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St. John’s, NL: where real food and real art are so (un)common we may lose them [by Emily Deming]
The Pen may be mightier than the sword elsewhere, but, in St. John’s Newfoundland it is just a colloquialism for our dilapidated prison (Her Majesty’s Penitentiary) and paperwork trumps pen, sword and … fork.…
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A picture’s worth a thousand words… [by Steven Rea]
I've been collecting photographs seriously for the last seven years or so: First, focusing pretty much entirely on vintage Hollywood images of movie stars riding bikes, issued by the studios' publicity departments to promote…
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Steven Rea, Guest Author April 4-8
This week we welcome back Steven Rea as our guest author. Steven is the movie critic for the Philadelphia Inquirer, a member of the National Society of Film Critics, author of Hollywood Cafe: Coffee…
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What Really Happened When Lehman Brothers Fell [by David Lehman]
<<<Fortunately for the family, my uncles and brothers had liquidated most of their holdings in the firm by the time of its collapse in September 2008. Nevertheless, whether out of nostalgia or pure forgetfulness,…
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The Sweet Smell of Excess [ by Charles Coe ]
So here I am in the drug store once again, staring like a sunstruck mole at dozens of men’s deodorants, trying to find a single unscented one. Men’s deodorant comes in mind-boggling variety: “Wolfthorn”.…
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Megan Coles and Andreae Callanan Read, Curse and Pickle at Mallard Cottage
by Emily Deming Last Sunday, In the two original rooms of Mallard Cottage’s heritage structure, warmed by a large double-sided brick hearth, Andreae Callanan and Megan Coles read new fiction and poetry over plates…
