Well known writer, historian and journalist Will Self once wrote, “It’s a problem, isn’t it, when somebody writes a great book but they’re not a great person.”
This week we tell the story, or part of it, of the very odd Charles Dodgson. He was a mathematics lecturer at Oxford
You know things are never quite as they seem. Lurking in the reeds of the most idyllic of popular stories often lays a darker realty.
I grew up with the world of the Winnie the Pooh books. Not the cartoons. The gentle children’s world painted by the stories and poems
Life is a funny thing. It is a journey of extremes in terms of the full gamut of human emotions. It is filled with broad smiles and sometimes bitter tears.
The royal wedding last week of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle was a great “time out” for us from the
(From May 27 – June 2nd issue)
Here is a nice story about the real and sometimes unreal world of television and production. Some time ago I did some work for a BBC television crew that was in the province. They were doing a story on the collapse of the
“It won’t be long now.” That’s what former Premier Frank Moores used to say, but he wasn’t talking about the legalization of cannabis.
In just a month and a bit you are going to be able to sidle up to the counter in a number of locations in the province
(From the May 13-19 issue)
I felt for the council of Springdale a few weeks ago and the controversy over its decision not to paint the rainbow symbol on a town crosswalk to show support for the LGBTQ community.
The problem is the reaction to council’s “No” decision. The town
I remember telling you a year or more ago that I no longer drove the Outer Ring Road in St. John’s when it was raining because that road, when wet, was simply too dangerous.
There are ruts in the Outer Ring that make it look like the old Oregon Trail
We have all, at one time or another, walked into a room like a kitchen or a living room and wondered why we came in there. Let me tell you a story and then ask you a question.
Some weeks ago I left my home in Paradise to go
(This article was posted in our April 22-28 issue)
It was a week ago last Friday that I went down to the Jack Byrne Arena in Torbay. I was there to pick up advance tickets for the Herder games that were scheduled. When I arrived, there were lots of cars
When we headed back to St. John’s from Port aux Basques, we had no sense of the trip being a part of history. We had come out to Port aux Basques as the west-bound part of the express train Caribou that ran on across Newfoundland. The nickname Newfie Bullet never