Whiter shade of pale
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By Jason Anderson, CBC News
Arts & Entertainment at a Glance
Headlines
- U2 will headline Glastonbury
- Irish band U2 will be the top act at the Glastonbury music festival in England next June, organizers say.
- Taylor Swift wins 5 American Music Awards
- Michael Jackson made history by winning four American Music Awards posthumously, but he couldn't beat Taylor Swift as the year's favourite artist and the evening's top winner.
- Plaskett double winner at Canadian Folk Music Awards
- Joel Plaskett's triple album Three earned the Halifax singer-songwriter a double win at the Canadian Folk Music Awards on Saturday.
- Motown celebrates half-century of hits
- Music legends turned out at the Detroit Marriott Renaissance Center on Saturday evening for the swankiest birthday bash in Motor City this year — the Motown 50 Golden Gala.
- Pope builds friendships with artists
- Pope Benedict XVI met in Rome with more than 250 artists from around the world to foster dialogue between the Roman Catholic Church and the arts.
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Entertainment news from Canadian Press
- U2 to headline Britain's Glastonbury music festival
- Michael Jackson wins 4, but Taylor Swift wins 5, named artist of the year at AMAs
- Physician investigated in Michael Jackson's death returning to work in Houston, lawyer says
- Busy Jamie Oliver wraps TV show in West Virginia, jets to Tto for sold-out talk
- Hero pilot of ditched airliner in Hudson River jokes about marital boost in NBC TV special
- Rock star Sting calls for dialogue on construction of hydroelectric dam in Brazil's Amazon
- Bulls break free from set of film in Spain starring Cruise, Diaz; 2 bystanders injured
- 'New Moon' wolfs down $140.7 million domestically, $258.8 million worldwide
- A new take on Tut: AGO's latest boy king exhibit much broader than one in '79
- Judd Apatow packs 'Funny People' DVD with hours of comedy extras
Media news from Canadian Press
- AP, international news coalition suspends cricket coverage in Australia
- Maziar Bahari says he considered suicide while in an Iranian jail
- PM lauds press freedom in speech, doesn't take questions from reporters
- Army relents, will allow media at Palin event despite concerns about anti-Obama politics
- Bond amount increased to US$100K for man accused in videos taken of reporter Erin Andrews
- Pro-government mob hits, shouts down husband of top Cuban dissident blogger
- In restructuring, AP changes roles for 6 news editors and assigns 4 regional photo editors
- Montreal La Presse says it has struck a deal with three more unions
- Cossette says Cosmos willing to go to $8.10 per share, depending on review
- Croatia: Reporters at state TV protest what they call censorship
Headlines »
- U2 will headline Glastonbury
- Irish band U2 will be the top act at the Glastonbury music festival in England next June, organizers say.
- Taylor Swift wins 5 American Music Awards
- Michael Jackson made history by winning four American Music Awards posthumously, but he couldn't beat Taylor Swift as the year's favourite artist and the evening's top winner.
- Plaskett double winner at Canadian Folk Music Awards
- Joel Plaskett's triple album Three earned the Halifax singer-songwriter a double win at the Canadian Folk Music Awards on Saturday.
- Kirov ballerina steps out at Cultural Olympiad
- Uliana Lopatkina, principal dancer with the Kirov Ballet, will make her Canadian debut Feb. 10 at the Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad
- Documentary explores carbon trading business
- Carbon Hunters is about a new breed of entrepreneurs working to get rich and save the planet at the same time.
- Motown celebrates half-century of hits
- Music legends turned out at the Detroit Marriott Renaissance Center on Saturday evening for the swankiest birthday bash in Motor City this year — the Motown 50 Golden Gala.
- Jackson’s glove fetches $350,000 US
- Michael Jackson's iconic rhinestone-studded glove got the white-glove treatment on Saturday, bringing $350,000 US on the auction block in New York.
- Rare Darwin book found in washroom
- A first edition of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species will go on the auction block 150 years after its publication
- Simpsons' Sarkozy parody an internet hit
- Almost a week after it appeared on television, thousands of French internet users started flooding video-sharing websites on Friday and Saturday to view a lampoon of their first couple on The Simpsons.
- Pope builds friendships with artists
- Pope Benedict XVI met in Rome with more than 250 artists from around the world to foster dialogue between the Roman Catholic Church and the arts.
