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March 4, 2013
The New Draft Lottery is the NHL’s New Wild Card
It's a good year for draft junkies.
If you love the rumors, speculation, and runaway optimism of theNHL Entry Draft, the league did you a favor with its 2013 collective agreement.
The new CBA adds a new level of intrigue to the NHL Draft Lottery.
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February 28, 2013
Live from ECMA 2013: The All-Time East Coast Top Ten
This week, we hand the reins over to our sister show, Atlantic Airwaves, for a very special live broadcast from the 2013 East Coast Music Awards weekend in Halifax.
Host Stephanie Domet will count down the Top Ten East Coast Songs of All Time, as selected by voters at CBCMusic.ca.
The songs will be performed live by artists like Maureen Ennis, Jimmy Rankin, George Canyon, Jenn Grant, and Ben Caplan.
The Top Ten has been revealed, and you can view the list here.
But which Atlantic Canadian classi...
February 25, 2013
The ECMA Extravaganza, 2013 Edition
If you go back to the early 1990s, to names like the Irish Descendants and Thomas Trio and the Red Albino, you can use the East Coast Music Awards to track changing fashions in Newfoundland and Labrador music, year over year.
It's far from definitive, but the list of nominees provides a glimpse of how our music is viewed by the insiders and industry professionals who vote on the awards.
The 2013 ECMA weekend kicks offWednesday,March 6in Halifax, and that's our focus for the next two weeks.
OnSat...
Does An “All-Time” NHL Record Really Tell a Story for All Time?
After winning a couple more on the weekend, the 2013 Chicago Blackhawks have claimed a place in the NHL record book.
...February 20, 2013
Encore broadcast of 2011 CBC/Music NL Songwriters Circle
Hockey’s Burning Questions
Time to address some of hockey's perennial mysteries.
Today, we bring you answers to a few of the game's most commonly asked questions.
...January 30, 2013
January 28, 2013
The Sparks Literary Festival, Part Two
This Saturday we sample more poetry, fiction, and non-fiction from the dynamic and ever-changing literary scene in Newfoundland and Labrador.
In the second of two shows recorded at the 2013 Sparks Literary Festival in St. John's, we hear from Joan Sullivan, Gerard Collins, and Eva Crocker.
They're joined by special guest Carmine Starnino, one of Canada's renowned poets.
Joan Sullivan is the author of In The Field, published by Breakwater Books. It tells the story of Stephen Norris, a volunteer...
January 22, 2013
Newfoundlanders With a Story to Tell: The Sparks Literary Festival
This week's show features scenes from a Newfoundland outport during the war years, poetry about old hockey players, aglimpse ofa Greek vacation gone wrong, and much more.
We'll hear it all as guest host Jamie Fitzpatrickpresents the first of two shows recorded last weekend at the 2013Sparks Literary Festival in St. John's,
The annual festival has been showcasing Newfoundland and Labrador writers since 2010, and the Performance Hour has been there every year.
For the 2013 edition, book lovers...
January 7, 2013
The Fictional Life: Newfoundland Books, Readers, and Writers
Writer, broadcaster and guest host Jamie Fitzpatrick presents The Fictional Life, a two-part series featuring readers and writers in Newfoundland and Labrador..
Jamie's guests include: Joan Clark, who reveals the perfect opening paragraph as composed by Carol Shields;Monica Kidd, explaining how Tom Robbins perfectly captures the month of February; Fred Armstrong, defending Wind in the Willows as a novel for adults; Andrew Loman, casting his vote for the best ever book-to-movie adaptation.
Als...
