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.
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.
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!”
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.
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.
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…
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.
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.
NL Distillery Co. Launch Their 7th Product: Chaga Rum
Newfoundland Distillery Co. are putting a Newfoundland spin on a Guyanese rum.
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.
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.
The Overcast’s Best of Newfoundland & Labrador 2018 People’s Choice Awards
Your votes are in for the best of everything local 2018.