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Music »
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- Glastonbury co-founder Arabella Spencer-Churchill dies
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- Kuerti looks forward to Boston conducting debut
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TV »
- Sacha Baron Cohen bids Borat, Ali G goodbye
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- Stewart, Colbert join returning late-night hosts despite strike
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- Libraries urge Ottawa to consider consumers in drafting copyright law
- The Canadian Library Association is wading into the debate about copyright with a warning to Ottawa not to forget the rights of consumers.
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Books »
- Karl Rove sells memoir for more than $1.5M
- Republican strategist Karl Rove will dissect the presidency of George W. Bush in a memoir said to be worth more than $1.5 million US.
- Romance cuts across racial lines, publishers find
- Publishing houses across North American are creating new lines of romances aimed at people of Asian and African descent, according to Brian Miller, a Seattle journalist who follows the market for romance novels.
- Keep quiet and stay out of sight, India tells controversial writer
- India has told Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen to either remain under government security or leave the country.
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Media »
- CanWest Global cleared to buy Alliance Atlantis
- CanWest Global Communications' $2.3-billion takeover of Alliance Atlantis has been approved by the CRTC.
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- Britney's 16-year-old sis Jamie says she's pregnant: report
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Film »
- Sacha Baron Cohen bids Borat, Ali G goodbye
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- People's Choice to pre-record annual awards
- Rather than roll out the red carpet, the organizers of the People's Choice Awards will offer a modified, pre-recorded version of its annual honours in response to the television and film writers' strike.
- Into the Wild leads SAG award nominations
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Theatre »
- Cirque du soleil acrobat hurt in hometown show
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- San Francisco, Royal Opera record productions for the screen
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- Windsor, Ont., gets debut fringe festival next July
- A group of Windsor artists has joined the Canadian Association of Fringe Festivals and plans to stage its first fringe event next July.
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