In Newfoundland & Labrador, poverty, the unique geography of our province, and a flawed food system combine to limit our access to fresh, affordable, and healthy food. Food First NL’s Everybody Eats project has been addressing these issues for years, and has just released action points for 2018.
In the wake of Hey Rosetta’s last concert for the foreseeable future, bandmate Kinley Dowling has picked up 4 ECMA nominations for her solo album, putting her beside this year’s most nominated artists, Jenn Grant, Joel Plaskett and Rose Cousins.
There was nothing wrong with this book. That sounds like unenthused praise on the surface, but read the sentence again: there was nothing wrong with this novel. It did everything right.
It’s a record: the total production value of our province’s film and television industry exceeded 50 million dollars in 2017-18. That’s a lot of tax dollars from film projects going into our provincial bank account.
Mass shootings. Internet memes. Online stalkers. Twitter wars. This book has a finger on the pulse, and a skewer through our zeitgeist.
In 1962, competition among big breweries buried the beer scene in Newfoundland. 56 years later, in 2018, 8 local microbreweries are cooperating to cook up a better craft beer scene than we’ve ever enjoyed.
Newfoundland has its first cidery. The Newfoundland Cider Comapny launched Friday night, and its products sold out city wide at the NLC.
The BMO Winterset Award is the province’s richest prize for a book of any genre by a Newfoundlander.
Episode 1 of Caught premieres Feb. 26th on CBC TV.
Say what you will about Jockey Club, but it’s one of the longest-selling locally made products in Newfoundland.
Brainwashed just set a bar for any local punk albums to follow it in 2018.
Newfoundland’s legendary political figure Joey Smallwood might be done making history and headlines, but his niece Samora is only getting started with her time in the limelight.