Performance artist and musician Laurie Anderson at her NYC studio.
Mionday Q & A

Let’s be clear about Delusions

Laurie Anderson reveals the private pain behind her new work

The admiring Tremblay (Vincent Hoss-Desmarais, left) tries to get Kerouac (Alain Goulem) to lay off the booze in the Centaur production of George Rideout's Michel & ti-Jean.
Theatre

Where Tremblay and Kerouac meet

4 Stars

Michael & ti-Jean really works, somehow drawing us into the imagined collision of these two formidable personalities and egos

Guitarist Afie Jurvanen and his band Bahamas are opening for Wilco in four Canadian cities.
Music

They’re the band with the band

You have to hustle to become the opening act on big tours. And it helps to know the booking agent

Comedian Stephen Colbert opens the show at the 52nd annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles January 31, 2010.
Vancouver 2010

Colbert goes for the cold

A proud sponsor – and honorary psychologist – of the U.S. speed-skating team, the late-night comedian is also heading to Canada to cover the Games, presumably with laughs

Daniel Ellsberg (centre) with his wife Patricia and filmmakers Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith.

A whistleblower’s call to arms

The man who helped change the course of the Vietnam War hopes a new documentary inspires current U.S. bureaucrats to follow his lead

Vancouver 2010

Dion turned down opening ceremony spot

VANOC says other francophone artists also declined

Vancouver 2010

The Vancouver you won't find in the brochures

Among all the take-your-breath-away art at the Cultural Olympiad is work that artists hope will introduce visitors to a different, perhaps more realistic version of Vancouver

Love at first downbeat

Orchestras adore Montreal conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Next month he brings the Rotterdam Philharmonic to perform in Canada

Vancouver 2010

Where is George Clooney hiding?

Star keeps ultra-low profile, reportedly making quick appearances at private parties in Whistler and Vancouver

Television

Jason Priestley is still a teenager after all these years

Two decades after 90210, Jason Priestley is heading back to TV as a foul-mouthed lay-about used-car salesman who ‘has never really progressed past 15’

The Knack lead singer Doug Fieger, 57, dies

Co-writer of the 1979 hit song My Sharona had battled lung cancer for six years

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John Doyle: Olympic viewing
How about a little more childish delight?

Watching the first weekend of the Games was a bizarre experience

New John Doyle head shot
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Johanna Schneller: The Fame Game
Mark Ruffalo is becoming a more lived-in human being

 

Johanna Schneller
Warren Clements: Puzzles and Charades
Many ways to skin a letter

Warren Clements
Russell Smith: On Language
Let me be clear: we can’t always banish tricky words

Phrases that make no sense are nothing if not annoying, but we're stuck with them

Russell Smith
Lynn Crosbie: Pop Rocks
The ugly truth about Betty’s braces and Super Bowl ads

A great show reinvented camp and tele-aesthetics

America Ferrera in a scene from Ugly Betty.
Warren Clements: DVDs
Original Ladykillers release features a new killer commentary

More classics from Blu-ray include Ran and Lola Montes

Warren Clements
Nestruck on Theatre
Wajdi Mouawad's Streetcar starring Isabelle Huppert leaves something to be desired

While in Las Vegas, Franco Dragone doesn't not disagree with Cirque du Soleil's current direction. Or something

Playwright Lynne Nottage, author of Intimate Apparel.
Video
Liam Lacey in 60 seconds

Globe film critic Liam Lacey discusses what's up on screen, at the festivals, and at the box office. This week: From Paris With Love and J'ai tue ma mere (I Killed my Mother).

Xavier Dolan, left, and François Arnaud star in Dolan’s autobiographical debut J’ai tué ma mère, in which a young gay man comes of age.


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