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Plan your screen time with the weekly What to Watch newsletter. Sign up today.Despite containing ballads entitled True Love Always Finds a Way and We Love Each Other So Much (sample lyrics: “We love each other soooo much / We love each other sooooooooo muuuuuuuch”), the new musical Annette does...

Audiobooks are on the rise. The global market is predicted to expand by 25 per cent in the coming year, generating more than $4.5-billion, according to Deloitte. And it’s not just readers, but authors who are being drawn to them. Lily Chu is a Toronto-based author who published her novel...

Plan your screen time with the weekly What to Watch newsletter. Sign up today.In Euros Lyn’s intensely inspirational real-life drama Dream Horse, a group of less-than-affluent Welsh townspeople consider financing the breeding of a racehorse. They are advised not to do it for a jackpot, but for the “feeling of...

One Christmastime in the early 1990s, jazz drummer Jerry Granelli took a whirlwind trip to Los Angeles from Berlin, where he lived part-time as a music teacher. From there, he flew to his hometown of San Francisco and then onto his adopted home city of Halifax.In every airport along the...

Title: Citadels of PrideAuthor: Martha NussbaumPublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPages: 320In the Purgatorio, Virgil leads Dante upwards. A series of terraces correspond to the seven deadly sins. At each, souls work on understanding their ethical flaws. First is the terrace of pride. There, Dante finds people bent into weird...

In 1992, Margaret Atwood, her partner, Graeme Gibson, and their daughter spent about a year living in Provence. That time is the inspiration for Atwood’s newest short story. In Two Scorched Men, the narrator and her partner, Tig, meet two eccentric men who fought in the Second World War –...

“I’m bored.” It’s one of the most dreaded phrases to come out of your child’s mouth – especially, if like me, you’re a parent who was unable to get their kid into any sort of camp.And while there are plenty of books, kits and online tutorials out there on any...

Fast cars, green knights, and cruises in the jungle entering the MUST-WATCH Top 10 this week! Perhaps a new show about a world of centaurs will take the top spot? Or maybe the fast franchise about family will come in first place? You’ll have to keep reading to find out!The...

Of course you’re not tired of the Olympics yet. But it will end with the Closing Ceremony on Sunday, Aug. 8. And then what?Perhaps all that indolence involved in watching the competition will inspire new ambitions to be more active and engaged in exertion. Perhaps not. August will bring multiple...

Chinese-Canadian pop star Kris Wu has been detained by Beijing police on suspicion of rape, police announced Saturday, following an accusation the former member of the Korean boy band EXO lured young women into sexual relationships.Wu, 30, earlier was accused by a teenager of having sex with her while she...

It takes a lot to really impress this writer. I want to find fun, be moved and impressed by innovation and enchanted by wit and sagacity. And tell you about it.The Pursuit of Love (streams on Amazon Prime Video from Friday) delighted me. It is compulsive and devastatingly funny viewing,...

A lost concert recording of a young Joni Mitchell taped by Jimi Hendrix at an Ottawa coffee house more than a half-century ago has finally turned up. The Dawntreader, a song from the live recording, was released by the Rhino label on Thursday. More of the tracks are set to...

Patricia Lockwood’s first novel, No One Is Talking About This, is the first-person story of a woman addicted to Twitter. “On a slow news day,” she declares (always in short bursts), “we hung, suspended from meat hooks, meat hooks dangling over the abyss. On a fast news day, it was...

In January this year, the British Army rolled out a series of new recruitment advertisements. One film showed a group of multiethnic and gender-mixed soldiers running through the woods. A young Black woman – in an institution that remains 90-per-cent male and 87-per-cent white – pulls up short under a...

The Globe and Mail spoke with Simon Akam, a British journalist based in London. A contributing writer for the Economist’s 1843 magazine, his work has also been published in The New York Times, The Guardian, GQ, Outside and Bloomberg Businessweek. He spent a year in the army when he was...

The study of trees requires a temperament that’s comfortable skewing toward the long game, which is perhaps why three of the following recently published or forthcoming books are also memoirs. Identifying arboreal patterns can take a lifetime – a tree’s ora human’s (which are sometimes of similar duration). But as...

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Scarlett Johansson is suing the Walt Disney Co. over its streaming release of “Black Widow,” which she said breached her contract and deprived her of potential earnings.In a lawsuit filed Thursday morning in Los Angeles Superior Court, the “Black Widow” star and executive producer said her contract guaranteed an exclusive...

Plan your screen time with the weekly What to Watch newsletter. Sign up today.Critic’s PickIn this delightful teen comedy, a giant white squirrel costume is destroyed. It’s a metaphor – white squirrels, being rare, stand out and are shunned by other rodents. Later, an Egyptian-Canadian man laughs when he’s told...

A Spanish judge investigating alleged tax fraud by Colombian musician Shakira recommended on Thursday that the case go to trial after concluding there is evidence that the pop star could have avoided her fiscal obligations to the state.Judge Marco Juberias wrote that his three-year probe found there existed “sufficient evidence...