Star Tracks Wrapped: Highlights and surprising standouts from this year in music
Star Tracks compiles the most interesting new music from a broad range of established and emerging artists. This week, we decided to share a couple of...
Head of National Gallery of Canada says institution in transition, not chaos
The National Gallery of Canada is in a period of transformation, not chaos, the institution’s interim director said weeks after four senior staffers were fired. Angela...
Cameron Crowe adores recording ‘Almost Famous’ cast album
NEW YORK (AP) — Cameron Crowe believes the spirit of a place lingers long after the moment has passed. That’s what makes recording the Broadway “Almost...
Harvard professor Tiya Miles wins Cundill History Prize for ‘All That She Carried’
MONTREAL – Harvard professor Tiya Miles’s book about the history of an enslaved mother and her daughter has won this year’s US$75,000 Cundill History Prize. Miles...
Britney Spears’ massive pop songs to land on Broadway, again
NEW YORK (AP) — A stage musical about woke princesses that uses hit songs by Britney Spears will land on Broadway this summer. “Once Upon a...
Revisiting ‘da Kink’: Playwright Trey Anthony on theatre, hair and Black self-love
Trey Anthony knows a thing or two about hair. So much so that she wrote a play about it. Set in a West Indian hair salon...
Ross Petty couldn’t leave 25 years of pantos behind without playing his ‘favourite evil person’
“There could be no alternative.” That’s Ross Petty’s response when asked why he’s come back to play Captain Hook in “Peter’s Final Flight,” the 25th and...
Director Lindsay MacKay on the health scare that drew her to ‘The Swearing Jar’
TORONTO – Hollywood loves a comeback story. But filmmaker Lindsay MacKay is among the rare few who can say that they came back from death. MacKay...
Snotty Nose Rez Kids give listeners some pandemic relief with ‘I’m Good, HBU?’
Boy, are these guys prolific. It’s been a little over a year since Snotty Nose Rez Kids dropped their Polaris Music Prize-shortlisted “Life After” and now...
Cormac McCarthy’s two-book, ‘literary double album’ ‘The Passenger’ and ‘Stella Maris’: Life in survival mode
The publication of “Stella Maris” only a month after “The Passenger,” Cormac McCarthy’s first novel since “The Road” in 2006, is just one of the odd...