Back in my day (cue eye roll) there was no such thing as day care. When mudder was stuck for a sitter while pa was out at sea, grandma, or many times in our case, one of our many aunts took over to see that we didn’t die without proper
A newly released compilation of poems underscores the true reason for the season, detailing the Nativity story in a collection 25 years in the making
=====
The holiday season brings with it anticipation for many things. Family get gatherings filled with food, drink, music and song, for starters.
Kids young
Local non-profit community service centre The Gathering Place is adding another service to their growing list of available resources and amenities
=====
The Gathering Place’s dental clinic will be taking its first patients in early December, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony in early November, to mark the completion of this new
Four of the island’s premiere guitarists unite in Fretboard Journey, crafting a timely holiday album sure to cause merry feelings with Christmas Picks
====
What do you get when you combine four of the very best guitarists to ever call Newfoundland and Labrador home with tried and true holiday tunes?
A long time ago children, including myself, used to write our letters to Santa Claus and then throw them in the fireplace for delivery. When the letters burned they were carried away to Santa at the North Pole. I don’t think children do that anymore.
It is a tradition that
There’s two Christmas songs with very similar titles. One is a cute children’s classic about asking Santa for two front teeth – and nothing more. The other song titled All I Want For Christmas … is a romantic ditty by Mariah Carey asking only for time with her one true
Sibling musical duo Emily and Thomas Conway are making real noise in the local music landscape, giving them true cause for celebration this Christmas season
====
In Newfoundland and Labrador, perhaps more than anywhere else in Canada, the holidays are a time for music and family. Thomas and Emily Conway don’t
Leaping off the pages of a children’s Christmas classic to television screens nation-wide on NTV, The Sights Before Christmas shares the real magic of the holidays
=====
A Christmas story brimming with Newfoundland culture and more than a pinch of holiday magic is moving from the pages of a storybook
t was the most horrific of wars. In World War I the technology of the 20th century ran headlong into a plan of battle straight from the 12th century. Millions of men on both sides died like dogs for nothing.
Less than two decades after World War I the world
Master jazz musician and professor Patrick Boyle talks improvisation, musical exploration and coming home ahead of the release of his new album After Forgetting
====
Jazz is a music of passion, of conflict and compromise, of restraint and improvisation. Few know this as well as Patrick Boyle, a master trumpet