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  • Movie Review: 'Dune: Part Two' sustains the dystopian dream of 'Part One'

    February 21, 2024 - 9:34 AM

    Three firm thumps into the Arrakis sand is all you need to summon a sandworm in Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune: Part Two.” It’s almost as easy as hailing a cab or calling for the check.

  • Book Review: Sandra Newman puts a feminist spin on ‘1984’ with ‘Julia'

    October 23, 2023 - 9:59 AM

    Rejoice, comrades! Almost 75 years after George Orwell’s “1984” was published in 1949, readers can return to Airstrip One with its Newspeak and Ministries of Truth, Peace, Love and Plenty. On second thought, maybe it’s not a place anyone wants to revisit. Maybe Orwell’s depiction of an ultra-totalitarian society in which “doublethink” — “Truth is Hate. Plenty is Hate. Peace is Hate. Love is Hate” — rules, hits a little too close to the real world in 2023.

  • Light, sound show transforms Berlin museum's exhibits

    April 04, 2023 - 6:45 AM

    BERLIN (AP) — Hadad, the ancient weather god at Berlin's Pergamon Museum, growls deeply as he casts his neon-blue gaze on visitors, his body bathed in pulsating orange light.

  • Rare John Steinbeck column probes strength of US democracy

    October 27, 2022 - 10:18 PM

    NEW YORK (AP) — Decades ago, as communists and suspected communists were being blacklisted and debates spread over the future of American democracy, John Steinbeck — a resident of Paris at the time — often found himself asked about the headlines from his native country.

  • Review: Chastain is an everyday superhero in 'Good Nurse'

    October 25, 2022 - 1:27 PM

    Movie titles are always important, but there’s special significance to the title of “The Good Nurse,” based on the horrific serial killings of dozens and possibly hundreds of patients by a night nurse who injected fatal drugs into IV bags.

  • Show's over for famed cabaret show at France's Lido

    May 28, 2022 - 12:00 PM

    PARIS (AP) — It’s the end of an era for the famed Lido cabaret on Paris’ Champs-Elysees.

  • Review: 'Top Gun' sequel a welcome trip to the danger zone

    May 12, 2022 - 10:30 AM

    Early on in “Top Gun: Maverick,” Tom Cruise hops on his sleek motorcycle, wearing Aviator sunglasses and a leather jacket with patches, and speeds into a time machine. No, that's not right. It's actually us who take a trip back.

  • Review: 'COW' needs no words to convey one animal's life

    April 06, 2022 - 2:27 PM

    The human voice, a necessity in virtually any film, is barely existent and wholly secondary in “COW.” We hear only random bits of conversation, muffled and unimportant, from people we don’t know and don’t need to.

  • Gucci launches Vault vintage site during Milan Fashion Week

    September 27, 2021 - 11:43 AM

    MILAN (AP) — Fashion houses trying to figure out how to reach new eyeballs after the long ordeal of the pandemic have centered around a singular idea: collaborations.

  • U of T philosopher Joseph Heath wins $50K Donner Prize for best public policy book

    May 19, 2021 - 10:21 AM

    TORONTO - Philosopher and author Joseph Heath has won the Donner Prize for "The Machinery of Government: Public Administration and the Liberal State."
  • Discharge coming from the Sandher Fruit Packer plant. Fruit packers near Kelowna fined another $78,000
    A fruit packing plant in the Ellison area east of Kelowna was hit with another $78,368 in fines for discharging effluent into a failed septic field. That’s now more than $110,000 in fines since 2022 for the same issue at Sandher Fruit

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