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Painting controversy

A battle of Wills24

As the so-called Cobbe portrait of Shakespeare goes on display, two bastions of the British establishment feud over who holds the playwright's authentic likeness 2:05 AM 24

National Ballet cancels tour of Western Canada

For the first time in several years, the dance group is facing with running a deficit; economic climate blamed 5:46 PM

Phil Spector found guilty of 2nd-degree murder5

Legendary music producer convicted in the shooting death of actress Lana Clarkson at his mansion six years ago 5:54 PM 5

Brecht's granddaughter takes on the in-crowd11

Johanna Schall, a German director currently in Toronto, has mp misgivings about talking about her famous grandfather 12/04/09 4:41 PM 11

It's been a gas23

When Corner Gas shuts down the pumps on Monday, its long-time star won't miss the 5 a.m. starts. But Brent Butt won't ever forget that the show was ‘a special, crazy blessing' 10/04/09 3:18 PM 23

Mel Gibson's wife files for divorce

Seeks end to marriage after 28 years and seven children 4:51 PM

Now playing

Hunger 18

The anguish of the punished 09/04/09 4:51 PM 18

Observe and Report 5

The real perp is a script that's more sick than funny 09/04/09 11:41 PM 5

Duska 1

A work of pure cinema 10/04/09 12:42 AM 1

Hannah Montana 5

Sitcom antics and a shocker for fans 09/04/09 11:43 PM 5

Shall We Kiss? 1

All talk and titillation, no heat 10/04/09 12:42 AM 1

Two Lovers 1

Joaquin, acting like an actor 10/04/09 12:42 AM 1

Tulpan 2

Big ears, small miracle in Kazakhstan 10/04/09 12:59 AM 2

No Pittsburgh 1

No mystery either 09/04/09 11:50 PM 1

Video Picks

King of Pop: The Collection 1:40 PM

Video picks

I love Pittsburgh, Miller says 08/04/09 3:01 PM

In Pictures

Red Carpet

The stars come out to play 07/04/09 2:30 AM

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Television


John Doyle Dog River: a Canadian utopia: 'Canadian viewers love the show and have lapped it up because Dog River is Canada as we'd like it to be,' writes John Doyle 21

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WebSeven


Ivor Tossell Lost in the shifting sands of social media: Online friendships are real. Every time social networks migrate, people fall by the wayside 25; Subscribe: Ivor's podcast on iTunes

Gamer


Scott Colbourne Don't blame Francis Ford Coppola: When playing The Godfather II, it's best to forget the films and all other art forms 1

Pop Rocks


Lynn Crosbie My readers write: The worst ads on TV: I tried to write about ads I loved. Really, I did. 132

New York Diary


Simon Houpt Slings and arrows of outrageous misfortune

In London


Elizabeth Renzetti Google Street View: Rise up in anger or sit back and enjoy the show?: Smile, you've just been photographed leaving a sex shop 15

Q&A;


R.M. Vaughan Auteur dives deep in The Pool: ‘We didn't sentimentalize anything'

Language


Russell Smith Pronunciation: Go too far, and you'll sound like Madonna: ‘Chaise lounge' is simply a mistake 8

Theatre

Through a fishbowl, comically6

J. Kelly Nestruck

Does Samuel Beckett owe his literary success to currency fluctuations?

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Film

Hannah Montana rocks box office6

16-year-old actress Miley Cyrus solidifies status as one of the biggest stars in Hollywood 1:46 AM 6

Johanna Schneller: Out of touch is just where he likes to be

Peter Sarsgaard loves playing characters whose lives are based on lies, which makes his role in The Mysteries of Pittsburgh an ideal fit 10/04/09 4:01 PM

Toronto to take 20-per-cent stake in Filmport40

Critics decry the move as a bailout, but mayor defends job-creation potential of $60-million Port Lands production studio 07/04/09 4:03 AM 40

Television & Radio

Think of it as CSI: Survivor 2.07

A new show blends the most addictive aspects of reality TV with classic crime drama - and throws in a Web series to boot 11/04/09 11:20 AM 7

Ottawa mulls help for small TV stations54

Fund of $150-million discussed to keep service in local communities afloat 08/04/09 12:52 AM 54

Leno gives free show for unemployed in Michigan11

Tonight Show host riffs on current events, celebrities, relationships and politics during performance 07/04/09 11:42 PM 11

France's Coronation Street7

Television sensation shakes up prime-time traditions 05/04/09 9:23 PM 7

Music

Lumps in the gravy? Billy Bob leaves Canada352

Band announces end of Canadian tour, without explanation, on Willie Nelson's website 10/04/09 11:23 PM 352

This is so not Spinal Tap7

Read their lips. The only role the trio of comic actors will play on this tour is themselves - performing music 11/04/09 11:18 AM 7

The stage is Liza's Cabaret12

Minnelli's timing, songcraft and stage gestures are straight out of vaudeville 08/04/09 10:51 PM 12

The review: Britney's Circus turns freakish112

Pop singer's concert at Vancouver's GM Place last night was bizarre, Fiona Morrow writes 09/04/09 1:52 AM 112

Rock on: Artists offer concert discounts6

Industry no longer impervious to recession 09/04/09 12:07 PM 6

Piano that evokes poetry and finely crafted cabinetmaking3

Romantic giants Brahms and Liszt are in good hands with Markus Groh 08/04/09 1:38 PM 3

What rap needs: more Phil Collins12

In a genre known for braggadocio, Classified puts his baggy pants on one leg at a time like anybody else 08/04/09 1:16 AM 12

As Diana Krall tells J.D. Considine, her new album, Quiet Nights, 'represents a new time in my life where I actually have a family and a home and husband. ... It's really a nice place to be' 07/04/09 3:36 AM 18

A soundtrack for the open road1

Neil Young's Fork in the Road: It's quite a feat to give a mythic turn to a subject as unglamorous as bio-fuel, even if you don't agree that the freeway is the route to the American Dream 07/04/09 3:37 AM 1

Theatre & Dance

Review: Peterson takes cantankerous to a new level2

Good thing, too, because Soulpepper's regular company doesn't really have the stones for Mamet's profanity-spewing, hyper-masculine Americans 08/04/09 10:55 PM 2

Books & Magazines

Interview: Don't ask Anne Michaels what she had for breakfast

As her long-awaited follow-up to Fugitive Pieces hits bookstores, the award-winning author talks, albeit cautiously, with James Adams 03/04/09 6:22 PM

Visual Arts

Ottawa portrait owner is the Bard's kin8

Such stuff as genealogical dreams are made on: Retired engineer has two connections to Shakespeare 10/04/09 3:08 PM 8

$70 Harris sketch goes on the block8

In the 1950s, when a custodian of Lawren Harris's Studio Building sold a sketch to a University of Toronto employee, he asked only for a few $10 bills. It goes to auction next month with a presale price estimate of $175,000, James Adams writes 08/04/09 12:24 AM 8

Hundreds of Afghan antiquities repatriated from Britain14

Precious items are the plunder of looters who had hoped to sell them to private collectors 07/04/09 6:55 PM 14

Celebrity

Interview: Happy man16

Michael J. Fox reveals in an exclusive interview and in new memoirs that he's anything but beaten by Parkinson's disease. 04/04/09 9:04 AM 16