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Ceremonies across Canada mark Truth and Reconciliation Day
By Alessia Passafiume, The Canadian Press on September 30th, 2024
The smell of sage and sweetgrass floated in the air Monday over a mostly sombre ceremony in Ottawa to reflect on the legacy of residential schools and remember those who survived – and the thousands who didn’t. Amid the more difficult moments at the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation ceremony on Parliament Hill came ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Balenciaga upturns luxury in Paris as McCartney puts on high-octane fashion with playful, eco twist
By Thomas Adamson, The Associated Press on September 30th, 2024
PARIS (AP) – On an ordinary Parisian market street on an ordinary rainy fall day, Stella McCartney’s high-octane show on Monday was anything but. Guests gasped as the drizzle ceased, the clouds parted, and the sun emerged moments before the show – a heavenly metaphor, perhaps, for McCartney’s optimistic and nature-inspired display. Meanwhile, inside the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘SNL’ 50th season premiere gets more than 5M viewers, its best opener since 2020
By The Associated Press on September 30th, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) – The 50th season of “Saturday Night Live” is off to a strong ratings start and is a record-breaker for the streaming service Peacock. NBC said Monday that 5.3 million people watched the premiere live, the best opening for the show since 2020, when Alec Baldwin reprised his role as then-President Donald ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!A list of Quebec language law sections that bilingual municipalities want struck down
By The Canadian Press on September 30th, 2024
A group of 23 bilingual municipalities in Quebec has asked a Superior Court judge to suspend the application of several portions of the province’s 2022 language reform, known as Bill 96. Lawyer Julius Grey says the law will have “enormous consequences” for cities that have the right to serve citizens in both English and French. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!23 bilingual municipalities ask judge to suspend portions of Quebec language law
By Morgan Lowrie, The Canadian Press on September 30th, 2024
MONTREAL – A group of 23 bilingual municipalities asked a Quebec Superior Court judge on Monday to suspend several portions of the province’s 2022 language reform, arguing that the application of the law will cause them serious and irreparable harm. Lawyer Julius Grey told the Montreal courtroom that the law contains measures that will have ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Orion Sun unveils her path to self-discovery in a new album
By Leslie Ambriz, The Associated Press on September 30th, 2024
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Amid a creative spiral, Orion Sun found comfort among the words of the late Audre Lorde’s essay “Poetry is not a luxury.” The poet’s writing provided a mental redirection for the musician while working on her new album, “Orion.” Lorde wrote that poetry is a pathway for women to process long-forgotten ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs appeals for release while he awaits sex trafficking trial
By The Associated Press on September 30th, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) – Sean “Diddy” Combs is appealing a federal judge’s decision to keep him in jail while he awaits trial on sex trafficking charges. The hip-hop mogul’s lawyers filed a notice of appeal Monday in the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals after previously saying they would ask the appeals court to overturn ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Kris Kristofferson was ‘a walking contradiction,’ a renegade and pilgrim surrounded by friends
By Andrew Dalton, The Associated Press on September 30th, 2024
LOS ANGELES (AP) – If Kris Kristofferson’s life were fiction, it would feel a little implausible. He was a Texas-born Golden Gloves boxer and star football player, a Rhodes Scholar and a helicopter-flying U.S. Army captain who walked away from a West Point faculty gig to briefly become a janitor on his way to becoming ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Queer women rule pop, at All Things Go and in the current cultural zeitgeist
By Maria Sherman, The Associated Press on September 30th, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) – Venue staff wore rainbow heart-shaped stickers. LGBTQ+ pride flags doubled as capes. Pink cowboy hats, a calling card for Chappell Roan fans, reached critical mass at pop-ups like Dave’s Lesbian Bar. Nearby, at a stand for the online sexual healthcare company Wisp, attendees posed in front of a glittery vulva. At ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Cincinnati Opera postpones Afrofuturist-themed `Lalovavi’ by a year to the summer of 2026
By The Associated Press on September 30th, 2024
CINCINNATI (AP) – The Cincinnati Opera has postponed the premiere of the Afrofuturist-themed “Lalovavi” by one year to the summer of 2026. The company said Monday the libretto by Tifara Brown is still being worked on, delaying the music composition by Kevin Day. “Lalovavi” had been announced in February with a premiere date of June ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Drake Hogestyn, ‘Days of Our Lives’ star, dies at 70
By The Associated Press on September 30th, 2024
Drake Hogestyn, the “Days of Our Lives” star who appeared on the show for 38 years, died Saturday, his family confirmed. He was 70. The actor was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, and his family said in a statement that Hogestyn died after “putting up an unbelievable fight” against the disease. “He was the most amazing ... Read More »
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