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Toni Blodgett: Keeping Jazz Alive

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|Date: February 27, 2023
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Toni Blodgett: Keeping Jazz Alive

Jazz has been America’s cultural gift to the world for a little over 100 years. The improvisational art c ...

Jazz has been America’s cultural gift to the world for a little over 100 years. The improvisational art captured on record for a century is Victoria-based traditional jazz pianist Toni Blodgett’s insp ...

February 27, 2023
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SKOKI LODGE HIKING ADVENTURES

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|Date: October 26, 2022
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SKOKI LODGE HIKING ADVENTURES

Every summer for the last two decades, my wife and I have hiked for a week in the Rockies. It took me qui ...

Every summer for the last two decades, my wife and I have hiked for a week in the Rockies. It took me quite a while to get into hiking, as I didn't get much out of it at first. It seemed like I’d spen ...

October 26, 2022
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JOE COUGHLIN: DON’T EVER GIVE UP!

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|Date: July 28, 2022
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JOE COUGHLIN: DON’T EVER GIVE UP!

Big band jazz dominated popular music between WWI and WWII. Every band had a vocalist and big band record ...

Big band jazz dominated popular music between WWI and WWII. Every band had a vocalist and big band records by Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra and other singing stars amplified the musi ...

July 28, 2022
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JAPAN’S JUXTAPOSITION

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|Date: November 24, 2021
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JAPAN’S JUXTAPOSITION

It seems like a lifetime ago. November 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic, my wife and I visited Japan du ...

It seems like a lifetime ago. November 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic, my wife and I visited Japan during the island nation’s vibrant fall colours. She was returning after 40 years. My first trip ...

November 24, 2021
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House Exchange Experience

Posted by Joseph Blake
|Date: January 01, 2020
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House Exchange Experience

Back in the early 1990s, when my family joined Intervac, an original home exchange network and pioneer in ...

Back in the early 1990s, when my family joined Intervac, an original home exchange network and pioneer in the sharing economy, we didn't have a home computer. Intervac, short for International Vacatio ...

January 01, 2020
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Volunteering

Posted by Joseph Blake
|Date: May 01, 2019
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Volunteering

When I took the buy-out from Victoria’s Times Colonist after over two decades as their popular music colu ...

When I took the buy-out from Victoria’s Times Colonist after over two decades as their popular music columnist and later, Go-Explore page and travel writer, I never imagined I'd spend the rest of my l ...

May 01, 2019
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