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May 16, 2013
Despite the strange weather of the past
week, it still feels like summer is upon us. And for Torontonians,
that means lots of great weather and lots more
fun to be
had.
One of those things is the return of the phenomenal
Soweto Gospel Choir
to Canada! Save the date for the city closest to you under
HOT EVENTS.
Stay tuned over the next couple of weeks for updates and new cities and
dates!
In this weeks news: the return of Jack and
24;
Drake
and the
BET Awards;
Malcolm Shabazz
is killed;
Maple Leafs
collapse; and so much more.
Check out the news under
TOP STORIES and scroll down for more.
Don't forget to check out my pics from Carnival in St. Maarten - check it all out in my
PHOTO GALLERY.
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  *SAVE
THE DATE*: Canadian Dates
for Soweto Gospel Choir
South Africa's Grammy Award Winning
Soweto Gospel Choir
returns to Canada, as part of their 10th Anniversary
Celebrations. The tour starts on June 15, 2013 in Thunder
Bay, Ontario including a performance at the Montreal
International Jazz Festival on July 6.
(*See
full schedule and
VIDEO here!) |
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  Phoenix,
Rolling Stones, Beyoncé, Jay-Z And Justin Timberlake Highlight
Summer Concert Lineup
(May 15 2013) No, Toronto, you’re not exactly hard up for shows
as it is, but the silly season is upon us and soon enough you’re
gonna have so much going on you won’t know what to do with
yourself.
Source:
www.thestar.com - Ben Rayner |
 Chris
Brown Talks New Aaliyah-Featured Track and Video
(May 15 2013) *As
previously reported,
Chris Brown
announced his new single “They Don’t Know” during the BET Awards
2013 press conference on Tuesday, revealing that the track
features never-before-heard vocals from late R&B singer
Aaliyah.
Source:
www.eurweb.com |
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 Pharrell
Williams Joins Rihanna’s ‘Styled to Rock’ Series
(May 15 2013) *Music producer and fashion designer
Pharrell Williams
is headed to the small screen as a celebrity mentor again – this
time for Rihanna’s forthcoming Style Network series “Styled to
Rock.”
Source:
www.eurweb.com |
 Sony
Nabs Neil Bogart Biopic Starring Justin Timberlake
(May 15 2013) *The life of infamous record executive
Neil Bogart,
who was credited with discovering and launching the careers of
Curtis Mayfield, Bill Withers, Gladys Knight, Parliament, Donna
Summer, the Village People and more, will be brought to the big
screen with
Justin Timberlake
in the lead role.
Source:
www.eurweb.com |
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 As
Chair Of Cannes Jury, It's Steven Spielberg's Turn To 'Sit In
Judgment'
(May 15 2013) No, not the
The Great Gatsby,
the American classic remade by Baz Lurhmann which, after hitting
North American theatres last week, opened the
Cannes Film Festival
on Wednesday.
Source:
www.globeandmail.com - By Liam Lacey |
 Angry
Birds Jumps Onto The Big Screen
(May 15 2013) LOS ANGELES—The popular video game
Angry Birds
is jumping off smartphones and onto the big screen in a new
animated 3D film due to be released in 2016, Sony Pictures
Entertainment announced on Wednesday.
Source:
www.thestar.com - Reuters |
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 VIDEO: Steve Harvey Gets his Star on The Hollywood Walk of Fame
(May 15 2013) *Steve
Harvey
is a Hollywood star. Yes, the comedian and talented individual
unveiled his star on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame recently.
Source:
www.eurweb.com
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 Robin
Williams Coming Back To TV In New CBS Comedy
(May 15 2013) NEW YORK—Wrapping up a season in which it will
finish first in both viewers and the crucial adults 18-49
demographic that advertisers favour, CBS unveiled a fall
television schedule Wednesday with four new comedies and two
dramas.
Source:
www.thestar.com - Joe Flint, Los Angeles Times |
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 Billy
Crystal Bringing 700 Sundays Back To Broadway
(May 15 2013)
Billy Crystal
is bringing his mammoth hit show about his childhood, 700
Sundays, back to Broadway for a final nine more weeks,
starting Nov. 5, with a definite closing date to the limited
engagement set for Jan. 9, 2014.
Source:
www.thestar.com - Richard Ouzounian |
 Google
Unleashes Torrent Of Product Upgrades
(May 15 2013)
Google
has found dozens of new ways to cash in on the operating system
it gives away for free.
Source:
www.globeandmail.com - By Omar El Akkad |
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 Netflix
CEO Reed Hastings Weighs On Future Of Internet TV
(May 15 2013)
Netflix
CEO Reed Hastings isn’t afraid of competition. As more companies
hitch their futures to the Internet video stream business,
Netflix has the distinction of being there first, having
pioneered app-based TV.
Source:
www.thestar.com - Raju Mudhar |
 Overcoming
The Racial Divide, Sugarfoot Anderson Remembers Jackie Robinson
(May 15 2013)
Ezzrett (Sugarfoot) Anderson
thought he knew what Jackie Robinson had gone through as the
first black player in major league baseball. Turned out Anderson
didn't know the half of it.
Source:
www.globeandmail.com - By Allan Maki |
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 Jays
Wallop Defending Champion Giants For Series Sweep
(May 15 2013) With one out in the first inning, San Francisco
Giants second baseman Marco Scutaro drifted to his left to
settle under a flare knocked into shallow right field off the
bat of Jose Bautista, the
Toronto Blue Jays
slugger.
Source:
www.globeandmail.com - By Robert MacLeod |
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 Why A Chinese-Canadian Producer Now Has 'Lots Of Bragging
Rights'
(May 13 2013)
The Chinese film
Finding Mr. Right
is a classic romantic comedy: a materialistic woman pregnant
with her married sugar daddy's child moves from Beijing to
Seattle only to find true love in America.
Source:
www.globeandmail.com - By Marsha Lederman |
 VIDEO: Will Smith’s Overbrook Inks ‘After Earth 2’ Under New
Pact
(May 13 2013) *Will
Smith
and James Lassiter’s Overbrook Entertainment is partnering with
production company Virgin Produced in a non-exclusive pact that
will see Virgin Produced have the option to co-finance,
co-produce and co-market a sequel to Columbia’s upcoming
Overbrook product “After Earth.”
Source:
www.eurweb.com
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 VIDEO: First Look: Trailer for Sequel ‘Best Man Holiday’
(May 13 2013) *The first trailer has been released for “The
Best Man Holiday,”
writer-director Malcolm D. Lee’s follow-up to his 1999 hit “The
Best Man.”
Source:
www.globeandmail.com - Patrick Dineen |
 Samuel L. Jackson to Play the POTUS in ‘Big Game’
(May 13 2013) *Samuel
L. Jackson
is attached to star as the president of the United States in
rising
star Jalmari Helander’s English-language debut, “Big Game.”
Source:
www.eurweb.com
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 Barbara Walters Confirms Retirement On The View
(May 13 2013) Trailblazing broadcast journalist
Barbara Walters,
known for her interviews with
world
leaders and celebrities and the first woman to co-anchor a U.S.
evening news program, said on Monday she will retire in the
summer of 2014.
Source:
www.thestar.com - Reuters |
 VIDEO: First Look: Blair Underwood in NBC’s New ‘Ironside’
(May 13 2013) *NBC has released first clips from NBC‘s new
update of “Ironside,”
part of the just-unveiled 2013-2014 line-up.
Source:
www.eurweb.com
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 Joyce Brothers: Popular Psychologist Dead At 85
(May 13 2013) LOS ANGELES—Popular psychologist, columnist, and
television and film personality
Joyce Brothers
has died. She was 85.Longtime publicist Sanford Brokaw says
Brothers died Monday in New York City.
Source:
www.thestar.com -
Robert Crew |
 Weekend Update’s Seth Meyers to replace Jimmy Fallon on Late
Night
(May 13 2013) NEW YORK—Seth
Meyers
is moving from his “Weekend Update” desk to his own
late
night show on NBC.
Source:
www.thestar.com - David Bauder, AP Television Writer |
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 Guys And Dolls: Thom Allison Nicely Brings The House Down
(May 13 2013) NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE, ONT.—
Thom Allison’s
performance as Nicely-Nicely Johnson in this year’s Shaw
Festival production of the classical musical Guys and Dolls.
Source:
www.thestar.com -
Robert Crew |
 Serena Williams Beats Maria Sharapova in Madrid; Remains #1
in the World
(May 13 2013) *Serena
Williams
just keeps on winning and winning.
The latest win came against Maria
Sharapova
whom she beat in the Madrid Open on Sunday.
Source:
www.eurweb.com
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 VIDEO: Boyz II Men Joins Forces With Old Navy … Again
(May 12, 2013) *Boyz
II Men
is back-again.
The trio of crooning vets have re-upped with Old Navy for
another ad to promote the family friendly clothing line.
Source:
www.eurweb.com
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 NBC Announces New Shows With Sean Hayes, Parker Posey,
Gillian Anderson, Minnie Driver
(May 10 2013) NEW YORK, N.Y.—Sean Hayes, Parker Posey, Minnie
Driver and Gillian Anderson will
have prominent roles in new television series that NBC has
decided to air next season.
Source:
www.thestar.com
- David Bauder, The Associated Press |
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 Tiger Woods Wins The Players Championship, Sergio Garcia Folds
(May 12 2013) PONTE VEDRA BEACH, FLA.—Tiger
Woods
had the last word against Sergio Garcia
by winning The Players Championship on Sunday.
Source:
www.thestar.com - Doug Ferguson, The Associated Press |
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 Charles Bradley: A New Album, And Chapter Two In A Soul
Singer's Salvation
(May 10 2013)
Behind
Charles Bradley,
there are about four decades of obscurity followed by his recent
friendship and fruitful collaboration with Thomas Brenneck, the
New York producer-guitarist with various Daptone Records soul
groups.
Source:
www.globeandmail.com
- By Brad Wheeler |
 Behind The Scenes At St. Petersburg’s Canadian-Designed Opera
House
(May 10 2013) ST. PETERSBURG—While hosting a television tribute
to his hometown, Toronto pianist
Glenn Gould famously declared that he could imagine living in
only one other city, Leningrad — as St. Petersburg was then
known.
Source:
www.thestar.com
- William Littler |
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 The Great Gatsby: A Great Adaptation Of A Great Novel (And Just
Shy Of A Great Film)
(May 10 2013) But first, before the glowing review, a little
movie history. When
The Great Gatsby
last ventured onto the large screen, in 1974 with a woefully
miscast Robert Redford and Mia Farrow squeaking in a voice like
loose change, the adaptation laid an Egg as big as East and West
combined.
Source:
www.globeandmail.com - By Rick Groen |
 Actor John Cho: ‘I Think Star Trek Is Good For The World’
(May 10 2013) It’s hard to believe anyone would fall for it, but
John Cho
did. The cast and crew of
Star Trek Into Darkness,
the newest iteration of the blockbuster franchise, which opens
Thursday, was filming at the National Ignition Facility.
Source:
www.globeandmail.com
- Johanna Schneller |
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 Maya Angelou, India.Arie Set for Oprah’s ‘Super Soul Sunday’
(May 10 2013) *In the first of a special two-part event,
Oprah Winfrey
sits down with her mentor,
acclaimed writer, author and poet
Dr. Maya
Angelou,
on her Emmy-winning series “Super
Soul Sunday,” premiering Mother’s Day, May 12
from 11 a.m.- 12:00 p.m. ET/PT on OWN.
Source:
www.eurweb.com
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 Randy Jackson Confirms Exit from ‘American Idol’
(May 10 2013) *Hours after rumors of an “American Idol” judging
panel overhaul hit the web on
Thursday, original judge
Randy Jackson
announced that he is leaving the show after the current season
ends.
Source:
www.eurweb.com
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 Les Misérables Returning To Toronto Stage
(May 10 2013) You’re not dreaming —
Les Misérables
is back in Toronto.
Tickets for the 25 anniversary of the Cameron Mackintosh
production of the famed Boublil & Schönberg play go on sale
Monday.
Source:
www.thestar.com
- Jeff Green |
 One-Way Trip To Mars Attracts Canadian Applicants
(May 10 2013)
Each one is competing for a spot on a
one-way mission to colonize Mars
and will have to participate in a reality television show to
earn a seat on the shuttle.
Source:
www.thestar.com
- Marco Chown Oved |
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 Anti-Piracy Firm Targeting Canadians Who Download Illegally
(May 10 2013) Massive lawsuits targeting people who
illegally
download copyrighted content
are common in the U.S., where people have been stuck with hefty
fines and out-of-court settlements.
Source:
www.globeandmail.com
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 Save On Antigua Resort, Air This Summer
(May 10 2013) The buy: The Verandah Resort & Spa in
Antigua
is giving guests an air credit and
savings this summer.
Source:
www.globeandmail.com - Patrick Dineen |
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 Is
This Seven-Minute Workout All You Need?
(May 13 2013) No time to hit the gym? Try this 12-move exercise
regime that requires no equipment and about seven minutes. The
abbreviated workout, published in the May-June issue of the
American College of Sports Medicine’s Health & Fitness Journal,
also includes lunges, push-ups and triceps dips. The researchers
believe it’s an efficient way to get aerobic and strength
training in one.
Source:
www.thestar.com - Paul Irish
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 Motivational
Note
I
express my strong belief in the oneness of humanity wherever I
go. When we examine our situation in the world, we see that
natural disasters are beyond our control, but the violence,
injustice and poverty that many of us face are problems that we
have created ourselves.
Source: Dalai Lama |
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