Sara Swain is a Contributing Editor at The Independent. She holds a PhD in Communication and Culture from York University and has taught courses about media, film, and television studies. Her essays have appeared in Offscreen magazine and PUBLIC journal, among others. She likes public art and culture, bioregionalism, placemaking, hospitality, and anything to do with carrier pigeons. She recently moved back to St. John’s.
Awards, birthdays, marriages, and retirements are celebrated as two distant food trucks duel for the night in the parking lots of old establishments history forgot
June Day is renamed no thanks to Tom Davis. A questionable debate about parking relief. Minor sport, major expense. Trash is a symptom of a bigger problem.
Playwright Megan Gail Coles and director Emma Tibaldo talk about their new play, Grace, and how art can transform our collective narratives, safeguard us against chronic stress, and build resilience in our communities
The Growlers are iced out. Development is on Fire. Volunteers are celebrated. Neurodiversity is embraced, and so is mixed-use. Poetry is shared. O’Leary Avenue gets artsy.
Hazelwood rezoning is axed. Sheffield Estates is safe for now. Tom Davis gets sworn in. Truth and reconciliation is formalized, and density increases, one micro unit at a time.