Lethbridge-based country singer Shaela Miller strummed her guitar and struggled with a strange request: to sing the lyrics from one of her songs in her own Canadian accent, and without a southern U.S. twang. “I woke up/In my bed/With a…
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Steven Heighton is a novelist, short story writer and poet from Kingston, Ont. His books include the poetry collection The Waking Comes Late, which won the 2016 Governor General’s Literary Award for poetry, the novel The Nightingale Won’t Let You Sleep and the memoir Reaching Mithymna, which was a finalist…
In the same way we look back on the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, comparing, for instance, our face masks to theirs, future generations may, one day, wonder how British Columbians fared during the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020. To that end,…
The only four-year music program at a northern Ontario university has been cut by Laurentian, the latest casualty as the Sudbury school restructures. The music program was built over more than 20 years, and contributed far more to the arts community than…
The six patio seats are a far cry from the 80-person capacity floor the Kino Cafe was used to filling before the COVID-19 pandemic. Once a bustling hub for flamenco dancers and up-and-coming standup comics, it’s now a money pit for owner Steve Allen…
The Osheaga music festival has been cancelled for the second year in a row. Festival organizer Evenko released a statement Thursday morning saying that Osheaga, along with the Île Soniq festival and the inaugural edition of Lasso Montreal, will be postponed until the…
Cirque du Soleil Entertainment Group says it is resuming shows after being closed for more than a year due to the pandemic, though none of the shows reopening are in Canada. The company says O at the Bellagio and Mystere at…
A Manitoba music teacher and her vocal students, who’ve performed on Instagram every day over the past year, have launched a parody video celebrating their one-year anniversary of learning over Zoom. In a YouTube video posted to Heidi Korte’s page…
The 200,000-plus LeVar Burton boosters who signed a petition calling for him to be the new Jeopardy! host will get to see him try the job on for size. Burton is among the final group of guest hosts for the quiz…
When the pandemic began and in-person entertainment screeched to a halt in British Columbia, the Vancouver Queer Film Festival jumped on the virtual bandwagon and started streaming content online. But the move resulted in an unexpected tax bill and a cautionary…