October 2020
HALIFAX BURGER WEEK
After spending the summer adjusting to new dining out rules, masking & social distancing it’s time to show love for our favourite restaurants & support Feed Nova Scotia! Halifax Burger Week is a city-wide burger-eating phenomenon and fundraiser for Feed Nova Scotia put on by The Coast. Creative burger offerings either have a set price of $6, or a higher price with the restaurant making a donation to Feed Nova Scotia from every burger sold. The passport guides patrons all…
Find out more »NATIONAL BOLOGNA DAY
NATIONAL BOLOGNA DAY Each year on October 24th, we make a sandwich to participate in National Bologna Day. This is a good day to have a bologna sandwich for lunch.
Find out more »6th ANNUAL YARD SALE FOR THE IWK
The 6th Annual Charity Yard Sale in support of the IWK Foundation hosted by ROOM 152 BOUTIQUE. 122 Portland Street from 9 am to 12pm. Everything is a TOONIE! Clothing, shoes, bags, accessories – all $2 each. Cash only.
Find out more »November 2020
Classic Albums Top To Bottom – RUMORS (FLEETWOOD MAC)
Tonight at 9:00, we’re playing this classic album in its entirety… TOP TO BOTTOM! Hear it the way it was meant to be heard, tonight on 89.9 The WAVE!
Find out more »Classic Albums Top To Bottom – BREAKFAST IN AMERICA (SUPERTRAMP)
Tonight at 9:00, we’re playing this classic album in its entirety… TOP TO BOTTOM! Hear it the way it was meant to be heard, tonight on 89.9 The WAVE!
Find out more »Birthday – PREMIER STEPHEN MCNEIL (56)
Stephen McNeil MLA (born November 10, 1964) is a Canadian politician who is the 28th and current premier of Nova Scotia, having assumed office on October 22, 2013. He has also represented the riding of Annapolis in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly since 2003 and has been the leader of the Nova Scotia Liberal Party since 2007.
Find out more »Birthday – ALDO NOVA (64)
Aldo Nova (born Aldo Caporuscio on November 13, 1956) is a Canadian guitarist, keyboardist, vocalist, songwriter, and producer. Nova initially gained fame with his self-titled debut album Aldo Nova in 1982 which climbed to Billboard's number 8 position, and its accompanying single, "Fantasy", which climbed to number 23 on the Billboard Hot 100. Nova produced some early Celine Dion albums. He co-wrote the hit song, "A New Day Has Come" for Dion, and has been featured playing guitar, synthesizer, and…
Find out more »GUINNESS WORLD RECORD DAY
How to celebrate Guinness World Record Day In fear of being redundant, one celebrates Guinness World Record Day by attempting to break a world record! Some of them you won’t be able to do in one day, so consider this holiday to be your starting gun. After all, one such record is for the “Longest continually supported and updated Game”, an honor which goes to the unique wilderness survival game Unreal World . You can also head on over to Guinness World Records to…
Find out more »Album – A NIGHT AT THE OPERA (QUEEN)
This was the album that broke Queen to a wider audience around the world and established them as true rock superstars. In its original chart run it spent forty-four weeks in the UK album charts – four of them at No.1 – and 47 weeks in the USA Billboard album chart, reaching the highest position of No.4. Its sales in the USA earned it a gold disc... it went quadruple platinum in the UK. At the 19th Grammy Awards, it…
Find out more »Album – HI INFIDELITY (REO SPEEDWAGON)
Hi Infidelity is the ninth studio album by the band REO Speedwagon, released on November 21, 1980. The album Peaked at number one on the Billboard 200. It went on to become the biggest-selling rock album of 1981, eventually being certified 10 times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. Of the four singles released, "Take It on the Run" went to number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100, and the band got their first of two number one…
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