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Tracy Morgan said Monday he doesn’t remember anything about the limo accident that left him in a coma for two weeks, and said that, a year later, he still has bad days as well as good. App...

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1. “I WAS TRYING TO IMPRESS A GIRL.” “A big part of our process is we don’t believe in too much process,” explains Stephen Appleby-Barr, 30, of Team Macho, a collective of four artist...

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The night before first-time director Jacob Wiebe started production on his short film The Ballerina , he was knee deep in  garbage. In the flurry of preparations ahead of shooting, the corset w...

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The howling coming from King Street Tuesday morning was also, to some extent and in some quarters, a call-to-knives-sharpening where a certain one-named global icon is concerned. MADONNA , whose...

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– LINDSAY LOHAN has been spotted spending time with AN AUSSIE ACTOR . Lucky him! – KENDRA WILKINSON shared some pics from her “family photo shoot” ON HER BLOG . Cute kid! -I am s...

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LITTLE DRAGON RITUAL UNION (Peacefrog) Though it’s not nearly as bad as it has been, women are still hopelessly underrepresented in the music world. Even in the independent leagues, which ...

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The trailer for Cameron Crowe’s documentary Pearl Jam Twenty was released on Tuesday, hot on the heels of news that it will be premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival this fal...

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The family of Amy Winehouse gathered at a north London cemetery on Tuesday to bid farewell to their “angel,” three days after the troubled singer was found dead at her home. Some 100 mour...

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In 1924, Gershwin’s clarinet glissando opening Rhapsody in Blue captured the laziness of steaming downtown Manhattan, of a New York in full heat. Evelyn Knight’s demure Powder Your Face with...

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The ex-husband of actress Sandra Bullock has called off his wedding to new girlfriend, tattoo artist and reality TV star Kat Von D. Jesse James, 42, announced his engagement less than a year ...

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You know you’re in for a good night when you show up to a venue five minutes after doors open and find a line down the block and a bluegrass band busking on the sidewalk. As it turned out, ...

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As if you weren’t already watching Kanye West and Jay-Z’s every move for news on Watch the Throne : This fall, you’ll be able to watch them live, when the hip-hop moguls team up for a Nort...

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For the first time in 36 years, the Toronto International Film Festival will open with a documentary. Davis Guggenheim’s From the Sky Down, a portrait of Irish band U2 will have its world prem...

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This summer, the elegant facade of the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal carries an unexpected image, a mural-size photographic blow-up of a 1940s U.S. Army tank. It announces the pre...

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Cowboys & Aliens , which opens in theatres across the continent Friday, has been in development since the late 1960s. Sort of. “I came up with the name when I was a kid,” explains Scott Mi...

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It had come to this: a friend and I had already started taking bets on what colour turban the boulevardier would deign to wear to his hotel opening. “It’s gotta be white. White is the uno...

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BY CHRIS LACKNER It’s always tough being the other woman, and no one knows that better than Emma Stone. In the franchise reboot The Amazing Spider-Man , the 22-year-old actress plays Gwen...

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BY MIRANDA FURTADO What do Nicki Minaj and Ricky Martin have in common other than rhyming first names? The two singers are the newest faces of MAC Cosmetics’ AIDS Fund Viva Glam initiative. ...

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A post mortem examination on British singer Amy Winehouse, who died at the weekend, failed to determine how she died and more toxicology tests are being carried out, with the results expected in...

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The story of the Chilean miners is coming to the big screen. Black Swan producer Mike Medavoy has bought the rights to the story of the 33 workers trapped underground for 69 days after the mine ...

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BY JONATHAN GOLDSTEIN WEDNESDAY My flight to New York is a bumpy one. Although I normally pride myself on dressing in an aerodynamic, wind-cheating manner — favouring pointy shoes and wraparoun...

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BY MIKE DOHERTY It’s hard not to feel cheated by Amy Winehouse’s death. Not that she owed anything to her fans — apart from those who bought tickets for her shambolic concerts in recent ...

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With news of Bob Dylan’s rapping grandson, Pablo, dropping a mixtape, you really have to wonder how awesome a Dylan family reunion must be. The 15-year-old released 10 Minutes , which he...

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BY CHRIS LACKNER With great power comes great responsibility. It’s one of the lessons Peter Parker learns from his uncle and one that new Spider-Man Andrew Garfield and his director have tak...

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Canadian songstress Leslie Feist on Monday revealed some details surrounding an upcoming release, her first album since 2007. The album, which will be titled Metals, is slated for an Oct. 4 r...

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Amy Winehouse’s devastated father, Mitch, has vowed to LEARN THE TRUTH about what happened in her final hours, while her mother said she met Amy for lunch the day before her death, where she ...

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RECAP IN 140: Sookie gets closer to Eric. Bill gets closer to the witch. Sam and Tommy bond, and it wasn’t terrible. THE EPISODE: You know, I think we’re getting somewhere. Things actually ha...

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RECAP IN 140: Vince went to rehab for three months and all he got was this lousy movie-of-the-week idea. Also, Johnny’s bananas; E and Sloan are dunzo. EPISODE SUMMARY: So, here we are. The las...

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You show up for work, and it’s there. You finish work, and it’s there. You wake up in the morning thinking about what you’re going to do at work, and, look: it’s there again. Booze. O...

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BY LISA RICHWINE LOS ANGELES – Superhero movie “Captain America: The First Avenger” triumphed at the U.S. and Canadian box offices with US$65.8-million in weekend ticket sales as the mag...

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BY SONDRA GOTLIEB Lately I have been going to a lot of museums — mostly because my husband loves art, and whether it’s the Frick or the Metropolitan or some obscure art show in some obscur...

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BY BOB TOURTELLOTTE LOS ANGELES – Soul singer Amy Winehouse, who died unexpectedly at age 27, received numerous tributes on Saturday from ordinary fans around the world and music luminaries ...

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Movie fans like to play “Where are they now?” Battle Beyond the Stars answers the question: “Where were they then?” Roger Corman’s low-budget, oddly appealing space opera, just rele...

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Back in the 1960s, there was a gently rocking musical based on Twelfth Night entitled Your Own Thing , which is a pretty fair translation of the original play’s subtitle What You Will . More r...

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THROUGH JULY AND AUGUST MICROSOFT HIGHLIGHTS SOME OF THE BEST NEW DOWNLOADABLE GAMES WITH THEIR ANNUAL SUMMER OF ARCADE EVENT . DANIEL KASZOR LOOKS AT THE FIRST RELEASE, BASTION. Bastion is what ...

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Community activism can move mountains. But can it stop them from being moved? That’s the question behind this earnest if somewhat scattershot documentary by Bill Haney ( The Price of Sugar ...

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BY MIKE COLLETT-WHITE AND TIM CASTLE  LONDON — Amy Winehouse, one of the most talented singers of her generation whose hit song “Rehab” summed up her struggles with addiction, died in L...

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Seventy years ago — in the summer of 1941 — two remarkable things happened in baseball. First, Ted Williams, the young, arrogant beanpole outfielder for the Boston Red Sox, became the last p...

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There is nothing my husband Mike likes better than playing music for other people. He was once a teenaged DJ, the guy who did your school social. A few years ago I found a tape of the college ra...

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BY IAIN REID The first time I ever gave a reading I was unreasonably nervous. It wasn’t something I’d planned to do. It just kind of happened. I was unprepared, stumbled and misread simple...

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Every time Misha Glouberman, subject of The Chairs Are Where the People Go , walks into a bookshop, he finds the title in a different section of the store. Certainly, a grab bag of descriptors m...

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Jacob Striker, the cop hero of Sean Slater’s novel The Survivor , is well named. He strikes while the iron is hot — and the iron in this case, the city of Vancouver, never cools. At one poin...

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THE PIRATES OF SOMALIA: INSIDE THEIR HIDDEN WORLD BY JAY BAHADUR HARPERCOLLINS CANADA 302 PP; $29.99 REVIEWED BY RICHARD POPLAK “Here I stand, pissed and bleeding,” Christopher Hitchens...

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REINVENTING THE ROSE BY KENNETH J. HARVEY DUNDURN 328 PP; $22.99 REVIEWED BY CHRISTOPHER SHULGAN Every pregnancy is a story, a nine-month narrative that begins with two characters and, idea...

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Fifteen years ago, when Peter Behrens first sat down to write about his family, he got partway into the story before realizing he needed to go further back in time. Before he could tackle these ...

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BY REBECCA ECKLER As an author, I expect many things. I expect to write and rewrite drafts until I can no longer read my own words. I expect to be edited. I expect that, at the end of a couple...

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NEW YORK — A trove of unpublished photographs of the Beatles’ first U.S. concerts snapped by a Washington teenager in 1964 sold for more than US$360,000 at auction, many times their estimate...

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When Tino Ponce describes his life as a tightrope walk, he knows what he’s talking about. The genial Mexican is the face, voice and much of the labour behind Gran Circo Mexico, a century-old t...

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Paul Watson is not allowed inside the International Whaling Commission meetings. Organizers have cancelled his hotel reservation, and they are not letting him through the door. But the environme...

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BY KATHERINE MONK He’s been targeted as much as any of the creatures he’s tried to protect for the past 30 years, and that’s one of the central reasons why Paul Watson is such a fascinat...

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