While Dudka doesn’t offer much detail in his post, festival spokesman Trevor Murphy confirmed Allie O’Manique’s account of what transpired. (Chris Donovan/Canadian Press) The outspoken singer, who took home the Polaris Prize for her album La Papessa last month, frequently asks her audience to welcome people of colour to the front of the stage. the artist […]
“The city has gone to hell and back, almost literally, with the fires and the collapse of the oilsands economy, so this is a chance to do something new, creative and unique for a community that could certainly use some help these days.” First appearing in the pages of The Incredible Hulk back in 1974, […]
It was just unbelievable,” said Olinyk. He said he believes the free tickets were a thank you for taking care of the musician on Monday. My dad, he’s the one that introduced me to Pink Floyd,” said Olinyk. I grew up listening to them. ‘Once-in-a-lifetime moment’ The next day, Waters’s promotions manager contacted Olinyk and offered […]
The Sun newspaper reported that Cowell was taken from his house on a stretcher and wearing a neck brace on Friday morning. Cowell, creator of America’s Got Talent, is due to appear as a judge on the new series of U.K. Cowell was photographed giving a thumbs-up sign as he returned to his west London home […]
You’ve helped someone out there. After her audition he told her he wanted to workshop with her. He is no longer a member of the Academy,” a film academy spokesperson said Thursday. “For years, many in power tried to divide & conquer women in order to dominate, control, & victimize them,” said actress Jessica Chastain […]
Anderson’s work, along with art from the other winners, will be exhibited at Vancouver’s Bau-Xi Gallery from Nov. Crawford, told CBC Arts in advance of the inaugural competition in 2015 that hosting an anonymous national art competition on the tiny island of just 10,000 inhabitants near Victoria, B.C., allows for the “decentralizing” of art. “It was important to […]
Weinstein believes that his email account — which is the only one he used throughout the time he was employed by the company — will contain information exonerating him, and therefore the company, from claims that may be asserted against them,” Weinstein’s lawyer wrote in an email to the Weinstein company, according to Thursday’s filing. It’s been a long time […]
The album, which set streaming records when it was released, includes the Top 10 hits Fake Love, Passionfruit and Portland. Representatives for the rapper and the Recording Academy didn’t reply to emails seeking comment. The person also said Drake did not submit any of the songs from the album to categories like song of the year, record […]
Former U.S. What planet are they on? The women said they didn’t report Halperin’s conduct at the time because they feared retribution or were embarrassed. Since then, millions of women and men have spoken out about their own experiences of being sexually harassed or assaulted via social media, using hashtags like #metoo. Halperin told CNN Wednesday […]
Did Gwyneth Paltrow and Angelina Jolie seal Harvey Weinstein’s fate? “I had no warning,” Judd said. Weinstein first offered to give her a massage, then, when she demurred, asked her to give him one, she said. And I said, ‘You do that, Harvey. “Am I proud of that? The part that shames myself says, ‘No.’ The part of […]
Through her work, she redefines traditional materials and re-imagines colonized histories.” Awije’jk, by Ursula Johnson, is a woven artwork made from black ash and sweetgrass. 9. An exhibition of work by all five of the 2017 shortlisted artists continues at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto through Dec. Johnson, born in Sydney, N.S., […]
Song use defended as ‘pretty legal’ The judge based the amount of the award on a hypothetical license fee that the party might have paid to use the song. He said the party purchased the music in good faith from an Australia-based library that had bought it from a U.S. “They could have said anything […]
I am still recovering.” Crystal Castles concerts scheduled for next month in Vancouver, Montreal and Toronto have been cancelled. It has taken me years to recover from enduring almost a decade of abuse, manipulation and psychological control. Glass left Polaris Prize-nominated electro-rock duo Crystal Castles, pictured here in 2009, three years ago citing ‘a multitude […]
on CBC’s Radio One morning program. It was designed and built by Xwalacktun, a Squamish and Namgis artist. One of five drums played by Vancouver Canucks’ official mascot Fin. Earlier this month Neel sent a letter to the B.C. “For somebody who is not from an Indigenous community to be taking that space, it felt disappointing to […]
Herman said he has emails that confirm Huett was talking with an executive producer for Project Runway about a role on the series, which The Weinstein Co. An aspiring actress sued Harvey Weinstein’s former company to allege it was aware of the disgraced film mogul’s sexual misconduct dating back to the 1990s. “Based on what I […]