Academy Awards

Your picks for best and worst dressed

We tallied your votes on who glittered and who flopped

Artist Robert Lepage in Quebec City April 9, 2008.
Theatre

Two Toronto venues to host works by Robert Lepage

Canadian director's Eonnagata, to be staged at the Sony Centre, features wardrobe by Alexander McQueen

Artists of the ballet in Swan Lake.
Dance

Radical Swan Lake gets fifth revival

Purists may hate James Kudelka’s rethink, but dancers are intrigued

Joe Strummer snarls through the Clash's first Toronto gig.
Photography

Dispatches from the punk front

The images at a Toronto photography exhibit aren't professional, but their impact may be greater because of it

This is Saturday July 2, 2005 file photo of Pink Floyd's Dave Gilmore, left, Roger Waters, second left, Nick Mason, second right, and Rick Wright, at the end of their set at the Live 8 concert in Hyde Park, London.

Digital Music

Pink Floyd wins battle with EMI over online sales

Contract, negotiated a decade ago, prohibits selling individual tracks

Biography

Trudeau biographer wins Shaughnessy Cohen Prize

History professor, former Liberal MP John English takes $25,000 political-writing award

Paralympic Culture

These shows are not about being disabled

‘People are just people and we just want to show what regular people are up to,’ creator of Spine says

Shaw Festival lockout takes 170 off the job

Sticking point surrounds the right to contract out facilities jobs

Three Canadian stops planned on Conan O'Brien's tour

Former Tonight Show host announces 30-city tour, including tops in Vancouver, Toronto and Enoch, Alta.

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John Doyle: Television
Trucks, tanks, logs and other vroom-vroom fare

This so-called manly fare is harmless enough and at least it puts the spotlight on guys whose jobs aren’t glamorous

Wading in where other loggers dare not go, Swamp Loggers is featured on Discovery Channel.
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Russell Smith: On Culture
The local in international fiction

Let's be honest: We lose the Canuck references to sell books to Americans

Russell Smith
Lynn Crosbie: Pop Rocks
Sandra Bullock snags a sweetheart deal

Once dubbed box-office poison, the Oscar winner finds she’s getting better press

Lynn Crosbie
Elizabeth Renzetti: In London
Fearing a knife, the BBC wields a scalpel

Under assault, the BBC rethinks its focus

elizabeth renzetti headshot
Johanna Schneller: Fame Game
Under-appreciated? Not any more

On his fifth try, Jeff Bridges will likely get his best-actor due

Johanna Schneller
R.M. Vaughan: Q&A
Even when Ethan Hawke plays a loser, he’s still the coolest guy in the room

Hawke plays a hard-luck cop in Brooklyn’s Finest

Richard Vaughan
Warren Clements: Word Play
It doesn’t get more random than this

If any word were to have a random array of meanings, it makes sense that that word would be “random.”

Warren Clements
Video
Liam Lacey in 60 seconds

Globe film critic Liam Lacey discusses what's up on screen, at the festivals, and at the box office. This week: From Paris With Love and J'ai tue ma mere (I Killed my Mother).

Xavier Dolan, left, and François Arnaud star in Dolan’s autobiographical debut J’ai tué ma mère, in which a young gay man comes of age.


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