Tag Archives: Entertainment

NEW YORK - Add Garth Brooks to the lineup of entertainers at the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden. "This is a great day in our household," the country music superstar said during a virtual pr...

NEW YORK - Sen. Josh Hawley has found a new publisher after his book was dropped by Simon & Schuster in the wake of the siege of the U.S. Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump. The conve...

LOS ANGELES - Phil Spector, the eccentric and revolutionary music producer who transformed rock music with his "Wall of Sound" method and who later was convicted of murder, has died. He was 81. Califo...

VANCOUVER - A prominent British Columbia businessman and philanthropist's defamation lawsuit against Twitter Inc. can proceed in a court in the province, a judge has ruled. Frank Giustra, founder of L...

NEW YORK - By page two of the pilot script for NBC's " Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist," Skylar Astin knew he wanted the role of Max Richman. The NBC musical series, now airing season two on Tuesdays, s...

MONTREAL - The Crown says it won't appeal the acquittals in the cases of Quebec media stars Gilbert Rozon and Eric Salvail. A spokeswoman for the director of criminal and penal prosecutions made the a...

OTTAWA - Emergency spending to deal with the COVID-19 crisis must not outlast the pain it's meant to salve, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has instructed Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland in a newly r...

British actor Kingsley Ben-Adir may not be a household name yet, but that's poised to change with his scene-stealing performance as Malcolm X in Regina King's "One Night in Miami...." The film, which ...

BOSTON - A major memorial honouring Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King is moving forward in Boston, where they met and studied in the 1950s. King Boston, the privately funded organization c...

NEW YORK - At age 22, poet Amanda Gorman, chosen to read at the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden, already has a history of writing for official occasions. "I have kind of stumbled upon this g...