Canadian dancers join ballet elite at Russian festival

The Dance Open International ballet festival in St. Petersburg features the world's top ballet talent dancing in Russia, a country with a venerable ballet pedigree. This year two Canadians have been handpicked to join the dance festival — Jason Reilly...

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Rolling Stones rock surprise show at small L.A. club ahead of tour

For one night only, the Rolling Stones were an up-and-coming band again. The legendary group rocked a small club in Los Angeles on Saturday night for a miniscule crowd compared to the thousands set to see them launch their 50 and Counting anniversary...

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Michael Jackson civil case set for opening statements

The most complete account of Michael Jackson's final months is about to unfold in a cramped Los Angeles courtroom nearly four years after the pop superstar's death. Lawyers for Jackson's mother will attempt to convince a jury that the company promoting...

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Apple's iTunes celebrates 10th anniversary

The music world hasn't been the same since Apple's launch a decade ago of iTunes, its online music store for iPods and Mac computers. As music moved into the digital age, the industry came to a difficult crossroads with the emergence of file-sharing...

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Country star George Jones dies at 81

George Jones, the hard-living country singer who recorded dozens of hits about good times and regrets and peaked with the heartbreaking classic He Stopped Loving Her Today, has died. He was 81. Publicist Kirt Webster said Jones died Friday at Vanderbilt...

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MacNeil didn't die from hospital infection, says authority

Beloved Canadian singer Rita MacNeil did not die from a hospital-acquired infection, the Cape Breton District Health Authority said in response to a now-corrected article published in the Globe and Mail newspaper on Friday. The 68-year-old singer died...

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Zombies have evolved since Night of the Living Dead

Zombies have stood in for various forms of evil in their movie and TV incarnations over the years. Creative minds have expressed everything from racism to disease to social inequality through the gory, shuffling undead. A stage production of Night...

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Escape from North Korea caught in new doc

Related External Links The Defector (Note:CBC does not endorse and is not responsible for the content of external links.) Korean-Canadian director Ann Shin went undercover to capture the story of North Koreans following a dangerous escape...

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Regina attacked by aliens in Avengers comic

Regina, which promotes itself as the jewel of the Prairies, is the target of a devastating alien attack in the latest edition of the Avengers comic book, a plot line that has many in the city wondering, "Why Regina?" "Things get really weird and it's...

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Wharnsby: Gordie Howe just wanted to fit in

Harry Neale will never forget Gordie Howe's kindness, his sense of humour, his love for his family and his desire to fit in despite his place in hockey history. Those traits will be evident in the movie, Mr. Hockey: The Gordie Howe Story,...

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Pain & Gain is cinema on steroids

Apr 26, 2013 | 4:24Movies Pain & Gain Video Movies Pain & Gain Apr 26, 2013 | 4:24Eli Glasner reviews Pain & Gain with Dwayne Johnson, Anthony Mackie and Mark Wahlberg. Apr 25, 2013 | 1:54News Regina wiped out in Avengers story Video...

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Country star George Jones dies at 81

George Jones, the hard-living country singer who recorded dozens of hits about good times and regrets and peaked with the heartbreaking classic He Stopped Loving Her Today, has died. He was 81. Publicist Kirt Webster says Jones died Friday at Vanderbilt...

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City council backs plan for VAG's new home

Vancouver city councillors have unanimously backed a proposal to move the Vancouver Art Gallery to the corner of Georgia and Cambie streets. The gallery has been negotiating for years with the City of Vancouver to find a space on which to develop a...

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Hot Docs draws high-profile guests Anita Hill, Roméo Dallaire

Author and women's studies professor Anita Hill, Lt.-General Roméo Dallaire and comedian David Steinberg are among the personalities expected in Toronto for the Hot Docs film festival, which begins Thursday. Hill is the U.S. attorney who leveled accusations...

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Can poetry survive in the era of Twitter?

How can poets capture new audiences using digital media? (Photo: CBC Books)April represents different things to different people. But unless you're a writer or part of a community of readers and organizers, you probably didn't know that April is celebrated...

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Drugs found on Justin Bieber's tour bus

Swedish police say they have found drugs on board a tour bus used by Canadian pop singer Justin Bieber. Police spokesman Lars Bystrom says a small amount of drugs and a stun gun were found when officers raided the empty bus parked under the Globen concert...

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Justin Bieber's monkey going nowhere, say customs officials

German customs authorities said Tuesday that Justin Bieber's monkey is going nowhere for now even though the singer has apparently asked that it be removed from an animal shelter where it is staying and be placed in a zoo. Mally, a 17-week-old capuchin...

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America as troubadour Steve Earle sees it

Steve Earle's The Low Highway paints a grim picture of contemporary America. The country-folk artist writes and sings about the jobless, the homeless, the addicts and the "bones of broken factories" in the new album, released last week. "This is about...

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Margaret Atwood's Handmaid's Tale to be RWB ballet

It's a very powerful book and we felt it was appropriate. —André Lewis, artistic director The Royal Winnipeg Ballet announced its 2013-2014 season and launching the season will be a new adaptation of The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. It's...

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What's behind sky-high concert ticket prices?

Whether it's Justin Bieber or the Rolling Stones that fans want to see in concert, they'll likely be paying dearly. "At first, we only spent $350. Then, the next time, we spent $450," 16-year-old Bieber fan Cara Corbett and her best friend Tyra Bright...

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The Phantoms wins Canadian Screenwriting Award

CBC TV movie The Phantoms, based on the story of the New Brunswick high school basketball team who rallied to win a provincial championship a year after a bus crash which took the lives of seven players and the coach's wife, has won an award for screenwriting....

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Netflix adds 2 million U.S. subscribers

Netflix's decision to feature original programming on its Internet video service appears to be pulling in more customers. Numbers released Monday showed Netflix Inc. added 2 million U.S. subscribers to its video streaming service during the first three...

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Artist David Blackwood finds freedom in old age

Artist David Blackwood is known for his iconic prints of Newfoundland, which range from wondrous scenes of whales diving under fishing boats to harrowing depictions of sealers awaiting their death on Labrador ice floes. Rendered in black and indigo...

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Woodstock opener Richie Havens dies of heart attack

Richie Havens, the folk singer and guitarist who was the first performer at the 1969 Woodstock Festival, died Monday. He was 72. Havens died of a heart attack in New Jersey, his family said in a statement. He was born in Brooklyn. Havens was known...

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At Coachella with Divine Fits' Dan Boeckner

Divine Fits at Coachella on April 19. They've been dubbed a supergroup. (Devon Goodsell) Divine Fits frontman Dan Boeckner likens playing a festival like the infamous Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival outside of Palm Springs, Calif., to "being...

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Carly Rae Jepsen big winner at Juno Awards

Mission, B.C. singer Carly Rae Jepsen is going home from the Junos with three of the five awards for which she was nominated, including album of the year. She took the top honour Sunday night in Regina for her album, Kiss, the release she created last...

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Divinyls lead singer Chrissy Amphlett dies at 53

Chrissy Amphlett, the lead singer of the Australian rock band Divinyls whose hit I Touch Myself brought her international fame in the early 1990s, died at her home in New York on Sunday. She was 53 years old. "Christine Joy Amphlett succumbed to the...

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Rita MacNeil being laid to rest today at Big Pond

A funeral service will be held on Monday afternoon for acclaimed Cape Breton singer-songwriter Rita MacNeil at a church in her Nova Scotia hometown of Big Pond. The 68-year-old singer died last week following complications from surgery after a recurring...

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