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The star of If Beale Street Could Talk and Homecoming joins Tom Power live in the q studio to talk about his whirlwind year and first Golden Globe nomination.

Lance Bass' new documentary The Boy Band Con details the fraudulent schemes of music producer Lou Pearlman, who paved the way for boy bands like NSYNC and the Backstreet Boys.

Today on q: television critic Emily Nussbaum, q books columnist Jael Richardson, Chali-Rosso Art Gallery director Oree Gianacopoulos, musician Richard Reed Parry of Arcade Fire.

In her new collection of essays, I Like To Watch, Nussbaum examines the evolution of TV and how notions of highbrow and lowbrow are changing. She joined q's Tom Power to tell us more.

Our books columnist, Jael Richardson, fills us in on a new book to check out: Bunny by Mona Awad.

Chali-Rosso Art Gallery director Oree Gianacopoulos talks about the missing piece of Salvador Dali's Space Venus sculpture and what impact this art theft could have on the future of public art in Vancouver.

Richard Reed Parry performs and talks about his new album.

Today on q: actor, comedian and writer Brent Butt, q screen panel with John Semley and Tina Hassannia, the late soul singer Jackie Shane.

Brent Butt joins Tom Power to talk about Corner Gas Animated, which returns for its second season on Canada Day.

The q screen panel discusses HBO's controversial new series Euphoria, Danny Boyle's Beatles-themed film Yesterday, and the return of everyone's favourite demonic doll, Chucky.

Soul singer Jackie Shane built a loyal audience on Toronto's Yonge Street strip in the '60s. She passed away Feb. 21 at the age of 78. In one of her final interviews, she agreed to speak with CBC's Elaine Banks.

Today on q: Polaris Prize panel with q This' Lisa Christiansen and Stuart Berman, performance artist, mask dancer and director Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory, Snotty Nose Rez Kids' q block party for Kitamaat Village, B.C., singer-songwriter Beatrice Deer.

Beatrice Deer is a half-Inuk and half-Mohawk musician who took home the award for best folk album at the Indigenous Music Awards this year.

In this edition of the q block party, hip-hop duo Snotty Nose Rez Kids share a playlist of songs that take them back to the place where they grew up, Kitamaat Village, B.C.

The q This music panel discusses the Polaris Prize long list, which is stacked with recent q guests.

This week on q, we're featuring some of the best music and art from Iqaluit. Today, hear from the Inuksuk Drum Dancers, performance artist Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory, Juno-nominated band The Jerry Cans and comedian Peter Autut.

Today on q: author and actor Margaret Trudeau, Canadian fringe festival panel with Patrick Gauthier, S. E. Grummett and Vanessa Quesnelle, singer and actor Satori Shakoor on Parliament-Funkadelic, soul singer Lee Fields.

In Margaret Trudeau's new one-woman comedy show, Certain Woman of an Age, the Canadian icon uses humour to tell her story like never before.

Soul singer Lee Fields cut his first record 50 years ago, but there was a period of time when he stopped making music. Now he's ready to share why.

Canadian fringe festivals are unique because of how accessible they are to both artists and audiences. Today, three festival veterans join Tom Power to tell us more about it.

The psychedelic funk collective Parliament-Funkadelic, or P-Funk, broke out in the '70s and quickly became known for their out-of-this-world tours in a giant fake spaceship. Satori Shakoor joined us to share some road stories from her time in the band.

Today on q: rapper and pop star M.I.A., q online columnist Elamin Abdelmahmoud, drummer Kendrick Scott's gateway to Blue Note Records, pianist and composer Thompson Egbo-Egbo.