Andrew James O’Brien, the once-kinda-of-Corner Brook now based in St. John’s singer/songwriter has been nominated for an East Coast Music Award! Congrats!
The East Coast Music Association announced their 2012 award nominated earlier today, with Andrew James O’Brien nominated for Pop Recording of the Year for his album Songs for Searchers.
Every Friday CornerBrooker.com brings you a list of some of the best events in and around Corner Brook to check out throughout the weekend. Want to list your event? It’s free! Email events@cornerbrooker.com with the details!
Just announced this morning by the Corner Brook Firefighters union: they are prepared to strike as of January 30th. We’re compiling tweets, photos and news stories below thanks to Storify, so check in for up-to-date info.
Update: CBC reports that “A conciliator has called unionized firefighters and the City of Corner Brook to a weekend meeting that aims to avoid a strike.”
Oh, you don’t like spam? Well how about spam, egg, sausage, and spam? That doesn’t have much spam in it. No? What about egg, bacon, spam, and sausage?
The Off-Broadway Players are bringing a show full of classic Monty Python sketches to the Arts and Culture Centre this weekend in SPAM SPAM OFF-BROADWAY and SPAM. Any fan of Monty Python, or spam, or laughing should check this out.
These past few weeks at Corner Brook Regional High have been pretty uneventful due the crazy amounts of studying taking place for those dreaded midterm exams of ours. You would think that you would get used to sitting in the gym for six hours after having studied for what felt like fourteen hours the night before, but even after doing it every year, it’s still pretty terrible. It sure feels good when all’s said and done though, especially for us level threes who will never have a regular midterm again. YAY!
I know, I know — I must be crazy. You think I should what? Record a record?! In one month (a 29 day month at that)? Write and record an album (CD, record, whatever) containing at least 10 tracks or is at least 35 minutes long within the month of February — that is the RPM Challenge and the challenge I issue to you.
The Grenfell Campus Art Gallery is set to kick off their new year with a new exhibition featuring six Ontario-based artists who all take a look at how time can be represented by painting. The new exhibition opens on Thursday evening with a reception at the Gallery, open to everyone.
St. John’s based dance-pop-ers Repartee stopped into The Bar Room on a cross-provincial tour on Friday night to get everyone’s cold, wintery feet moving! Whitney MacDonald stopped by to grab these pictures from the show.
Did you make it out to the show? Let us know what you thought in the comments!
In many circles, the root vegetable is under appreciated, accused of being boring and unappetizing, its only advantage seen in its ability to store well. Readers, I must admit that for most of my years, I too held this less-than-redeeming view of most root vegetables.
I know where my impression came from. Throughout my entire childhood, my family would eat “Sunday Dinner’ every week. It was the only meal of the week that we called dinner, and we ate it at midday. (It still confuses me a little when people say dinner, when they are referring to the evening meal).
