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No burgers but plenty of crawfish at this iconic New Orleans music festival
By Canadian Press on April 23rd, 2025
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival kicks off on Thursday, bringing together a smorgasbord of the city’s most iconic homegrown artists for the next two weeks. The festival, which draws hundreds of thousands of attendees, began in 1970 as a homage to the sounds of the birthplace of jazz and ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Carly Rae Jepsen, Lena Dunham adapting ’10 Things I Hate About You’ for Broadway
By Canadian Press on April 23rd, 2025
TORONTO — Carly Rae Jepsen has been tapped to help adapt the teen rom-com “10 Things I Hate About You” for the Broadway stage. Producers say the singer-songwriter from Mission, B.C., will write the music with Ethan Gruska, while Lena Dunham and Jessica Huang will write the book. The musical, produced by Mike Bosner, will ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Hot Docs one step closer to selling Ted Rogers Cinema after conditional offer
By Canadian Press on April 23rd, 2025
Hot Docs is one step closer to selling its flagship theatre that’s located in Toronto’s midtown Annex neighbourhood. The festival says it has accepted a conditional offer for Ted Rogers Cinema, which was put up for sale last year amid financial difficulties. It’s not sharing the name of the buyer as it waits for the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Movie Review: A tactile, retro-coded fantasy in ‘The Legend of Ochi’
By Canadian Press on April 23rd, 2025
“The Legend of Ochi,” a scrappy and darkly whimsical fable about a misunderstood teenage girl on a dangerous quest, has the feeling of a film you might have stumbled on and loved as a kid. Something tactile, something fantastical and, maybe, something a little dangerous — the kind of movie you knew you probably weren’t ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Charles Burnett on the never-ending battle of ‘Killer of Sheep’
By Canadian Press on April 23rd, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — Charles Burnett has been living with “Killer of Sheep” for more than half a century. Burnett, 82, shot “Killer of Sheep” on black-and-white 16mm in the early 1970s for less than $10,000. Originally Burnett’s thesis film at UCLA, it was completed in 1978. In the coming years, “Killer of Sheep” would ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Weinstein’s #MeToo rape retrial opens with added allegations from a former model
By Canadian Press on April 23rd, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — Opening statements in Harvey Weinstein ’s #MeToo rape retrial began Wednesday with a prosecutor telling jurors about the three allegations at issue in the case, including one involving a woman who wasn’t part of the original trial in 2020. Weinstein’s lawyer countered that the women and the one-time Hollywood powerbroker had ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Tina Knowles is tracing the throughline of Beyoncé and Solange’s success
By Canadian Press on April 23rd, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — Many of Tina Knowles’ fondest childhood memories are of sitting under a pecan tree as her mother recited the history of their family, stretching back generations. Now, the mother of Beyoncé and Solange has given her own story to the world with “Matriarch: A Memoir,” out this week. “Beyoncé and Solange ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Movie Review: ‘On Swift Horses’ is a fumbled queer tale set against atomic blasts
By Canadian Press on April 23rd, 2025
Muriel, a waitress in 1950s America, seems to be the quintessential June Cleaver. She’s got a loving husband, a suburban house with a white picket fence in California and nice outfits. But not everything is as it seems, like her secret gambling. And her eye for a neighbor. “On Swift Horses,” based on Shannon Pufahl’s ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!No Canadian finalists make Griffin Poetry Prize short list for first time
By Canadian Press on April 23rd, 2025
TORONTO — No Canadians are in the running for the Griffin Poetry Prize for the first time in the literary award’s 25-year history. The short list announced today consists of five collections written by American, European and Cuban poets and translators, meaning there’s no chance of a homegrown winner for the $130,000 prize. The Griffin ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Bryan Adams plans 19 Canadian stops on North American tour
By Canadian Press on April 23rd, 2025
TORONTO — Bryan Adams is setting forth on an extensive run of Canadian concert dates later this year. The “Summer of ’69” rock singer has announced plans to perform 19 dates across the country as part of his Roll With the Punches tour. The Canadian leg begins in Kamloops, B.C. on Sept. 11 and rolls ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Harvey Weinstein’s rape retrial opens at a different #MeToo moment
By Canadian Press on April 23rd, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — Opening statements began Wednesday in Harvey Weinstein ’s rape retrial, five years after his original #MeToo trial delivered a searing reckoning for one of Hollywood’s most powerful figures. The case is being retried because an appeals court threw out the landmark 2020 conviction. The retrial is happening at the same Manhattan ... Read More »
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