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TORONTO – A surprise trek to the far East did nothing to displace the direction of “The Amazing Race Canada,” with the dominant Olympians Meaghan Mikkelson and Natalie Spooner skating to yet another first-place finish in an episode that became a clash between two teams lost in the supermarket. Ultimately, spunky Toronto married duo Laura [...] Read More »

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – When a film student decided to revisit his criminal teenage past, he found a powerful ally in filmmaker Spike Lee. Lee was among Darius Clark Monroe’s professors at New York University’s film school when Monroe revealed to him that he had committed a bank robbery when he was 16 and had [...] Read More »

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – Michelle Dockery and Allen Leech of “Downton Abbey” say Cupid’s arrow is not headed for their characters. While talking to a TV Critics’ panel Tuesday, the actors said they find it “very funny” some fans are hoping for a romantic pairing for in-laws Lady Mary Crawley and Tom Branson. Both characters [...] Read More »

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – Gay actors shouldn’t have a monopoly on gay roles, award-winning stage and screen actor Nathan Lane said. Lane, who is gay and has played both straight and gay characters, was asked the question at a TV critics’ meeting Tuesday. He was there to discuss PBS’ presentation of the Broadway play “The [...] Read More »

NEW YORK, N.Y. – Fox can thank Derek Jeter and Jack Bauer for a strong week in the television ratings. Last week’s telecast of the Major League Baseball All-Star Game was seen by 11.3 million viewers and was the week’s most popular live program. The game had a bigger audience than any of the last [...] Read More »

Al BeeberLethbridge Heraldabeeber@lethbridgeherald.comIn the 1960s, “Don Messer’s Jubilee” was a staple of Canadian television, a musical institution who would draw fans from coast to coast to watch his blend of traditional fiddle music.Messer, along with fellow stars Charlie Chamberlain and Marg Osborne, were stars and while[...] Read More »

Steve Earle and the Dukes are heading to Lethbridge.Earle will be in Lethbridge playing at the Southminster United Church June 30 at 8 p.m., with The Masterson’s opening. His Lethbridge appearance will be part of a brief Canadian tour, which kicks off June 23 in Nanaimo, B.C., and wraps up here in southern Alberta.Earle released [...] Read More »

Al BeeberLETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com Every child, theoretically, leaves the proverbial nest at some point to face life as an adult with all the pressures and experiences that entails.I left Alberta five days before my 21st birthday for a 1,600-kilometre drive across the Prairies to northwestern Ontario in 1980 to start my newspaper career, loading up a [...] Read More »

Discovery Canada takes a light-hearted look at gold miningAl BeeberLethbridge Heraldabeeber@lethbridgeherald.comWhen Todd Ryznar bought the Straw Lake Beach Mine in Northwestern Ontario several years ago, he saw the property for its potential recreational and lakefront value.The native of nearby Fort Frances, Ont. and former real estate appraiser wasn’t planning to start his own mining venture. [...] Read More »

A band at the forefront of the grunge revolution in the ’90s will be making a tour stop in Lethbridge this summer. Alice in Chains will play The Enmax Centre Aug. 13 in support of the Grammy-nominated album, The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here, which entered Billboard’s Top 200 chart at No. 2, and debuted at [...] Read More »