By Nicola Ryan Scene 1 A living room in St. John’s. Early 1990s. Evening, family gathered around the TV. PARENTS howl with laughter at ANDY JONES as FATHER DINN on CBC. Andy Jones has been a professional writer and actor for over forty years. He’s well known as one of the members of the groundbreaking…
By Gord Follett Any time we notice fluorescent tape markers indicating rabbit snares in an area where we plan to hunt rabbits with our beagles, we move to another location. If we see or hear that hunters and dogs got to an area ahead of us, again we move on. And on the handful of…
By Heidi Atter It’s hard for Dennis Burden to sleep the night before the Eric Rumbolt Memorial Dog Sled Race. The Labrador man spends hours preparing the track each year on the ice on Alexis Bay, outside of Port Hope-Simpson in southern Labrador. Early in the March frost, Dennis heads out on skidoo to his…
By Kim Thistle There are all sorts of reasons to grow in containers. You may live in an apartment or condo where your balcony is the only place you have for growing. A physical disability may also be a limitation. Age and arthritis can play a big factor. Toddlers and young children are more interested…
By Dillon Collins The late great legendary chef and author Anthony Bourdain once said “Food is everything we are.” A realist, Anthony also was quoted as saying, “If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it’s the restaurant business.” If ever two things could be simultaneously true. Just ask celebrated local chef and…
By Dillon Collins You could call Allan Hawco the Swiss Army Man of Newfoundland television. Actor, writer, producer and show-runner, the b’y behind Jake Doyle (Republic of Doyle, 2010-14), Douglas Brown (Frontier, 2016-18), David Slaney (Caught, 2018) and Gale Favreau (Moonshine, 2021-23) is back in his wheelhouse with the all-new police procedural television drama Saint-Pierre,…
By Andrea Maunder The first mention of “shortcakes” is in an English cookbook from 1588, but we can thank our neighbours in the northeast US, for that glorious combination of sweet strawberries, fluffy whipped cream and tender biscuits we now know as Strawberry Shortcakes. The dessert became popular in the early 1900s as a way…
By Kim Ploughman My father was there for my seventh birthday, but the next day he was gone. Gone as in, “Gone to the ice.” I don’t remember him leaving that early spring morning on April 8th, 1967. What ensued in the weeks ahead, however, forever snagged itself in my childhood memory net. That day,…
by Nicola Ryan Talk about strolling down memory lane! I’ve traipsed down this leafy path in St. John’s many times. It runs behind Merrymeeting Road past Yetman’s Arena towards Holy Heart High School on Bonaventure Avenue. Today, I’m here to watch the cast and crew of Son of a Critch film a fresh episode of…
by Heidi Atter Every Thursday evening in North West River, the Lake Melville School gym begins to fill with children and teenagers. Some head straight to the basketballs on metal racks, and instantly start shooting hoops, while others stop by the canteen for a sweet treat. The gym’s large performing stage’s curtains are open for…
