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Randy Bachman offers look at more than 80 of his guitars NAC exhibit in Studio Bell
By David Friend, The Canadian Press on April 5th, 2023
TORONTO – Randy Bachman is shedding light on his incredible guitar obsession with a new temporary exhibit set to open at Calgary’s National Music Centre inside Studio Bell next month. Organizers say the Guess Who co-founder and “Taking Care of Business” hitmaker will showcase more than 80 of his prized axes for “Randy Bachman: Every ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Randy Bachman offers look at more than 80 of his guitars in Studio Bell exhibit
By David Friend, The Canadian Press on April 5th, 2023
TORONTO – Randy Bachman is shedding light on his incredible guitar obsession with a new temporary exhibit set to open at Calgary’s Studio Bell next month. Organizers say the Guess Who co-founder and “Taking Care of Business” hitmaker will showcase more than 80 of his prized axes for “Randy Bachman: Every Guitar Tells a Story.” ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Prince Harry due to testify in phone hacking case in June
By Brian Melley, The Associated Press on April 5th, 2023
LONDON (AP) – Prince Harry is expected to testify in a London courtroom in June in one of his phone hacking lawsuits against British tabloids, lawyers said Wednesday. A trial in a case involving the Duke of Sussex and three others against the publisher of The Mirror is due to start May 9 in the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘How to Blow Up a Pipeline’ explores vigilante eco-sabotage
By Krysta Fauria, The Associated Press on April 5th, 2023
LOS ANGELES (AP) – When the creators of “How to Blow Up a Pipeline” initially set out to adapt the book of the same name, which critiques the docility of climate activism, director Daniel Goldhaber had in mind a very different movie than what they eventually made. “I was very much in a place of ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Q&A: Lewis Capaldi feels ‘naked’ releasing new documentary
By Brooke Lefferts, The Associated Press on April 5th, 2023
Lewis Capaldi’s first album went multiplatinum and led to chart-topping hits, sold-out stadiums, and a Grammy nomination for the singer-songwriter. Besting that with his sophomore album was daunting enough, but then he agreed to allow a Netflix documentary crew to follow him. Capaldi says, with his trademark wit, he wouldn’t recommend it to anyone. The ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Senegal’s Baaba Maal returns after years with new album
By Lizzie Knight, The Associated Press on April 5th, 2023
Amid a changing, modernizing world with climate change threatening his home, Senegalese singer-songwriter and activist Baaba Maal is releasing his first album in seven years, “Being.” The genre-crossing album, released by Marathon Artists last Friday, is explores those themes and showcases traditional African instruments along with futuristic electronic sounds. The first single from the record, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Love him? Hate him? For Donald Trump, attention is attention
By Ted Anthony, The Associated Press on April 5th, 2023
In the currency of today’s attention economy, Donald Trump is the world’s richest man. His media-engulfed arraignment in New York was an out-of-court Exhibit A. In returning to the no-business-like-show-business metropolis that propelled him to tabloid-fodder fame so many years ago, the former president also returned to the very stage where he thrives the most. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Writers’ Trust Poetry Prize more than doubles to $60K with Scott Griffin contribution
By Nicole Thompson, The Canadian Press on April 5th, 2023
TORONTO – Scott Griffin is shaking up the Canadian poetry landscape for the second time in a year, lending his name to the Writers’ Trust poetry prize and more than doubling its purse. The move, which turns the Latner Writers’ Trust Poetry Prize into the Latner Griffin Writers’ Trust Poetry Prize and bumps its value ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Donald Trump, the attention economy’s most potent stimulus
By Ted Anthony, The Associated Press on April 4th, 2023
In the currency of today’s attention economy, Donald Trump is the world’s richest man. His media-engulfed arraignment in New York was an out-of-court Exhibit A. In returning to the no-business-like-show-business metropolis that propelled him to tabloid-fodder fame so many years ago, the former president also returned to the very stage where he thrives the most. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Percival Everett, Ling Ma among winners of $175,000 prizes
By The Associated Press on April 4th, 2023
NEW YORK (AP) – Percival Everett and Ling Ma, already two of the year’s most honored writers, are among eight winners of the lucrative Windham-Campbell Prize. Each of the recipients, who also include the dramatists Dominique Morisseau and Jasmine Lee-Jones, will be given $175,000. Over the last few weeks, Everett has been voted into the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Catan board game creator, Klaus Teuber, dies at 70
By The Associated Press on April 4th, 2023
Klaus Teuber, creator of the hugely popular Catan board game in which players compete to build settlements on a fictional island, has died after a brief illness, according to a family statement. He was 70. The board game, originally called The Settlers of Catan when introduced in 1995 and based on a set of hexagonal ... Read More »
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