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- Country music's Taylor Swift wins at ACM
- The young women of country ruled The Academy of Country Music Awards on Sunday night with big winners being Taylor Swift and Miranda Lambert.
- 4 Juno wins for Arcade Fire
- Montreal's Arcade Fire continues to scoop up music awards, earning four Junos, including album of the year at the annual celebrations of the best in Canadian music Sunday Night.
- Diamond, Cooper, Waits now in Hall of Fame
- Tom Waits went for laughs, Alice Cooper for shock, Leon Russell was humble and Neil Diamond may still be talking after their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
- Rihanna rocks NBA All-Star halftime show
- With a celebrity-studded crowd looking on, Rihanna rocks the halftime show at Sunday's NBA All-Star game in Los Angeles on her 23rd birthday.
- Ontario girl sings at Apollo Amateur Night
- Olivia Koegler, a 15-year-old from Dundas, Ont., was a little nervous before going on, but she got her chance to sing at New York's Apollo Theater, where greats such as Michael Jackson got their start. She talks to CBC's Catherine Mercier about her experience.
- Aretha plans stage return in May
- Aretha Franklin plans to return to the stage in May, after having taken a break to recover from her undisclosed illness.
- Winnipeg girl to sing with Lady Gaga
- Maria Aragon, 10, of Winnipeg has been invited to sing with pop superstar Lady Gaga.
- Oscar night parties: What's on your menu?
- Whether you watch it alone or you watch it with friends, the Oscars are always more fun with food. We're curious to know what you'll be eating on Oscar night. Does your party have a theme this year?
- Music critic and host Ken Winters dies
- Ken Winters, a Canadian music critic and former host of CBC's Mostly Music, has died. He was 81.
- Bieber lauds Canadian health care
- Canuck heartthrob Justin Bieber has told Rolling Stone magazine that he'll never become a U.S. citizen, because he cherishes Canada's health-care system.
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Film Headlines
- Iranian film wins top honour at Berlin film festival
- Iranian director Asghar Farhadi's Nader and Simin, A Separation, won the top Golden Bear honour and swept the acting awards at the Berlin film festival.
- RoboCop statue coming to Detroit
- Despite Mayor Dave Bing's polite rejections, a statue of Robocop is coming to Detroit.
- Neeson refused entry to where wife lay dying
- Almost two years after actress Natasha Richardson died as a result of head injuries suffered in a fall at Quebec's Mont Tremblant ski resort, her widower Liam Neeson speaks out about his experience at a "Dickensian" hospital in Montreal.
- Shatner to host Genie Awards
- William Shatner will return to Canada in March to host the 2011 Genie Awards, the annual celebration of Canadian film.
- Villeneuve retrospective set for Czech film fest
- Montreal director Denis Villeneuve will be the toast of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, which will celebrate the director with a retrospective in July.
- Pacino to play Matisse in Deepa Mehta film
- Veteran U.S. actor Al Pacino is to play Henri Matisse in a forthcoming film about the French artist, with the project to be directed by Canada's Deepa Mehta.
- China limits smoking in films, TV shows
- China is ordering makers of films and TV shows to limit the amount of smoking depicted on-screen, the latest effort to curb rampant tobacco use in the country with the largest number of smokers in the world.
- Bardem among Spain's Goya winners
- Pa Negre (Black Bread) swept Spain's top film awards Sunday, with the family drama taking nine Goya trophies, including best film.
- Elizabeth Taylor remaining in hospital for heart troubles
- Elizabeth Taylor's treatment for congestive heart failure will likely cause her to spend another few days in a Los Angeles hospital, a spokeswoman for the Oscar-winning actress said.
- King's Speech tops British film awards
- Royal drama The King's Speech is crowned the big winner at Britain's top film awards — a sign it may reign again at Hollywood's Academy Awards in two weeks.
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TV Headlines
- Charlie Sheen disappoints in Detroit
- Charlie Sheen and his "goddesses" took the stage to thunderous applause Saturday night for the first leg of his "Torpedo of Truth" tour. The 70-minute show hadn't even ended when the first reviews were in, and they were brutal.
- Air Farce actor Roger Abbott dies
- Canadian actor Roger Abbott has died, his friend and fellow actor in CBC's Royal Canadian Air Farce confirmed Sunday.
- TV ads too loud? Talk to the CRTC
- Ever noticed that TV commercials seem to be louder than the program? So has Canada's broadcast regulator.
- Sheen rant ends Two and a Half Men's season
- CBS and Warner Bros. Television say they are ending production on this season of Two and a Half Men in the wake of incendiary remarks by star Charlie Sheen.
- IBM's Watson trounces humans at Jeopardy
- Machines first out-calculated us in simple math. Then they replaced us on the assembly lines, explored places we couldn't get to, even beat our champions at chess. Now a computer called Watson has bested our best at Jeopardy.
- Hannah Montana destroyed my family: Miley's dad
- Billy Ray Cyrus says the Disney TV show Hannah Montana destroyed his family, causing his divorce and sending daughter Miley Cyrus spinning out of control.
- China limits smoking in films, TV shows
- China is ordering makers of films and TV shows to limit the amount of smoking depicted on-screen, the latest effort to curb rampant tobacco use in the country with the largest number of smokers in the world.
- Shatner to host Genie Awards
- William Shatner will return to Canada in March to host the 2011 Genie Awards, the annual celebration of Canadian film.
- Glee tour coming to Toronto
- When the Glee tour hits the road this summer, one of its stops will be Toronto.
- How To Train Your Dragon dominates Annies
- How to Train Your Dragon was on fire at the annual animation prizes, the Annie Awards, collecting 10 trophies including best picture, directing, writing and voice acting in a feature.
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Books Headlines
- 50 new Rudyard Kipling poems uncovered
- A treasure trove of 50 unpublished Rudyard Kipling poems has been discovered during renovations at a house in Manhattan.
- DC Comics killing off Robin
- Robin the Boy Wonder will die, though not for the first time, following a pitched battle with a supervillain, according to the publishers of DC Comics.
- Author Hilary Mantel sparks storm with Kate comments
- Award-winning author Hilary Mantel found herself surrounded by a storm of controversy Tuesday, as excerpts emerged from a recent lecture in which she skewers what she views as the public's simplified view of Kate, Duchess of Cambridge.
- Hatchet Job Award goes to takedown of divorce memoir
- A scathing takedown of Canadian-born writer Rachel Cusk's memoir of divorce has earned the Hatchet Job of the Year Award, which celebrates fearless and biting book reviews.
- Margaret Atwood tapped for Giller Prize jury
- CanLit icon Margaret Atwood leads a powerhouse trio of authors tapped to choose the winner of the 2013 Giller Prize.
- Even Anne of Green Gables had herpes, writer notes
- An American science writer is using Anne of Green Gables to make a point about how common oral herpes is, and to ease some of the stigma of having it.
- Dodge and Twist would adapt Dickens' classic to action flick
- Hollywood studio Sony Pictures is planning an update of Dickens' classic Oliver Twist, catching up with Oliver and the Artful Dodger 20 years later.
- Anne of Green Gables goes blonde in unauthorized new edition
- A new edition of Anne of Green Gables, that classic Canadian novel about a skinny, red-headed orphan who finds a new home on Prince Edward Island, shows an Anne Shirley that is hardly recognizable.
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Media Headlines
- Yukon paper takes CBC to court over sources
- A CBC News reporter in Whitehorse is going to court next week to protect her sources from a Yukon newspaper, which wants the public broadcaster to reveal those sources.
- Montreal tabloid workers vote to accept offer
- Workers at Le Journal de Montréal accept a contract offer aimed at ending the two-year lockout at the Quebecor Inc. tabloid.
- Top court sides with MP over cabbie comments
- The Supreme Court has sided with MP and former Quebec radio host André Arthur over inflammatory comments he made about Montreal cabbies in 1998.
- Moore says 'wait for budget' on CBC funding
- Heritage Minister James Moore refuses to give details about CBC's funding allocation for coming years in an appearance before the Commons heritage committee.
- Music critic and host Ken Winters dies
- Ken Winters, a Canadian music critic and former host of CBC's Mostly Music, has died. He was 81.
- CBS reporter sexually assaulted in Cairo
- CBS News says correspondent Lara Logan is recovering in a U.S. hospital from a sexual attack while reporting on the tumultuous events in Cairo last Friday.
- AUDIO: Al Jazeera sees Egypt as 'breakthrough moment'
- Arab TV news network Al Jazeera has seen staggering audience figures and a renewed interest from North Americans during recent uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia.
- Jim Reed, former CBC anchor, dies
- Former CBC journalist and broadcaster Jim Reed has died of lung cancer, his family says.
- Toronto photographer wins Hanson award
- A freelance photographer from Toronto whose work has appeared in the Toronto Star, the Globe and Mail and the National Post has been named the winner of the second annual Tom Hanson Photojournalism Award.
- Guitar Hero video game franchise axed
- The company behind Guitar Hero is pulling the plug on one of the most influential video game titles of the new century.
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Art & Design Headlines
- RoboCop statue coming to Detroit
- Despite Mayor Dave Bing's polite rejections, a statue of Robocop is coming to Detroit.
- Body painting event nixed in Nanaimo
- B.C. government liquor control board officials have barred a body painting contest from the Nanaimo conference centre over concerns about erotic content.
- AUDIO: Exhibit links Juno winners with Canadian art
- CBC's Matt Galloway interviews Rich Terfry, aka Buck 65, about a new exhibit that matched Juno Award-winning musicians with inspiring Canadian artworks from the Art Gallery of Ontario's collection.
- Pacino to play Matisse in Deepa Mehta film
- Veteran U.S. actor Al Pacino is to play Henri Matisse in a forthcoming film about the French artist, with the project to be directed by Canada's Deepa Mehta.
- Arts council to oversee funding
- The Nova Scotia government is bringing back an independent body to decide funding for artists in the province.
- Camera surgically removed from art prof's head
- A U.S. arts professor who had a camera implanted in the back of his head has been forced to remove it after his body began to reject the supports that held it in place.
- Disfigured Afghan portrait wins World Press prize
- A South African photographer's portrait of an Afghan woman whose husband sliced off her nose and ears in a case of Taliban-administered justice won the World Press Photo award for 2010 Friday, one of photojournalism's most coveted prizes.
- Toronto photographer wins Hanson award
- A freelance photographer from Toronto whose work has appeared in the Toronto Star, the Globe and Mail and the National Post has been named the winner of the second annual Tom Hanson Photojournalism Award.
- Mapplethorpe's photos secured by L.A. museums
- A vast trove of Robert Mapplethorpe's photos, drawings and collages is heading to Los Angeles, after two West Coast museums jointly acquired the provocative New York artist's archives.
- Picasso's portrait of muse fetches $40M at auction
- A heated competition between bidders ended with Pablo Picasso's La Lecture soaring past expectations and fetching more than $40 million in London.
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Theatre Headlines
- Queens of Comedy: Lily Tomlin
- For more than 40 years, Lily Tomlin's brought to life indelible characters such as Ernestine, Edith Ann, and Pervis Hawkins.
- U.K.'s Royal Opera debuts Anna Nicole Smith opera
- Britain's venerable Royal Opera debuts Anna Nicole on Thursday, with the new opera offering an impeccably high-art cast and crew, as well as a warning of 'extreme language, drug abuse and sexual content.'
- Lepage to bring 3D to Met opera stage
- Canadian director Robert Lepage, who wowed New York opera-lovers with his Das Rheingold last fall, is bringing a new technical innovation to the Metropolitan Opera stage: 3D.
- Howie Mandel joins Winnipeg Comedy Festival
- The Winnipeg Comedy Festival is celebrating 10 years with a big opening act.
- VIDEO: Winnipeg ballet takes Moulin Rouge on tour
- The Royal Winnipeg Ballet kicks off a southern Ontario tour on Thursday with a new ballet set in the colourful, multicultural milieu of 1890s Paris.
- Winnipeg dance schools supported by Ottawa
- The federal government is contributing almost $3 million over three years to two Winnipeg dance schools.
- Spider-Man producer slams critics
- The lead producer of Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark is railing against critics who've panned the Broadway musical in reviews this week, posted before the show's opening night.
- Heppner drops out of Met Opera's Ring Cycle
- Canadian tenor Ben Heppner has withdrawn from the Metropolitan Opera's ambitious new staging of Wagner's Ring Cycle by acclaimed director Robert Lepage.
- Kim Cattrall to hit Toronto stage in Private Lives
- Canadian actress Kim Cattrall, best known for her role in Sex and the City, will take to a Toronto stage later this year in Private Lives.
- National Ballet commissions new Romeo and Juliet
- A Western Canadian tour and the world premiere of a brand new Romeo and Juliet are in the works for the National Ballet of Canada's 60th anniversary season.