- Quebec City begins 400th birthday celebration
- Quebec City's 400th birthday party begins Monday night with a major concert and a fireworks display in the city's historic Old Town. more »
- Writer Richard Wright, musician Paul Shaffer earn honours
- Novelist Richard Wright, author of Clara Callan, and Paul Shaffer, music director for David Letterman's late night talk show, are to be awarded the Order of Canada. more »
- Broadway, Hollywood choreographer Michael Kidd dies
- American choreographer Michael Kidd, who created dance for the stage musical Finian's Rainbow and the movie Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, has died. more »
- Ballet star Julio Bocca performs last dance before 300,000 fans
- Argentine ballet dancer Julio Bocca, dubbed the Baryshnikov of Latin America, leapt and pirouetted in public for the last time Saturday in front of an ecstatic throng of 300,000 people in Buenos Aires. more »
- Cirque du soleil acrobat hurt in hometown show
- Another accident has befallen a Cirque du soleil acrobat, with the victim facing surgery after a colleague landed on top of him during a Montreal show. more »
- San Francisco, Royal Opera record productions for the screen
- Taking a page from the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the San Francisco Opera has announced it will begin screening its productions in cinemas. more »
- Windsor, Ont., gets debut fringe festival next July
- A group of Windsor artists has joined the Canadian Association of Fringe Festivals and plans to stage its first fringe event next July. more »
- TV series to search high and low for Canadian Maria
- The cross-country search for a Canadian Maria von Trapp begins in January. more »
- U.S. theatre producers' group spotlights Broadway with new name
- The trade group behind the Tony Awards is bringing Broadway to the forefront by adopting a new name highlighting its connection to the Great White Way. more »
Music »
- Original recordings of Marley, Tosh lost: Jamaican officials
- Jamaican officials say a huge collection of music from the 1970s that includes original recordings by reggae icons Bob Marley and Peter Tosh has disappeared from the archives of the former Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation.
- Britney in 'dire need' of psychological help: Dr. Phil
- Television therapist Dr. Phil McGraw says he was with Britney Spears as she left her Los Angeles hospital only two days after a three-hour standoff with police that involved her two sons.
- Ne-Yo sues after being dropped from R. Kelly tour
- R&B singer Ne-Yo is suing the concert promoters of rapper R. Kelly's Double-Up tour, alleging he was fired as Kelly's opening act because fans and critics preferred him.
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TV »
- Leno, Kimmel to guest on each other's show
- Late-night talk-show hosts Jay Leno and Jimmy Kimmel say they're going to get around the problem of booking guests during the writers' strike by appearing on each other's show.
- Actors union urges members to boycott Golden Globes
- The U.S. film actors union says its members will boycott the Golden Globe Awards next weekend in solidarity with their writer colleagues.
- Premier outraged Idol skipping Saskatchewan
- Saskatchewan premier Brad Wall is calling on fans of Canadian Idol to lodge a protest after Saskatchewan was left of the list of audition locations this year.
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Books »
- Spanish company to produce Anne Frank musical
- Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, considered the most widely read book on the Holocaust, is being turned into a Spanish musical.
- Newly opened Mailer archive contains unpublished manuscripts
- An archive with more than 1,000 boxes of writing, letters and unpublished manuscripts belonging to celebrated American writer Norman Mailer has been opened to the public.
- Flashman author George MacDonald Fraser dies
- George MacDonald Fraser, author of the Flashman series of historical adventure yarns, died Wednesday, his publisher said. He was 82.
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Media »
- China puts limits on internet video
- China has decided to restrict the broadcasting of internet videos â?? including those posted on video-sharing websites â?? to sites run by state-controlled companies and will require providers to report questionable content to the government.
- Number of slain journalists up 244% over 5 years: watchdog
- The number of journalists killed in the field has skyrocketed by 244 per cent in the past five years, and more than half of the 86 reporters slain in 2007 fell in Iraq, according to an annual tally compiled by Reporters Without Borders.
- MC Hammer back with dance website
- Former rapper MC Hammer is taking on YouTube with plans for a new website dedicated to dance videos.
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Art & Design »
- Free days offered at French national museums
- Many national museums in France, including the venerable Louvre in Paris, will be offering free admission in the coming months.
- Ojibway artist Norval Morrisseau buried after month-long dispute
- Norval Morrisseau, one of Canadian's most acclaimed aboriginal artists, has finally been laid to rest after a protracted battle between his children and the man who cared for him in his final years.
- Artists face charges over fake nuclear blast on Czech TV
- A group of Czech artists who staged a fake nuclear blast over national television will be sent to criminal trial, a state prosecutor said Thursday.
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Film »
- There Will Be Blood tops honours from U.S. film critics society
- There Will Be Blood, a movie about a man's singular pursuit of oil, is gushing with honours, taking three honours from the U.S. National Society of Film Critics in its 42nd annual awards ceremony.
- No End in Sight documentary to become a book
- The documentary No End in Sight, about the wrong turns made by the U.S. government during the early days of its invasion of Iraq, is being turned into a book.
- Kite Runner, Lust, Caution nominated for U.K. film award
- Ang Lee's Lust, Caution and Marc Forster's The Kite Runner have been nominated in the best foreign-language film category of the British Academy Film Awards.
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