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Byline: ELIZABETH RENZETTI LONDON -- There is at least one thing that Pete Doherty and I have in common, and it doesn't involve crack cocaine, sex in public toilets, or [...]

Byline: ELIZABETH RENZETTI LONDON -- In the same vast room in the British Museum where Lenin, Marx and Gandhi once came to study and write, four artists from Mozambique this [...]

Byline: ELIZABETH RENZETTI LONDON -- You just have to love a country that will happily get in a hair-pulling, face-scratching, go-home-sobbing fight about whether painting is dead. That meowing you [...]

Byline: ELIZABETH RENZETTI It's almost last call on Friday night at The Pitcher & Piano -- desperation hour: Get lucky or get lost. Two boys, who look to be in [...]

Byline: ELIZABETH RENZETTI LONDON -- The Royal Family Pop-Up Book, published in 1984 before the world became a hard and bitter place, begins with a blithe scene. Under a blue [...]

Byline: ELIZABETH RENZETTI LONDON -- Ten years ago, when she first moved in, the only thing more decrepit than the neighbourhood was the house that she foolishly fell in love [...]

Byline: ELIZABETH RENZETTI LONDON -- The man on stage is a sex addict. I know this because he has slept with more than 5,000 men and one lesbian, and because [...]

Byline: ELIZABETH RENZETTI LONDON -- Over Christmas, a book went on sale featuring a blond heroine obsessed with her weight, giddy about boys and dedicated to chronicling the quotidian detail [...]

Byline: ELIZABETH RENZETTI The London Zoo, in an attempt to draw people from the fireside to the chilly outdoors, is right now offering a curious service: It will help you [...]

Byline: ELIZABETH RENZETTI LONDON -- It may have been the sweatshirt the girl was wearing that marked her as a breed apart. She was walking along the street in Brighton [...]

Byline: ELIZABETH RENZETTI LONDON -- 'Jamie isn't one to linger on foreplay,' says Tracey Cox as she watches some footage of a hunky builder trying, gamely, to service his girlfriend [...]

Byline: ELIZABETH RENZETTI LONDON -- 'It's a big mother, isn't it?' Peter C. Newman takes his life in his hands, all 733 pages of it, and hefts it, as if [...]

Byline: ELIZABETH RENZETTI LONDON -- The Griffin Poetry Prize rolled into London this week, and conquered without even firing a shot. It was a red-carpet greeting for Canadian writers during [...]

Byline: ELIZABETH RENZETTI LONDON -- In the early evening light, two women stand giggling in front of a low white wall in northwestern London, while a young man tries to [...]

Byline: ELIZABETH RENZETTI LONDON -- A certain British man, upon encountering Gertrude Bell in Jerusalem in 1906, passed judgment on the intrepid Englishwoman, calling her a 'conceited, gushing, flat-chested, man-woman, [...]

Byline: ELIZABETH RENZETTI LONDON -- Half the adult male population of Pitcairn Island goes on trial today, the seven men facing prison sentences in a jail that they helped build. [...]

Byline: ELIZABETH RENZETTI LONDON -- No, Mr. Bond, we expect you to sign. With apologies to Auric Goldfinger, the suspense really is maddening for James Bond fans: Who will sign [...]

Byline: ELIZABETH RENZETTI The Woman in White Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by David Zippel, book by Charlotte Jones Directed by Trevor Nunn Starring Michael Crawford At the Palace [...]

LONDON -- Even when it comes to inexact sciences -- beauty pageants, presidential elections -- creating odds for the Booker Prize is screwier than most. Warren Lush, for example, does [...]

Byline: ELIZABETH RENZETTI CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND -- The sign on the wall of London's King's Cross station marks Platform 9 3/4, the spot where Harry Potter boarded the Hogwarts Express to [...]

Byline: ELIZABETH RENZETTI If Keith Richards can put down his vodka and Orange Crush long enough to pick up a script, he might well get to play a pirate on [...]

Byline: ELIZABETH RENZETTI As long as turntables have co-existed with cameras, fame hounds have desperately tried to bestride the worlds of music and movies. Frank Sinatra and Elvis, Britney Spears [...]

ANAHEIM, CALIF. -- A fifty-foot titanium sun rises over our heads, though there's a perfectly good sun shining in its dumb Californian fashion in the sky. To our left, a [...]

Toronto -- It may not be in the Erotica section, but the salacious details of Bill Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky will be available in Toronto bookstores tomorrow, and across [...]

Diana, Princess of Wales, is in hell. At least that's what some fundamentalist Sunday-school teachers in England recently told their charges, sending a legion of distraught little ones scurrying home [...]

Toronto -- The Queen is really not amused, and book buyers around the world will soon know it. The book jacket of Christopher Andersen's controversial bestseller The Day Diana Died, [...]

TORONTO -- Little, Brown Canada, which publishes writers such as Katherine Govier, Richard Ford and Joanna Trollope, is closing its doors. Some seven staff members in the Toronto office and [...]

'TELL me he's lazy, tell me he's slow, tell me he's crazy -- maybe I know,' lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II opined 70 years ago in a song called Can't Help [...]

Directed by Francine Zuckerman Written by and starring Deb Filler Classification: Not available Rating: **1/2 Finding humour in the darkest places This deeply funny, 36-character monologue is based, amazingly, on [...]

TWO buddies -- one madcap, the other buttoned down -- take to the open road to test their depth of their characters. Whoops, we just passed Something Wild and Easy [...]

IS Jerry Lewis the devil, or does he just play one on stage? The public imp--he plays Mr. Applegate, arch-fiend, in the musical Damn Yankees -- will be visible over [...]

Rating: *** The Powder Room is so true to women's experience that women may find themselves slightly underwhelmed, even as their dates attempt to scrape their jaws off the floor. [...]

FILM REVIEW TURBULENCE ByElizabeth Renzetti The Globe and Mail Directed by Robert Butler Written by Jonathan Brett Starring Ray Liotta and Lauren Holly Classification: AA Rating: * Turbulence has no [...]

Darrin O'Brien, more popularly known as Snow, and the hip-hop trio Hip Club Groove are well-known artists in Canada, particularly in Toronto. O'Brien and the members of the Hip Club Groove come from divergent backgrounds. O'Brien had grown up in Toronto's housing projects and had previously been convicted of attempted murder. The members of Hip Club Groove were not exposed to experiences such as O'Brien's and they grew up in a small community in Truro, Nova Scotia.

The article talks about Canadian parents' furor over the move of teachers to withdraw their voluntary support to fight for their bargaining rights, as they did in Ontario.