Academy Awards

Your picks for best and worst dressed

We tallied your votes on who glittered and who flopped

Wainwright: The music on his new album, All Days Are Nights: Songs for Lulu, has a Gallic, pop-classical feeling, with traces of Broadway pathos.
Music

The best and worst of times for Rufus Wainwright

There’s grief after the recent death of his mother Kate McGarrigle, but there’s optimism too.

Film Friday

Sex, drugs and all-girl rock 'n' roll

3 Stars

Floria Sigismondi's film captures the sleaze and innocence of an era

Peter Donaldson as Marc, Evan Buliung as Yvan and Colin Mochrie as Serge.
Theatre

Three friends and a painting: Run, don’t walk

3.5 Stars

The timing of the actors is impeccable in this comic deconstruction of art and friendship

Dead Sexy Inc.: Several strikes against them.
Music

What’s in a name? Don’t ask

Canadian Music Week groups give bar bands a bad name

Carsick Cars front man Zhang Shouwang

Music

When it comes to indie rock, is Beijing 2010’s Montreal?

First, t he SXSW tonight. Then, a 10-city tour. It's a Chinese invasion

Canadian sci-fi author convicted of assault in border inspection case

Peter Watts, Hugo Award nominee, guilty of obstructing and resisting a police officer, faces up to two years in prison

Theatre

Before the curtain rises, shouts of foul play

Theatres across Canada are stirring up controversy in more than the usual ways

Books

Are we throwing complexity in the trash?

As we repackage reality, do we lose touch with truth?

Ottawa appeals for donations to erect Oscar Peterson statue

Fundraising goal is $210,000 to honour Canadian jazz legend outside the National Arts Centre, near Parliament Hill

Celeb tweeters help stop apparent suicide attempt

Twitter accounts belonging to Demi Moore and Nia Vardalos part of chain that informed police of suicide threat

Music in Film

This movie isn’t broken. It rocks

Broken Social Scene stars in Bruce McDonald’s latest film, screening at the SXSW Festival

Obituary

Fess Parker, TV's Davy Crockett, dies at 85

Actor who launched a craze for coonskin caps was also TV's Daniel Boone and later a major California winemaker and developer

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Johanna Schneller: Fame Game
One casualty of war: the box-office bomb

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Russell Smith: On Culture
A mouldy old phrase worth pondering

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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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