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What: The Second Annual Victoria Festival of Authors Where: Various venues, including the Vancouver Island School of Arts, Intrepid Theatre, Metro Theatre, GOOD (104-536 Herald St.) and Greater Victoria Public Library (central branch) When: Sept.

ON STAGE What: Fear No Opera: An Interior Life — The complete songs of Henri Duparc. When/where: Saturday, 7 p.m., Lutheran Church of the Cross (3787 Cedar Hill Rd.). Tickets: $20.

What: The Search for Life in Space Where: Imax Victoria When: Opens Friday, runs through Christmas Tickets: imaxvictoria.com Note: Kaltenegger will appear tonight at 6 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.

Bob McDonald of CBC’s Quirks & Quarks will collaborate Sunday with organist Jenny Vincent in the kickoff to a series of events held at Knox United Church in Parksville stretching into next year.

BIRTHDAY THURSDAY: Sometimes you can be a bit too nice for your own good, and that is a lesson you need to learn quickly over the next few months.

Dear Tony: Our strata discovered that a pipe in a wall between my unit and a neighbour’s unit had developed a leak. They hired a plumber, who came out and had to cut a one-metre-by-one-metre hole in both of our walls to replace the pipe.

Dear Helen: By the end of August, my zucchini, tomato and pea plants were afflicted with some sort of mould. The plants grow in boxed beds, each 60 centimetres by 120 centimetres. I do not water overhead. P.D.

BIRTHDAY WEDNESDAY: A new moon on your birthday means you have the power of the cosmos behind you, so think big and act big and don't doubt for a moment that you are destined to do something out of the ordinary.

BIRTHDAY TUESDAY: Don't let custom or tradition limit your options over the coming 12 months. It may be hard to break away from what the majority are doing but there is no cosmic law that says you have to follow their lead.

BIRTHDAY MONDAY: A Venus-Uranus link on your birthday suggests that you have hidden feelings for someone, feelings that you have kept under wraps for too long.