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• The Burning Hell ramps up the intensity
  Mathias Kom is chuckling about his hectic schedule when a frantic beeping breaks out in the background. “Oh, sorry about that,” he says as the ...
• Author/doctor spreading his wings
  It’s not often that an author follows up their 1,000-page neuroscience text with a 1,000-word book about a young gannet in Cape St. Mary’s. But ...
• Barely fit for YouTube
  I tried really hard to find some merit in "Stoner FM." If you dig deep enough, there is merit in the fringe, no matter how offensive or obscure ...
• Needle and brush open doors to other worlds
  NOTE: Due to Saturday's weather forecast, the show has been postponed until Saturday, Feb. 16. On Saturday, February 16 at 3 pm, the Leyton ...
• The Art of war
  Most people involved in a theatre production hope audiences react by leaping to their feet. Kirsti Mikoda’s favourite audience reaction, however, ...
• Pass it on
  In order to become a coach, Dana Warren needed a little coaching herself. With a long career in the film industry that culminated in a top ...
• Woman tells her story of surviving breast cancer...
  Sondria Browne runs her fingers through her short auburn hair as her black and white portraits flip by on a computer screen. In one, she sits ...
• Sloan revisits ‘Twice Removed’ tonight
  It’s known as the album that almost got them booted from their record label. With songs about love, longing, braces full of sand, and other ...
• Good to grow
  It’s pretty unusual to see a healthy crop of oats growing in a downtown St. John’s garden, so it’s no surprise that Lori Heath’s oat plots at the ...
• Rising Tide holds over Harry Hibbs show
  Just before he died, Harry Hibbs was planning a rare trip back to Newfoundland — but he never made it home. This summer, Rising Tide Theatre has ...
• Taking root
  In his sweet-smelling downtown apartment, Matthew Finateri carefully places a bright blue fondant moon onto a cloud of cupcake-top icing.The ...
• Shared memory
  On a rocky island, a female figure sits with her legs folded. She has a turtle shell on her back and an urchin on her head, like a helmet. ...
• Participation over integration
  Esteban Rivera is all smiles, even as he describes the latest challenge he faces in planning this year’s Summer Culture Festival.“There’s a guy ...
• Businesses tap into success with social media
  If you’ve ever tried to phone Post Espresso, the sleek new architecture- and linguistics-inspired espresso bar on Water Street in St. John’s, you ...
• For more than 30 years Folk Night has brought folks...
  For those in the know, the best night to hit the town isn’t on the weekend. It’s Wednesdays. Since it began in 1976, Folk Night has been a staple ...
• Young farmers waiting in the wings
  Newfoundland farmers are the oldest they’ve ever been, according to Canada’s 2011 census of agriculture. The average age of Newfoundland farmers ...
• Reducing pain and stress
  Andrew Safer doesn’t speak slower or more deliberately than anyone else. The desk in his home office isn’t impeccably clean. In fact, if you ...
• Artist, runner celebrates in motion
  From a distance, the black ink shapes look sharp and angular, like mechanized birds. But up close, they’re stranger creatures, composed of curved ...
• Parent questions chickenpox vaccine after recent...
  For most adults, it was a rite of childhood. The well-known symptoms of chickenpox are red, itchy pock marks all over the body, sometimes ...
• Tough choice caught on film
  Bill Molloy still laughs when he’s called a “movie star.” The 67-year-old fisherman, one of three remaining inshore cod fisherman in St. ...
• Cursably cool
  It started as a get-rich-quick scheme, dreamed up on a vacation in Columbia. But for Jon Keefe and Jessica Smith, their small ...
• First book brings award for local author
  It was both a grand finale and a successful beginning. The Atlantic Book Awards finished a week of literary events with a sold-out awards ...
• Children get a special treat
  It was a thrilling day for the kids at the A.C. Hunter Children’s Library Saturday.They met Janet McNaughton, author of “Dragon Seer’s Gift,” who ...
• Atlantic Book Awards gearing up
  This year, for the first time ever, the Atlantic Book Awards ceremony will be held in Newfoundland.Festival events started May 10. They will take ...
• Exhibiting talent
  Bethany Kean of Badger’s Quay is standing in front of a series of mounted pages of text in the fourth floor gallery of The Rooms. She looks proud ...
• It's all about community
  "It hurts in the late fall, when you have to go back to the grocery store to buy your vegetables!" says Sara Tilley, who is sitting on a stack of ...
• A heavy-duty hobby
  After just a few months, Victor Lewis has found people to jam with out on Random Island. The prolific and revered St. John's musician moved there ...
• The big pitch: Newfoundlanders off to L.A. for film...
  “The thing that I’m fearing the most is the thing that I’m looking forward to the most,” says Natasha Lawlor, associate producer at Take the Shot ...