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Hindu devotional singing is having a moment
By Canadian Press on February 21st, 2025
(RNS) — The winner of the 2025 Grammy Award for best new age, ambient or chant album — a category once dominated by Enya — was an album titled “Triveni,” meaning “the confluence of three rivers” in Sanskrit, an apt description for its weaving of Vedic chants, melodic flute and cello by India’s Chandrika Tandon, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Lady Gaga to perform a free concert on Rio’s Copacabana beach in May
By Canadian Press on February 21st, 2025
SAO PAULO (AP) — Lady Gaga has confirmed that she will perform a free concert on Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana Beach on May 3. “I’ve been dying to come perform for you for years and was heartbroken when I had to cancel years ago because I was hospitalized,” Gaga said Friday on social media. In ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Paul McCartney’s personal photos of Beatlemania bound for AGO in 2026
By Canadian Press on February 21st, 2025
TORONTO — A collection of Beatlemania photographs shot by Paul McCartney himself is headed to the Art Gallery of Ontario. The Toronto gallery says “Paul McCartney Photographs 1963-64: Eyes of the Storm” will make its Canadian debut in 2026. The exhibit includes video clips, archival materials and more than 250 photographs offering a behind-the-scenes look ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!The Oscars are more international than ever. So why is the international film category broken?
By Canadian Press on February 21st, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — For many filmmakers, the Oscars are a pipe dream. But not because they think their movies aren’t good enough. The Iranian director, Mohammad Rasoulof, for instance, knew his native country was more likely to jail him than submit his film for the Academy Awards. Iran, like some other countries including Russia, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Canadian funders wavered on another Scarborough film. But ‘Morningside’ had local support
By Canadian Press on February 21st, 2025
TORONTO — Fefe Dobson has toured the world, achieved pop-punk stardom and found a new home in Nashville, but she’s never truly left Scarborough behind. “I’ve seen the good and the bad of that part of the city,” the singer says of the east-end Toronto district where she grew up. “Scarborough has always had its ... Read More »
1 responseFrench street artist Shuck One pays tribute to Black history at Pompidou Center in Paris
By Canadian Press on February 21st, 2025
PARIS (AP) — French street artist Shuck One is honoring Black figures who shaped France’s recent history on the mainland and overseas, in an art installation being produced for an exhibition starting next month at the Pompidou Center in Paris. Shuck One is a Black graffiti and visual artist native of the Caribbean island of ... Read More »
1 responseWellness blogger Belle Gibson lied about having cancer. Years later, Australia is still chasing her
By Canadian Press on February 20th, 2025
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A decade after wellness influencer Belle Gibson admitted she didn’t have terminal brain cancer, which she claimed was cured by the healthy lifestyle that made her famous, her story has inspired a new Netflix series — and fresh outrage in Australia about the case’s lack of resolution. Authorities said this ... Read More »
1 responseMusic Review: Tate McRae’s ‘So Close to What’ entices with post-Britney Spears, dirty, breathy pop
By Canadian Press on February 20th, 2025
She can sing. She can dance. She’s mastered a sultry gaze. She can write a smutty phrase. Is Tate McRae the new princess of dirty, breathy pop? (Sorry, Britney Spears. A new Gen Z star approaches.) The “hardest working Canadian recording artist” award must surely go to McRae in 2025, who at age 21 has ... Read More »
1 responseMusic Review: Sam Fender’s pop-rock soars on his third album, ‘People Watching’
By Canadian Press on February 20th, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — As its title “People Watching” suggests, Sam Fender spends the bulk of his third studio album putting his observations about others — their histories, their futures, their troubles, their hopes — to music. The concept is simple. The results are anything but. Written by the English singer-songwriter over two years, the ... Read More »
1 responseWhen the pope is sick, Italians always gossip about who comes next – even before ‘Conclave’
By Canadian Press on February 20th, 2025
ROME (AP) — The pope looms so large in everyday Italian life that there are lots of expressions that make light of even a dark event like his death. “A pope dies, they make another,” goes one, suggesting how life goes on. “Every death of a pope …” starts another, indicating a rare occurrence. But ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!The man accused of stabbing Salman Rushdie declines to take the stand as the defense rests
By Canadian Press on February 20th, 2025
MAYVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — The New Jersey man on trial in the 2022 stabbing of author Salman Rushdie declined to testify in his defense Thursday as his lawyers rested their case without calling any witnesses. “No, I do not,” Hadi Matar, 27, said when asked by Chautauqua County Judge David Foley whether he wished to ... Read More »
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