The Junos: New kids on the Rock
Just in time for Sunday’s show, Larissa Liepins gives us an introduction to Canada’s newest hit music-makers
Restoration hardware: Bringing Nuremberg to North America
Getting Nuremberg restored was a major project. I’d spent almost 30 years as a producer of new films; the preservation of old...
Buble beats Bieber for pop album of the year at Junos
Michael Buble got off to a good start, picking up two prizes in the non-televised...
Movies
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Kick-Ass: From Superman to Superbad in a tale of nerd power that soars
Film Review: Kick-Ass (3 stars): If Quentin Tarantino had directed an episode of Pee-wee’s Playhouse...
Books
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Ian McEwan: Sometime skeptic
With Solar, Ian McEwan takes on the deniers, both of climate change and of his work
More Arts
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Juno Weekend: The fuel for Kim Davis's Fire
The crime was so brutal and shocking that singer Kim Davis sometimes felt like the murderer didn’t go far enough. On the evening of Nov...
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Junos Q&As: Nominated musicians on O Canada, Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga
We emailed some questions out to the likes of Amy Millan, Amelia Curran, Howie Beck and others and found out their thoughts on a few au...
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Ian McEwan: Sometime skeptic
With Solar, Ian McEwan takes on the deniers, both of climate change and of his work
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Theatre Review: People are strange in Sky Gilbert's Reconciliation, but that’s a given
Sky Gilbert’s new play Reconciliation is the latest variation on the old theme of the town mouse and the country mouse. This time the mice...
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Pregnant with possibility: J.Lo's got that maternal glow in The Back-up Plan
Jennifer Lopez may be the mother of twins coming off what she calls her maternity leave, but she looks like her vivacious J.Lo self as ...
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Chris Knight on DVDs: Why Gone with the Wind is still 'The Best Picture Ever'
The story behind the making of the 1939 classic Gone with the Wind contains enough lust, jealousy and quest for power to drive a whole ...
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Animal sexuality: The birds and bees of birdland
Pat Senson guest edits the Afterword this week. Senson, a biologist and former producer at CBC's Quirks and Quarks, has written Nasty, ...
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Death at a Funeral: Chris Rock reprocesses a fresher procession
Film Review: Death at a Funeral (3 stars): If you’ve seen the original Death at a Funeral you must have just seen it, because the British...
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Sprockets kids film festival grows up fast
2010 is the year in which Toronto’s Sprockets film festival for children becomes a teenager. As such, says head programmer and co-director...
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Juno Week: Q&A with Amy Millan
Q: There was some recent controversy regarding possibly changing of the lyrics of the national anthem. How would you re-write O Canada? ...
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Kick-Ass: From Superman to Superbad in a tale of nerd power that soars
Film Review: Kick-Ass (3 stars): If Quentin Tarantino had directed an episode of Pee-wee’s Playhouse in the ’80s, the results might be ...
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The Square: Darkness never seemed so light as this exercise in buffoonery
Film Review: The Square (3 stars): Film noir doesn’t usually incite laughter, but when the main character kills five people and a dog -- ...
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: How Swede it is
Film Review: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (3.5 stars): I’ve been a fan of the Swedish penal system ever since reading Frank Abagnale...
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Juno Week: Oh ... Classified
Being recognized with a Juno nomination? Thirty-one-year-old rapper Classified has experienced that before. Twice, actually: in 2006 for...
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Xavier Dolan's second film to debut at Cannes in May
Québécois filmmaker Xavier Dolan’s new film will premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, it was announced on Thursday, one year after his...
As Pretty Woman turns 20, we look back at Julia and Richard
March 23 marks two decades since Julia Roberts’ now-iconic hooker-with-a-heart-of-gold traded in her thigh-high boots for Richard Gere’s love. The modern...
Robert Fulford: Chekhov at 150 and the Russian writer's longest road
In 1890 Anton Chekhov, a promising 30-year-old writer, set out across Siberia to a remote prison island, Sakhalin, which was much closer to Japan than...
John Banville: Man of the gods
‘I say the most outrageous things in interviews,” declares John Banville. Like Hermes, the Greek god who narrates his new novel, The Infinities, the celebrated...
First Person: Chris Noth on his acting arc, love of Canada and skin-care regimen
I really don’t think you can plan an acting career. Every time I’ve tried, it’s never worked out. You just have to take it day by day and look for the...
Animators add fuel to their fire with How to Train Your Dragon
Dean DeBlois knows a good partner when he meets one. So when the former Aylmer, Que., resident hooked up with Chris Sanders on Disney’s 1998 animated ...
