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2017 | September 3-9

Posted on September 3, 2017
By Margaret Harvey
on September | Second Week

Herald’s Q&A: Steve Maloney

Posted on August 30, 2017
By Dillon Collins
on Entertainment, From The Archives, Local, Music, Q&A

Acclaimed local singer-songwriter Steve Maloney defies convention on his emotive new solo record The Memory Game
It’s been a couple of years since we’ve sat down with you. How long have you been working on The Memory Game?
We actually made this record last summer. It’s been a bit of

Writing World: Snook

Posted on August 29, 2017
By Dillon Collins
on Books, Entertainment, From The Archives, Local, Q&A

“Ol’ Snooky … ends up on the cover of his very own,
professionally published, book …”
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You’ve been churning out columns for us for a while now. Where did the inspiration come to put the best of the best together for a book?
The notion came up right from

Special Feature: Canada, It’s Complicated

Posted on August 29, 2017
By Pam Pardy-Ghent
on Entertainment, From The Archives, Local, Theatre

Perhaps no one knows how complicated this country of ours is more than comedian,
actress and author Mary Walsh who’s made a career out of poking fun at our ways,
and our politicians, from coast to coast
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Being greeted on the porch by Mary Walsh is next to a

Music Spotlight: Rachel Cousins

Posted on August 29, 2017
By Dillon Collins
on Entertainment, From The Archives, Local, Music

Matching her contemporaries at the tender age of 16, Rachel Cousins hits her stride with her new release This Fire
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Sixteen is a number you will see associated with Rachel Cousins quite a bit these days. Natural, that, since the fiery singer-songwriter clocks in at a mere sixteen years

20 Years Later: Princess Diana

Posted on August 28, 2017
By Herald Staff
on Entertainment, From The Archives

Her life, her death and the twenty years in between. The heartbreaking words of Prince William and Prince Harry provide a new glimpse into the lost fairytale of Diana, Princess of Wales.
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It’s been twenty years since Princess Diana met her untimely end in a Paris road tunnel. Two

2017 | August 27 – September 2

Posted on August 27, 2017
By Margaret Harvey
on September | First Week

Column: Suffering in Silence

Posted on August 25, 2017
By Pam Pardy-Ghent
on From The Archives, Staff Blog

My brother died last week. He killed himself. My baby brother, at just 42 years old, took a shotgun along with him for an afternoon run, laying it inside the car as casually as if he’d just loaded some no-longer-needed cardboard before heading off to dump recycling. There’s security footage

Artist Spotlight: Colin Hollett

Posted on August 24, 2017
By Dillon Collins
on Entertainment, From The Archives, Local, Web Exclusives

You’d have to go back to February of 2009 to pinpoint when and where the second-life of Colin Hollett began. February 4th, to be exact, and the place was Yuk Yuk’s in St. John’s, the now closed comedy club that routinely featured the best stand-up comedians from across the country

Local Arts: Citadel House

Posted on August 24, 2017
By Dillon Collins
on Entertainment, From The Archives, Local, Music

Lewisporte’s Citadel House has fast become one of the most acclaimed music venues, record labels and recording studios in Newfoundland and Labrador
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Live music venue, recording studio and record company, the husband and wife team of Dean and Stevie Stairs have carved out a foothold in central Newfoundland with