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David Letterman joins Just for Laughs Montreal lineup

Nicole Thompson, The Canadian Press 1 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 10:57 AM CDT

David Letterman is set to perform in Montreal for the first time.

The former late-night host will headline Just for Laughs Montreal with "An Evening with David Letterman and Special Guest Will Arnett."

Their onstage conversation is scheduled for July 21 at Place des Arts.

It comes months after Letterman took to the stage in Vancouver in February, his first Canadian performance since 1978.

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‘Yahoo!:’ Alberta and Calgary beef over Stampede noise quashed, premier and mayor say

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‘Yahoo!:’ Alberta and Calgary beef over Stampede noise quashed, premier and mayor say

The Canadian Press 4 minute read Saturday, Jun. 27, 2026

CALGARY -

A feud that heated up after spicy social media posts from Premier Danielle Smith and the mayor of Alberta's largest city about noise during the Calgary Stampede has been quashed.

"This compromise provides greater certainty for this year's Stampede," Smith said in a Saturday morning post on X ahead of the 10-day rodeo and music festival starting on July 3.

"I want to thank everyone who came to the table in good faith and worked toward a solution.

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Saturday, Jun. 27, 2026

Top 20 Global Concert Tours from Pollstar

The Associated Press 1 minute read Friday, Jun. 26, 2026

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 BTS $10,744,290 50,862 $211.24

2 Luke Combs $7,627,700 59,578 $128.03

FILE - Cody Johnson performs at the Braves Country Fest in Atlanta on June 13, 2026. (Photo by Paul R. Giunta/Invision/AP, File)

Cody Johnson’s country music is only getting bigger. On ‘Banks of the Trinity,’ he’ll take you home

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Cody Johnson’s country music is only getting bigger. On ‘Banks of the Trinity,’ he’ll take you home

Maria Sherman, The Associated Press 4 minute read Friday, Jun. 26, 2026

NEW YORK (AP) — There's a moment at every Cody Johnson show where the Texas-born and bred country star asks the crowd: “How many of you tonight are watching me and this band live for the very first time?” he told The Associated Press. “And every night, I would say at least 80% of the crowd raises their hands.”

It's not the kind of reaction most veteran artists receive. “And I’m thinking, you know, 20 years is a long time to work for something. But when you see that … What’s the next 20 years look like?” he asks.

The rancher, rodeo competitor and onetime prison guard started his two-decade career playing honky tonks and dive bars. That led to slow and steady growth for the country traditionalist, but in the last few years, something has shifted. He landed his fifth career No. 1 song with “The Fall.” He was named entertainer of the year at the 2026 Academy of Country Music Awards, the show's highest honor. That was a month after he headlined Stagecoach Music Festival. For an artist with legions of fans, it looked like he was accessing new heights.

“I feel like I’m closing a book and I’m opening another one and it’s all blank pages,” he says of this period. “Let's get to the next chapter."

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Friday, Jun. 26, 2026

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Hollywood gets into the microdrama race as mobile-first storytelling draws stars and major studios

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Hollywood gets into the microdrama race as mobile-first storytelling draws stars and major studios

Jonathan Landrum Jr., The Associated Press 6 minute read Thursday, Jun. 25, 2026

LOS ANGELES (AP) — While much of Hollywood was consumed by the streaming wars, Issa Rae was studying a different mode of entertainment thousands of miles away: microdramas.

No stranger to creating a successful online series, the Emmy-nominated actor and producer became intrigued by China's booming market for the short, mobile-first soap operas, seeing its potential to build audiences and intellectual property.

In May, Rae's Hoorae Media released the thriller “Screen Time,” one of the first major studio-quality microdrama projects developed by an established Hollywood production company. The TikTok-backed series drew nearly 75 million views during its first week.

Rae believes the format offers advantages traditional media often cannot.

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Thursday, Jun. 25, 2026

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Calgary’s new mayor-elect Jeromy Farkas speaks to reporters outside city hall on Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2025, after narrowly defeating his opponent. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Bill Graveland

Despite provincial demand, Calgary mayor says Stampede noise debate is over

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Despite provincial demand, Calgary mayor says Stampede noise debate is over

Bill Graveland, The Canadian Press 3 minute read Friday, Jun. 26, 2026

CALGARY - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has given Calgary a Tuesday deadline to change its noise rules or face possible provincial intervention – but Mayor Jeromy Farkas says the issue is done.

Farkas, asked by reporters Thursday about next week's deadline, reminded them that he and council debated changing the rules earlier this week and voted no.

"Our formal response was provided in advance of the June 30 deadline," he said.

He said the rules they have on closing times and music shutdowns for off-site outdoor concerts during the Calgary Stampede festival are the same or even more permissive than comparable events in North America.

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Friday, Jun. 26, 2026

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Movie Review: ‘Jackass: Best and Last’ is just a clip-job of greatest hits. And we mean hits

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Movie Review: ‘Jackass: Best and Last’ is just a clip-job of greatest hits. And we mean hits

Mark Kennedy, The Associated Press 4 minute read Thursday, Jun. 25, 2026

Pour one out for the “Jackass” crew. They're done. “Jackass: Best and Last” is a sad but fitting end to an extreme stunt franchise that was vanquished not by imagination but time.

The fifth and final main installment has all that you'd expect from the Jackass Cinematic Universe — genitalia, electricity, gravity and port-a-potties, often combined. Only this time, the clips from past stunts swamp the new.

It begins with a 1998 scene once too shocking to air — head nutcase Johnny Knoxville shooting himself in the chest with a 38-caliber Smith & Wesson handgun, protected only by a Kevlar vest and some girlie magazines for padding. (“Don't be stupid,” he is told, advice he chooses to ignore for a quarter of a century). The movie ends about an hour and a half later with his merry band of idiots worried about their prostates.

Knoxville, badly injured after being rammed by a bull in 2022's “Jackass Forever” film, is in the new movie recast as a sort of deranged master of ceremonies, wearing a bow tie as he creates bedlam for others but doesn't partake. He's like a maniacal Peter Pan sitting out a fight in Neverland.

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Thursday, Jun. 25, 2026

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David Clayton-Thomas performs at the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame Gala in Toronto in a January 28, 2007, file photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Aaron Harris

‘He wanted to give people hope’: David Clayton-Thomas, Canadian singer of Blood, Sweat & Tears, dies at 84

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‘He wanted to give people hope’: David Clayton-Thomas, Canadian singer of Blood, Sweat & Tears, dies at 84

Alex Nino Gheciu, The Canadian Press 7 minute read Thursday, Jun. 25, 2026

David Clayton-Thomas believed people could start over.

That belief, his daughter Ashleigh Clayton-Thomas said Thursday, shaped both his life and the way he saw others.

“He knows that there is hope and that nobody is born bad,” she said.

“Sometimes bad choices are made, but that doesn't mean that you can't turn your life around and make things better for yourself and your family. He felt he was an example of that, like, ‘Look at me: I came from nothing, I was in the jailhouse, and now I'm at Woodstock.’”

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Thursday, Jun. 25, 2026

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Movie Review: Sex is on the menu in Olivia Wilde’s dinner party comedy of manners ‘The Invite’

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Movie Review: Sex is on the menu in Olivia Wilde’s dinner party comedy of manners ‘The Invite’

Jake Coyle, The Associated Press 5 minute read Wednesday, Jun. 24, 2026

Soufflé is for dinner but much more is on the table in Olivia Wilde’s deliciously entertaining chamber comedy, “The Invite,” about a couple whose marriage is on the rocks who invite their upstairs neighbors over for an impromptu get-together.

Such a gathering is, of course, a standby setup of stage and screen, alike. Faster than I can say “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” you can probably predict some of where “The Invite” is going: a spread of quips, come-ons and marital catharsis all served on a tidy, single-setting plate.

But even if you can sometimes feel the gears turning in “The Invite,” it's cunningly syncopated and cleverly acted enough to make it a welcome, modern twist on the drawing-room comedy of manners. Unlike the dinner served in the film though, it’s baked to near-perfection.

This is Wilde’s third film as a director, and because of her apparent grasp of the material, it’s her best. She started promisingly with the high school comedy “Booksmart.” But her ambitious follow-up, “Don’t Worry Darling,” was a clunky, overcooked disappointment. Comedy may be more in her wheelhouse. Besides, it’s Wilde’s brilliantly comic performance that sets “The Invite” apart.

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Wednesday, Jun. 24, 2026

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Calgary Mayor Jeromy Farkas speaks outside of city council chambers, in Calgary, Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Dayne Patterson

Country Thunder cancels Calgary festival citing sound restrictions, construction

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Country Thunder cancels Calgary festival citing sound restrictions, construction

Dayne Patterson, The Canadian Press 3 minute read Thursday, Jun. 25, 2026

CALGARY - A major multi-provincial music festival has cancelled this year's show in Calgary, citing construction and noise levels that the city contests should not be an issue.

Country Thunder Alberta announced it would cut its scheduled concerts two days before its shows were set to begin on Friday.

The festival's late cancellation is the second such dispute over sound level restrictions introduced this year, after a recent social media spat between the city's mayor and the province's premier over how they could affect events during the city's signature festival, the Calgary Stampede.

Megan Benoit, a manager for Country Thunder Music Festivals, said organizers met with city officials Wednesday morning and reached an impasse over decibel levels the festival says were reduced too much.

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Thursday, Jun. 25, 2026

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Usher performs during a Prince tribute at the 62nd annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on Jan. 26, 2020, left, and Chris Brown performs at the BET Awards in Los Angeles on June 25, 2017. (AP Photo)

Usher says tour with Chris Brown is about more than 2 stars. He makes the case for R&B in stadiums

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Usher says tour with Chris Brown is about more than 2 stars. He makes the case for R&B in stadiums

Jonathan Landrum Jr., The Associated Press 3 minute read Wednesday, Jun. 24, 2026

LOS ANGELES (AP) — As Usher prepares to launch a stadium tour with Chris Brown, he says the criticism and legal troubles surrounding the singer never factored into his decision to embark on the tour.

“Absolutely not,” Usher told The Associated Press. “He’s my brother, and he’s amazing as a performer. That’s who I see. He works hard for his fans, and his fans support him.”

Brown has remained one of R&B’s biggest stars despite years of legal troubles and controversy. Last year, he pleaded not guilty in London to charges stemming from an alleged 2023 assault at a nightclub after previously being released on bail to continue touring. He also pleaded guilty in 2009 to felony assault for attacking then-girlfriend Rihanna.

For Usher, their North American tour — which kicks off Friday in Denver — represents something much bigger than two of R&B's brightest stars sharing a stage.

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Wednesday, Jun. 24, 2026

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This combination image shows the following people in Los Angeles, from left, Jacob Elordi on March 15, 2026, Josh O'Connor on Nov. 17, 2025, Jenna Ortega on May 22, 2026, Simu Liu on May 9, 2026, and Teyana Taylor on April 29, 2026. (Photos by Jordan Strauss/Richard Shotwell/Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

Film academy invites 529 new members, including Jenna Ortega, the Safdie brothers and Jacob Elordi

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Film academy invites 529 new members, including Jenna Ortega, the Safdie brothers and Jacob Elordi

Jake Coyle, The Associated Press 2 minute read Wednesday, Jun. 24, 2026

NEW YORK (AP) — The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Wednesday invited 529 members to the Oscar voting body, a new class that brings the group's membership to nearly double what it was a decade ago.

Among those who received invites are “One Battle After Another” nominee Teyana Taylor, Josh O'Connor, Jenna Ortega, Jacob Elordi and Simu Liu.

If all new members accept their invitations, the film academy will number 11,319, with 10,338 voting members. In 2016, the academy numbered closer to 6,000 members.

But to diversify its ranks, the Oscars organization has swelled in recent years. In 2015, the academy was 75% male and 92% white. That year, all 20 acting nominees were white, prompting the #OscarsSoWhite hashtag.

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Wednesday, Jun. 24, 2026

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Movie Review: Supergirl is a blast, but the movie doesn’t match her punk-rock spirit

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Movie Review: Supergirl is a blast, but the movie doesn’t match her punk-rock spirit

Jake Coyle, The Associated Press 4 minute read Wednesday, Jun. 24, 2026

Last year’s “Superman” ended with Iggy Pop singing “Because I’m a punk rocker, yes I am” — an ironic coda for a superlatively square hero. But it rings straightforwardly true for Superman’s cousin.

Milly Alcock’s Kara Zor-El, or Supergirl, sports not a spandex suit but a Blondie T-shirt. When we meet her in Craig Gillespie’s “Supergirl,” she’s been on an interstellar bender for days. She’s more Courtney Love than Clark Kent.

Nonchalant and sarcastic, Kara is also a little Han Solo-ish, you might say, given that she moves capriciously through the galaxy in her junky spaceship while getting in fights in extraterrestrial bars. She’s a welcome, jagged riff on more buttoned-up superheroes, and Alcock is terrific in the role. If only “Supergirl” was as good as she is.

While the latest DC release, and second under James Gunn ’s stewardship, has its moments, “Supergirl” struggles to match Kara’s punk-rock energy with an equally spirited supporting cast and story.

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Wednesday, Jun. 24, 2026

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Why is Gen Z obsessed with indie sleaze? Metric’s Emily Haines has some theories

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Why is Gen Z obsessed with indie sleaze? Metric’s Emily Haines has some theories

Alex Nino Gheciu, The Canadian Press 5 minute read Wednesday, Jun. 24, 2026

Emily Haines thinks young people's fascination with the so-called "indie sleaze" era is less about fashion than freedom.

As Gen Z rediscovers and posts about the messy party scene of the early to mid-2000s — think sticky dance floors, hooky blog-rock bands, snagged tights and side-part hair — the Metric frontwoman believes many are yearning for something simpler: a time before influencers, algorithms and the pressure to turn every moment into content.

“I think it's really perplexing to be young and inspired and wanting to figure out how to become yourself when you can't make any mistakes and you feel like everything you do is captured,” Haines says on a virtual call.

“How do you develop with everyone watching?”

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Wednesday, Jun. 24, 2026

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Deborah Cox says the late Clive Davis saw her talent when Canada didn’t

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Deborah Cox says the late Clive Davis saw her talent when Canada didn’t

Alex Nino Gheciu, The Canadian Press 4 minute read Tuesday, Jun. 23, 2026

Singer Deborah Cox recalls Clive Davis flying in to Toronto during a conference in the mid-1990s to deliver a message to those in charge of the country's music industry: pay attention.

Cox’s single “Who Do U Love” was a smash in the making, she remembers the music executive arguing, but it was being overlooked at home.

“(He informed) all of the executives there that we have a hit here and there should be more support from the Canadian labels and radio,” recalls Cox.

“He was very, very frank about it. He was very point-blank about it. And I think the industry heard him and was like, ‘Wow, I think we need to really pay attention more to the talent that we have here.’”

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Tuesday, Jun. 23, 2026

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Eisa Davis appears at The 2016 Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway on May 1, 2016, in New York, left, and Lin-Manuel Miranda appears at the Kennedy Center Honors in Washington on Dec. 3, 2023. (AP Photo)

Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis set ‘Warriors’ musical for Broadway in 2027

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Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis set ‘Warriors’ musical for Broadway in 2027

Mark Kennedy, The Associated Press 2 minute read Tuesday, Jun. 23, 2026

NEW YORK (AP) — Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis are turning their concept album “Warriors” into a full-length Broadway show.

The story — originally a 1965 novel that was made into a cult, dystopian 1979 film — follows a street gang called the Warriors as they make their way from the Bronx to their home turf of Coney Island in Brooklyn while being hunted by rivals gangs and cops. It will be the first full musical from Miranda since “Hamilton.”

The musical of “Warriors” is expected to begin previews next March and open next April at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. “Warriors” will be directed by Jenny Koons with a book by Miranda and Davis. No casting was announced.

“Musicalizing such a vibrant world for the concept album has been a thrill, and now we’re coming out to play on Broadway at the Lunt-Fontanne. We can’t wait,” Miranda and Davis said in a statement Tuesday.

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