2018 | September 16-22
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Jim Furlong: Showdown at Windsor Lake
0I confess to being an unrepentant political junkie. At all levels it draws me in. My record on predictions isn’t that great. It is average at best. I knew the Liberals would win provincially and Justin Trudeau would survive attack ads about his hair and win nationally.
That was easy.
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Between The Lines: School’s Out Forever
0The start of the school year – fresh book-bags and pencils, back to school commercials and fresh cuts – has had me a bit perplexed in recent years. It’s a bit like a recurring deja vu, that I should wake at the start of September in a cold sweat and
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Steve Earle: Newfoundland, New Beginnings and Copperhead Road
0Ahead of his Newfoundland return, music icon Steve Earle talks keeping up with Newfoundlanders, the state of country music and the do’s and don’ts of being a singer-songwriter.
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Few artists have pushed the boundaries of genre, rendering them irrelevant and moot quite the way Steve Earle has over the
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November Mayhem Announces Sophomore Lineup
0NOVEMBER MAYHEM is upon us once again! Make It So Productions have announced a crushing two day lineup for the second instalment of their metal and hard rock festival, to be held on November 9th and 10th at the Rock House in St. John’s.
The lineup includes thrash shredders Warsenal
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Menopause The Musical
0The Herald sits down with Mark Zimmerman as he prepares to bring his Laugh Out Loud tour to Newfoundland and Labrador beginning September 19.
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Mark Zimmerman has a grand sense of humour. He’d have to, considering the work this fella’s into.
‘Intimately Involved’
“I’m Menopause Mark. I know everything there
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NL’s Sofia Banzhaf stars in the dramatic Splinters at the Atlantic International Film Festival
0Having spent her formative high-school years in Newfoundland and Labrador, Sofia Banzhaf is well acquainted with the beauty and damn near impossible to replicate charm of Atlantic Canada.
It is a reality that the rising actress and author has spent much of her recent career promoting through the award-winning drama
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“Baycation All I Ever Wanted…”
0“Baycation, all I ever wanted, baycation, had to get away.”
This colloquial twist on The Go-Go’s 1982 hit “Vacation” was on repeat in my mind this past week, when I hit the road for a short but sweet summer baycation with my father and grandparents.
With limited time to take
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Ken Tizzard to release ‘A Good Dog Is Lost’ on October 13th
0Ken Tizzard is paying homage to his musical hero, and doing so with an 11-song collection of songs dedicated to The Man of A Thousand Songs himself, Ron Hynes.
Tizzard is set to release the collection with a special performance at The Ship Pub in St. John’s on October 13th,
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MUSIC | Alan Doyle talks Iceberg Alley, Breaking into the U.S. and Great Big Sea
1Ahead of his performance at the second annual Iceberg Alley Performance Tent on September 15th with Shanneyganock and Celtic Connection, Alan Doyle sits down with The Herald, first detailing his immediate impressions of the impressive circus-inspired venue that has taken Quidi Vidi by storm
“I could not
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