Arts: Canada

CBC - Arts (4 hours ago)

Sesame Street Workshop is planning major layoffs, CEO Sherrie Rollins Westin said in a memo to staff Wednesday.

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Global News - Entertainment (6 hours ago)

Alice's Kids, the charity Steve Carell is working with, will be donating $175,000 towards prom costs, covering tickets for more than 800 students to attend.

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Global News - Entertainment (7 hours ago)

'They can't even place me out here. They don't have no gun, no car, no Keffe D, no nothing,' Duane 'Keffe D' Davis said in his jailhouse interview.

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CBC - Arts (8 hours ago)

In her first statement since she was stripped of the award, the singer-songwriter says that she's an American citizen and holds a U.S. passport, but was adopted as a young adult by a Cree family in Saskatchewan.

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CBC - Arts (11 hours ago)

The author and past host of CBC Radio's Quirks & Quarks is back with a new book. The Science of Pets will be released on Nov. 4, 2025.

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CBC - Arts (15 hours ago)

The author and past host of CBC Radio's Quirks & Quarks is back with a new book. The Science of Pets will be released on Nov. 4, 2025.

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Global News - Entertainment (A day ago)

Workers did find a 'minuscule' gas leak at one of the stove burners, registering 0.33 per cent gas in the air, and four other 'red tag' code violations.

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CBC - Arts (A day ago)

Flow, a dreamy, dialogue-free tale of a cat in a post-apocalyptic landscape, scored best animated feature film at the 97th Academy Awards on Sunday, becoming the first Latvian film to win an Academy Award and sparking a wave of national pride.

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CBC - Arts (2 days ago)

Anora triumphs with 5 Oscars, including best picture, at safe but steady Academy Awards

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Global News - Entertainment (2 days ago)

'Is his reality show just a veiled attempt to create sympathy for himself with a future jury pool in our civil case?' lawyer Gloria Allred asked.

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Global News - Entertainment (2 days ago)

"They act like I'm supposed to stay frozen in time," Brown said of the journalists who comment on her appearance.

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Global News - Entertainment (2 days ago)

Jay-Z claims the allegations were 'malevolent efforts to assassinate the impeccable and lifetime-earned character' of his professional life.

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Global News - Entertainment (2 days ago)

Buffy Sainte-Marie expressed her 'love and gratitude to Canada.'

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Global News - Entertainment (2 days ago)

"He said, 'I didn't choose this world, I chose you, and you chose that world. But we can keep our lives separate and together,'" Dolly Parton previously said of her late husband.

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CBC - Arts (3 days ago)

Carl Dean, Dolly Parton's husband of nearly 60 years, died Monday in Nashville. He was 82.

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CBC - Arts (3 days ago)

Fans are not pleased with David Lynch's short Oscars tribute and the omission of Michelle Trachtenberg, Tony Todd, Olivia Hussey and several other actors and filmmakers from the In Memoriam section at Sunday's 97th Academy Awards.

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CBC - Arts (3 days ago)

Some cities have music strategies to preserve culture, but some worry they're not doing enough.

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Global News - Entertainment (3 days ago)

Mike Myers appeared as part of the cold open, which recreated Trump and Vance's recent heated meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office.

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CBC - Arts (3 days ago)

David Johansen's death ends a unique career as a quintessential New York City artist, with turns that also included a recent stint as a DJ and actor.

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CBC - Arts (3 days ago)

Personal effects belonging to Canadian musician and poet Leonard Cohen, who died 2016, went up for sale on Friday. A locket containing Cohen's hair went for nearly 10 times above its estimated sale price.

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Global News - Entertainment (3 days ago)

Angie Stone helped form The Sequence, the first all-female group on the hip-hop trailblazing imprint Sugar Hill Records.

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Global News - Entertainment (4 days ago)

'Anora' director Sean Baker also made Oscar history with four wins in one night, tying Walt Disney for the most wins in a single year in Academy Award history.

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CBC - Arts (4 days ago)

Missed the Oscars? Here's a minute-by-minute recap

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Global News - Entertainment (4 days ago)

There's no set costume theme for the Oscars, but this year's guests embraced romanticism and drama in their sartorial selections.

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CBC - Arts (4 days ago)

Hollywood's biggest night has arrived — the 97th Academy Awards get underway on Sunday at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, serving as the grand fashion finale to awards season.

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CBC - Arts (5 days ago)

After Anita Martinez died on Feb. 4, members of the 2SLGBT+ and women's rights communities in Halifax joined in to help preserve tens of thousands of photos depicting those movements from the late 1980s onward.

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Global News - Entertainment (5 days ago)

Cameron is planning to move to New Zealand, and says Trump's presidency is like 'watching a car crash over and over again.'

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CBC - Arts (5 days ago)

The singer-songwriter created hits like No More Rain (In This Cloud) which reached No. 1 for 10 weeks on Billboard's Adult R&B airplay chart, Baby with legendary soul singer Betty Wright, another No. 1 hit, Wish I Didn't Miss You and Brotha.

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CBC - Arts (6 days ago)

Internet personalities Andrew and Tristan Tate, charged with human trafficking in Romania in one of two investigations, left the country and flew to Florida on Thursday. Florida's governor said he only learned of their impending arrival through media coverage.

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CBC - Arts (6 days ago)

Oscar winner Gene Hackman, one of the most versatile actors in film, was found dead along with his his wife and the couple's dog in their New Mexico home, authorities said Thursday. Foul play was not suspected, but authorities said an investigation was ongoing and that the two had been dead for some time before they were found.

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Global News - Entertainment (6 days ago)

For the inaugural Canadian Day on certain Corus FM radio stations, it's going to be all Canadian music all day long. No exceptions.

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CBC - Arts (6 days ago)

Police say the circumstances around the deaths of Hackman, 95, Arakawa, 65, and their German shepherd in their New Mexico home were unusual, fuelling plenty of speculation online.

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Global News - Entertainment (6 days ago)

Sheriff Adam Mendoza said investigators are currently putting together a timeline of when the couple was last seen and when people close to the couple had last spoken to them.

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CBC - Arts (6 days ago)

Mummy Pig, Peppa Pig's mom on the beloved U.K. children's cartoon, is pregnant. After 21 years as a family of four, Mummy and Daddy Pig will break the news to Peppa and George in a new episode of Peppa Pig on March 31.

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Global News - Entertainment (A week ago)

Gene Hackman, 95, Betsy Arakawa, 63, and their dog were apparently dead for some time before a maintenance worker found their bodies, investigators said.

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Global News - Entertainment (A week ago)

The 'E.T.' singer will join journalist Gayle King and Jeff Bezos' fiancée, Lauren Sánchez, on the New Shepard rocket.

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CBC - Arts (A week ago)

Actress Michelle Trachtenberg, popular for her roles in buzzy millennial-era TV shows Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Gossip Girl, has died at the age of 39, New York City police confirmed to CBC News on Wednesday.

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CBC - Arts (A week ago)

With contributions from artists including Kate Bush, Annie Lennox, Cat Stevens and Damon Albarn, the album was released Tuesday to protest proposed British changes to artificial intelligence laws that artists fear will erode their creative control.

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CBC - Arts (A week ago)

Jennifer Whalen and Meredith MacNeill, co-creators and stars of CBC's Small Achievable Goals, are also widely known for the Baroness Von Sketch Show. They spoke with CBC's Eli Glasner about why they created a show about menopause — and why they chose comedy to start the conversation.

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CBC - Arts (A week ago)

Meghan Markle is being called out ahead of the launch of her new Netflix series With Love, Meghan, as fans say her lifestyle show is a ripoff of Pamela Anderson's cooking series.

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CBC - Arts (A week ago)

Roberta Flack, the Grammy-winning singer and pianist whose intimate vocal and musical style made her one of the top recording artists of the 1970s and an influential performer long after, died Monday. She was 88.

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Global News - Entertainment (A week ago)

There are also cheaper options available for Fyre Festival 2, nearly eight years after the disastrous original Fyre Festival landed founder Billy McFarland in prison.

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Global News - Entertainment (A week ago)

Michelle Trachtenberg was arguably best-known for her role as Buffy's younger sister, Dawn Summers, in her 66-episode run of 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer.'

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CBC - Arts (A week ago)

The papal thriller Conclave won best ensemble and Timothée Chalamet took best actor at the 31st Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday, a pair of twists that added a few final wrinkles to an unusually unpredictable awards season.

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CBC - Arts (A week ago)

A conversation with his late grandfather and experiences opening for other musicians have inspired Aysanabee to showcase Indigenous musicians on his current tour through Eastern Canada. Two Nova Scotia musicians say they are thrilled about the opportunity.

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Global News - Entertainment (A week ago)

'I think fame is something you should consent to. Obviously, things will just be what they are. But I would really, really appreciate that,' Grimes said in an interview with Time.

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CBC - Arts (A week ago)

The 2025 Juno Awards will showcase a star-studded lineup, with multiple-award nominees and rising stars, including Josh Ross and Snotty Nose Rez Kids, performing at the Rogers Arena in Vancouver on March 30.

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CBC - Arts (A week ago)

Emilia Pérez lead actress Karla Sofía Gascón is planning on attending the 2025 Oscars, Variety reported on Monday, despite the backlash the Oscar-nominated trans actor is facing for her old posts on social media that denigrated Islam and that called George Floyd 'a drug addict and a hustler.'

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CBC - Arts (A week ago)

Wu-Tang Clan is forever, but their touring days are coming to an end. Fans in Vancouver, Laval and Toronto will get to watch the legendary rap group when they kick off their final tour this summer.

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Global News - Entertainment (A week ago)

Publicist Adam Gonshor in an email to The Associated Press confirmed Chantal Kreviazuk changed the lyric from 'in all of us command' to 'that only us command.'

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Global News - Entertainment (A week ago)

The 'Euphoria' actor said she was making the video not to 'fearmonger or create drama or receive consolation,' but to note the reality of the situation.

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Global News - Entertainment (A week ago)

Roberta Flack announced in 2022 she had ALS, commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease, and could no longer sing.

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CBC - Arts (2 weeks ago)

Of the five nominees for Metal/Hard Music Album of the Year, three are from B.C., and a fourth is from Edmonton.

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CBC - Arts (2 weeks ago)

Chantal Kreviazuk, the Grammy-award winning singer from Winnipeg, changed the lyrics to O Canada at the 4 Nations Face-Off game against the United States on Thursday to sing "that only us command" instead of "in all of us command."

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CBC - Arts (2 weeks ago)

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's 17-year-old son, Xavier Trudeau, marked his official launch into the world of music on Friday with the debut single of his R&B track Til The Nights Done.

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Global News - Entertainment (2 weeks ago)

In the first decade of the 2000s, the recorded music industry lost millions to piracy. One of its solutions was to sue someone for more than the GDP of Earth.

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CBC - Arts (2 weeks ago)

In accepting the directing prize for Anora, Sean Baker spoke passionately about the difficulty of making independent films in an industry that is no longer able to fund riskier projects.

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CBC - Arts (2 weeks ago)

A court in Argentina dropped charges of criminal negligence against three of the five people indicted in connection with the death of Liam Payne, the former One Direction singer who died in October.

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CBC - Arts (2 weeks ago)

In a major shakeup for the film industry, Amazon MGM Studios said on Thursday it will take creative control of the James Bond franchise from long-serving producers Michael Wilson and Barbara Broccoli.

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CBC - Arts (2 weeks ago)

The Brutalist used artificial intelligence to adjust Adrien Brody and co-star Felicity Jones's Hungarian lines. As the roles the two played as Hungarian immigrants earned them best actor and supporting actress nominations, it raises a question: Should an acting award be given for an AI-aided performance?

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CBC - Arts (2 weeks ago)

The road to this year's Academy Awards has had plenty of twists and turns, so let CBC's Eli Glasner be your guide to the upcoming Oscars race, including what films to watch and who to root for.

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CBC - Arts (2 weeks ago)

A New Jersey man was convicted on Friday of attempted murder for stabbing author Salman Rushdie multiple times on a New York lecture stage in 2022.

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Global News - Entertainment (2 weeks ago)

Anthony Ricco filed a motion, saying 'under no circumstances can I continue to effectively serve as counsel for Sean Combs.'

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Global News - Entertainment (2 weeks ago)

'The allegations by Christina Fulton against Nicolas Cage are absurd and frivolous,' a rep for the actor said in a statement.

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Global News - Entertainment (2 weeks ago)

'This is urgent, Elon,' Grimes wrote in a series of now-deleted posts on X.

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CBC - Arts (2 weeks ago)

The Monkey turns out to be is something more like a personification of its demon than an examination of it — perhaps because Stephen King and Osgood Perkins may just be the two worst possible creatives to bring together. 

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Global News - Entertainment (2 weeks ago)

Pop culture juggernaut "Saturday Night Live" celebrates its 50th anniversary on Sunday night with a special episode.

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CBC - Arts (2 weeks ago)

A Manitoba-wide stand-up comedy contest concludes in Winnipeg on Thursday night.

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CBC - Arts (2 weeks ago)

The 97th Academy Awards are going forward as a celebration of movies and resilience, with Canadians up for numerous Oscars. This year's Oscar nominations were postponed twice after devastating wildfires tore through Los Angeles, leading some to call for the cancellation of the Academy Awards.

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CBC - Arts (2 weeks ago)

Paul Simon fans in Toronto and Vancouver will get a chance to catch the legendary singer-songwriter in a theatre setting after he announced Tuesday a return to touring.

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CBC - Arts (2 weeks ago)

Yes, we listened to a lot of Taylor Swift last year. The pop icon was the world's top artist of 2024 with a record 5.6 million sales of her album The Tortured Poets Department, according to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, which represents the recorded music industry worldwide.

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CBC - Arts (2 weeks ago)

New Brunswick-born Antonine Maillet, novelist, playwright and proud Acadian, has died at 95 at her home in Montreal, according to her publisher.

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Global News - Entertainment (2 weeks ago)

'Thank y'all for saving my life,' ASAP Rocky told the jurors as they left the courtroom after sparing him a prison sentence where he could have faced up to 24 years in prison.

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CBC - Arts (2 weeks ago)

Colombian singer Shakira said Monday that she will resume her world tour and perform in Lima, Peru, on Monday evening, following the cancellation of a concert over the weekend due to a stomach illness.

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CBC - Arts (2 weeks ago)

Saturday Night Live luminary Steve Martin delivered the monologue and Paul McCartney gave an epic closing to a 50th anniversary special celebrating the sketch institution.

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CBC - Arts (2 weeks ago)

American rapper A$AP Rocky has been found not guilty of firing a handgun at a former friend, avoiding a potential prison term.

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CBC - Arts (2 weeks ago)

American rapper A$AP Rocky has been found not guilty of firing a handgun at a former friend, avoiding a potential prison term.

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Global News - Entertainment (2 weeks ago)

'The frivolous, fictitious and appalling allegations have been dismissed,' Jay-Z said in a statement posted on social media.

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CBC - Arts (2 weeks ago)

Canadian-made video games are a $5.1-billion industry. Few gamers realize it when they're playing them — and the creator of the Canadian Game Awards wants to change that.

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CBC - Arts (2 weeks ago)

Neko Case's childhood and path to becoming a Grammy-nominated musician are detailed in her new memoir, The Harder I Fight The More I Love You, available now.

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CBC - Arts (3 weeks ago)

Saturday Night Live is turning 50, and some of its best moments have featured Canadians

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CBC - Arts (3 weeks ago)

Papal drama Conclave won four prizes, including best picture, at the British Academy Film Awards on Sunday.

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Global News - Entertainment (3 weeks ago)

Movie studios have been de-aging actors for almost 20 years. Now it's possible to de-age singing voices. This will have some interesting applications in the very near future.

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CBC - Arts (3 weeks ago)

An Alabama woman who said she was raped by rappers Jay-Z and Sean (Diddy) Combs when she was 13 withdrew her civil lawsuit against both men on Friday, according to court filings.

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CBC - Arts (3 weeks ago)

Canadian author Louise Penny has joined the growing list of people from the arts and culture communities to cancel events or dissociate themselves from the Kennedy Center, after U.S. President Donald Trump took control of the historic Washington, D.C., institution.

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CBC - Arts (3 weeks ago)

Renée Zellweger returns in Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, a delightful blend of comedy, chaos and middle-aged acceptance.

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CBC - Arts (3 weeks ago)

A lawyer defending A$AP Rocky took aim at the hip-hop star's accuser during his closing argument Friday, casting the man known as A$AP Relli as the clear aggressor on the night Rocky fired a gun and an unreliable liar on the stand at trial.

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CBC - Arts (3 weeks ago)

The exhibition Heart On at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts shows that — for better or worse — the iconic Canadian's work is as relevant today as it was 50 years ago.

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CBC - Arts (3 weeks ago)

After weeks of Canadian fans booing the American national anthem at sporting events, a new issue has emerged: singing O Canada too loudly. 

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CBC - Arts (3 weeks ago)

Years of purposefully enmeshed industries, based on the assumption that Canada's and the United States' friendly relationship would last forever, has made it hard to solely 'buy Canadian.' Nowhere, it turns out, is that more evident than in film and television.

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CBC - Arts (3 weeks ago)

Acting and directing talents are squandered in a bland Captain America reboot that can't help but be crushed by all the boxes it needs to tick, and it's further bogged down by a convoluted plot and the increasingly impossible to remember callbacks from Marvel's huge back catalogue.

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CBC - Arts (3 weeks ago)

Salman Rushdie described in graphic detail on Tuesday the frenzied moments in 2022 when a masked man rushed at him on a stage in western New York and repeatedly slashed him with a knife, leaving him with life-threatening injuries.   

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CBC - Arts (3 weeks ago)

It was the year 2000. Canada united behind a character named Joe in a television commercial for Molson beer. Twenty-five years later, the man who played him talks about how that experience shaped his views of Canada — and what he thinks now.

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Global News - Entertainment (3 weeks ago)

The lawsuit says the documentary, 'Diddy: Making of a Bad Boy,' included statements that NBCUniversal either knew were false or published with reckless disregard for the truth.

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Global News - Entertainment (3 weeks ago)

'Doctors found multiple tumors on my brain, which they believe have been growing for at least 6 months,' Teddi Mellencamp wrote.

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CBC - Arts (3 weeks ago)

Tom Robbins, the novelist and prankster-philosopher who charmed and addled millions of readers with such screwball adventures as Even Cowgirls Get the Blues and Jitterbug Perfume, has died.

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CBC - Arts (3 weeks ago)

The employee, who filed a complaint against Ye and his company Yeezy in California's Superior Court on Tuesday, accuses Ye and Yeezy of discrimination, harassment and retaliation on account of her sex and Jewish religion.

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CBC - Arts (3 weeks ago)

Actor Anna Lambe and the co-creators of the new CBC co-production North of North talk to the CBC's Eli Glasner about how the Iqaluit community came together to bring the heartwarming comedy to life.

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Global News - Entertainment (3 weeks ago)

Following 2023 news reports that questioned the Indigenous ancestry of Buffy Sainte-Marie, the Governor General has terminated the singer's membership in the Order of Canada.

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CBC - Arts (3 weeks ago)

B.C. artists are well-represented among Juno nominations this year ahead of the awards show in Vancouver next month.

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CBC - Arts (3 weeks ago)

Alberta pop sensation Tate McRae and Nashville up-and-comer Josh Ross led the list of Juno nominees released Tuesday, which highlight the rise of both country and Punjabi music in the Canadian mainstream.

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Global News - Entertainment (3 weeks ago)

The video shows AI-generated versions of Jewish celebrities like David Schwimmer, Drake, Steven Spielberg, Adam Sandler, Jerry Seinfeld, Scarlett Johansson, Mila Kunis and more.

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Global News - Entertainment (3 weeks ago)

Tate McRae is up for album of the year.

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CBC - Arts (3 weeks ago)

February is Black History Month. Check out these children's and YA books by Black Canadian authors.

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CBC - Arts (3 weeks ago)

Several copies of a book promoting white nationalist ideology have been placed in community-run library boxes in neighbourhoods across the city, prompting a police investigation.

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CBC - Arts (3 weeks ago)

An award-winning musician who lives in Halifax is opening up about her struggles in hopes of painting an honest picture of what it's like to survive in the music industry.

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CBC - Arts (3 weeks ago)

A Truro fibre artist has gone viral again after a photo of celebrated actor Timotheé Chalamet surfaced recently in what appeared to be one of her creations.

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Global News - Entertainment (3 weeks ago)

'I'm no longer representing YE (F/K/A Kanye West) due to his harmful and hateful remarks,' West's music agent said.

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Global News - Entertainment (3 weeks ago)

"This merchant did not engage in authentic commerce practices and violated our terms so we removed them from Shopify," a Shopify representative told Global News.

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CBC - Arts (3 weeks ago)

Salman Rushdie was so stunned when a masked man started to stab him on a stage in western New York in 2022 that the acclaimed author didn't even try to fight back, a prosecutor said Monday during opening statements in the accused attacker's attempted murder trial.

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Global News - Entertainment (3 weeks ago)

Scarlett Pavlovich, the former family babysitter, alleged Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer violated laws on federal human trafficking, sexual assault and battery.

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CBC - Arts (3 weeks ago)

When a Gracie Abrams fan recently petitioned to have singer-songwriter Dora Jar removed as the opening act for Abrams' European tour, it sparked backlash and conversation about fan entitlement. Experts say the relationship between fans and artists is changing as social media blurs boundaries.

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CBC - Arts (3 weeks ago)

A street performance by singer Ed Sheeran in Bengaluru, India, came to an abrupt end this weekend when a police officer unplugged his microphone mid-song.

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CBC - Arts (3 weeks ago)

A major outage of Sony's PlayStation Network that left gamers around the world unable to access online services, stores and multimedia apps for several hours has ended, the company said on Saturday.

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CBC - Arts (3 weeks ago)

Actor Samuel L. Jackson, dressed as Uncle Sam, introduced Kendrick Lamar at New Orleans' Caesars Superdome for the 2025 Super Bowl halftime show — a powerful, commanding creative choice by the first solo hip-hop artist to ever headline the coveted slot.

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CBC - Arts (4 weeks ago)

Graphic artist Eric Goggin of Salisbury, near Moncton, spent three hours outside his cottage designing a moose, using only his footprints and some fishing twine.

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CBC - Arts (4 weeks ago)

The number of Japanese visitors to P.E.I. has never returned to the levels seen before the COVID-19 pandemic, but some tourism operators hope a new animated series about Anne of Green Gables — and the attention it's getting in Japan — will help.

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CBC - Arts (4 weeks ago)

A Netflix documentary series about Prince by an Oscar-winning filmmaker has been cancelled after the late singer's estate blocked its release. 

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CBC - Arts (4 weeks ago)

Sean Baker's Brooklyn comedy Anora took top honours at both the Producers Guild Awards and the Directors Guild Awards on Saturday night, catapulting it to Oscar favourite status with wins from a pair of closely watched Academy Awards precursors.

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Global News - Entertainment (4 weeks ago)

There's a subgenre of music fans who love the subject of TV themes. I wonder if those aficionados know these stories.

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CBC - Arts (4 weeks ago)

Trailblazing N.Y. Philharmonic bassist says she's nothing special. Her niece — and the Oscars — disagree

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CBC - Arts (4 weeks ago)

Irv Gotti, the music producer who co-founded hip-hop label Murder, Inc., and signed stars such as Ja Rule, Ashanti and Lloyd, has died. He was 54.

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CBC - Arts (4 weeks ago)

A$AP Rocky's friend testifies that the rapper fired prop gun in 2021 shooting

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CBC - Arts (4 weeks ago)

Kanye West, the musical artist whose reputation plummeted in recent years due to his controversial statements and actions, revealed this week that he's been diagnosed with autism and suggested it's behind some of his erratic behaviour.

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CBC - Arts (4 weeks ago)

Love Hurts — an action vehicle about a hitman drawn back in for one last job — doesn't deserve the space it would take up in your brain. Which is a sad statement, given the role it could play in Ke Huy Quan's comeback.

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CBC - Arts (4 weeks ago)

Nell Smith, the B.C. teenager known for her collaboration with the Grammy Award-winning rock band The Flaming Lips, has had her first solo album announced, four months after she died in a car crash.

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CBC - Arts (A month ago)

While in town to shoot a Christmas movie, the brothers found out there was a nearby trivia night based on Camp Rock and Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam, the Disney Channel musical TV movies that helped propel them into superstardom.

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CBC - Arts (A month ago)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art revealed the dress code for its annual lavish celebration of fashion in May: "Tailored for You." It is the first Met Gala exhibit in more than 20 years to focus exclusively on menswear — specifically Black style in menswear over the centuries.

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CBC - Arts (A month ago)

The estate of one of Superman's co-creators has filed a copyright lawsuit in a U.S. court against Warner Bros ahead of the release of its new movie, "Superman," part of a planned reboot of the DC Comics superhero film franchise.

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CBC - Arts (A month ago)

Bandcamp will donate all proceeds to MusiCares to support musicians in need.

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Global News - Entertainment (A month ago)

Jed Wallace and Street Relations are suing Blake Lively for $7 million after she allegedly brought them into her legal fight with co-star and director Justin Baldoni.

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CBC - Arts (A month ago)

A woman from New Zealand has filed lawsuits against best-selling British author Neil Gaiman and his wife, Amanda Palmer, alleging Gaiman repeatedly sexually assaulted her while she was working as the couple's babysitter and nanny.

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CBC - Arts (A month ago)

Ozzy Osbourne has announced his final show — and it will feature a reunion of the original lineup of Black Sabbath for the first time in 20 years.

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CBC - Arts (A month ago)

The Giller Prize has parted ways with its lead sponsor Scotiabank more than a year after members of the literary community began protesting the bank's ties to an Israeli arms manufacturer.

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CBC - Arts (A month ago)

Old social media posts with racist comments made by Emilia Pérez actress Karla Sofía Gascón resurfaced recently, and Netflix's awards campaign for the film appears to be trying to shuffle the lead actress into the background to regain footing ahead of the Oscars.

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Global News - Entertainment (A month ago)

Scarlett Pavlovich alleges Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer violated federal human trafficking prohibitions, and she's seeking at least $7 million in damages.

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Global News - Entertainment (A month ago)

'Sean Combs believed he was above the law. He is not,' the lawsuit reads.

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CBC - Arts (A month ago)

The American writer and professor spoke about Black in Blues on Bookends with Mattea Roach.

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CBC - Arts (A month ago)

Donna Grantis, guitarist for Prince and 3rdeyegirl, recalls working with the iconic musician. 'The expectation was to go beyond our potential.'

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CBC - Arts (A month ago)

For around $5,000, first-time filmmaker Daryl Granger made a documentary about a fishery in Port Dover, Ont. Now people in Ontario and around the world are watching, getting a behind-the-scenes look of working life on the water.

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Global News - Entertainment (A month ago)

Justin Baldoni's team uploaded screenshots of text messages that they allege are between the actor and Ryan Reynolds.

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CBC - Arts (A month ago)

Barbie Hsu, a Taiwanese actress who starred in the popular TV drama Meteor Garden that once swept Asia, died after contracting pneumonia triggered by the flu. She was 48.

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CBC - Arts (A month ago)

The Toronto superstar has refused to submit to the awards show since 2021.

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CBC - Arts (A month ago)

Beyoncé, the most-awarded and most-nominated artist in Grammys history, took home album of the year at the 67th Grammy Awards for her smash hit Cowboy Carter. It was her fifth time she had an album up for the award, and her first time winning.  

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Global News - Entertainment (A month ago)

Kendrick Lamar took home five Grammy Awards for his Drake diss track 'Not Like Us.'

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CBC - Arts (A month ago)

Chappell Roan, Doechii and Cardi B are among the night's best dressed.

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CBC - Arts (A month ago)

The new CEO of CBC/Radio-Canada says Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre's promise to defund the public broadcaster could "cripple" both its English and French services and change the country's news and entertainment media landscape for the worse.

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Global News - Entertainment (A month ago)

As always, this year's Grammy's are a mixed bag in terms of sartorial selections, with an anything-goes attitude.

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Global News - Entertainment (A month ago)

Bootleg recordings and music piracy have been an issue a lot longer than most people realize. It can be all traced back to a man in the rafters of the Metropolitan Opera.

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CBC - Arts (A month ago)

Pop stars, first responders, rock stars and those who've lost everything in the devastating L.A.-area wildfires came together for FireAid on Thursday night, a benefit concert at the Kia Forum and Intuit Dome that combined spectacular performances with moving storytelling from survivors and reminders of the destruction.

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CBC - Arts (A month ago)

Right up to this week with Companion, the warning that robots are a bad idea is an entrenched part of cinema. But just how close are we to a robot-infused society? And how accurate is Hollywood's picture of our robot future?

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CBC - Arts (A month ago)

From playing a washed-up rock star in 2010's MacGruber to a gruff psychiatric hospital orderly in last year's Terrifier 3, pro wrestler Chris Jericho has built quite an eclectic acting resume.

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CBC - Arts (A month ago)

Even given the opportunity to compare with modern day the process of democratic freedoms slowly stripped away in plain view, I'm Still Here forever pulls itself back into a paint-by-numbers character study. 

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Global News - Entertainment (A month ago)

Diddy's lawyer said the latest allegations and theories about the rapper's conduct are "flawed."

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CBC - Arts (A month ago)

Easter eggs include a David Lynch credit and a House of Balloons connection.

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CBC - Arts (A month ago)

A $6-million settlement that could see around a million Canadians eligible for a credit with Ticketmaster was finalized in Regina last week.

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CBC - Arts (A month ago)

The annual Super Bowl ads are back. And amid the onslaught of ads full of celebrities, cute animals and snack brands during breaks in the action at Super Bowl 59 on Feb. 9, one for mayonnaise is already spreading joy.

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CBC - Arts (A month ago)

Featuring a Nirvana reunion, a surprise appearance by Dr. Dre and a stirring performance of 'Both Sides Now' by Joni Mitchell.

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CBC - Arts (A month ago)

Marianne Faithfull, the British pop star, muse and libertine who inspired and helped write some of the Rolling Stones' greatest songs and endured as a torch singer and survivor of the lifestyle she once embodied, has died. She was 78.   

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CBC - Arts (A month ago)

The producer and singer-songwriter will receive the International Achievement and Humanitarian awards, respectively.

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