Entertainment

NEW YORK (AP) — Betsy Arakawa, a concert pianist and co-founder of a home furnishing business, was found dead Wednesday in her Santa Fe, New Mexico, home along with actor-husband Gene Hackman and their dog, according to authorities. She was 65. Arakawa and the 95-year-old Hackman lived in a Southwestern-style ranch on Old Sunset Trail, [...] Read More »

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Amelia Dimoldenberg only needs 60 seconds with Timothée Chalamet. In her decade of hosting the popular YouTube show “Chicken Shop Date,” she hasn’t yet casually, awkwardly flirted with Chalamet over nuggets under bright fluorescent lights. Sunday, though, she might get her chance: Dimoldenberg will be on the Oscars red carpet as [...] Read More »

WINNIPEG — The Canadian Museum for Human Rights has removed singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie from an exhibit because of questions about her First Nations identity. The musician and activist was among more than a dozen people featured in an exhibit at the Winnipeg museum titled “human rights defenders” until December. A museum official says the move [...] Read More »

MILAN (AP) — Top model Irina Shayk injected buzz into Georgian designer David Koma’s debut as Blumarine’s creative director, opening the Fall-Winter 2025-26 preview show during Milan Fashion Week on Thursday in a mood-setting, sharply executed, shearling-trimmed coat. For her second turn, Shayk wore a slinky sheer dress with a deep slit under a matching [...] Read More »

TORONTO — Canadian screen industry entrepreneur Paul Bronfman has died. His children Jonathan and Alex Bronfman say the film and television arts booster died peacefully Wednesday in Toronto, where he was surrounded by family. He was 67. Bronfman, who had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1995, was a go-to supplier of production equipment, studio [...] Read More »

After focusing on comedies for the bulk of the past few seasons, Medicine Hat Musical Theatre is stepping back into the world of drama with 12 Angry Men, and it does not disappoint. Opening tonight for the first of six shows, 12 Angry Men give the local playhouse room to flex its more serious muscles, both [...] Read More »

Every day my first order of business is to turn on my computer and review what tickets have been sold on TIXX.ca over the past 24 hours – this information is vitally important to every part of the rest of my day. Although choosing and securing entertainment for the Esplanade is fun and exciting, there’s [...] Read More »

“We know our successes are even bigger than what the public sees.” This was a part of a conversation with a colleague recently, and it made me reflect on some of the auxiliary pieces of my job. My title as Food and Beverage Manager can be a little broad, especially with how many different events [...] Read More »

As Event Services Coordinator for the Community Development Department, I’m sometimes asked what I do. My main role is managing rentals at our facilities. At the Esplanade I book meeting rooms, theatre rental shows, children’s birthday parties and weddings. At the Cultural Centre I book the city’s rooms for non-profit organizations such as studio space [...] Read More »

Who’s ready for some camp at the cabin in the woods? Medicine Hat Musical Theatre’s production of Evil Dead The Musical premieres tonight at 8 p.m. with its first of nine shows, promising plenty of laughs, a touch of shock value and an overall bloody good time. Based on Sam Raimi’s cult classic film trilogy, [...] Read More »