Vine and HQ Trivia cofounder, Colin Kroll, died at the age of 34 from an apparent drugs overdose in his apartment on Spring Street in New York’s Nolita neighborhood. In the early hours of Sunday, December 16th, 2018, police attended Kroll’s apartment and found him face down and unresponsive in his bedroom, and he was declared dead shortly afterwards. His Read more...
The Hockey Hall of Fame is located on the lower concourse of Brookfield Place at the corner of Yonge and Front Streets in downtown Toronto, Ontario. Read more...
There is no defined walking trail that goes right around Lake Louise. The Lakeshore Trail is an easy there-and-back 4 kilometer (or 2.4 mile) paved trail that starts at the public parking lot near Chateau Lake Louise and follows the Lake Louise’s north shore (the right hand side) to the back of the lake. From there, there are spectacular views Read more...
The Spruce Grove Inn in Banff is now called the Canalta Lodge. It was acquired by Canalta Hotels in September 2016 and relaunched under the new brand in late 2017 following renovations. Read more...
The 1988 season Super Bowl XXIII was played at Joe Robbie Stadium (now called Hard Rock Stadium) in Miami Gardens, Florida, on January 22nd, 1989, between the Cincinnati Bengals and the San Francisco 49ers. The 49ers won, defeating the Bengals 20–16, and 49ers wide receiver Jerry Rice was named Super Bowl MVP. Read more...
The NPR member radio station in Austin is KUT which broadcasts to Central Texas on FM and HD Radio at 90.5 MHz, and also streams online. The station is operated by the Moody College of Communication at the University of Texas from studios at the G B Dealey Center for New Media (formerly the Belo Center) on the UT campus in Read more...
WNYC is located at New York Public Radio’s offices and broadcast facilities at Varick Street and Charlton Street in Hudson Square, Manhattan. The station moved here in June 2008 having previously been based in the Manhattan Municipal Building in the Civic Center neighborhood since 1924. WNYC shares the facilities with New York Public Radio’s other stations and media operations, including Read more...
The Philadelphia Flyers NHL ice hockey team plays its home games at the Wells Fargo Center (formerly Wachovia Center) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Flyers moved to the newly-built arena in 1996, having previously played at the Spectrum, a nearby arena which has since been demolished. The arena is also home to the Philadelphia 76ers NBA basketball team and the Philadelphia Read more...
A marble statue of Christopher Columbus stands on a granite column in the center of Columbus Circle in Manhattan. The monument, created by Italian sculptor Gaetano Russo, is 76 feet (or 23 meters) tall and features bronze reliefs of ships on the column and an angel holding a globe on the base pedestal. The monument was ceremonially unveiled on October Read more...
Well known Hollywood family therapist Amie Harwick was murdered at her home on Mound Street in Hollywood Hills in the early hours of Saturday, February 15th, 2020. Police responding to a report of a woman screaming found Doctor Harwick gravely injured on the ground beneath the property’s third story balcony. She died in hospital from her injuries and her former Read more...
Actor Harrison Ford crash-landed his vintage World War 2 era Ryan airplane near the 8th hole of Penmar Golf Course in Venice, California on March 5th, 2015. An experienced pilot, Ford reported a loss of engine power shortly after taking off from Santa Monica Municipal Airport and was attempting to return to the airport when he crashed on the golf Read more...
Blue Bottle Coffee opened its first cafe in January 2005 in a garage at 315 Linden Street, in San Francisco’s Hayes Valley. Located in an alley off Gough Street, between Hayes and Fell Streets, the kiosk cafe is still open today. Blue Bottle Coffee has since expanded, opening more locations in San Francisco, and other cities including New York, LA, Read more...
The first store to scan a product barcode at the checkout was the Marsh supermarket in Troy, Ohio, on June 26th, 1974. Marsh executive Clyde Dawson made a trial purchase of a selection of groceries, the first of which was a 10-pack of Wrigleys Juicy Fruit gum, scanned by cashier Sharon Buchanan. The Marsh store closed in 2017 and the Read more...