children traveled to Thailand to volunteer with Spark Circus, an international collective of circus performers who provide entertainment for disadvantaged children refugee camps, migrant schools, ...
“Frankenfish” invasion threatens Burnaby pond
In May, a so-called “frankenfish” was sighted in the dim waters of Burnaby’s Central Park pond. A video showing the aquatic beast swimming through the pond quickly attracted national media attention on YouTube due to the creature’s reputation as an invasive species.
The elusive “frankenfish” was reported to be a snakehead, a prehistoric-looking predatory fish with the unique adaptation to survive on land. In June, B.C.’s environment ministry confirmed that the “frankenfish” had been captured and destroyed as a potential ecological ...
On New Year’s day, members of the Colliery Dam Park Preservation Society held a small demonstration to gather messages of hope towards the preservation of the dams.
Supporters gathered by the lower dam and wrote down their New Year’s resolutions towards saving the historic Nanaimo landmark and personal memories of the park. The promises were then ceremoniously burned and the ashes were distributed through the dam.
Jeff Solomon, spokesperson for the Colliery Dam Park Preservation Society, wrote that all he wanted for Christmas was to ensure that the dams would be preserved for ...
Thinking of a future in skilled trades? A community trades training and career dialogue hosted by the Industry Training Authority (ITA) will be held at VIU’s Nanaimo campus on Jan. 15. This free event is open to all members of the community and will cover topics from youth engagement in trades, apprenticeship, and skilled trades career options.
The event is an opportunity for both local business leaders and community members to ask questions, provide input, and find out more about trades training programs on Vancouver Island, and their connection to the community’s future prosperity. ...
“I feel that giving a promise ring is a bit more serious than giving a Claddagh ring. I think a promise ring is a symbol of one’s dedication and promise to stand by a significant other,” Cairns says. “Personally, I’ve always thought of a promise ring as something that is a step below an engagement ring, therefore something that should be done in a very serious relationship in which you can see yourself with this person for a long time.”
The definition of a promise ring has changed a lot from its start in biblical times. Today it is interpreted by each couple who chooses to partake in ...
I am upset when asked by Canadians who do not speak French, “Do you speak the real French?” They usually add: “I went to Montréal and I could not understand a thing.”
“Do you speak French?” I ask.
“Yes, I took three courses at university, 35 years ago.”
I wish these people would realize how proud I am of ma langue maternelle (my mother tongue.) I walk away and wonder how they would feel if I asked them: “Do you speak the real English?”
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When I was not quite six years old, my mother brought me to the parlour of the Convent Notre-Dame du St. Rosaire where I was to be ...
