Etiket: Postcard
[Critique] “A postcard from the ocean”: Further investigation
A book is often born out of very little. A memory, a fixed idea, a trauma, an image. Here, everything starts from the obsession of the narrator for an old…
Postcard | On the mic on the mic
(Waterbury, Vermont) What do you do when you’re covering a game in Boston on Thursday night, you have to be on a podcast the next day at 2 p.m., and…
Postcard | The record no one wanted to break
(San Jose, CA) The Press today lifts the veil on one of its greatest secrets: the allocation of trips, within its dynamic team assigned to the coverage of the Canadian,…
Postcard | Saving in French
(Sunrise, Florida) What’s magical about arriving in this remote corner of Florida is that you can find fabulous discounts there. Posted at 5:33 p.m. Let’s face it, Sunrise, where the…
Postcard from Cayo Coco and Cayo Cruz
On the northeast side of Cuba, in the Jardines Del Rey archipelago, narrow islands are known as the sunniest destinations in the country: Cayo Coco and Cayo Cruz. Often called…
Postcard | Qatari pictograms
(Doha, Qatar) A curiosity, in Qatar, are the pictograms. You know those little drawings that give instructions without having to translate them into 72 languages? The recipe: simplicity and efficiency.…
Postcard | A Quebecer at the heart of the action
(Doha, Qatar) Sophie Laporte participated in the London and Rio Summer Games. At the Sochi and PyeongChang Winter Games. At the Pan American Games in Toronto. At the Youth Games…
Postcard | The time Gander’s population doubled
(Gander, Newfoundland) Hard to believe, as the plane approaches the ground, that 7,000 tourists could land here in a few hours on a certain Tuesday in September, 21 years ago.…
Postcard | Succeed a legend
(Buffalo) Anglophones have an expression that perfectly describes Dan Dunleavy’s situation: “Tough act to follow”. There isn’t really a direct translation, because “hard act to follow” doesn’t mean much. Posted…
The listeners’ postcard – Program on France Bleu Champagne-Ardenne
Our listeners share their holidays with you. Every morning at 6:40 a.m., a listener from France Bleu Champagne Ardenne comes to tell us about his vacation live. The sites he…
Delphine Jubillar still alive? This postcard that revives the case
Would Delphine Jubillar have had enough of the “Bidochon life” she led with Cédric in Cagnac-Les-Mines and would she have decided to drop everything to go live abroad? It is…
Postcard | On the way home… and Molly
After Wednesday night’s loss in Springfield, I suspect my drive home from that lovely Massachusetts town was more enjoyable than the Rocket guys on the team coach. Posted yesterday at…
Postcard | Springfield, birthplace of basketball
(Springfield, Massachusetts) Upon arriving at the hotel, somewhere in (very) small downtown Springfield, a colleague quickly warned me: be careful here, because you can easily end up in the wrong…
Postcard | The hushed passion of Tampa fans
(Tampa) It was Game 2 of the Lightning-Panthers series on Thursday night. The Florida Derby in the second round of the NHL playoffs. A context conducive to a real craze…
Syracuse Postcard | Another minute of silence
(Syracuse) Tuesday night before the game between the Crunch and the Rocket in Syracuse, fans at the old War Memorial Arena did what more and more fans need to do…
Postcard | Montreal jealousy
(Toronto) There was a time when we were much better than them, there, in Toronto. Posted at 8:00 a.m. Richard Labbe The Press Our artists were better, our World Expos…
Postcard | Team seeks cover
(Newark, NJ) We got the royal treatment for this very, very optional New Jersey Devils practice. Posted at 9:00 a.m. Guillaume Lefrancois The Press The interview excerpts you read in…
Postcard | A poetic din
I am writing to you from the press gallery, about an hour before the kick off of the Costa Rica-Canada match, at the Estadio Nacional in San José. Outside. The…
Postcard | Wanderings in San José
(San José, Costa Rica) Rarely can you appreciate the ambient smell of gasoline as much as when you visit a big city in Central America. Posted at 8:00 a.m. Jean-Francois…
The turbulent history of the postcard | The Press
Even before the pandemic, it was more and more rare: to open the mailbox and discover a beautiful postcard sent by a loved one on a trip to the other…