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Chad Pelley

Chad Pelley

Chad Pelley is an author, songwriter, and journalist who wrote for publications like the Globe & Mail and The Telegraph-Journal before founding The Overcast. Now he spends 25 hours a day keeping up with his email, and has no time to be his former self.

    News February 5, 2019 February 5, 2019

    The Overcast Is Over

    The Overcast had a great run, but the runner’s high is giving way to aching legs and visions of a simpler life.

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    People February 2, 2019 February 4, 2019

    Annie McEwen: Where Is She Now? (Radiolab in New York, Atop the Podcasting World!)

    One day I was on my lunch break, eating an egg sandwich by the side of the road, and decided to check twitter. The manager of Radiolab had sent me a message asking if I wanted to come try out working for them.

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    Food & Drink February 1, 2019 January 31, 2019

    Curry Delight to Open a Storefront in Mt. Pearl

    “You may not like one variation of this food, but may love the other. We have a good conversion rate, haha!”

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    Miscellany January 30, 2019 January 30, 2019

    We’ve Turned 5: Look How Long 5 Years Is By Reading This Summary of Things We Covered in 2014

    We launched TheOvercast.ca in January of 2014, with a first print issue on Stands on January 28th, 2014. That doesn’t sound that long ago, until you start pouring over old issues.

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    People January 24, 2019 January 24, 2019

    Trolling the Trolls: 3 St. John’s Internet Trolls Share Why They Do It

    Some do it to get a rise, sure, but largely it boiled down to people not seeing their comments as atrocious. They think most people share their view.

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    Music, The Arts January 6, 2019 January 7, 2019

    Editor’s Picks: Top 25 (not local) Albums of 2018

    Bahamas – Earthtones Alfi breaks his mould and creates a whole new musical territory that didn’t exist until this album. Caroline Rose – Loner…

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    News January 3, 2019 January 2, 2019

    H2-Whoa: The Water Crisis in Newfoundland

    In one-third of communities in our province, the level of disinfectant by-products in water supplies is deemed above what the federal government considers safe to drink.

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    News December 16, 2018 December 16, 2018

    How Evolution Wired Us to Buy the BS of Today’s Fake News & Social Media Hearsay

    One glitch of human evolution is that we remain impressionable. Believing gossip helps us cooperate.

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    Food & Drink December 10, 2018 December 20, 2018

    NL Distillery Co. Launch Their 7th Product: Chaga Rum

    Newfoundland Distillery Co. are putting a Newfoundland spin on a Guyanese rum.

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    Food & Drink December 8, 2018 December 7, 2018

    Truck Yeah! Saucy Mouth is Parking Inside Landwash Brewery for the Winter

    Brad Gover & Allyson Howse put their thinking caps on about how to make their food truck as hot a hit in the winter as it was in the summer. Parking it in the newest brewery in Greater St. John’s was a pretty genius idea.

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    News December 6, 2018 December 6, 2018

    Contraver-Sea: Why the Grieg Aquaculture Project in Placentia Bay is Such a Big Deal

    This would be the largest aquaculture project in our province, maybe the country, so government’s unchecked enthusiasm for another potentially ill-fated mega-project has people worried.

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    Food & Drink, Miscellany, News, People, Retail, The Arts December 3, 2018 December 5, 2018

    The Overcast’s Best of Newfoundland & Labrador 2018 People’s Choice Awards

    Your votes are in for the best of everything local 2018.

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    About the Paper

    The Overcast is a multi-award-winning media body in St. John’s, NL.

    Best known for its monthly print magazine, its website, TheOvercast.ca, also posts 1-2 articles a day, hoststhe St. John’s Eats dinning and review directory, and administers the $12,500 Albedo Grant to help entrepreneurs get their big idea off the ground, as well as Newfoundland’s richest award for a local album of the year: The Borealis Music Prize.

    Editor's Picks

    Food & Drink

    Overcast Burger Battle 2019: The Critic’s Pick Crowns a 3-Peat Burger Battle Legend

    Food & Drink

    #Overcast Burger Battle: The Final Round

    People

    Annie McEwen: Where Is She Now? (Radiolab in New York, Atop the Podcasting World!)

    Miscellany

    We’ve Turned 5: Look How Long 5 Years Is By Reading This Summary of Things We Covered in 2014

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