Friday, May 18, 2012 - 11:57am
| By THE CANADIAN PRESS
TORONTO — A transgender contender at Miss Universe Canada is unfairly taking the spotlight away from other contestants, complained friends and relatives of some rivals as the race began with swimsuit and evening gown events Thursday. Read More
Friday, May 18, 2012 - 4:11am
| By The Associated Press
CANNES, France — Jacques Audiard’s new movie features poverty, bare-knuckle fighting and a killer whale attack. The French director says it’s a sunny romance. Read More
Friday, May 18, 2012 - 4:11am
| STEPHEN COOKE Entertainment Reporter
Ottawa Valley musician Kelli Trottier is becoming a familiar face to young fiddlers in Nova Scotia, thanks to her frequent trips here to teach at fiddle camps.
The fringe benefit is getting to play a couple of public shows that show off her vocal... Read More
Friday, May 18, 2012 - 4:11am
| By LAUREN OOSTVEEN | SMASH CUT
It’s time we stage an intervention, friends.
This has gone on long enough and the heartache is simply too much to deal with. We need to do something. Read More
Friday, May 18, 2012 - 4:10am
| By ELISSA BARNARD Arts Reporter
Festival Antigonish Summer Theatre is celebrating its 25th anniversary with what its audience loves best — comedy.
The main stage series, billed as a Summer of Comedy, opens
July 5 with Ray Cooney’s Funny Money. It is followed by Bernard Slade’s... Read More
Friday, May 18, 2012 - 4:10am
| By ELISSA BARNARD Entertainment Reporter
The Halifax waterfront is the place to be during the Tall Ships this summer.
Events from July 19 to July 23 include a Taste of Nova Scotia culinary pavilion, trips to Georges Island and entertainment at the CBC Pavilion, including a big Saturday... Read More
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is a retirement destination in India for “the elderly and beautiful.” It has seen better days, and if you want to see what the better days looked like, just examine the brochure, which depicts a luxurious existence in... Read More
Only one Wiggle
will remain true blue
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) — Three members of the children’s music quartet The Wiggles will be hanging up their colourful outfits and leaving the Australian band this year, with the Blue Wiggle the lone original... Read More
Friday, May 18, 2012 - 4:10am
| By The Chronicle Herald
The winners of the 2012 Atlantic Book Awards were announced Thursday night in St. John’s, Nfld.
Comedian Amy House was to host the event, with a performance by Andy Jones and a few words expected from City of St. John’s poet laureate Tom Dawe.
It is... Read More
Friday, May 18, 2012 - 4:10am
| By ANDREA NEMETZ Entertainment Reporter | Theatre Review
Daniel MacIvor writes great plays.
It doesn’t seem to matter what the subject is, from last year’s Bingo!, a hilarious look at a group of Cape Bretoners three decades after they graduated from high school, to this winter’s... Read More
Tour of documentary on Himalayas hits Chester
The 2012 Canadian tour of the film 40 Days at Base Camp makes a stop at the Chester Playhouse on Saturday, 7:30 p.m.
Focusing on the base camp experience, the feature-length documentary shows... Read More
Friday, May 18, 2012 - 4:10am
| By BILL SPURR Features Writer
ALL IT TOOK to transform the lobby from museum quiet to playground loud was the combination of toys under glass and the arrival of 42 Grade 1 students from Springvale Elementary School. Read More
Just what we needed. First Friends With Kids two months ago, about three couples who confront pregnancy, and now What to Expect When You're Expecting, about five couples so much in synch that deliveries and an adoption occur on the same day.
I’d... Read More
Friday, May 18, 2012
BIRTHDAY GAL: Actress Jenn Gotzon was born in Northampton, Pa., today in 1979. This birthday gal's most prominent role to date was that of Tricia Nixon in 2008's Frost/Nixon. Her other film work includes Julie and Jack, Hulk... Read More
