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[ad_1] The saga around Vancouver’s Rio Theatre took yet another twist on Saturday as it reopened as a sports bar

[ad_1] Sophie, a Grammy-nominated Scottish disc jockey, producer and recording artist who had worked with the likes of Madonna and Charli

[ad_1] Amy Willier, a Cree artisan and entrepreneur who championed her culture and community through her Calgary gallery, has died.

[ad_1] Jane Fonda cemented herself into Hollywood allure as a chameleonlike actor and social activist, and now the Golden Globes

[ad_1] CBC’s television series Trickster, launched in 2020 and adapted from Eden Robinson’s young adult novel series, has been cancelled.

[ad_1] Cicely Tyson, the pioneering Black actor who gained an Oscar nomination for her role as the sharecropper’s wife in

[ad_1] Haisla Nation duo Snotty Nose Rez Kids are leading nominees at the first-ever International Indigenous Hip Hop Awards Show.

[ad_1] Canadian actor, filmmaker and comedian Seth Rogen is writing a book. Yearbook is a collection of funny and insightful

[ad_1] Chris Murphy, a member of Canadian rock band Sloan, says he’s been diagnosed with Bell’s palsy, a form of

[ad_1] The Cannes Film Festival, cancelled altogether last year by the pandemic, is postponing this year’s edition from May to

[ad_1] American actor Cloris Leachman, who won eight Emmys for her work on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and other television programs as

[ad_1] The Writers’ Trust of Canada is renaming their fiction prize in honour of Margaret Atwood and Graeme Gibson. With

[ad_1] For Debi Drennan, the film business is a family affair. The Toronto-based makeup artist has been working in the industry before the days of

[ad_1] Actor Elliot Page and Emma Portner said Tuesday that they are divorcing after three years of marriage.  “After much

[ad_1] A Delaware judge has approved a revised Weinstein Co. bankruptcy plan that provides about $35 million (all figures in

[ad_1] The trial of Jacob Hoggard, the frontman for the Canadian rock band Hedley, has been pushed back to next

[ad_1] Decades after suffering bombing and earthquake damage, Pompeii’s museum has been reborn, showing off exquisite finds from excavations of

[ad_1] Dance your cares away, Fraggle Rock fans — the fluffy-haired creatures are back in Canada for a new show. The Jim

[ad_1] After a successful competitive career, Montreal figure skater Elladj Baldé vowed to push back against the sport’s traditions and

[ad_1] A Saskatoon non-profit arts organization says its efforts to promote an upcoming exhibit that critiques social media and QAnon has

[ad_1] In one of the inauguration’s most talked about moments, poet Amanda Gorman summoned images dire and triumphant Wednesday as

[ad_1] Dave Chappelle tested positive for the coronavirus just before his comedy show scheduled for Thursday, forcing his upcoming appearances

[ad_1] Larry King, the suspenders-sporting everyman whose broadcast interviews with world leaders, movie stars and ordinary people helped define American conversation

[ad_1] Bob Avian, a Tony Award-winning choreographer who had a role in some of the most beloved and influential shows

[ad_1] Longtime NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw, once the most popular broadcaster in television news as he told viewers about the

[ad_1] The global release of the James Bond movie No Time to Die was postponed to October from April, its

[ad_1] Canadian record producer Bob Rock is joining a chorus of musicians selling off rights to their past work, reaching

[ad_1] Country star Dolly Parton said her brother Randy Parton, who sang and performed with her, as well as at

[ad_1] Two rappers were among the entertainment figures included in a list of 140 people who were pardoned or had

[ad_1] A lawyer for the publisher of the Daily Mail newspaper said Wednesday that the Duchess of Sussex had no

[ad_1] A lawyer for That ’70s Show actor Danny Masterson pleaded not guilty on his behalf Wednesday to the rapes of

[ad_1] Italian police have recovered a 500-year-old copy of Leonardo da Vinci’s 16th century Salvator Mundi painting of Jesus Christ that

[ad_1] A Haida filmmaker is pushing for new legislation in Canada to penalize people who pretend to be Indigenous in order to

[ad_1] A U.S. federal judge in Oklahoma has ordered the new owners of an Oklahoma zoo featured in Netflix’s Tiger

[ad_1] Lawyers for the Duchess of Sussex asked a British judge on Tuesday to settle her lawsuit against a newspaper

[ad_1] A review of the CBC’s licence renewal applications entered its second phase Monday, with some organizations and individuals presenting

[ad_1] Frankline Ozowulu made it back to his family home in Houston, Texas, recently with a song stuck in his head. It

[ad_1] Phil Spector, the revolutionary music producer who transformed rock ‘n’ roll with his “Wall of Sound” method and who later

[ad_1] What is the one book all of Canada should read? It’s time for Canada Reads 2021. The year 2020 was a

[ad_1] A collection of children’s drawings made during the pandemic illustrates the mental toll the pandemic is taking on Canadian

[ad_1] Melinda Gates, the billionaire philanthropist and businessperson, has donated $250,000 U.S. ($318,130 Cad) to the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction. Named

[ad_1] Inuit Canadians will soon have 24/7 access to Inuktitut-language television programming.   The Nunavut Independent Television Network (NITV) is launching a

[ad_1] British musicians are demanding that the British government face the music after new post-Brexit regulations failed to consider their unique

[ad_1] Organizers behind a number of livestreaming concerts and theatre shows in Ontario say the province’s stricter stay-at-home orders have

[ad_1] The A-list is back. How A-list? Try Lady Gaga and J. Lo. Inauguration officials announced on Thursday that the

[ad_1] German news agency dpa is reporting that illusionist Siegfried Fischbacher, the surviving member of the duo Siegfried & Roy,

[ad_1] The final months of 2020 saw the streaming wars escalate with both Disney and Warner Bros. throwing down the

[ad_1] The 30th Gotham Awards gave a very strange Oscar season a virtual start Monday in a largely digital ceremony

[ad_1] Neil Young is calling for empathy toward the people who stormed the U.S. Capitol, saying they’ve been “so manipulated and

[ad_1] Five Black Canadian musicians have been selected by a jury of their peers as recipients of the inaugural SiriusXM

[ad_1] Organizers of the Scotiabank Giller Prize are investigating security measures for future virtual events after they say an interview

[ad_1] Veteran talk show host Larry King, suffering from COVID-19, has been moved out of the intensive care unit at

[ad_1] A new trial date has been set for Jacob Hoggard, the frontman for the Canadian rock band Hedley, who

[ad_1] British filmmaker Michael Apted, who directed both the Up documentary series and Coal Miner’s Daughter, has died. He was 79. His

[ad_1] More than two months after Alex Trebek’s death, fans of Jeopardy! finally got the chance to say goodbye. A video

[ad_1] Roku is buying the content library of Quibi, the short-lived streaming service, to bulk up its own free ad-supported

[ad_1] In Neil Young’s 1979 song Hey Hey, My My the Canadian musician sang that rock could never die, adding:

[ad_1] Don’t count out Caillou. Though the Canadian children’s animated series is ending its 21-year run on PBS Kids, its

[ad_1] This week is an emotional one for fans of Jeopardy! and its beloved longtime host, the late Alex Trebek, who

[ad_1] The National Gallery of Canada has named two leaders to newly created roles aimed at encouraging more diversity and

[ad_1] Tanya Roberts, who captivated James Bond in A View to a Kill and appeared in the sitcom That ’70s Show, has

[ad_1] Dr. Dre says he will be “back home soon” after the music mogul received medical treatment at a Los

[ad_1] 2020 was a year like no other. As we start 2021 and look forward to the 20th edition of

[ad_1] This year’s Grammy Awards ceremony, which was set for Jan. 31, has been postponed due to a surge of COVID-19

[ad_1] Telefilm Canada says an investigation into allegations made against one of its employees has “concluded that no harassment, discrimination

[ad_1] Gerry Marsden, the British singer who was instrumental in turning a song from the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel into

[ad_1] Former CNN talk show host Larry King has been hospitalized with COVID-19 for more than a week, the news

[ad_1] A Calgary musician and author has written the biography of one of the most influential musical instrument designers alive.

[ad_1] The pandemic may have shut its doors for most of 2020, but it didn’t stop the National Arts Centre (NAC) from

[ad_1] MF Doom, a masked rapper who awed hip-hop fans and fellow musicians with intricate wordplay, has died. He was

[ad_1] Canadian Indigenous actor Wilma Pelly, who was best known for her role as Elsie Tsa Che on the CBC series North of

[ad_1] The meaning behind Netflix’s The Platform is hard to miss: “an accidentally timely political allegory,” the New York Times

[ad_1] Dawn Wells, who parlayed her girl-next-door charm and wholesome beauty into enduring TV fame as the sweet-natured desert island

[ad_1] Pierre Cardin, the French designer whose famous name embossed myriad consumer products after his iconic Space Age styles shot

[ad_1] Before Hope Jacobson set out to explore the universe of virtual influencers as a college assignment, she’d already been

[ad_1] Full House actor Lori Loughlin was released from prison Monday after spending two months behind bars for paying half a

[ad_1] There’s a moment near the beginning of Wonder Woman 1984 where General Antiope says, “The time will come, Diana,

[ad_1] In a normal year, my favourite films would be an eclectic mix of blockbusters and indie darlings, perhaps a few

[ad_1] Even on a dark and rainy Monday morning in Seattle — crowds of people braved the weather, lining up for a

[ad_1] The National Film Board is withdrawing the Michelle Latimer-directed documentary Inconvenient Indian from all film festivals and distribution after her Indigenous identity

[ad_1] A 13-year-old who struck up an unlikely friendship with a famously flamboyant rock star before the pandemic found herself recording

[ad_1] Country singer K.T. Oslin, who hit it big with the 1987 hit 80’s Ladies and won three Grammy awards, has

[ad_1] Former U.S. president Barack Obama unveiled his list of favourite books of 2020. The list of 17 books included memoir, fiction

[ad_1] An acclaimed film director lauded for two high-profile Indigenous productions this year says she’s sorry for not verifying her

[ad_1] Telefilm Canada says Deepa Mehta’s Funny Boy has been disqualified from competing for best international feature film at the Oscars

[ad_1] Two producers with the CBC television series Trickster announced their resignations on Friday, a day after the Indigenous identity claims

[ad_1] Sony is pulling Cyberpunk 2077 from its PlayStation Store only a week after its debut in the wake of

[ad_1] Along with the holiday season, come the holiday movies. And this year, the onslaught includes something new — an unprecedented wave

[ad_1] Jeremy Bulloch, the English actor who first donned a helmet, cape and jetpack to play Boba Fett in the

[ad_1] Tom Cruise launched an expletive-laden rant at colleagues on the set of his latest Mission: Impossible movie. It reportedly happened

[ad_1] When Vancouver drag queen Kendall Gender decided to recreate the album covers of famous Black artists for Black History

[ad_1] The founder of the world-famous Just for Laughs comedy festival has been acquitted of charges of rape and indecent assault

[ad_1] Toronto’s 10 history museums have launched a new program that aims to address the lack of representation in stories

[ad_1] Reporter and longtime educator Ernest Tucker, considered to be the CBC’s first Black journalist, is being inducted into the

[ad_1] Two Cree video game streamers are using moose calls and rez humour to carve out their own space in

[ad_1] This year’s inductees into the United States National Film Registry include a record number of female directors and filmmakers

[ad_1] John le Carré, the spy-turned-novelist whose elegant and intricate narratives defined the Cold War espionage thriller and brought acclaim

[ad_1] The National Film Board of Canada has released a long-awaited new strategic plan that has creation and audience engagement

[ad_1] Taylor Swift fans are getting a double reason to celebrate this year — the singer-songwriter is about to release

[ad_1] Charley Pride, country music’s first Black star — whose rich baritone on such hits as Kiss an Angel Good

[ad_1] “No holds barred.” That’s the way deaf actor Chelsea Lee explained what it was like to work with Riz Ahmed

[ad_1] Canada Reads is getting ready to celebrate its 20th season.  Ali Hassan will return to host the 2021 edition

[ad_1] Wonder Woman 1984 is coming to Canadian homes on Christmas Day, after all. Warner Bros. Pictures says it’s moving forward

[ad_1] Singer FKA twigs filed a lawsuit Friday alleging that Shia LaBeouf was physically and emotionally abusive during their relationship

[ad_1] Disney+ is raising the price of its monthly subscription by $3 in Canada next year, but the hike will come

[ad_1] Ellen DeGeneres says she has tested positive for COVID-19 but is “feeling fine right now.” Production on her daytime

[ad_1] It’s wabbit season for Canadian voice actor Eric Bauza.   After growing up watching Bugs Bunny’s exploits on Looney Tunes

[ad_1] Features from Deepa Mehta, Tracey Deer, and Michelle Latimer are among those on the Toronto International Film Festival’s best-of-the-year

[ad_1] The National Arts Centre (NAC) is sharing the spotlight with Canada’s longest-running Black theatre company as part of the

[ad_1] Norman Rockwell illustrations may be as American as apple pie, but it turns out they’re also as New Brunswick

[ad_1] Neil Young on Monday dropped his lawsuit against U.S. President Donald Trump’s campaign for playing of two of his

[ad_1] Take note today of the first reference you see or hear to the 40th anniversary of John Lennon’s death.

[ad_1] Christopher Nolan, one of Warner Bros.’ most important filmmakers, has come out strongly against the company’s decision to debut

[ad_1] How’s this for a pandemic performance: a Vancouver singer recently gave a live concert at a downtown supper club

[ad_1] When actor Stephan James scooped up the inaugural Radius Award last year, for being a Canadian making waves globally

[ad_1] A Saskatchewan photographer renowned for capturing the lives of everyone from farmers to seniors in nursing homes in her portraits has

[ad_1] In the most seismic shift by a Hollywood studio yet during the pandemic, Warner Bros. Pictures on Thursday announced

[ad_1] The performers at Russia’s majestic Bolshoi Theatre have danced their way through the Bolshevik revolution, bombing by the Nazis in

[ad_1] When Chelsea Singoorie was growing up in Pond Inlet, Nunavut, she found that talking about mental health was highly

[ad_1] Britain’s culture minister thinks the Netflix TV series The Crown should come with a disclaimer: It’s a work of fiction.

[ad_1] The 2021 Juno Awards are moving to May to mark their 50th anniversary. Organizers behind Canada’s biggest night in

[ad_1] Elliot Page, Halifax’s own Hollywood star, has shared that he is transgender. The actor is known for his Oscar-nominated role in Juno,

[ad_1] It only took two days after its launch for the chess drama The Queen’s Gambit to make it into

[ad_1] Carolyn Fe had no clue her heritage would be under the spotlight after stepping out of her audition for

[ad_1] Liam Docherty may be only 13 years old, but he’s already garnering attention from the Canadian blues establishment.  The

[ad_1] Shortly after Leonard Cohen died in Nov. 2016, Quebec cartoonist Philippe Girard had an idea. Girard, a Quebec City native who

[ad_1] Dave Prowse, the British weightlifter-turned-actor who played Darth Vader in the original Star Wars trilogy, has died. He was 85.

[ad_1] A Calgary playwright is the winner of a prestigious national theatre award that comes with a prize of $100,000

[ad_1] Indigenous critics of ABC’s kidnapping drama Big Sky say it fails to acknowledge real-life missing and murdered Indigenous women and

[ad_1] The leader of the New Democrats has thrown down the gauntlet to U.S. congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Canada-U.S. relations

[ad_1] Read Story Transcript Edward Burtynsky sees the world from a different vantage point than most of us — quite

[ad_1] Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen has been chosen to replace Johnny Depp in the upcoming third film in the Fantastic Beasts franchise, Warner

[ad_1] Taylor Swift won her third consecutive artist of the year prize at the American Music Awards, but she missed

[ad_1] The raft of musicians who were snubbed by the 2021 Grammy Award nominations on Tuesday highlight the Recording Academy’s scattershot

[ad_1] The quest of animal rights activists to see a controversial Ontario “ag-gag” bill repealed got some star power on

[ad_1] Jeopardy! record-holder Ken Jennings will be the first in a series of interim hosts replacing Alex Trebek when the show

[ad_1] The first batch of nominees for the 2021 Grammy Awards were revealed during a livestream held Tuesday by the

[ad_1] The Daily Show host and comedian Trevor Noah has been tapped to host the 2021 Grammy Awards. The Recording Academy

[ad_1] Actor Richard Schiff, who appears on the Vancouver-filmed TV series The Good Doctor, has been hospitalized with COVID-19, three weeks after

[ad_1] Dolly Parton is being celebrated in song — a rewritten version of her own Jolene — for her contribution to an experimental

[ad_1] The BBC’s board of directors has approved the appointment of a retired senior judge to lead an independent investigation

[ad_1] A Saskatoon woman who arranged a performance art piece across the globe has decided to share her story through a

[ad_1] Rapper Tory Lanez pleaded not guilty through his lawyer Wednesday to felony assault charges in the July shooting of

[ad_1] Canadian designer Aurora James has gone from selling shoes in a flea market to seeing megastars like Beyonce and

[ad_1] The Crown has caught up to the ’80s, and some royal watchers aren’t too happy with what they’ve seen. 

[ad_1] Prince William has “tentatively welcomed” an independent investigation into the circumstances surrounding a BBC interview in 1995 with his

[ad_1] Former President Barack Obama’s A Promised Land sold nearly 890,000 copies in the U.S. and Canada in its first 24

[ad_1] A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed over the drowning of Glee star Naya Rivera, who died this summer while boating

[ad_1] K-pop band BTS on Friday released their highly anticipated new album, which they described as a “letter of hope.”

[ad_1] Cineplex Inc. has struck an agreement with Hollywood film studio Universal to shorten the exclusive theatrical release window for

[ad_1] BuzzFeed is buying HuffPost from Verizon Media as part of a bigger deal that has the wireless giant investing

[ad_1] Proposed changes to Canada’s Broadcasting Act would require broadcasters to fund Indigenous productions and also provide content in Indigenous languages.  On Nov. 3,

[ad_1] Scottish writer Douglas Stuart won the Booker Prize for fiction Thursday for Shuggie Bain, the story of a boy’s turbulent

[ad_1] Wonder Woman 1984 will make history in the U.S. when it becomes the first superhero blockbuster to debut simultaneously in theatres

[ad_1] Kyle Charles thought it was a prank.  It was an email from Marvel, the entertainment behemoth, asking the Whitefish

[ad_1] Rapper Lil Wayne was charged Tuesday with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, a federal offence that

[ad_1] Schitt’s Creek co-creator Daniel Levy has been named one of People’s sexiest men alive. The 37-year-old writer and actor was

[ad_1] Canadian pop stars Shawn Mendes and Justin Bieber have teamed up for a new single entitled Monster.  Mendes and Bieber

[ad_1] When Academy Award nominee Deepa Mehta’s adaptation of Funny Boy — the much-lauded story about a gay young man

[ad_1] A New York man was arrested Saturday in connection with an unprovoked assault against Rick Moranis that occurred as

[ad_1] Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has won the Women’s Prize For Fiction ‘Winner of Winners’ for her bestselling novel Half of a

[ad_1] A new research paper takes a swipe at the popular image of Alexander Hamilton as the U.S. abolitionist founding

[ad_1] Canadian singer The Weeknd will bring his popular falsetto vocals to the 2021 Pepsi Super Bowl Halftime Show. NFL,

[ad_1] There’s no shortage of global dance videos on TikTok, but a trio from Toronto is going viral on the social media

[ad_1] An attorney for Britney Spears says his client fears her father and will not resume her career so long

[ad_1] The New Yorker has fired longtime staff writer Jeffrey Toobin after he reportedly exposed himself during a Zoom conference

[ad_1] Ask Mosaic Books owner Michael Neill about business during the pandemic, and he gets a little embarrassed.  “Overall, it’s amazing,”

[ad_1] The Good Doctor star Freddie Highmore says production on the medical drama is continuing in Vancouver, after the COVID-19 diagnoses

[ad_1] Flags have been lowered in Sudbury to mark the passing of Alex Trebek. The Jeopardy! game show host died yesterday, following

[ad_1] Toronto writer and poet Souvankham Thammavongsa has won the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize for her short-story collection How to Pronounce Knife, the writer’s first work

[ad_1] Online fitness company Peloton and music superstar Beyoncé Knowles have inked a multiyear agreement that will see the singer produce

[ad_1] Rapper Lil Nas X is going back to the future — with Michael J. Fox. The Canadian actor appears in a

[ad_1] Like the saying goes, ask and you shall receive.  Last August, a tweet asking for school supplies for students

[ad_1] Alex Trebek, the former CBC broadcaster who ended up hosting the popular U.S. quiz show Jeopardy! for more than

[ad_1] A B.C. teacher who won more than $67,000 on the U.S. quiz show Jeopardy! two years ago says host

[ad_1] Norm Crosby, the deadpan mangler of the English language who thrived in the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s as a

[ad_1] Five titles have been shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. The $100,000 prize is the richest Canadian literary award and

[ad_1] Weather forecaster and morning TV co-host Al Roker has revealed that he has been diagnosed with prostate cancer and

[ad_1] Johnny Depp has exited the Fantastic Beasts franchise following his failed libel case against The Sun tabloid newspaper over a

[ad_1] Move over, Baby Yoda, Appa has landed in the Star Wars universe.  Kim’s Convenience star Paul Sun-Hyung Lee has moved from

[ad_1] A Toronto artist has painted a mural to honour a barber, musician and community leader in Little Jamaica. The

[ad_1] Industry members are applauding the extension of Nova Scotia’s film and television incentive fund for another five years, which

[ad_1] Five writers have made the 2020 CBC Poetry Prize shortlist. The finalists are: The winner will be announced on Nov. 12,

[ad_1] Cineplex Inc. says it will not reopen some of its Ontario movie theatres after the province introduced new COVID-19

[ad_1] The National Ballet of Canada says it’s cancelling its remaining 2020-21 season, “due to the ongoing uncertainty around the

[ad_1] Accusations of sexual assault against one of Iran’s most celebrated visual artists are making waves in Toronto’s Iranian community

[ad_1] A Nova Scotia art collector has discovered hundreds of forgotten Maud Lewis silkscreen prints and is sharing the little

[ad_1] Julie Flett has won the 2020 TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award for her picture book Birdsong. The $50,000 prize recognizes the

[ad_1] Ottawa is proposing new policy changes — with monetary penalties — to ensure online streaming platforms experiencing booming revenues operate under

[ad_1] Rapper Kanye West on Tuesday voted for himself as the next U.S. president after a long-shot campaign marked by erratic statements

[ad_1] The Grammy Awards have changed the name of their best world music album category to the best global music

[ad_1] The actor Eddie Hassell, known for his roles in the NBC show Surface and the 2010 film The Kids Are

[ad_1] Canada’s classical music community is mourning the loss of violinist Yehonatan Berick, 52, who died on Oct. 31. The

[ad_1] Julie Flett has won the 2020 TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award for her picture book Birdsong. The $50,000 prize recognizes the

[ad_1] Jacob Pratt knows the value of believing in yourself. “Don’t limit yourself and don’t let others limit you,” Pratt

[ad_1] Five years after the story of an Edmonton cancer fighter took off across social media around the world, a

[ad_1] A British court ruled Monday against Johnny Depp in his libel case against the owner of the Sun tabloid

[ad_1] It’s a case of coming “full circle.” Guelph guitarist Adrian Raso fell in love with Fanfare Ciocarlia’s music in

[ad_1] An Indigenous naming ceremony for a Winnipeg building designed to shed light on the history, languages and art of the

[ad_1] Ryan Guldemond says he believes luck, good timing and “a little pixie dust” led to his band Mother Mother

[ad_1] NXIVM, the self-described “self-empowerment group” turned cult, has grabbed ahold of public attention in a way few other groups

[ad_1] Full House actress Lori Loughlin has reported to a federal prison in California to begin serving her two-month sentence for

[ad_1] Toronto Mayor John Tory has declared this Saturday “John Candy Day” to mark what would’ve been the actor’s 70th

[ad_1] “You get lonely. You get a little stir crazy.” Like many students, Jenna Peace of Newtonville, Ont., is feeling isolated as

[ad_1] Sean Connery, the charismatic Scottish actor who rose to international superstardom as suave, fearless secret agent James Bond and

[ad_1] Director Deepa Mehta’s film Funny Boy will represent Canada at the 93rd Academy Awards as the submission for best

[ad_1] Bob Young spent much of his life forging a career as a prominent golfer, but at 78, Neil Young’s

[ad_1] Public relations firms hired by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services vetted political views of hundreds of

[ad_1] Thirty-two writers from across Canada have been longlisted for the 2020 CBC Poetry Prize. The complete longlist is: Field Guide

[ad_1] Adult film star Ron Jeremy pleaded not guilty Wednesday to new charges of rape and sexual assault involving six

[ad_1] A British judge on Thursday granted a request by Meghan Markle to postpone the trial of her invasion of

[ad_1] Eurovision Song Contest organizers on Monday announced dates for the 2021 event in Rotterdam with the same “Open Up” theme planned for

[ad_1] A British judge will rule next week on whether Johnny Depp was libelled by a tabloid newspaper that branded

[ad_1] From the beloved opening lines of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah to the rousing, children’s-choir conclusion of the Rolling Stones’ You Can’t

[ad_1] Jon Stewart is returning to TV, more than five years after bowing out as host of The Daily Show, and

[ad_1] Michelle Gallinger spends more than nine hours a day pressed against the grand walls of St. Ninian’s Cathedral. She’s slowly

[ad_1] The Weeknd and Roddy Ricch are the leading nominees for this year’s American Music Awards with eight apiece. Both

[ad_1] New Brunswick author, playwright and poet Richard Vaughan is being remembered as a talented writer and a trailblazer for

[ad_1] As COVID-19 continues to affect how people live and interact with each other, the Stratford Festival has launched Stratfest@Home

[ad_1] Fredericton police found the body of Richard Vaughan on Friday, 10 days after the New Brunswick writer was reported

[ad_1] Banksy’s playful take on a famous Impressionist painting has sold at auction for $9.8 million US, the second-highest price

[ad_1] Eight Canadian hip hop artists, including Maestro Fresh Wes and Jelleestone, have lent their voices to a new charity

[ad_1] The Globe Theatre in Regina has cancelled the remainder of its 2020/2021 season.  In a typical year the theatre

[ad_1] “How dark is she wanting to go?” a worker at an Oklahoma tanning salon asks, motioning toward a board

[ad_1] Alberta-raised Cree actor Alyssa Wapanatahk is set to play Indigenous princess Tiger Lily in Disney’s upcoming live-action film Peter

[ad_1] Sanaaj Mirrie says she can still remember the culture shock she experienced as a teenager arriving in Canada from

[ad_1] James Randi, a magician who later challenged spoon benders, mind readers and faith healers with such voracity that he

[ad_1] When Zendaya won last month’s Emmy Award for top drama series actress, her triumph seemed to underscore the TV

[ad_1] Pope Francis endorsed same-sex civil unions for the first time as pope while being interviewed for the feature-length documentary

[ad_1] Tegan and Sara’s teenage hurdles are headed to the small screen. The Calgary-raised pop duo have inked a deal

[ad_1] Rudy Giuliani is featured in a new mockumentary by comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, in a scene in which the

[ad_1] Short-video app Quibi said it is shutting down just six months after its early April launch, having struggled to

[ad_1] After an attempt to name a Metro station in his honour failed earlier this year, a Montreal opposition party is calling

[ad_1] A Sherwood Park teen will be voicing a role in an animated film based on popular children’s franchise Paw Patrol.

[ad_1] Canadian artist Kapwani Kiwanga has won one of France’s most prestigious visual arts prizes. The Hamilton-born, Paris-based creator received

[ad_1] The ImagineNATIVE Indigenous film and media arts festival is going online this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic but there’s still

[ad_1] To binge or not to binge will be the question for Shakespeare fans as the renowned Stratford Festival in

[ad_1] Author-commentator Jeffrey Toobin has been suspended by the New Yorker and is stepping away from his job as CNN’s

[ad_1] Academy-award winner Jeff Bridges, known for his role in the 1998 film The Big Lebowski, has been diagnosed with lymphoma,

[ad_1] Two Indigenous directors have made short films about the COVID-19 pandemic that are being featured in a National Film Board of Canada online

[ad_1] The latest episode of Saturday Night Live had a Canadian-themed sketch, complete with references to Drake, Degrassi and the CBC. Guest

[ad_1] Ten acclaimed Canadian acts will compete for the Polaris Music Prize tonight, including three previous winners of the prestigious

[ad_1] Little Orphans will stand alone on its real-life opening night this weekend: the only St. John’s International Women’s Film

[ad_1] The P.E.I. theatre community is hurting. Yet the CEO of the Confederation Centre of the Arts, for one, says he’s

[ad_1] Tatiana Maslany says she won’t be smashing her way through Marvel’s She-Hulk series. The Regina, Sask.-born actress insists there’s no

[ad_1] Atlanta police announced Friday that they have made an arrest in the shooting death of actor Thomas Jefferson Byrd.

[ad_1] Eight pairs of skaters are set to hit the ice for Battle of the Blades next week after production was

[ad_1] Naphtali Faulkner admits to a degree of deception in the early promotional materials for his video game Umurangi Generation.

[ad_1] This year’s recipient of The August Schellenberg Award of Excellence is Cree actor Lorne Cardinal. The imagineNATIVE Film +

[ad_1] Samuel L. Jackson’s Enslaved describes itself as a series that “sheds new light on 400 years of human trafficking from

[ad_1] Independent cinemas in Toronto and Ottawa are coming up with different ways to generate cash as COVID-19 restrictions force

[ad_1] The sobering musical Jagged Little Pill, which plumbs Alanis Morissette’s 1995 breakthrough album to tell a story of an American

[ad_1] Documentary filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin has won the $100,000 Glenn Gould Prize recognizing her lifetime contribution to the arts. The

[ad_1] The future of one of Edmonton’s oldest cinemas is uncertain as the Princess Theatre announced on Wednesday it’s temporarily

[ad_1] David A. Robertson will judge the First Page 2020 student writing challenge. The First Page student writing challenge is for Canadian

[ad_1] Young newcomers to the Island will get the chance to mix their mother tongues with a P.E.I. classic. Anne

[ad_1] Walking into the show with 16 nominations, Post Malone won nine honors at the 2020 Billboard Music Awards, where

[ad_1] After seven months of total blackout, cinemas reopened Thursday in several parts of India with few older titles on

[ad_1] Rapper Kanye West on Monday released his first official campaign video in his long-shot bid to be elected U.S.

[ad_1] A woman told Gilbert Rozon’s sex assault trial Tuesday that the entertainment mogul raped her 40 years ago in

[ad_1] Cineplex Inc. CEO Ellis Jacob says the country’s largest movie theatre chain is prepared to be “agile and nimble”

[ad_1] An op-ed by Megan Thee Stallion on the need to protect Black women was published Tuesday as Canadian rapper

[ad_1] Vancouver’s Chris Turner says his passion for helping people recover lost jewelry is all about the smiles. On Sunday,

[ad_1] Singer Tom Parker, formerly of the British-Irish boy band The Wanted, has revealed he has been diagnosed with terminal

[ad_1] Grammy-winning rapper and social-political activist Killer Mike will receive the first Billboard Change Maker Award at the 2020 Billboard

[ad_1] There is, perhaps, an irony in the experience of taking on the role of Diana, Princess of Wales, for

[ad_1] For many, it’s not Christmas without the dance of Clara, Uncle Drosselmeyer, the Sugar Plum Fairy, the Mouse King

[ad_1] American poet Louise Glück won the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday for her “candid and uncompromising” work, which

[ad_1] Though they may sit dusty on the shelf in Mom and Dad’s rec room or live boxed in a

[ad_1] The pandemic was a time of firsts for many members of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. “I can’t tell you

[ad_1] The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced Thursday it has acquired Ontario-based Cree artist Kent Monkman’s mistikôsiwak (Wooden Boat People). The grand diptych

[ad_1] Jack White will be the last-minute replacement musical guest on Saturday Night Live this weekend after country singer Morgan Wallen

[ad_1] Canada’s classical music community is mourning the loss of soprano Erin Wall who died from cancer on Oct. 8.

[ad_1] Many of us turn to the TV to escape to a place where everybody knows your name — or maybe

[ad_1] Audiences are set to be welcomed back to the Princess of Wales Theatre for the first time since the

[ad_1] Los Angeles prosecutors have charged Canadian rapper Tory Lanez with shooting fellow rapper Megan Thee Stallion during an argument earlier this

[ad_1] Fans of Broadway will have to wait a little longer for shows to resume — until at least late

[ad_1] Mohammad Reza Shajarian, whose distinctive voice quavered to traditional Persian music on state radio for years before supporting protesters

[ad_1] For Crystle Lightning, two life-changing events happened in the same week. Just four days after giving birth to her

[ad_1] Rihanna has apologized to the Muslim community, following an uproar against the inclusion of sacred Islamic texts at a lingerie

[ad_1] Producers are putting the upcoming season of Battle of the Blades on hold after an unidentified member of the production

[ad_1] More than forty years since its original release, Fleetwood Mac’s Dreams is back on the charts, thanks to a

[ad_1] Eddie Van Halen, the guitar virtuoso whose blinding speed, control and innovation propelled his band Van Halen into one

[ad_1] Johnny Nash, a singer-songwriter, actor and producer who rose from pop crooner to early reggae star to the creator

[ad_1] Country star Mac Davis, who launched his career crafting the Elvis hits A Little Less Conversation and In the Ghetto, and

[ad_1] Three novels and two short story collections have made the shortlist for the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize. The $100,000

[ad_1] Actor Thomas Jefferson Byrd, known for his roles in Spike Lee films, has been shot and killed in Atlanta,

[ad_1] Warner Bros. said late Monday it is delaying the release of Dune and The Batman movies, another setback for the entertainment

[ad_1] British rock band Led Zeppelin on Monday effectively won a long-running legal battle over claims it stole the opening guitar riff

[ad_1] A Chatham-Kent animator is one of a handful of others who worked on the graphics in rapper Cardi B’s

[ad_1] Three filmmakers from the Northwest Territories received exciting news this week and some serious recognition. Food For the Rest

[ad_1] Kenzo Takada, the iconic Franco-Japanese fashion designer famed for his jungle-infused designs and free-spirited esthetic that channelled global travel,

[ad_1] There was a collective groan among Prairie farmers when they saw the initial marketing poster for the movie Percy, dubbed

[ad_1] A Hamilton karaoke bar is letting its customers sing in the shower during the pandemic. To keep people safe, they’ve constructed