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Concert in honour of Matthew Perry to raise awareness about mental health in Canada

Cassidy McMackon, The Canadian Press 3 minute read Friday, Oct. 10, 2025

TORONTO - Several Canadian music icons are set to perform at a benefit concert honouring late “Friends” actor and mental health advocate Matthew Perry in November in an effort to elevate conversations about mental health.

Organized by Perry’s sister Caitlin Morrison and Make Music Matter, the Live Loud LIVE event will come to Koerner Hall in Toronto’s Royal Conservatory of Music on Nov. 14.

Morrison said the concert is meant to be a “celebration” for music lovers and an “opportunity for people to let go of the weighty things they’ve been carrying.”

The event will be headlined by Hank Azaria, a “Simpsons” voice actor and occasional “Friends” character, who will front a Bruce Springsteen tribute band, backed by what Morrison calls “an orchestra of notable Canadian musicians.”

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Top 20 Global Concert Tours from Pollstar

The Associated Press 1 minute read Friday, Oct. 10, 2025

The Top 20 Global Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for shows Worldwide. The list is based on data provided to the trade publication Pollstar by concert promoters and venue managers.

TOP 20 GLOBAL CONCERT TOURS

1 Beyoncé $12,786,742 48,988 $261.02

2 Stray Kids $8,050,836 48,937 $164.51

No Doubt reunites for Sphere residency. Gwen Stefani will be first woman to headline the Vegas venue

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No Doubt reunites for Sphere residency. Gwen Stefani will be first woman to headline the Vegas venue

Maria Sherman, The Associated Press 2 minute read Friday, Oct. 10, 2025

NEW YORK (AP) — Don't speak — scream, because No Doubt has announced the band's first run of shows in 14 years.

After surprising fans with a brief reunion at the 2024 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, the ska-punks have set their sights on Las Vegas. The band will embark on a six-show residency at the Sphere: May 6, 8, 9, 13, 15, and 16 in 2026.

The state-of-the-art, 17,500 capacity, $2.3 billion arena has seen performances by Phish, the Backstreet Boys, Dead & Company, the Eagles and more. No Doubt is making history by joining them — singer Gwen Stefani will become the first woman to headline the space.

“The opportunity to create a show at Sphere excites me in a new way. The venue is unique and modern and it opens up a whole new visual palette for us to be creative,” Stefani said in a statement. "Doing it with No Doubt feels like going back in time to relive our history, while also creating something new in a way we never could have imagined.”

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FILE - Gwen Stefani of No Doubt performs during the FireAid benefit concert in Inglewood, Calif., on Jan. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)

John Lodge, singer and bassist of Moody Blues during classic era, dies at 82

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John Lodge, singer and bassist of Moody Blues during classic era, dies at 82

The Associated Press 2 minute read Friday, Oct. 10, 2025

LONDON (AP) — John Lodge, the singer and bassist of British rock band The Moody Blues for more than 50 years, has died. He was 82.

In a statement Friday, his family said "with the deepest sadness” that Lodge died “suddenly and unexpectedly.” It added that Lodge “peacefully slipped away surrounded by his loved ones and the sounds of The Everly Brothers and Buddy Holly.”

Birmingham-born Lodge joined the band in 1966, two years after its formation, along with fellow singer Justin Hayward, following the departure of Denny Laine and Clint Warwick. He remained with it until it stopped performing live in 2018.

Lodge featured on some of the band's best-known work, including 1967's psychedelic album “Days Of Future Passed," which is widely regarded as one of rock’s first concept albums, and its follow-up a year later, “In Search Of The Lost Chord.”

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Friday, Oct. 10, 2025

Moody Blues lead singer John Lodge and his wife arrive at the Grosvenor Hotel in London, Oct. 18, 2001. (Lionel Healing/PA via AP, file)

Movie Review: Channing Tatum and Kirsten Dunst bring humanity to true-crime tale ‘Roofman’

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Movie Review: Channing Tatum and Kirsten Dunst bring humanity to true-crime tale ‘Roofman’

Lindsey Bahr, The Associated Press 4 minute read Thursday, Oct. 9, 2025

Down on his luck divorced dad who resorts to crime is becoming familiar territory for Channing Tatum as an actor. In “Logan Lucky” his mark was the Charlotte Motor Speedway. In “Roofman,”in theaters Friday, it’s McDonald’s. In both films, there’s a young daughter he wants to impress. The big, heartbreaking difference is that “Roofman” isn’t just some fun, eccentric caper — it’s based on a wild true story, involving a prison escape, a six-month secret stay inside Toys “R” Us and a local girlfriend who was none-the-wiser to his criminal ways.

The film, directed by Derek Cianfrance, who co-wrote the script with Kirt Gunn, takes some important liberties in telling the story of Jeffrey Manchester, though many of the wildest beats did actually happen, including offering up his coat to a McDonald’s employee he was robbing. It’s suspected that he hit over 40 of the fast-food joints across the country before he was nabbed in North Carolina.

After escaping from prison, where he was serving a 45-year sentence (mostly stemming from kidnapping charges), he really did live behind a bike display in a Charlotte Toys “R” Us, ate baby food to survive, decorated his makeshift bed with Spider-Man sheets and eventually started venturing out into the town and attending a local church where he began dating a single mom.

In “Roofman,” Jeffery’s life of crime starts with a minor humiliation. Already divorced, the U.S. Army veteran asks his daughter what she wants for her 6th birthday as she’s blowing out the candles, which just seems to be setting himself up for failure. She wants a bike, which is out of his price range, and he has the grand idea to start robbing. It works until it doesn’t.

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Thursday, Oct. 9, 2025

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Alan Doyle wants to try everything once, so he co-wrote the musical ‘Tell Tale Harbour’

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Alan Doyle wants to try everything once, so he co-wrote the musical ‘Tell Tale Harbour’

Nicole Thompson, The Canadian Press 7 minute read Thursday, Oct. 9, 2025

TORONTO - To hear Alan Doyle tell it, he's stumbled into all his creative pursuits since the success of his folk-rock group Great Big Sea.

The name and voice recognition he earned fronting that band got him opportunities: as an actor in Ridley Scott's 2010 film adaptation of "Robin Hood," as the composer for the CBC sitcom "Son of a Critch," as an author with three memoirs published so far and a fourth on the way.

"I'm a guy in a band, that's my main job," he says. "All the other stuff has come to me. I never went looking for any of it."

The latest thing to come to him? A starring role in a musical he co-wrote.

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Thursday, Oct. 9, 2025

‘The Last Frontier’ TV series: A plane crash, a jailbreak and CIA secrets unfold in freezing Alaska

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‘The Last Frontier’ TV series: A plane crash, a jailbreak and CIA secrets unfold in freezing Alaska

Mark Kennedy, The Associated Press 5 minute read Thursday, Oct. 9, 2025

NEW YORK (AP) — The new Apple TV+. series “The Last Frontier” begins with a plane crash in remote Alaska and a scramble for survivors. We learn the plane was carrying a nasty bunch of federal inmates. Then we find out that the nastiest of them is part of a vast CIA conspiracy.

The action hardly lets up in what's being called a cross between “Con Air”and “The Fugitive.” Showrunner Jon Bokenkamp piles crisis after crisis in a nifty bit of hyper-aggressive storytelling.

“I am just super self-conscious about not wanting to bore the audience,” he says. “I really like something that has a kinetic energy. Sometimes I have to remind myself to slow down.”

Jason Clarke stars

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Movie Review: ‘After the Hunt’ is less hot-button farce than tragedy

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Movie Review: ‘After the Hunt’ is less hot-button farce than tragedy

Jake Coyle, The Associated Press 5 minute read Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2025

It’s not so often that the font of a movie’s opening credits is, itself, a provocation.

But in Luca Guadagnino ’s muddled but darkly absorbing “After the Hunt,” the white Windsor Light Condensed lettering against a black background, with cast in alphabetical order and soft jazz playing, is immediately recognizable as the style of a Woody Allen movie opening.

In the juggling act to follow in “After the Hunt,” where Guadagnino will playfully twirl a twisting narrative of alleged sexual assault, cancel culture, privilege in academia and Gen Z victimization, the credits are not so much an opening salvo than they are an introductory wink.

Like many an Allen film, “After the Hunt” is set among a well-educated, self-involved class. It takes place around Yale University. But unlike Allen’s anxious, existential, chattering characters, Guadagnino’s cocktail party collection of professors and students is a more scheming and unpleasant lot.

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Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2025

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Movie Review: Tonatiuh dances away with ‘Kiss of the Spider Woman’

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Movie Review: Tonatiuh dances away with ‘Kiss of the Spider Woman’

Lindsey Bahr, The Associated Press 5 minute read Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2025

The part of Luis Molina, the gay prisoner with a penchant for Hollywood’s Golden Age at the heart of “Kiss of the Spider Woman,” has been good to actors over the years. It’s what got William Hurt his first best actor Oscar, for Héctor Babenco’s 1985 film adaptation. Several years later, Brent Carver would win a Tony for John Kander and Fred Ebb’s Broadway musical.

Perhaps it shouldn’t be a surprise, then, that the standout in Bill Condon’s “Kiss of the Spider Woman” (in theaters Friday) is the person playing Molina. Still, it takes a special kind of actor to make such an immediate impact as Tonatiuh, a relative newcomer, does in this film. They don’t even need all the window dressing of the fantasy movie musical sequences to make their scenes come alive.

“Kiss of the Spider Woman,” has had many lives, first as a novel by Argentine writer Manuel Puig, published in 1976 and widely banned. It imagines the meeting of two cellmates in an Argentine prison, Molina a romantic dreamer, and Valentín ( Diego Luna ), a Marxist revolutionary. They develop an unlikely bond as Molina recounts the plot to his favorite movie: A fictional musical called “Kiss of the Spider Woman” starring the fictional screen siren Ingrid Luna (played by Jennifer Lopez ).

The latest is an adaptation of the Broadway musical, with Condon and late playwright Terrence McNally co-credited for the script. Set in Argentina in 1983, amid the military dictatorship’s war on its political opponents, the film alternates between the dreary reality of the prison cell and the lavish MGM-styled musical world in Molina’s imagination. Valentín resists hearing about it at first — too busy being serious and reading Lenin. “Well, that sounds fun,” Molina deadpans, before throwing out his own quote, “The struggle is not over until all men are free.” No, it’s not Lenin, it’s Cyd Charisse in “Silk Stockings.”

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Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2025

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From sculpture to olive oil, a look at some of the gifts Carney received as PM

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From sculpture to olive oil, a look at some of the gifts Carney received as PM

Alessia Passafiume, The Canadian Press 4 minute read Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2025

OTTAWA - Mark Carney has received more than a dozen gifts from world leaders since becoming prime minister — everything from Hermès ties and crystal bowls to a sculpture of Winston Churchill.

But the gifts he received from Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum are among his favourites, his office told The Canadian Press.

From Meloni, Carney received a ceramic olive oil vessel, Modena balsamic vinegar and bottles of olive oil.

During the G7 summit in Kananaskis, Alta., in June, Sheinbaum gave Carney an Indigenous soccer ball handcrafted by Menchaca Studio.

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Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2025

Jesus Maria Tarriba, left, and Diana Fox Carney, right, look on as Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum presents a gift to Prime Minister Mark Carney at the National Palace in Mexico City on Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

Music Review: Khalid bounces back with complex look at love in ‘After Sun Goes Down’

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Music Review: Khalid bounces back with complex look at love in ‘After Sun Goes Down’

Mark Kennedy, The Associated Press 3 minute read Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2025

If you want to know how far Khalid has traveled in a year, just look at his album covers.

His summer 2024 16-track “Sincere” showed the R&B star solo, in black and white, looking at the camera equal parts faded and standoffish. In his new one, out Friday, he's at the center of a crowd of sweaty dancers and lovers, clearly in his element. He's looking at the camera, but this time inviting us in living color, his hair blue.

The 17-track “After the Sun Goes Down” is an upbeat, slightly throwback meditation on love in all its forms — lusty, ecstatic, devoted, flirty, defiant, apprehensive, revengeful and even post-passion cold. It's a welcome return after his dour last outing.

One big thing that's different this time is that Khalid is publicly out and proud, a change that has given his music a directness. “You’re my type, fly dark and handsome,” he sings in “Momentary Lovers.” On the opening cut, “Medicine,” he's lovesick: “You got me feeling stimulations I never felt.”

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Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2025

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Rush adds two more Toronto dates on its reunion tour

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Rush adds two more Toronto dates on its reunion tour

David Friend, The Canadian Press 2 minute read Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2025

TORONTO - Rush is doubling down on its hometown.

Only a couple of days after Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson surprised fans with plans for a Rush reunion tour, the pair has added 11 extra shows, including two more nights in Toronto.

The rockers say they'll play Scotiabank Arena on Aug. 11 and 13, 2026, which extends their run at the Toronto venue beyond the previously announced shows on Aug. 7 and 9.

The four nights are the only Canadian dates on Rush's schedule.

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Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2025

Geddy Lee (right) holds a discussion with fellow Rush band member Alex Lifeson, as he promotes his book

Movie Review: Rose Byrne goes deep and dark as an overburdened mom in ‘If I Had Legs I’d Kick You’

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Movie Review: Rose Byrne goes deep and dark as an overburdened mom in ‘If I Had Legs I’d Kick You’

Jocelyn Noveck, The Associated Press 5 minute read Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2025

How DO you juggle it all? Mothers tend to get asked that question — often in a chipper tone, expecting a chipper response. Rarely do those asking stick around to hear that perhaps those juggling balls are hovering precariously, about to crash to the ground.

One senses that Linda, the overburdened mom embodied by a brave and committed Rose Byrne in Mary Bronstein’s “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You,” would freely expand on that — if anyone cared. But Linda is nobody’s priority.

She’s certainly not her husband’s priority; a cruise captain, he phones in from afar, checking that she’s properly caring for their ill child and freely admonishing her when she's not. A working therapist, she’s certainly not the priority of her patients in various stages of crisis.

She’s also not the priority of doctors supervising her daughter’s illness — an eating disorder so severe that the child needs a feeding tube. Even the contractor who’s allegedly fixing that hole in Linda’s ceiling puts her at the bottom of the list.

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Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2025

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House committee adds language, security checks to ‘Lost Canadians’ bill

David Baxter, The Canadian Press 4 minute read Friday, Oct. 10, 2025

OTTAWA - A House of Commons committee is recommending that most adults eligible for birthright citizenship under the "Lost Canadians" bill meet the same standards on language, knowledge of Canadian history and security checks facing immigration applicants.

On Tuesday, MPs on the immigration committee adopted the Conservative amendment to Bill C-3, which will now go back to the House of Commons for approval.

The bill responds to a 2023 Ontario court ruling overturning a Stephen Harper-era law which prohibited Canadians born abroad from passing down citizenship if their children were not born in Canada. The government did not appeal the decision.

The "Lost Canadians" legislation, meant to replace the 2009 law that was deemed unconstitutional, would set new rules on citizenship by descent.

Movie Review: Bigelow’s ‘A House of Dynamite’ lights a fuse that doesn’t quite ignite

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Movie Review: Bigelow’s ‘A House of Dynamite’ lights a fuse that doesn’t quite ignite

Jake Coyle, The Associated Press 5 minute read Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2025

In Kathryn Bigelow’s “A House of Dynamite,” when a mysterious missile launches from the Pacific and begins bearing down on the Midwest, the biggest threat initially at the White House is a pile of paper work.

The ho-hum response that kicks off Bigelow’s firecracker of a film is quickly shattered. But that transition from routine to imminent danger, replayed three times over in this “Rashomon” meets “Dr. Strangelove,” is the defining register of Bigelow’s urgent, if heavy-handed nuclear wake-up call.

Words across the screen open the film, noting that global powers once worked to decrease nuclear weapons. “That era is now over,” declares the movie.

You might be thinking: As if we didn’t have enough to worry about. But no matter how many other existential concerns might be making a restful night of sleep a thing of pure fantasy, filmmakers have long been particularly attuned to the threat of nuclear warfare. “A House of Dynamite” joins a cinematic lineage going back to “Dr. Strangelove” and “Fail Safe” in 1964. And it comes amid a modern revival of big-screen nuclear anxiety including 2023’s “Oppenheimer” and preceding James Cameron’s announced plans to make “Ghosts of Hiroshima.”

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Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2025

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Rolando Villazón directs opera at the world’s top houses while still singing

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Rolando Villazón directs opera at the world’s top houses while still singing

Ronald Blum, The Associated Press 5 minute read Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2025

NEW YORK (AP) — Tenor Rolando Villazón was singing the title role in Massenet's “Werther” in 2006 at Nice, France, when he started thinking about how he would direct the opera.

“I said, ‘oh, this last act is very difficult. He shot himself and keeps singing for 40 minutes.' And so, what would I do?” he recalled. “And I started inventing, creating for fun a staging.”

Nearly two decades later, Villazón is making his Metropolitan Opera directing debut in Bellini's “La Sonnambula,” which opened Monday night with a standout cast of Nadine Sierra, Xabier Anduaga and Alexander Vinogradov.

“He is very sensitive to singers,” Sierra said. “Maybe some directors, because they’re not singers or they were never singers, it’s hard for them to really relate to the psychological struggle that some singers, we deal with on stage. We want to make our characters as believable as humanly possible through the actions that we show, but sometimes it’s hard to do that because you also have to sing high notes.”

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