Chase Padgett’s ‘6 Guitars’ Toronto show features music and comedy
A seemingly absurd theme park encounter more than two decades ago changed the trajectory of Chase Padgett’s career. The actor-singer-musician, then a high school senior in...
Why do Canadians excel on American reality TV shows? Could be our brains, our backgrounds or our niceness
Canadians had to survive as spectators of “Survivor” for the reality show’s first 38 seasons. Once they could apply, they made a strong first impression. In...
Mo Ostin, longtime Warner records chairman, dies at 95
NEW YORK (AP) — Mo Ostin, a self-effacing giant of the music business who with rare integrity presided over Warner Bros. Records’ rise to a sprawling,...
Two very different Hamlets open a conversation about where the Stratford Festival is heading
One Hamlet is played by a Black woman, the other by an actor playing an actor playing Hamlet, and neither production is like anything the Stratford...
Stephen King testifies for government in books merger trial
WASHINGTON (AP) — Bestselling author Stephen King gingerly stepped up to the witness stand Tuesday in a federal antitrust trial. Tracing his own history, he laid...
Embroidery turns nasty at the Wellington City Council
Craft has turned bitter at the Wellington City Council, with Councillor Rebecca Matthews claiming her “f… Nimbys” post has turned into a “storm in a cross-stitch”....
Te Pūkenga – how it all went wrong
Kavinda Herath/Stuff Penny Simmonds: Te Pūkenga has so far failed to deliver. Penny Simmonds is the MP for Invercargill and former chief executive of the Southern...
Kea Kids News: Teenager turns milk-bottle tops into skateboards
Teenager Neith Absalom was looking for a business idea when he had something of a brainwave. After discovering that milk-bottle tops weren’t recycled alongside the bottles,...
Kea Kids News: The ice hockey girls being coached by a national sports star
It’s not often you find a former national captain coaching a children’s sports team, but ice hockey is not just Simon Glass’s passion – it’s a...
Anna Fifield: We must stand up for our values, we must stand up for Taiwan
Anna Fifield is the editor of the Dominion Post and was the Washington Post’s Beijing bureau chief until September 2020. OPINION: A geopolitical crisis is coming...