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Brazil leader hit for cool reaction to João Gilberto’s death
RIO DE JANEIRO – President Jair Bolsonaro came under fire Sunday for a lukewarm response…
Kansas judge won’t give go-ahead for telemedicine abortions
TOPEKA, Kan. – A state-court judge declined Monday to give a Kansas clinic permission to…
Long lost WWII-era Soviet songs brought to life in Israel
TEL AVIV, Israel – In a musty basement hall of an unassuming building nestled among…
Famous paintings coming to Utah art museum this fall
SALT LAKE CITY – Four famous paintings will be showcased in the Utah Museum of…
Alaska legislators brace for showdown over governor’s vetoes
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – The message on the front page of Alaska’s second-largest newspaper was unmistakable.…
Hamlet rock opera returns to P.E.I. theatre stage, 45 years later
CHARLOTTETOWN – A classic Shakespearean tragedy put to rock ‘n’ roll has given rise to…
Poet and former Youth Laureate Amanda Gorman has book deal
NEW YORK – Former Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman is working on a picture book.…
California exhibit paints Ed Hardy as artist, tattoo pioneer
SAN FRANCISCO – When people hear the name Ed Hardy, they likely think of the…
Barr: Justice Dept. is ‘all in’ on criminal justice overhaul
EDGEFIELD, S.C. – Leroy Nolan has spent the last 26 years behind bars at a…
Cleveland museum to display Pablo Picasso exhibition in 2020
CLEVELAND – Pablo Picasso’s artwork will be displayed on a large scale at the Cleveland…
‘Bad choices make good stories’: Margaret Trudeau brings her show to Just for Laughs
MONTREAL – Margaret Trudeau says one of the goals of her one-woman show is to…
Alaska State Arts Council shuts down after funding loss
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – The Alaska State Council on the Arts closed its doors Monday, making…
Wiz Khalifa’s ‘Kush + Orange Juice’ changed his game. 15 years later, a sequel recaptures the spirit
NEW YORK (AP) — Who understood the cool kids better than Wiz Khalifa? In 2010,…
Edith Jones, who integrated southern medical schools, dies
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Dr. Edith Irby Jones, the first black student to enrol at…
New inductees to Canada’s Walk of Fame include Coombs, Arnett, Klassen, Gehry
TORONTO – The late “Mr. Dressup” children’s entertainer Ernie Coombs, actor Will Arnett, and Olympic…
New inductees to Canada’s Walk of Fame include Coombs, Arnett, Klassen, Gehry
TORONTO – The late “Mr. Dressup” children’s entertainer Ernie Coombs, actor Will Arnett, and Olympic…
Verse averse: State poet laureate pick nixed after criticism
CONCORD, N.H. – There are poetry slams, and then there are slammed poets. New Hampshire…
3 sentenced for violence at Virginia white nationalist rally
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – Three members of a white supremacist group were sentenced Friday to between…
Simu Liu’s rise from Bay Street accountant to Marvel’s kung fu super hero
TORONTO – Once upon a time, Simu Liu was a Toronto accountant. But he secretly…
Review: In Tarantino’s latest, a radiant Hollywood fable
Quentin Tarantino has, for a while now, been reminding us what’s so great about movies…
Summer camp uses dance to teach students life skills
JONESBORO, Ga. – Of all the mantras Anai Espinoza and her fellow campers recite each…
Toronto-raised sexologist Shan Boodram on winning ‘The Game of Desire’
Toronto-raised sex educator Shan Boodram wants to bring a more “human approach” to pickup artistry.…
Filmmaker-music journalist Cameron Crowe has a memoir out this fall. It’s called ‘The Uncool’
NEW YORK (AP) — Cameron Crowe was planning to compile some of his old music…
Aiming Haya: Canada’s Jumaa a medal contender in karate at Pan Am Games
Haya Jumaa’s first Pan Am assignment came as a volunteer four years ago in Toronto.…