For years, Theresa Joy of The Bridge worked multiple jobs to make ends meet.
Television

The Geminis: buddy, can you spare a tux?

Everyone looks like a million bucks at the Geminis. But most Canadian actors can't afford too much champagne, Gayle MacDonald reports

Yuja Wang, currently living in New York, has musical tastes that run from Bach to Rachmaninov to Ligeti to Feist.
Music

Yuja Wang plays to her strengths

Born in Beijing, the rising piano star moved to Calgary at age 14. Now 22, she's wowing audiences around the world

Elizabeth Renzetti
London Eye

The Lady’s not for dying

The undimmed spirit of Margaret Thatcher hangs over Kevin Spacey and company at the Old Vic

Charlotte Gainsbourg as She in ANTICHRIST directed by Lars von Trier
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Film Friday

Antichrist

It succeeds at being offensive, but fails in its ambition. Liam Lacey's review leads The Globe's weekly film package.

Hugh Dillon poses with his trophy for Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Supporting Role in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series at the 24th Annual Gemini Awards in Calgary, Saturday.

Flashpoint wins big at Gemini Awards

Slick cop drama snags three of the night's top honours in Canadian television

Portrait gallery panel faced choice restrictions: report

Blue-ribbon group, created to find home for Portrait Gallery of Canada, wasn't given access to key information on costs and tourism, documents show

Review

The bluesmen still flip, flop and fly

NASA put a man on the moon in 1969, the same year the then-named Downchild Blues Band (since shortened to Downchild) began the process of putting Canadian blues on the map.

British scientist admits writing call-girl blog

Researcher at University of Bristol reveals she is mysterious Belle de Jour, whose accounts of life as a prostitute were turned into books and a TV series

Fame Game

Morgan Freeman talks about his Prom Night in Mississippi

When the veteran actor tried to end a racially segregated high-school tradition, Canadian filmmaker Paul Saltzman put his life on hold to help him chronicle the tensions. The result: a racial divide bridged

Review

Michel Legrand: Out of disparate styles, an original showcase

Michel Legrand’s best songs are remarkably versatile, and can be shaped to fit almost any style.

Which Brit has the best American accent?

They've made the transition from Old Blighty to Tinseltown so well, you'd never know they eat pasties and pies

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Surreal sixties show gets the miniseries treatment

The Prisoner gets a new spin, set in an African desert, but the story remains as creepy as ever

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Q & A
Richard Curtis rocks the boat

Pirate Radio takes us back to the Sixties, when the BBC refused to play pop music

Richard Vaughan
DVDs
Blu-ray releases: You'll always remember these firsts

Steven Soderbergh's sex, lies and videotape won plaudits at Cannes

Warren Clements
On culture
Thunder from the land Down Under

If Britney Spears is lip-synching her way through a concert, should she have to disclose the fact?

Russell Smith
Pop Rocks
O Canada! Get rid of your vestigial tail

Five things that tweak a columnist's interest in a week's worth of pop-culture

Lynn Crosbie
Cityspace
Want eco-friendly towers? Start by digging deep

Four new luxury towers going up in downtown Toronto have missed the opportunity to tap into geothermal energy – and reduce their energy footprints accordingly

Lisa Rochon
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