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Show of gratitude: Frick masterpieces cross the Atlantic for exhibition at Mauritshuis
THE HAGUE, Netherlands – How do you say “thank you” to a museum that loaned you Johannes Vermeer’s “Girl With a Pearl Earring” and Carel Fabritius’ “The Goldfinch” for a blockbuster exhibition?
She conquered the Super Bowl and Billboard charts, but Katy Perry remains winless at Grammys
LOS ANGELES, Calif. – There’s one place left on Earth where Katy Perry can still be considered a dark horse: The Grammy Awards.
Aloe Blacc, Melissa Etheridge rock pre-Grammy concert celebrating philanthropy
LOS ANGELES, Calif. – Aloe Blacc raised the spirits of attendees at a pre-Grammy concert that celebrated giving back.
Journey guitarist claims San Francisco gouged him on city fee for lavish nuptials
SAN FRANCISCO – The lead guitarist and founder of the iconic San Francisco rock band Journey sued the city Friday over a $240,000 fee to use a city landmark for his lavish wedding to a former reality television star.
Teller, Robbie host ceremony honouring Hollywood’s behind-the-scenes tech innovators
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – Two weeks before the glamour of the Oscars, the film academy hosted its annual “night of the nerds” honouring software engineers, digital projection innovators and a former sound guy for Frank Zappa and the Kinks who helped modernize movie audio.
Former champion Georges St-Pierre says current MMA drug-testing system is flawed
TORONTO – Former UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre says the current drug-testing system in mixed martial arts urgently needs fixing.
British academy awards hand trophies to ‘Boyhood,’ Redmayne and ‘Grand Budapest Hotel’
LONDON – Slow-cooked coming-of-age tale “Boyhood” took the best film and director trophies at the British Academy Film Awards on Sunday, while Wes Anderson’s candy-colored comedy “The Grand Budapest Hotel” won the biggest haul of prizes, with five.
Anderson Silva drops out of ‘Ultimate Fighter’ role because of failed drug test
TORONTO – The UFC has pulled Anderson Silva from “The Ultimate Fighter Brazil 4” at the request of the Nevada State Athletic Commission.
NFL Films founder Ed Sabol dies at age 98; revolutionized television coverage of football
NEW YORK, N.Y. – Ed Sabol, the NFL Films founder who revolutionized sports broadcasting and transformed pro football from an up-and-coming sport to must-watch theatre, has died. He was 98.
Parents of American woman held by IS confirm her death; Arizona hometown gathers in grief
PRESCOTT, Ariz. – The small Arizona town where Kayla Jean Mueller grew up began gathering in grief Tuesday upon learning that the 26-year-old aid worker who travelled the world on a quest to help others died while in the hands of Islamic State militants.
Sam Smith, Kendrick Lamar, Hozier to headline new Ontario festival
TORONTO – West Coast rapper Kendrick Lamar, Grammy-celebrated British crooner Sam Smith and “Take Me to Church” howler Hozier will headline the inaugural WayHome Music And Arts festival in Ontario this summer.
Grant Strate, veteran dancer and choreographer, dies in Vancouver
VANCOUVER – Canadian dance great Grant Strate has died.
Artistic trailblazers: Four members of arts community among dead in collision
REGINA – Artists in Alberta and Saskatchewan are mourning the loss of four trailblazers who died in a crash on a Saskatchewan highway.
‘Love Letter’ murals along El tracks make it Valentine’s Day all year-round in Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA – This Saturday may be for sweethearts, but every day is Valentine’s Day in one section of Philadelphia.
New television, radio program spotlights music with shows at historic Charleston SC venue
COLUMBIA, S.C. – Charleston, South Carolina, has become a go-to destination for travellers seeking a dip into southern hospitality, history and haute cuisine, ranking consistently as a top domestic and international travel destination.
AP PHOTOS: Cuba moves into new luxury niche, breeding show horses for Latin America elites
HAVANA – Already renowned for fine rum and fancy cigars, Cuba is carving out a new luxury niche that is attracting Latin American elites to the communist-run island: elite jumping horses.
Five memorable moments on Sun News Network
From a misleading citizenship ceremony that featured federal bureaucrats posing as new Canadians to airing insensitive comments about the Roma, the Sun News Network had its share of controversial programming. The conservative-minded TV channel went off the air Friday after negotiations to sell it were unsuccessful. Here are five memorable moments in the history of the Toronto-based channel that launched in 2011:
New York Fashion Week: ‘Bad girls’ at Adam Selman, a ‘grown-up’ collection at Jason Wu
NEW YORK, N.Y. – The Associated Press is all over New York Fashion Week, from its runway fashions to celebrity-packed events. Here’s what some AP writers are seeing:
Film shows how Great Depression put struggling artists to work; Orson Welles at $42 a week
Eighty years after the federal Works Progress Administration put unemployed artists to work creating sculptures and murals for post offices and courthouses during the Great Depression, film maker Michael Maglaras is issuing this reminder: Look around.
New computer-based tests bring new era in testing to US schools
STOCKPORT, Ohio – Sixth-grader Kayla Hunter considers herself pretty tech savvy. She has a computer at home unlike about half her classmates at her elementary school. And it matches up well with the one she’ll use this week to take a new test linked to the Common Core standards.
Stratford Festival to film and broadcast all of Shakespeare’s plays
NEW YORK, N.Y. – Playing the mad title role in Shakespeare’s “King Lear” was never supposed to be easy. That’s just what Colm Feore wanted.
Report finds that Canada’s Arctic compares poorly around globe
A long-running study concludes that the well-being of northerners in Canada’s increasingly urban Arctic compares poorly with people in other circumpolar regions.
NYC philanthropists donate antiquities collection to The Israel Museum in Jerusalem
NEW YORK, N.Y. – Two New York philanthropists are donating a major collection of more than 300 ancient Greco-Roman and Near-Eastern glass vessels to The Israel Museum in Jerusalem.
Canuck sound mixer Craig Mann Oscar-bound for work on drumming film ‘Whiplash’
TORONTO – Craig Mann’s road to the Academy Awards started with a risky career move, one that the southern Ontario-bred sound mixer says nearly ended his Hollywood career.