Arts

Avril Lavigne, Tantoo Cardinal among Canada’s Walk of Fame inductees

Michael Oher, former NFL tackle known for The Blind Side, sues to end conservatorship

Author-illustrator Loren Long, who worked with Barack Obama, Madonna, gets six-figure book deal

Broadway-bound revival of The Wiz finds its next Dorothy, thanks in part to TikTok

Taylor Swift cost breakdown: Thrilled fans to start saving, but say cost of Toronto trip is worth it

CNN revamps schedule, with new roles for Phillip, Coates, Wallace and Amanpour

Montreal Pride parade to go on as planned Sunday after abrupt 2022 cancellation

Jasper aerialist hangs in world’s most precarious environments to call attention to climate change

From on-stage sex scenes to believable kisses, intimacy coaches are helping opera performers navigate tricky territory

Soulpepper’s Detroit: Music of the Motor City drives home its message

Time to test yourself on all the Taylor Swift knowledge you gained this week

Five missing artifacts flagged by auditor found by Canadian Museum of History

Six Nations leaders say Robbie Robertson gave cultural centre invaluable support

How the Hollywood strikes affect celebrity hair, makeup and nail stylists

Hip hop and justice: Culture carries the spirit of protest, 50 years and counting

Musical sensation ‘Six’ hopes to empower audiences with pop numbers, power ballads

Audit finds 800 items missing from Canadian history museum, no plan to deal with it

Nautical Dracula thriller The Last Voyage of the Demeter is wham-bam-thank-you-Bram silliness

What to watch this weekend: HBO’s Telemarketers makes a call you can’t avoid, plus Hijack sticks the landing on Apple TV+

Emmys pushed to January as Hollywood strikes press on

Canadian television giant Blue Ant Media acquires Marblemedia to create ‘super-charged’ studio

Robbie Robertson was the chief craftsman behind The Band’s music

Netflix’s Painkiller packages up opioid crisis with slick, dramatized prescription

Toronto doc director Daniel Roher remembers Robbie Robertson as risk-taker and artist

Taylor Swift’s T.O. stops create opportunities, risks for brands tied to show: marketers

Canadians on the hunt for Taylor Swift tickets are left out in the code

Hollywood strike matches the 100-day mark of the last writers’ strike in 2007-2008

‘You have to have a strategy’: Taylor Swift fans prepare to snatch up Toronto tickets

Cirque du Soleil barely survived the pandemic, but its flagship Vegas show, O, sails on

Lost albums by Mort Garson, Nina Simone, John Coltrane and Neil Young have fans over the moon

Love-triangle drama Passages is a messy romance that breaks up before you have the chance to reject it

Tory Lanez gets 10 years in prison for shooting Megan Thee Stallion

Taylor Swift and SZA lead 2023 MTV Video Music Award nominations

Netflix’s Sylvester Stallone documentary Sly to close TIFF

Star soprano Anna Netrebko sues Met Opera over its decision to cut ties over Russia-Ukraine war

Mourners in Ireland pay respects to singer Sinéad O’Connor at funeral procession

Canadian documentary Satan Wants You gets lost by the devil in the details

Tory Lanez’s father, son appeal to judge before rapper’s sentencing for Megan Thee Stallion shooting

Prince Harry and Meghan buy movie rights to Canadian author’s romance novel

William Friedkin, Oscar-winning director of The French Connection and The Exorcist, dead at 87

Barbie movie joins US$1-billion club, breaks another record for female directors

Joni Mitchell’s new live album At Newport runs circles around the late Gordon Lightfoot’s latest