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Kennedy Center renaming prompts second cancellation
By Canadian Press on December 30th, 2025
A second group canceled scheduled performances at the Kennedy Center following the addition of President Donald Trump’s name to the facility, with jazz supergroup The Cookers pulling out of a planned New Year’s Eve concert, and the institution’s president saying the cancellations demonstrate the artists’ unwillingness to see their music as crossing lines of political ... Read More »
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By Canadian Press on December 30th, 2025
VANCOUVER — A Vancouver violinist who was threatened with legal action by the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra after breaking a non-disclosure agreement and speaking out about an alleged sexual assault by one of its former senior musicians says she won’t be intimidated into silence. Esther Hwang says the legal demand by her ex-employer instead is encouraging ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Nézet-Séguin’s path to the Vienna New Year’s concert began when he replaced banned conductor in 2022
By Canadian Press on December 30th, 2025
Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s path to the Vienna Philharmonic’s New Year’s Day concert started when he replaced a banned Russian conductor at New York’s Carnegie Hall in 2022 with the help of a pianist who traveled trans-Atlantic after practicing all night in a Berlin hotel bar. Just four days before Valery Gergiev was to lead the famed ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Kennedy Center renaming prompts new round of cancellations from artists
By Canadian Press on December 30th, 2025
More artists have canceled scheduled performances at the Kennedy Center following the addition of President Donald Trump’s name to the facility, with jazz supergroup The Cookers pulling out of a planned New Year’s Eve concert, and the institution’s president saying the cancellations belie the artists’ unwillingness to see their music as crossing lines of political ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!More musicians cancel Kennedy Center concerts following addition of Trump’s name to building
By Canadian Press on December 30th, 2025
More artists have canceled scheduled performances at the Kennedy Center following the addition of President Donald Trump’s name to the facility, with jazz supergroup The Cookers pulling out of a planned New Year’s Eve concert, and the institution’s president saying the cancellations belie the artists’ unwillingness to see their music as crossing lines of political ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘We’re anything but risky’: Simu Liu laments decline of Asian roles in Hollywood
By Canadian Press on December 30th, 2025
Even after achieving Marvel-level stardom, Simu Liu says he’s grown frustrated with Hollywood and his career. The Canadian actor argues the industry is once again treating Asian-led projects as a gamble, despite years of box-office success proving otherwise. “I feel like because of who I am and because of the faces that we have, we’re ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Brigitte Bardot’s funeral will be held next week in French Riviera resort of Saint-Tropez
By Canadian Press on December 30th, 2025
PARIS (AP) — The funeral for Brigitte Bardot will be held next week in Saint-Tropez, the glamorous French Riviera resort she helped make famous and where she lived for more than a half-century, local authorities said. The cinema star and animal rights activist died Sunday at the age of 91 at her home in southern ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!France grants citizenship to George and Amal Clooney and their twins Ella and Alexander
By Canadian Press on December 30th, 2025
PARIS (AP) — Call them Monsieur and Madame Clooney. France’s government says that George Clooney, his wife Amal and their twins Ella and Alexander have been awarded French citizenship. The naturalizations of the Kentucky-born star of the “Oceans” series of heist movies and his family were announced last weekend in the Journal Officiel, where French ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Movie Review: ‘The Plague’ dives into a sink-or-swim water polo camp
By Canadian Press on December 29th, 2025
The undercurrents of adolescent cruelty churn queasily in Charlie Polinger’s stylish first feature, “The Plague.” The title of Polinger’s film might bring to mind Stephen King or recent global history, but “The Plague” is set entirely around the clear, chlorinated pools and shadowy hallways of a water polo camp, circa 2003. There, 12-year-old Ben (Everett ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Hollywood stars Idris Elba, Cynthia Erivo recognized in New Year’s honor’s list
By Canadian Press on December 29th, 2025
LONDON (AP) — Britons ranging from Hollywood stars Idris Elba and Cynthia Erivo to a 102-year-old judo instructor have been named in King Charles III’s New Year’s honors list, an annual tradition that recognizes people for their contributions to U.K. public life. Elba, who starred as a drug dealer in “The Wire” and the president ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Movie Review: Daisy Ridley holds onto hope in the zombie thriller ‘We Bury the Dead’
By Canadian Press on December 29th, 2025
Movies that begin with a wedding often don’t bode well for the couple. Starting with the so-called happy ending can only really guarantee a reversal of fortune. In the case of “We Bury the Dead,” in theaters Friday, something cosmically catastrophic is coming: the accidental detonation of an experimental weapon that instantly wipes out some ... Read More »
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