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A postman, his family, and a chair: Van Gogh museum’s surprising reunion exhibition
By Canadian Press on October 1st, 2025
AMSTERDAM (AP) — The Van Gogh museum is bringing a scattered family back together this fall to honor a postal worker, his wife and their children who sat as models for the Dutch master at at time when he was struggling to make friends in a French town. Portraits from the late 1880s of the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Stories of writers and wolves are finalists for the nonfiction Baillie Gifford prize
By Canadian Press on October 1st, 2025
LONDON (AP) — Literary biographies vie with explorations of extremism, slavery and European wolves on the shortlist for Britain’s leading nonfiction book prize. The six finalists announced Thursday for the 50,000 pound ($67,000) Baillie Gifford Prize include “The Boundless Deep,” a biography of poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson by Richard Holmes, Frances Wilson’s “Electric Spark,” about ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Movie Review: Bleak family drama ‘Anemone’ brings the great Daniel Day-Lewis back in from the cold
By Canadian Press on October 1st, 2025
It is often said of our greatest actors that they could compellingly recite the phone book. There’s no doubt, just to continue that thought for a moment, that Daniel Day-Lewis is one of our greatest living actors — perhaps truly the best of them all. And so the first and most important thing to say ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Jane Fonda revives Cold War-era activist group to defend free speech
By Canadian Press on October 1st, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — Drawing upon her personal and political past, Jane Fonda has revived an activist group from the Cold War era that was backed by her father and fellow Oscar winner, Henry Fonda. Jane Fonda announced she had launched a 21st century incarnation of the Committee for the First Amendment, originally formed in ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!CBC executive Barbara Williams to retire after 40-year career in Canadian media
By Canadian Press on October 1st, 2025
TORONTO — Longtime broadcasting executive Barb Williams is retiring. CBC says Williams will wrap a four-decade career in Canadian media next year when she ends her run as executive vice-president of English Services. Williams joined the public broadcaster in 2019, just before a global pandemic upended the TV industry and as new technologies forced a ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Daniel Day-Lewis, pulled out of retirement by his son, finds his acting fire still burns
By Canadian Press on October 1st, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — It’s been eight years since Daniel Day-Lewis announced his retirement from acting and said he wanted to “explore the world in a different way.” But the big-screen absence of the actor many would peg as the greatest one alive ends with “Anemone,” a new film directed by his son, Ronan Day-Lewis. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Movie Review: In ‘Orwell: 2+2=5,’ a powerful portrait of the author and his still relevant writings
By Canadian Press on October 1st, 2025
Filmmaker Raoul Peck uses George Orwell’s writings to weave together a biographical portrait of the author and a dispiriting picture of power and truth in the modern world in “Orwell: 2+2=5.” He’s hardly the first to connect the dots between Orwell’s prophetic writings and the current state of things — remember, sales for “Nineteen Eighty-Four” ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Chantal Kreviazuk reimagines songs she wrote for Drake and others with upcoming album
By Canadian Press on October 1st, 2025
TORONTO — Chantal Kreviazuk is putting her own spin on the hits she made with pop superstars. The Winnipeg-born singer-songwriter is mapping out plans for a new album that will feature her performing versions of songs she’s co-written over the years with the likes of Drake, Kelly Clarkson and Kendrick Lamar. Representatives for Kreviazuk tell ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!New York rapper who joined Trump at campaign rally sentenced to 5 years for attempted murder
By Canadian Press on October 1st, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City rapper who joined then-former President Donald Trump during a campaign rally last year has been sentenced to five years behind bars after he admitted he used earnings from his music career to fuel gang violence in Brooklyn. Sheff G, whose legal name is Michael Williams, also must ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!After accomplishments in politics, media, former CNN chief Tom Johnson makes mental health his cause
By Canadian Press on October 1st, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — Tom Johnson’s career took him from the White House to newspaper publisher jobs in Dallas and Los Angeles to president of CNN. While that left him able to swap stories about two influential figures — Lyndon B. Johnson and Ted Turner — that’s not the real reason he wrote his memoir. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Anderson’s Dior womenswear debut is a montage of ideas, but not a ‘New Look’
By Canadian Press on October 1st, 2025
PARIS (AP) — No other show so far at Paris Fashion Week has drawn such a feverish crush of celebrities, designers and press. All eyes were on Jonathan Anderson — the Northern Irish designer who has already transformed Loewe into a global powerhouse of wit and craft — as he unveiled his first Dior womenswear ... Read More »
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