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Chinese pop music’s ‘deeply local’ Canadian story shines in Vancouver exhibition
By Canadian Press on May 28th, 2025
VANCOUVER — A new exhibition on Cantopop and Mandopop music in Vancouver is a Canadian story, says curator Melissa Karmen Lee. The “Dream Factory” exhibit, opening Wednesday at the Chinese Canadian Museum, pays tribute to the golden age of Chinese pop music “through the lens of Chinese Canadian identity, migration and memory.” Its stories are ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Rio’s mayor eases his new rules on live beach music after an outcry
By Canadian Press on May 27th, 2025
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Rio de Janeiro’s mayor on Tuesday loosened new restrictions on live music on the city’s beaches after many people warned of a threat to the dynamic cultural scene. Mayor Eduardo Paes earlier this month introduced the measures and reinforced existing ones, citing the need to protect public safety and the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Dealer gets 19 years in prison for providing drugs that killed prominent NYC transgender activist
By Canadian Press on May 27th, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City drug dealer who admitted providing the fentanyl-laced heroin that killed a prominent transgender activist was sentenced Tuesday to 19 years in federal prison, prosecutors said. Michael Kuilan, 45, of Brooklyn, was also ordered to pay $24,482 in restitution and forfeit $30,000 and a seized firearm. “Cecilia Gentili ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Rio’s mayor loosens restrictions on live beach music after an outcry
By Canadian Press on May 27th, 2025
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Rio de Janeiro’s mayor on Tuesday loosened new restrictions on live music on the city’s beaches after many people warned of a threat to the dynamic cultural scene. Mayor Eduardo Paes earlier this month introduced the measures and reinforced existing ones, citing the need to protect public safety and the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Oscar-winning Canadian animator Co Hoedeman has died, National Film Board says
By Canadian Press on May 27th, 2025
MONTREAL — Academy Award-winning Dutch-Canadian animator Co Hoedeman has died, the National Film Board of Canada said Tuesday. The “master of stop-motion animation” died at age 84 on Monday in Montreal, the NFB said. “Co Hoedeman was a master animator, whose long career at the NFB was distinguished by innovative filmmaking and powerful humanitarian themes,” ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Trump set to pardon reality TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley of fraud and tax evasion convictions
By Canadian Press on May 27th, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House said Tuesday that President Donald Trump is set to pardon reality TV stars Julie and Todd Chrisley, the couple famous for “Chrisley Knows Best,” which followed their tightly knit family and extravagant lifestyle. A jury in 2022 found them guilty of conspiring to defraud community banks out of more ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Dutch-Canadian animator Co Hoedeman has died, National Film Board says
By Canadian Press on May 27th, 2025
MONTREAL — The National Film Board of Canada says Academy Award-winning animator Co Hoedeman has died. The NFB says the Dutch-born Canadian filmmaker died in Montreal on Monday at age 84. The organization is remembering him as a “master of stop-motion animation,” who in 1977 took home the best animated short Oscar for “The Sand ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!To win the Scripps National Spelling Bee, contenders must also master geography
By Canadian Press on May 27th, 2025
OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — Rudveep Randhawa’s three kids competed in eight consecutive Scripps National Spelling Bees from 2016 to 2024, with four appearances by daughter Aisha and two each by daughter Lara and son Avi. Yet when Avi’s spelling journey concluded in last year’s semifinals, Randhawa, a pediatric endocrinologist who goes by “Dr. Happy,” ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Book Review: ‘April 1861’ captures drama that occurred before Civil War’s first shots
By Canadian Press on May 27th, 2025
More than two decades have passed since historian Jay Winik wrote about the end of the Civil War with a book with “April 1865: The Month That Saved America.” His latest book covers the period of time that nearly led to its disintegration. In “1861: The Lost Peace,” Winik covers the lead-up to the first ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Rick Derringer, who had a hit with ‘Hang On Sloopy’ and produced ‘Weird Al,’ dies at 77
By Canadian Press on May 27th, 2025
Guitarist and singer Rick Derringer, who shot to fame at 17 when his band The McCoys recorded “Hang On Sloopy,” had a hit with “Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo” and earned a Grammy Award for producing “Weird Al” Yankovic’s debut album, has died. He was 77. Derringer died Monday in in Ormond Beach, Florida, according ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Book Review: A detective banished defies orders not to investigate a murder in ‘Nightshade’
By Canadian Press on May 27th, 2025
Detective Sergeant Stillwell of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has been banished from the homicide division. His sin: accusing his former partner of dropping a murder case for lack of evidence when, according to Stillwell, there was plenty of it. Branding him a troublemaker, his superiors packed him off to Catalina Island and put ... Read More »
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