Arts & Culture

The new Art Gallery of Ontario in downtown Toronto was designed by renowned architect, Frank Gehry. Photo by DigitalJournal.com

TORONTO — The revamped Art Gallery of Ontario opens to the public on Friday and its designer, world-renowned architect and Toronto native Frank Gehry, is confident it will make Canada proud.

Toronto-Raised Joseph Boyden Wins Giller Prize For Through Black Spruce

A jubilant Joseph Boyden nabbed the $50,000 Scotiabank Giller Prize on Tuesday night for his second novel "Through Black Spruce," saying he wants his win to inspire native youngsters to pursue their artistic dreams.


Mozart's 'Abduction' sweeps us away

JOHN COULBOURN Jam! Showbiz 11/10/2008
Mozart's 'Abduction' sweeps us away

TORONTO - When it comes to Mozart's Abduction From the Seraglio, it's easy to get carried away. In fact, when one considers that the opera tells a story set in Turkey, using an Italian style of comedy, German lyrics and English dialogue, it's not ...

Gallery cancellation reveals divide between Ottawa and the West

PATRICK WHITE The Globe and Mail 11/10/2008
Gallery cancellation reveals divide between Ottawa and the West

One of the leading champions of the construction of a national portrait gallery in Ottawa is applauding the federal government's decision to axe a controversial bidding process that could have shipped the Portrait Gallery of Canada to a western city.


National Portrait Gallery project scrapped

KATIE SCHNEIDER Canoe.ca 11/08/2008
National Portrait Gallery project scrapped

City council members looking forward to the National Portrait Gallery coming to Calgary say they are disappointed the federal government has decided to kill the project for which they spent $500,000 on a bid.

"Jurassic Park" author Michael Crichton dies

Dan Whitcomb Reuters 11/06/2008
"Jurassic Park" author Michael Crichton dies

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Best-selling U.S. author Michael Crichton, who wrote such novels as "The Andromeda Strain" and "Jurassic Park" and created the popular TV drama "ER," has died unexpectedly of cancer at age 66, his family said on Wednesday.


Cockroach earns the book nomination hat trick

Vit Wagner Toronto Star 10/22/2008
Cockroach earns the book nomination hat trick

Rawi Hage's Cockroach, already nominated this year for the Scotiabank Giller and the Rogers Writers' Trust prizes, added a Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction nomination to the list yesterday. It is the only novel in the running for all ...

Indian Christians celebrate canonisation of first woman saint

VATICAN CITY (AFP) — About 40,000 people attended a ceremony Sunday at which Pope Benedict XVI canonised four new saints, among them Sister Alfonsa, an Indian nun who became the country's first woman saint.


Artists mobilize against funding cuts

Ottawa Citizen 10/07/2008
Artists mobilize against funding cuts

Artists across Canada united in protest against cuts to arts funding on Monday. The series of cross-Canada performances, dubbed the "Wrecking Ball," had been organized to draw attention to of the $45 million in arts funding cuts recently made by t...

Toronto's Gil Adamson wins First Novel Award for 'The Outlander'

TORONTO -- Gil Adamson has won the annual First Novel Award for "The Outlander." The prize is worth C$7,500. Set in the early 1900s, "The Outlander" (House of Anansi Press) tells the story of a woman on the run in Alberta after killing her husband.


Vancouver artist takes home $50,000 Sobey Art Award

TORONTO -- A Vancouver artist who has drawn on Neil Young and the Beastie Boys for inspiration has been handed this year's $50,000 Sobey Art Award.

Writer's Trust short list announced

The Globe and Mail 10/02/2008
Writer's Trust short list announced

Sixteen writers, including Miriam Toews, Rawi Hage and Margaret Visser, are in competition for a total of $155,000 in prize money as part of the annual Writers' Trust of Canada awards honouring excellence in fiction and non-fiction.


Three-Day Muslim Holiday Begins Across Most of Arab World

Today marks the start of the annual three-day Eid al Fitr holiday which follows the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in 9 Arab states across the Middle East. It is a time when the pious pray, doting parents give gifts, and children light firecrackers,...

Monroe footage makes $17,500

The Australian 09/26/2008
Monroe footage makes $17,500

RARE behind-the-scenes footage of screen legend Marilyn Monroe failed to reach its estimated auction price after going under the hammer in Melbourne. The two-and-a-half-minute amateur film of the tragic Hollywood actress eventually went for $17,50...


Luminato, Toronto Arts Council launch new grant

JAMES BRADSHAW The Globe and Mail 09/18/2008
Luminato, Toronto Arts Council launch new grant

The Toronto Arts Council and the city's Luminato festival will announce a pilot project today called Incubate, which will provide seed funding for innovative musical endeavours, The Globe and Mail has learned.

Writer David Foster Wallace found dead

Claire Noland, Joel Rubin Los Angeles Times 09/14/2008
Writer David Foster Wallace found dead

David Foster Wallace, the novelist, essayist and humorist best known for his 1996 novel "Infinite Jest," was found dead Friday night at his home in Claremont, according to the Claremont Police Department. He was 46.


Former Stratford Festival director Monette dies

Accolades are pouring in for Richard Monette, long-term artistic director of the Stratford Festival, who died Tuesday night at age 64.

Rowling Wins Lawsuit Against Potter Lexicon

JOHN ELIGON The New York Times 09/09/2008
Rowling Wins Lawsuit Against Potter Lexicon

For seven years, a Harry Potter fanatic worked on a guidebook to J. K. Rowling’s best-selling series, but in the end, a federal judge ruled on Monday, his book was too close to the work he admired.


Woody Allen makes opera directing debut in LA

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Woody Allen would take no bows. He had just made his successful debut as an opera director Saturday, creating a hilarious and memorable production of "Gianni Schicchi," the third of the one-act presentations in Puccini's "Il Tri...

Fasting not fighting as Muslims mark Ramadan

CAIRO (AFP) — Muslims around the world this week begin the fasting and feasting month of Ramadan amid hopes of violence easing in some of the Islamic world's conflict hotspots but hit hard by rising food prices.



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