A good read

Monday, March 31, 2014

A good read

"I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage."
- Montesquieu, a.k.a., Charles De Secondat

Mar 31, 2014 7:05:00 PM | Books, Quotations

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A trip to Rio (the Brazilian Steakhouse, that is) On Friday night, Martha and Nick took me to dinner, and it was a new spot among St. John's restaurants: Rio Brazilian Restaurant, on Torbay Road. It's on the intersection with Newfoundland Drive, taking up the space of a former Pizza Exprerts restaurant. It's an interesting concept: you're seated at a table and invited to check out the salad bar (which also features, oddly enough, chicken nuggets, I guess for families with young kids) before...

The Lumineers meet a favourite Talking Heads song From last year, here's the Lumineers covering This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody), which might be one of the sweetest Talking Head song ever. The Lumineers lose the groove and strip the song bare; this version was recorded live for a radio feature called Like a Version (ho ho) on the Australian network Triple J. I have to say: I love how they reinvented the song.

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I am a journalist with CBC News in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. I'm taller than I look. This blog has been running quietly since 2004.

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