February 2021
TAKING BLK VENDORS MARKET
The Halifax Brewery Market will be filled with craft and food vendors, and live music from 6-9pm Taking BLK “Gottingen” is a grass roots vendors market born in the North End of Halifax, Founded by two local African Nova Scotian women. Taking BLK is a 30 plus all Black/African Nova Scotian travelling market with upcoming, new and emerging businesses. The variety of business and goods extend from art, clothing, jewellery, skin care, food, baked goods and more. Taking BLK thrives on…
Find out more »2021 GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS
The 78th Golden Globe Awards will honor the best in American television of 2020, as well as film in 2020 and early 2021, as chosen by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. The 2021 Golden Globes will honor Jane Fonda with the Cecil B. deMille Award, and Norman Lear with the Carol Burnett Award. Lear will be the third recipient of the recently created Carol Burnett Award, which honors contributions to television.
Find out more »March 2021
DRESS IN BLUE DAY
Dress in Blue Day lets allies everywhere join the mission to end colorectal cancer. By wearing blue, you bring awareness to this disease and support our work — as well as honor all who are impacted by colorectal cancer. Dress in Blue Day is Friday, March 5, but March is National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. In 2021, an estimated 149,500 people will be diagnosed with this highly preventable disease. They will join more than 1.4 million colorectal cancer patients and…
Find out more »Transit Operator and Worker Appreciation Day.
Today is Transit Operator and Worker Appreciation Day. Almost one-year since the first lockdown, let's honour these workers on social media. Not just frontline operators, but also the maintenance crews, mechanics, dispatchers and others who have kept our communities running safely—and still do! Use the hashtag #thankstransit.
Find out more »Birthday – ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER
1948 Andrew Lloyd Webber; Born March 22 1948, London, England English composer (Phantom of the Opera, Cats, Jesus Christ Superstar), turns 73 today
Find out more »Classic Albums Top To Bottom – BAT OUT OF HELL (MEATLOAF)
This week we're featuring some of the greatest albums of all time with ‘Classic Albums - Top To Bottom’ Tonight: Meatloaf – Bat Out of Hell (released October 1977) Tonight at 9:00 you’ll hear the full album, song by song, start to finish…. Classic Albums – Top To Bottom
Find out more »Album – ELIMINATOR (ZZ Top)
Eliminator is the eighth studio album by the American rock band ZZ Top. It was released on March 23, 1983 Often considered ZZ Top's most popular release, the record was ranked at number 398 in Rolling Stone magazine's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time and was listed at number 39 in The 100 Greatest Albums of the 80s.
Find out more »Classic Albums Top To Bottom – THE STRANGER (BILLY JOEL)
The Stranger is the fifth studio album by American singer Billy Joel, released in September 1977 by Columbia Records. Spending six weeks at No. 2 on the US Billboard 200, The Stranger is considered Joel's critical and commercial breakthrough. Four singles were released in the US, all of which became top-40 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 charts. Tonight at 9, hear this classic album top to bottom... the way it was meant to be heard!
Find out more »Classic Albums Top To Bottom – CRIME OF THE CENTURY (SUPERTRAMP)
Tonight at 9:00, we’re playing this classic album in its entirety… TOP TO BOTTOM! In the 1987 edition of The World Critic Lists, CBC's Geoff Edwards ranked Crime of the Century the 10th greatest album of all time. A 1998 public poll, aggregating the votes of more than 200,000 music fans, saw Crime of the Century voted among the all-time top 1000 albums, and it was listed in the 2005 book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. In…
Find out more »Classic Albums Top to Bottom – STRANGER IN TOWN (BOB SEGER)
Stranger in Town is the tenth studio album by American rock singer Bob Seger and his second with the Silver Bullet Band, released by Capitol Records in May 1978. The Silver Bullet Band backed Seger on about half of the songs and the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section backed Seger on the other half. The album became an instant success in the United States, being certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America less than a month after the album's…
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