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Louis Vuitton, Miu Miu close Paris Fashion Week with competing visions of nature

By Canadian Press on March 10th, 2026

PARIS (AP) — Louis Vuitton ‘s Nicolas Ghesquière built a fake mountain range inside the Louvre and sent models climbing through it. On Tuesday he closed out a starry Paris Fashion Week with folklore treated as high fashion — capes, cowbells, shearling caps and walking sticks draped with handbags. Ghesquière called the collection “Super Nature” ... Read More »

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Woman faces first court appearance after shots were fired at Rihanna’s house

By Canadian Press on March 10th, 2026

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Florida woman arrested on suspicion of firing gunshots at Rihanna’s Los Angeles home while 10 people were inside is expected to make her first court appearance on Tuesday afternoon. Prosecutors said they are reviewing a case presented by police and 35-year-old Ivanna Lisette Ortiz is expected to be arraigned later ... Read More »

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Best cat? Funniest prop? Ahead of the Oscars, the AP hands out its own awards

By Canadian Press on March 10th, 2026

Awards season has a way of diminishing the movie year into a handful of films that are talked about ad nauseam for months. But as good as some of this year’s Oscar nominees are, you have to go outside the consensus — and the same old categories — to remember the best of 2025. So ... Read More »

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Nicole Kidman and Jamie Lee Curtis adapt ‘Scarpetta’ book series for TV

By Canadian Press on March 10th, 2026

NEW YORK (AP) — When Jamie Lee Curtis’ blockbuster film “True Lies” premiered worldwide, it would’ve been improbable to think that 30 years later she would be giddy about a TV show — about as improbable as performing her iconic helicopter stunt without special effects. “I guarantee you when I was … literally hanging under ... Read More »

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Former CBC anchor says the broadcaster ‘silenced and intimidated’ him

By Canadian Press on March 10th, 2026

OTTAWA — Former CBC television reporter and anchor Travis Dhanraj told a House of Commons committee today that the public broadcaster “silenced and intimidated” him. When Dhanraj, who hosted “Canada Tonight,” announced his departure in an email to CBC staff in 2025 he called out what he claimed was a culture of “retaliation, exclusion and ... Read More »

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Italy buys Caravaggio painting for about $35 million, one of its largest payouts for a single work

By Canadian Press on March 10th, 2026

ROME (AP) — Italy has bought a rare portrait by baroque painter Caravaggio for 30 million euros (about $35 million), one of the largest state investments ever for a single artwork, the country’s Culture Ministry said Tuesday. The portrait, painted around 1598 and attributed to Caravaggio in 1963, depicts Maffeo Barberini, a nobleman who later ... Read More »

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Italy buys Caravaggio painting for 30 million euros, one of its largest payouts for a single work

By Canadian Press on March 10th, 2026

ROME (AP) — Italy has bought a rare portrait by baroque painter Caravaggio for 30 million euros, one of the largest state investments ever for a single artwork, the country’s Culture Ministry said Tuesday. The portrait, painted around 1598 and attributed to Caravaggio in 1963, depicts Maffeo Barberini, a nobleman who later became Pope Urban ... Read More »

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Gustavo Dudamel’s tenure as New York Philharmonic music director opens at Radio City Music Hall

By Canadian Press on March 10th, 2026

NEW YORK (AP) — When Gustavo Dudamel first walked into the New York Philharmonic music director’s office, he noticed black-and-white photos that included Leonard Bernstein, Gustav Mahler and Willem Mengelberg. Ready to succeed them as music director on Sept. 1, he added the only color shot in the room: himself with his mentor, José Antonio ... Read More »

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Amanda Leduc, Katie Kitamura among 15 authors longlisted for Carol Shields Prize

By Canadian Press on March 10th, 2026

TORONTO — Books by Amanda Leduc, Megha Majumdar and Katie Kitamura are among the 15 titles longlisted for the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction. The US$150,000 award is the world’s largest literary purse for English-language books by women and non-binary writers, and it’s open to American and Canadian authors. Hamilton-based Leduc made the list for ... Read More »

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Oscars performers include trio behind HUNTR/X, Misty Copeland, Josh Groban and Raphael Saadiq

By Canadian Press on March 10th, 2026

Josh Groban, Misty Copeland and the singing voices behind HUNTR/X are all taking the stage at the Oscars, just not at the same time. The show’s producers on Tuesday revealed more details about Sunday night’s big performances of the Oscar-nominated songs “Golden,” from “Kpop Demon Hunters,” and “I Liked to You,” from “Sinners.” Miles Caton ... Read More »

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‘Dancing with the Stars’ pro Mark Ballas leaps back to Broadway in ‘Chicago’

By Canadian Press on March 10th, 2026

NEW YORK (AP) — Mark Ballas is returning to Broadway in “Chicago” and the “Dancing with the Stars” pro will be reuniting with an old friend. Ballas, playing slippery lawyer Billy Flynn starting April 6, will share the stage with his Roxie, Whitney Leavitt, the “Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” star who was his dancing ... Read More »

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