Singer-songwriter superstar Billie Eilish is launching a massive concert tour — with both good and bad news for her Quebec fans. The Grammy-winning musician will kick off her upcoming tour in Quebec City on Sept. 29 in support of her soon-to-released album Hit Me Hard and Soft. But despite moving on to Toronto with shows on both … Read more
Actor-singer David Soul, a 1970s heartthrob who co-starred as the blond half of the TV crime-fighting duo Starsky & Hutch and topped the music charts with the ballad Don’t Give Up on Us, has died at the age of 80. His wife, Helen Snell, said Friday that “David Soul — beloved husband, father, grandfather and brother — … Read more
For the first time in Hayao Miyazaki’s decades-spanning career, the 82-year-old Japanese anime master is No. 1 at the North American box office. Miyazaki’s latest enchantment, The Boy and the Heron, debuted with $12.8 million US, according to studio estimates. The Boy and the Heron, the long-awaited animated fantasy from the director of Spirited Away, My Neighbor … Read more
Thousands of people lined the streets of Dublin on Friday to say goodbye to the Pogues front man Shane MacGowan as his funeral procession wound through the Irish capital. MacGowan died Nov. 30 at the age of 65 after a lifetime of drinking, carousing and writing songs that fused Irish tradition with the spirit of … Read more
