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For documentaries at Sundance, Oscar nominations (and wins) often follow
January 24, 2025 - 12:44 PM

PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — The Sundance Film Festival welcomed back three Oscar-winning documentary filmmakers to help kick off the annual independent film showcase in Park City, Utah.
Sabrina Carpenter, Billie Eilish and Charli xcx are performing at the Grammys. Here’s what to know
January 24, 2025 - 6:38 AM

NEW YORK (AP) — The 2025 Grammy Awards are right around the corner, which means it is time to get those viewing party plans in action. Allow us to help.
Reality TV couple sues the city of Los Angeles after losing home in fires
January 23, 2025 - 7:24 PM

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Reality TV couple Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt are suing the city of Los Angeles after losing their Pacific Palisades home in the wildfires that have torn through Southern California in recent weeks.
CNN is announcing layoffs as part of a further shift to digital business
January 23, 2025 - 12:46 PM

CNN announced a restructuring Thursday that includes some 200 layoffs, an accelerated pivot to digital operations and new TV roles for personalities like Wolf Blitzer, Jake Tapper and Audie Cornish.
Sundance 2025: 13(ish) movies to look forward to
January 23, 2025 - 8:11 AM

PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — The Sundance Film Festival catalogue can be overwhelming to navigate, with around 90 feature films playing across 11 days.
The Latest: Academy Award nominees announced
January 23, 2025 - 8:10 AM

Actors Rachel Sennott and Bowen Yang announced the nominees for the 97th Academy Awards. Jacques Audiard’s “Emilia Pérez,” the Netflix narco-musical about transgender identity, dominated the list with 13 nominations. “The Brutalist,” a three-plus hour postwar epic, and “Wicked,” a blockbuster adaptation of the Broadway musical, followed behind with 10 nominations each.
Olympic swimmer Maggie Mac Neil, writer Linwood Barclay bound for 'Canada Reads'
January 23, 2025 - 7:14 AM

Olympic gold medal swimmer Maggie Mac Neil and thriller writer Linwood Barclay are among the panellists set for CBC Radio’s annual book battle, “Canada Reads.”
Masahiro Nakai, a TV host and former pop star in Japan, retires after sexual assault report
January 23, 2025 - 1:33 AM

TOKYO (AP) — Masahiro Nakai, one of Japan’s top TV hosts and a former pop star, said Thursday he was retiring to take responsibility over sexual assault allegations that are part of a wave roiling Japan's entertainment industry and have triggered an avalanche of lost advertising at one of the networks where he worked.
Seth Rogen's 'The Studio' to open SXSW
January 22, 2025 - 1:51 PM

NEW YORK (AP) — The SXSW Film & TV Festival will kick off March 7 with the world premiere of Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg's “The Studio,” the Apple TV+ comedy series starring Rogen as a fictional Hollywood studio head.
Former Florida art museum director involved in Basquiat forged painting probe has died
January 22, 2025 - 11:12 AM

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Aaron De Groft, a former head of the Orlando Museum of Art who left the institution under a cloud in 2022 after it was raided by the FBI as part of an art fraud probe into more than two dozen forged Jean-Michel Basquiat paintings, has died. He was 59.
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iN RESPONSE: Readers have their say
Following are a collection of reader responses to stories or letters to the editor for the third week of January 2024. They have been edited slightly for readability. Got something you want to add? Send an email to editor Marshall Jon

iN PHOTOS: Heated domes provide one-of-a-kind Okanagan winter dining experience
The dining domes at a West Kelowna winery offer customers a unique and extravagant experience during the cold and dreary winter months in the Okanagan. With fluffy brown and white blankets draped over cushioned chairs, tables draped with bl

Unlicensed BC cannabis store loses another appeal
A BC couple who ran an unlicensed cannabis store have lost a legal challenge almost five years after their store was raided. According to a Jan. 15 BC Supreme Court decision, Michelle Vrinder Sikora and Douglas Peter Sikora have launched nu

Only 10 per cent of Kelowna rental building permits are affordable housing
Roughly 10 per cent of building permits for new rentals in Kelowna are going to be affordable, despite that the city's housing policy manager said the rental market is starting to make a turn for the better. “We're going to be

Entertainment News

For documentaries at Sundance, Oscar nominations (and wins) often follow

Sabrina Carpenter, Billie Eilish and Charli xcx are performing at the Grammys. Here’s what to know

Reality TV couple sues the city of Los Angeles after losing home in fires

CNN is announcing layoffs as part of a further shift to digital business

Sundance 2025: 13(ish) movies to look forward to

The Latest: Academy Award nominees announced

Olympic swimmer Maggie Mac Neil, writer Linwood Barclay bound for 'Canada Reads'

Masahiro Nakai, a TV host and former pop star in Japan, retires after sexual assault report

Seth Rogen's 'The Studio' to open SXSW

Former Florida art museum director involved in Basquiat forged painting probe has died

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