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Montreal-set rom-com ‘Mile End Kicks’ among world premieres at TIFF’s 50th edition
By Canadian Press on June 26th, 2025
TORONTO — A rom-com about a love triangle set in Montreal’s music scene is among the films making their world premieres at the 50th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival. “Mile End Kicks,” from Toronto director Chandler Levack, stars Barbie Ferreira as a young music critic who moves to Montreal in 2011 to write ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Carnegie honors 20 ‘Great Immigrants,’ including composer Tania LeĂłn, for 20th anniversary
By Canadian Press on June 26th, 2025
Tania LeĂłn, the noted composer and conductor who also co-founded Dance Theatre of Harlem, never planned on emigrating to the United States. She wanted to move to Paris. When LeĂłn received the opportunity to leave Cuba on a resettlement flight to Miami in 1967, she took it, thinking she would eventually end up settling in ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Issey Miyake transforms the Cartier Foundation into living sculpture garden with light and movement
By Canadian Press on June 26th, 2025
PARIS (AP) — As Paris wilted under the ruthless June sun, Issey Miyake sent out a battalion of intergalactic fashion soldiers at the Cartier Foundation Thursday, shimmering between art and menswear apparel in a spectacle where even the light was a player. The late-morning sun bounced sharply off the art museum’s monumental steel pillars, forcing ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!These are the celebs who are attending Jeff Bezos’ Venice wedding
By Canadian Press on June 26th, 2025
VENICE, Italy (AP) — Oprah Winfrey arrived in Venice on Thursday, leading a star-studded guest list of celebrities descending on the lagoon city for the weekend wedding of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez. Winfrey’s private jet landed at Venice’s Marco Polo airport. The bride and groom pulled into the Aman Hotel dock on ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Cassie, Jane, Cudi and freak-offs: How Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ sex trafficking trial has played out
By Canadian Press on June 25th, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — Jurors at Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex trafficking trial were barely seated on the trial’s first day when they were shown a video of the hip-hop mogul viciously attacking his longtime girlfriend, the R&B singer Cassie. Over the next seven weeks, jurors heard from 34 witnesses. All were called to the stand ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Bezos and Sanchez arrive in Venice as protesters say their wedding highlights wealth inequality
By Canadian Press on June 25th, 2025
VENICE, Italy (AP) — Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez arrived in Venice, Italy, on Wednesday ahead of their star-studded weekend wedding, which has galvanized an assortment of protesters. Bezos waved from a water taxi as he and Sanchez arrived at the dock of the Aman Hotel on the Grand Canal with two security ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Denis Villeneuve to direct next James Bond film
By Canadian Press on June 25th, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — Denis Villeneuve is going from “Dune” to Bond. AmazonMGM announced Wednesday that Villeneuve will direct the next James Bond movie. The untitled film will be the first since the studio took creative reins of the storied film franchise after decades of control by the Broccoli family. Producers Amy Pascal and David ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Trump attacks the media for reporting on intelligence assessment of Iran strikes
By Canadian Press on June 25th, 2025
President Donald Trump is repeatedly condemning CNN and The New York Times for reports that call into question the damage caused by last weekend’s U.S. strikes of Iran — and downplaying his own intelligence analysts in the process. Trump on Wednesday called on CNN to throw out “like a dog” a reporter who has worked ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Senators challenge Trump’s proposed cuts to foreign aid and public media in contentious hearing
By Canadian Press on June 25th, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Senate panel challenged on a bipartisan basis the merits of cancelling billions of dollars in spending for foreign aid and public media as part of a contentious hearing Wednesday examining the White House’s request for the cuts. The House has already voted to claw back $9.4 billion as requested by President ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Movie Review: In ‘Sorry, Baby,’ Eva Victor makes a disarming debut
By Canadian Press on June 25th, 2025
The first thing to love about writer-director-star Eva Victor’s extraordinary debut “Sorry, Baby” is how she, as the young professor Agnes, tries, and fails, to hide a tryst with her neighbor. Agnes lives in a quaint New England home where her best friend and fellow former grad student Lydie (Naomi Ackie) is visiting. We are ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Arson ignites the Dennis Lehane-created Apple TV+ firebug series ‘Smoke’
By Canadian Press on June 25th, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — Author and screenwriter Dennis Lehane has a healthy respect for the power of fire. He learned that the hard way — surviving a house fire in Boston in his 30s. Lehane was living on the top floor of an apartment building when a propane tank on the roof exploded and started ... Read More »
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