Murray Wood: Elbows down, taxpayer subsidies for U.S. flights up
Murray Wood wonders why it's OK for Saskatchewan to prop up air travel to the U.S. with taxpayer dollars, but it was wro...
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Maddow beneficiary of scramble for attention by authors
NEW YORK - It's high season for books that pick apart Donald Trump's presidency, and Rachel Maddow is a big beneficiary. MSNBC's prime-time personality reached the second-biggest audience of her caree...
Sep 10, 2020
Academy Museum details plan for inaugural Miyazaki exhibit
The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures is finally opening its doors in Los Angeles in April with an exhibit celebrating the works of the legendary Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki. Envisioned as a jour...
Sep 10, 2020
Blue staters make their case in satirical 'Coastal Elites'
NEW YORK - Playwright Paul Rudnick has never been comfortable with the term "coastal elites," that sneering nod to educated professionals who live in California cities or along the Eastern seaboard. "...
Sep 10, 2020
Hollywood's inclusion problems still run deep, study finds
NEW YORK - As Hollywood searches for a response to the reckoning brought on by the death of George Floyd and the Academy Awards move to make Oscar nominees more inclusive, a new study captures how the...
Sep 10, 2020
Milan Fashion Week to include Black Lives Matter event
MILAN - The Italian fashion council's only Black designer has hailed as a ''breakthrough'' the inclusion of a Black Lives Matter event to the official September show calendar and the formation of a wo...
Sep 10, 2020
Maggie O'Farrell's Shakespearean 'Hamnet' wins Women's Prize
LONDON - Maggie O'Farrell won the Women's Prize for Fiction on Wednesday for "Hamnet," a novel that explores the lives of William Shakespeare's often-maligned wife and lost son. O'Farrell's novel beat...
Sep 10, 2020
Highs, lows of a Canadian hockey team goaltender exposed in "The Role I Played"
Sami Jo Small often felt conflicted about her role on the Canadian women's hockey team. The goaltender started 51 games for Canada over her decade on the national team. The on...
Sep 10, 2020
Review: A breakthrough in 'Broken Hearts Gallery'
The 25-year-old Australian actress Geraldine Viswanathan, having already stolen movies left and right, more straightforwardly owns "Broken Hearts Gallery," a glossy but spirited Gen-Y romantic comedy ...
Sep 10, 2020
Virus delays filming of 2 seasons of 'Atlanta' until 2021
LOS ANGELES - Earn and Paper Boi were last seen flying to Europe on "Atlanta," but they won't touch down until sometime next year. The acclaimed FX comedy starring creator Donald Glover as Earn and Br...
Sep 10, 2020
Oscars diversity criteria 'not about exclusion' say leaders
Any change to the Oscars is going get people talking, so the leaders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences were not exactly surprised that the new best picture inclusion standards became ...
Sep 10, 2020
OPINION
Sarah Mills: We need more 'regular guys' in the civic process
Standing in front of CEOs, lobbyists, advocates and others at a council meeting is not an exciting prospect, but Sarah M...
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The Evan Bray Show - Thursday, April 30
8:30 - A mega-farm in Saskatchewan is raising major concerns about debt, rapid expansion and financial pressures facing ...