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May 17, 2012
Long weekend in Canada -
Happy Victoria Day weekend!
Can't wait to feel the sun the sun on my face and have days
to enjoy it. Remember to celebrate safely!
There's a special event coming up next weekend - it's all about
supporting theatre arts in Toronto! It's about a
group of small time crooks in Montreal who attempt to hoodwink
the townsfolk out of their moneyCheck
out the fundraiser for
Miracle Man
below under HOT EVENTS!
I know alot of you already know of
Canadian rapper
D.O.
(Defy the Odds) and will be
thrilled to know that he has released is debut solo album entitled Heavy
in the Game. You will probably remember him from the rap duo,
Art of Fresh.
There are a few music videos here to support the release of the album
(so talented!) so check it out under SCOOP.
Don't forget to check out the tags that have
VIDEO
on them so you can watch music videos and/or film trailers!
In this weeks news:
Leonard Cohen
wins and gives away;
Thousand Foot Krutch
earns new kudos;
CBC has tons
of changes in TV programming; Larry Bird
wins yet again - now on and off the court;
and
so much more.
Check
it all out under
TOP STORIES.
This newsletter is designed to give you some updated
entertainment-related news and provide you with our upcoming event
listings. Welcome to those who are new members!
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  MAY 27:: The Miracle Man Fundraiser Featuring Celebrity Karaoke
Come eat, drink and karaoke the night away! Supporters of the
arts in Toronto, now is your opportunity - they need
your help to bring this play to life. Join us for an exciting
fundraising event in support of Renaissance Theatre’s workshop
of
The Miracle Man
at the Gladstone Hotel. Based on the Frank Packard novel, The
Miracle Man is a classic, Tin Pan Alley style musical.
Source: Andrew Moodie |
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 VIDEOS: Canadian Hip Hop Artist D.O. Releases Free Online
Album (Heavy in the Game)
(May 15, 2012) Toronto, ON –Canadian rapper and Guinness World
Record holder (Longest Freestyle Rap),
D.O.
(Defy the Odds), released his new independent album,
Heavy in the Game. The inspiration for Heavy in the
Game comes from D.O.’s extensive domestic and international
touring, his experience with launching independent label
Northstarr Entertainment, and his success as one half of hip hop
duo Art of Fresh. The album features 19 songs recorded at home
in Toronto, in Taiwan with producer Brooke "Diz Dallas"
Daye and in Nova Scotia with Canadian rapper/producer Classified.
Source: Strut
Entertainment |
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  Leonard Cohen Accepts Glenn Gould Prize, Gives Away The
$50,000
(May 15, 2012) Toronto—Leonard
Cohen
humbly accepted the Glenn Gould Prize on Monday, but not the
$50,000 prize that accompanied it, instead donating the cash to
the Canada Council for the Arts.
Source:
www.globeandmail.com - Nick Patch,
The Canadian Press |
 Thousand Foot Krutch Gets Extra Support Online
(May 16, 2012) Is crowd funding the new music industry paradigm?
When Christian hard rock trio
Thousand Foot Krutch
split from its label after 10 years and selling nearly one
million albums, the Toronto-area band was at a crossroads.
Source:
www.thestar.com - By Nick Krewen |
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 CBC Fall 2012-13 Lineup: A Few New Faces, Less Original
Programming
(May 11, 2012) The CBC has made one final cut to its fall 2012
season, trimming
George Stroumboulopoulos
Tonight
to 30 minutes from an hour and moving it to an early prime-time
slot.
Source:
www.thestar.com - By Bruce DeMara |
 Larry Bird Adds To Legend, Is Named NBA Executive Of The Year
(May 16, 2012) NEW YORK—Indiana Pacers president
Larry Bird
was voted the NBA’s Executive of the Year
on Wednesday, becoming the first person to win that award, plus
the MVP and Coach of the Year honours.
Source:
www.thestar.com
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 A Slurry, Rum-Buzzed, Focused And Firm Andre Williams
(May 13, 2012) "I know I'm a rummy, but I ain't no dummy."
Uh-huh, amen.
Andre Williams
has a way with
rhymes. Dude's a right Don King, or something out of a Steve
Miller song: A smoker, a joker, a midnight toker who really does
love your peaches and who will absolutely shake your tree. Yeah,
it's like that.
Source:
www.globeandmail.com - By Brad Wheeler |
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 Chaka Khan Stuns Crowd with
60-Pound Weight Loss
(May 14, 2012) If you’re a fan of
Chaka Khan,
you remember when she first hit the stage as a teenager and
would wear just a loin cloth top and pants that resembled
leather chaps along with her trademark feathers. The latest
sighting of
the singer
was reminiscent of that time in her career.
Source:
www.eurweb.com - J.C. Brooks |
 It’s a Wonda-ful World for Super Producer Jerry Wonda
(May 13, 2012) *It’s almost like the modern formula for creating good
music is not to cook up a beautifully-crafted song, but a
twisted amalgamation of over used techniques, and lyrics that
are free of imagination. However, the modern music lover can
rest easily. People have noticed your plight and are trying to
do something about it. People like Jerry Duplessis aka
Jerry Wonda.
Source:
www.eurweb.com - Ricardo A. Hazell |
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 Santigold Focuses On The Music, Not On Dissing Pop Stars
(May 13, 2012) Four years after the release of her debut album,
the genre-bending pop singer Santi White is back
with her follow-up, the audaciously styled Master of My
Make-Believe.
For legal reasons, her stage moniker has changed - from
Santogold to
Santigold.
Source:
www.globeandmail.com - By Brad Wheeler |
 Hop On Popera With Il Divo
(May 16, 2012) Sébastien Izambard may belong to one of the most
famous singing quartets in the world —
Il DivoT
— but that doesn't get him out of bedtime duty with his three
kids.
He serenades them with “London Bridge,” “Three Little Monkeys”
and “Frère Jacques.”
Source:
www.thestar.com - By Trish Crawford |
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 The Rap Pack And Their Genius Website
(May 13, 2012)
Fast-forward to July 2009, when
Rap Genius
arrived online like a smarty-pants in Air Jordans. If I wanted
to know what Q-Tip from A Tribe Called Quest meant when he
rhymed, "Scheming on the cookies with the crazy booming back
buns," I finally had an omniscient hip-hop Oz.
Source:
www.globeandmail.com - By Amy Verner |
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 MUSIC
TIDBITS
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Donald Dunn: Booker T Bassist Dies At Age 70
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Jay-Z Announces Labor Day Weekend Music Festival In Philadelphia
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Bobbi Kris will Accept Whitney’s Billboard Award; Sparks,
Legend to Sing
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 China Heavyweight: A Rocky Road To Redemption
(May 13, 2012) There are no heavyweight boxers in
China Heavyweight,
the new film from Yung Chang, the
Canadian documentary filmmaker behind the much-awarded 2007
debut film Up the Yangtze. Both film titles are a kind of
word play, an invitation to thinking twice about a powerful
nation caught in a double-think.
Source:
www.globeandmail.com - By Liam Lacey |
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 The Flat And Roth On Roth At Toronto Jewish Film Festival
(May 11, 2012) The 20th edition of the
Toronto Jewish Film Festival
wraps this weekend, but there is still time
to choose between two enlightening and memorable documentaries,
both being screened on Sunday afternoon.
Source:
www.thestar.com - By Martin Knelman |
 Inside Out: My Best Day Finds Humour In Gay Life In
Small-Town America
(May 16, 2012) Over the 22 years that
Inside Out
has been presenting its annual showcase of LGBT-friendly fare
to Toronto moviegoers, there’s no disputing the fact that gay
and lesbian characters have claimed more and more space on
screens big and small.
Source:
www.thestar.com - By Jason Anderson |
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 Cannes 2012: Bill Murray Doles Out Advice To Young Stars
(May 16, 2012) CANNES, FRANCE—Bill
Murray
has some unusual life advice, which he taught to his young
co-stars in Moonrise Kingdom, the new Wes Anderson movie,
world-premiering Wednesday at the opening of the
Cannes Film Festival.
Source:
www.thestar.com - By Peter Howell |
 Worldwide Short Film Festival Features Movies With Judi Dench
(May 15, 2012) Californication’s David Duchovny voices an
animated polar bear named Beaufort
who has something to say about addiction and Hollywood
corruption, Judi Dench tries online dating for the first time
and Michael Fassbender (Shame) and Liam Cunningham (Game
of Thrones) are safecrackers trying to disable a tricky
alarm at the
CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival
June 5 to 10.
Source:
www.thestar.com - By Linda Barnard |
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 FILM
TIDBITS
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TIFF To Open With New Home, New Program
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Brandon Cronenberg Didn’t Plan To Follow His Dad
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VIDEO: Rihanna on Her Role in ‘Battleship’
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 CSI Creator Shoots Online Film In Hamilton
(May 10, 2012)
It was about 12 years ago that the creator of the massively
popular
CSI
franchise brought the megahit to TV, and although there are
rumours that one or both of its spinoffs are endangered, the
core show keeps chugging along.
Source:
www.thestar.com - By Michael Oliveira |
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 What A Screenwriting Couple Add To Mad Men
(May 11, 2012)
Maria and André Jacquemetton
are screenwriters and executive producers on Mad Men, the
cult
series created by Matthew Weiner and set in a Madison Avenue ad
agency during the 1960s.
Source:
www.globeandmail.com - By Kate Taylor |
 Laurieann Gibson Returns To Toronto For Canada Sings
(May 11, 2012)
Laurieann Gibson
has been a Fly Girl, an Emmy nominee, a choreographer to the A
list, a reality
TV star, even a dancing tampon.
All of that happened far from her hometown of Toronto.
Source:
www.thestar.com - By Debra Yeo |
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 ‘Single Ladies’ Welcomes Denise Vasi as ‘Raquel’
(May 12, 2012) *The newest season of “Single Ladies” is underway
and
Denise Vasi
is stepping on the scene with
a brand new character. “I play Raquel Lancaster, a smart, savvy
businesswoman. Raquel, when you first meet her, she’s going to
go through something that propels her into this life-changing
journey."
Source:
www.eurweb.com
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 Vanilla Ice Raps About Life, Real Estate And Canada Sings
(May 14, 2012)
Vanilla Ice
is sipping an espresso and sitting in a white leather recliner.
Then again, after all these years, maybe it’s impossible for Ice
— as a handler calls him inside a chaotic suite at the Trump
Hotel on Monday — to strike a pose that does not violate our
fleeting memories and enduring misperceptions.
Source:
www.thestar.com - By Vinay Menon |
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 Whitney Houston’s Family To Star In Reality Show
(May 11, 2012) NEW YORK, N.Y. — A reality show featuring
Whitney Houston’s
relatives, including daughter
Bobbi Kristina and mother Cissy, is in the works.
Houston representative Kristen Foster confirmed the Lifetime
show, The Houston Family Chronicles, on Friday.
Source:
www.thestar.com - By Nekesa Mumbi Moody |
 'House' Creator Reflects As Show Signs Off
(May 16, 2012) The sharpest mind on
House
has always been its Canadian creator,
David Shore.
Source:
www.globeandmail.com - By Andrew Ryan |
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 VIDEO:
First Look: Jill Scott’s ‘VH1 Storytellers’ Special
(May 16, 2012) *On May 8,
Jill Scott
took the stage at New
York’s Hammerstein Ballroom to share
stories and perform some of her hits for a broadcast of “VH1
Storytellers.”
Source:
www.eurweb.com
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 Tyra Banks Writes Open Letter over Healthy Body Images
(May 16, 2012) *Tyra
Banks
is saluting Vogue’s 19 international editions for pledging to
promote healthy
body image, but she says real evolution will
take some time.
Source:
www.eurweb.com
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 TV
TIDBITS
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30 Rock To Return Next Season For Final 13 Episodes
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Britney Spears Joins The X Factor
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Moesha Star Yvette Wilson Battling Cancer for the Second Time
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New Sherlock Series ‘Elementary’ On Tap For CBS
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Glee To Feature Kate Hudson And Sarah Jessica Parker Next
Season
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Tia Mowry and Pooch Hall Out of ‘The Game’
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 Canada’s Zach Bell Ready For Decathlon Of Cycling At London
Olympics
(May 14, 2012)
Zach Bell,
a kid from the Klondike, hopes to strike gold at the London
Olympics this summer.
And as a former world champion in cycling’s
omnium event — new to the
Games this year — the Yukon-born Bell is going in as a solid
favourite.
Source:
www.thestar.com - Joseph Hall |
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 Fencing A Family Affair For Sabre Specialist Philippe Beaudry
(May 14, 2012) It’s not likely to happen, given that he’s
clothed in two layers of Kevlar and the swords are dull.
But if a well-timed riposte did chance to cut him, there’d be
fencing in
Philippe Beaudry’s
blood.
Source:
www.thestar.com - Joseph Hall |
 Tavares’ Make Supporting Canada At The World Championship A
Family Affair
(May 13, 2012) HELSINKI, Finland—There
might be only one person who is a more passionate supporter of
Canada
at the
IIHF World Hockey Championship
than John Tavares.
His mom, Barb.
Source:
www.globeandmail.com - Chris Johnston,
The Canadian Press |
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 IndyCar Hopes To Increase Canadian Footprint
(May 14, 2012) Three Canadian cities - Vancouver, Calgary and
Quebec City - are on the radar screen for high-speed
auto racing as the
Izod IndyCar circuit
looks to expand its pedal-to-the-metal footprint from 16 races
to 19 next year.
Source:
www.globeandmail.com - By James Christie |
 Serena Williams Continues Clay Court Perfection
(May 13, 2012)
*Game over.
Serena Williams,
30, has lived up to expectations on the
controversial blue clay in
Madrid,
Spain.
In just 1 hour and 4 minutes, Serena both won her 41st career
WTA singles title, surpassing Kim Clijsters’ record and edging
closer to her older sister Venus’, and demolished the surging
current world no. 1, Victoria Azarenka of Belarus.
Source:
www.eurweb.com
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 Manchester City’s Ecstasy Crosstown Rival United’s Agony
(May 13, 2012) There was no need for England’s Premiership to
prove that it is the best sports
league in the world. No sensible person thinks otherwise.
But the mark of greatness is a constant aspiration to grander
storylines and wilder finishes, for more of “more.”
Source:
www.thestar.com - Cathal Kelly |
 The World Waking Up To Canada's Track And Field League
(May 14, 2012) Canada's national track and field league is
becoming more than a domestic training ground.
The world's top ranked decathlete - American
Ashton Eaton
- will compete in the Harry Jerome International Track Classic
set for June 10 at Swangard Stadium.
Source:
www.globeandmail.com - By James Christie |
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 VIDEO: LeBron James Named NBA’s MVP for 3rd Time
(May 12, 2012) *(Via ESPN) – Miami Heat forward
LeBron James
is the NBA’s MVP for a third time, putting him
alongside some of the game’s all-time greats.
Source:
www.eurweb.com
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Small Changes for Big Weight Loss
Many people fail at losing weight because they attempt to make
drastic changes and rearrange their lives to fit into some
strict diet. This is a recipe for disappointment. People make
drastic changes and expect to see drastic results.
By Shawn McKee, eDiets Contributor |
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 The
many factors which divide us are actually much more superficial
than those we share. Despite all of the things that
differentiate us – race, language, religion, gender, wealth and
so on – we are all equal concerning our fundamental humanity.
Source:
Dalai Lama |
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