Category Archives: Culture

The Poetry and Performance of Riley Palanca

Secret East TV has teamed up with Spoken Word St. John’s to offer a capture of the poetry and performance of Riley Palanca in our first Spoken Word at the Log Cabin session. We’ve combined a video feature with three pieces of audio, and the accompaniment of a written profile, courtesy of contributor Russell Cochrane.

If it’s Broke, it Ain’t Fixed

J.H. Burns gets the fill from Greg Hewlett about running Fixed Coffee & Baking — a downtown St. John’s business which has found support and success, even in the hardest of seasons.

Bonavista Social Club: 41 Years of Waiting For Fidel

Forty years before Obama announced his willingness to open diplomatic pathways with Cuba, two distinguished Newfoundlanders, Joey Smallwood and Geoff Stirling, attempted their own form of diplomacy with the island nation, [albeit, unofficially and more than a little eccentrically.]

Health Care, Oil & The Deficit: Can Premier Davis Summit All Up?

Davis claims the Primary Health Care Summit will provide a public forum to discuss how the province can improve health care services and programs that matter to Newfoundlanders and Labradorians. But pundits critical of the summit claim it’s simply an attempt to strengthen the Progressive Conservative public image.

East Coast Expat — A Trip Home With BD Allison

With the holidays out of the way, it is time to say goodbye to those east-coasters returning to their schools, jobs and lives away from home. For contributor BD Allison, a trip home is seen as an opportunity to catch up on an array of Atlantic and Maritime bands.