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Canada's biggest documentary festival says it's dying. Documentarians worry they're next
News/Entertainment | Thu, 02 May 2024 04:00:00 EDTIt might seem like documentaries are everywhere we look, affecting and influencing how we perceive society and the world at large. But even as audiences clamour for true stories on their screens, the documentarians making them and festivals that feature them are sounding alarm bells about the future of the format. read more
American author Paul Auster, prolific and experimental man of letters and filmmaker, dead at 77
Books | Wed, 01 May 2024 08:52:11 EDTAuster was known for such inventive narratives and meta-narratives as The New York Trilogy and 4321. read more
Toronto's main 2SLGBTQ+ theatre in conflict with city hall over building violation
News/Canada/Toronto | Wed, 01 May 2024 05:00:00 EDTWith a month to go before the kickoff of Pride Month in Toronto, the city's premier queer theatre space is facing a city order that limits access to its main stage area. read more
This Tecumseh, Ont., man's record collection is drawing attention from some big names in music
News/Canada/Windsor | Wed, 01 May 2024 04:00:00 EDTSean Davidson's Instagram posts have been shared by Snoop Dogg and Kool & The Gang. The photographer started the account to share his enjoyment of his record collection. read more
Citytv talk show Cityline ending after 40 years
News/Entertainment | Tue, 30 Apr 2024 14:43:42 EDTCityline is coming to an end. Tracy Moore, who's been hosting the show since 2008, will move to a live, national hour-long lifestyle news and features segment as a part of Citytv's Breakfast Television. read more
Hell's Kitchen, Stereophonic lead Tony Awards with 13 nominations each
News/Entertainment | Tue, 30 Apr 2024 12:04:00 EDTTwo Broadway shows celebrating the origins of sonic creativity — the musical Hell's Kitchen powered by Alicia Keys songs, and the play Stereophonic about a '70s rock band at the edge of stardom — each earned a leading 13 Tony Award nominations Tuesday, a list that also saw a record number of women nominated for best director. read more
From one warrior princess to another, Lucy Lawless explores life of Margaret Moth
Radio/The Current | Tue, 30 Apr 2024 14:41:37 EDTLucy Lawless high-kicked her way to fame in Xena: Warrior Princess, but her new documentary focuses on photojournalist Margaret Moth, a “warrior princess in real life.” read more
Asoka makeup trend inspired by Bollywood is shining a spotlight on South Asian beauty
News/Canada | Tue, 30 Apr 2024 04:00:00 EDTThere's a new makeup trend taking social media by storm, with videos racking up billions of views and influencers going viral just for trying it, and Canadians have some of the most popular versions. read more
Who needs L.A. when you can build an animator’s oasis in Nova Scotia?
| Tue, 30 Apr 2024 10:35:37 EDTThe founder of Cartoon Conrad didn’t want to leave his hometown. So he brought the world to Beaver Bank, N.S., where he’s built a thriving animation studio on a 16-hectare farm. read more
Billie Eilish announces world tour, hitting 3 Canadian cities
News/Entertainment | Mon, 29 Apr 2024 16:23:46 EDTMusic superstar Billie Eilish is embarking on a worldwide arena tour this fall, kicking off in Quebec City on Sept. 29. The Grammy-winning musician will also be performing in Toronto and Vancouver in support of her soon-to-released album Hit Me Hard and Soft. read more
From one Great One to another: Gretzky pays tribute to late legendary broadcaster Bob Cole
News/Canada/Nfld. & Labrador | Mon, 29 Apr 2024 09:25:17 EDTTributes to Bob Cole continued to pour in over the weekend, including touching messages from Wayne Gretzky and Sidney Crosby on Hockey Night in Canada. read more
Is Zendaya the villain of Luca Guadagnino's Challengers?
Arts/Commotion | Fri, 26 Apr 2024 15:51:48 EDTCulture writers Hanna Flint, Kathleen Newman-Bremang and Jackson Weaver dig into why audiences will be talking about this movie for months to come. read more
Dancing onstage with Punjabi superstar Diljit Dosanjh a dream come true for 6-year-old B.C. fan
News/Canada/British Columbia | Sun, 28 Apr 2024 20:09:54 EDTA six-year-old Bhangra dancer from Surrey saw his dreams come true — and became part of history — when he danced on-stage with Punjabi superstar Diljit Dosanjh in front of a sold-out crowd at B.C. Place on Saturday. read more
The end of the world is trending. Why are we so obsessed with the apocalypse?
News/Entertainment | Sun, 28 Apr 2024 04:00:00 EDTJay Baruchel launched the second season of Crave series We’re All Gonna Die (Even Jay Baruchel) last week, a show that explores many possible apocalyptic scenarios. He's not alone in his fascination with the end of the world, as the recent wave of apocalypse-themed shows and movies shows. read more
I Don't Know Who You Are is a visceral race against time for a critical drug
News/Entertainment | Sat, 27 Apr 2024 12:00:00 EDTA life-changing drug and a closing window of time. Those are the elements that make the Toronto micro-budget movie I Know Who You Are an edge-of-your-seat watch. That, and the aching honesty of actor Mark Clennon, says CBC's Eli Glasner. read more
Challengers is a killer love triangle romance that hates love
News/Entertainment | Fri, 26 Apr 2024 04:00:49 EDTChallengers is a slow-building marvel that challenges everyone: its characters, on how far they'll go for the film's central theme; its writer, on the division between reality and fiction; and its viewers, on what they personally define as admirable and, conversely, as villainous. read more
Concert ticket system is 'broken,' say artists. But some experts say targeting resellers isn't the fix
News/Entertainment | Fri, 26 Apr 2024 17:24:24 EDTThe way concert tickets are sold is "broken," according to a new letter signed by more than 250 major recording artists including Billie Eilish, Blue Rodeo and Fall Out Boy. But as they call out "predatory" re-sellers, some experts say that's not the answer. read more
Punjabi superstar hits the B.C. Place stage
| Fri, 26 Apr 2024 21:33:00 EDTTwo years after performing to a sold out crowd at Rogers Arena, Punjabi hip-hop artist Diljit Dosanjh is back in Vancouver. As CBC’s Sohrab Sandhu reports, this time Dosanjh is taking it a step further, by performing to a bigger crowd at the B.C. Place stadium this weekend. read more
#MeToo founder says Weinstein's rape reversal hasn't killed the reckoning's movement
News/Entertainment | Fri, 26 Apr 2024 11:05:41 EDT#MeToo founder Tarana Burke has heard it before. Every time there's a legal setback, the movement is declared dead in the water. A legal success, and presto, it's alive again. read more
The Baby-Sitters Club books are wildly popular — again — and adults are loving the nostalgia
News/Canada | Fri, 26 Apr 2024 04:00:00 EDTWhen the graphic novel remake of Ann M. Martin's book Claudia and the Bad Joke was the best-selling kids book in Canada earlier this month, it was time for bookworms to feel their hearts flutter with nostalgia. The original, part of the wildly popular The Baby-Sitters Club series, was published in 1988. read more
