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The Sopranos social club will never be the same. As soon as Tony Soprano found out that one of his guys, Vito Spatafore, was gay, the Freudian slips started to [...]

Meet Glamour Girl, Party Girl, Fashion Girl, Preppy Girl, Rock 'n' Roll Girl, All-Star Girl, Country Girl, Urban Girl and Boho Girl--your six-year-old's new role models. Girl Authority is the [...]

"I HATE SHOPPING," says Michaelle Jean. "I do it all in one day, power shopping." But she loves clothes. After three days of intense governor-generalling in Winnipeg, Jean plops down [...]

When you live in southwestern Ontarioparticularly the small towns close to the Windsor-Detroit area-you watch the Detroit news, cheer for the Red Wings and the Tigers, and have a special [...]

AT FIRST it was a group of close friends, all of them struggling musicians. Now Broken Social Scene is a group of successful musicians, all struggling to stay friends. In [...]

Michael Jackson says he has Mariah Carey and James Brown on board for his charity single, to benefit the victims of Katrina; but Nick Diamonds and Adam Gollner have Beck, [...]

THIS FALL, in music at least, is the season for dinosaurs. Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Neil Young and Neil Diamond have all been repackaged to inspire, influence and sell records [...]

Melissa O'Neil has just been crowned the Canadian Idol-and now she's lost. We've raced up nearly 10 flights of stairs, encountered three out-of-service elevators, and passed two groups of confused [...]

It took nearly 20 years, but Patrick Dempsey has finally found a role just as memorable as his breakout. Forget being recognized as Can't Buy Me Love's lawn mower-riding dork--he [...]

According to Bonnie Raitt, many people assume she writes all her songs, especially her 1991 hit I Can't Make You Love Me. "No," says the musician, who took the song [...]

Stop the presses--The L Word has a straight audience. It seems the lesbian drama (season two starts Sept. 1 on Showcase) doesn't only appeal to the Sapphic set. In fact, [...]

IT'S ANOTHER SUNNY day in Malibu, inspiring David Foster, his wife, Linda Thompson, and her two sons, Brandon and Brody, to break into song as a four-person golf cart transports [...]

Glenn Close is brilliant in two upcoming roles--and they're both in the same film. As Diana in the new drama Heights, she's dead-on as a celebrated, feared and fabulous theatre [...]

Of all the '80s-flavoured bands out there, the Killers are the ones most likely to make you dance uncontrollably. But only three years ago they were the ones most likely [...]

Jason Collett has two teenage kids, a baby on the way, a gig playing guitar in one of Canada's hottest rock bands, Broken Social Scene, a new solo CD, Idols [...]

Too shy and awkward to make a move? A new dating service can break the ice. AT FIRST GLANCE, Tim looks like a pretty greedy guy. He's at the Brant [...]

Looking out the window of his parents' suburban home in Brampton, Ont., Michael Cera notices that the Maclean's photographer is setting up a massive light in the middle of his [...]

SARS seems like a distant memory, a disease that's disappeared-there hasn't been a single case reported in 2005. But it all comes rushing back while watching the TV movie, Plague [...]

While watching Star Wars: Episode III-Revenge of the Sith, remember that Ewan McGregor, Samuel L. Jackson, Natalie Portman and even Hayden Christensen can act-don't blame them for the forced moments, [...]

Sisters Benedicte Newland and Pascale Smets don't fight--not when they had a fashion business together, not when they lived on different continents and communicated mostly by email, and not when [...]

THERE'S A CHANCE that this fall nearly every cast member of Beverly Hills, 90210will have their own TV show--and that James Van Der Beek (Dawson of Dawson's Creek) will return [...]

AIMEE MANN The Forgotten Arm On first listen, Aimee Mann's new album sounds exactly the same as her last one-and the one before that. But all you need is another [...]

MARTHA WAINWRIGHT would like a drink, but the waiter has other business in mind. "Are you Martha?" he asks. "Martha Wainwright?" When she nods yes, he continues: "It's me, Blue. [...]

Ben Wrightman, age 7, goes to his first Boston Red Sox game and is given the following advice: "Careful kid, they'll break your heart." And they do, for the next [...]

Last year, actors Jonas Chernick and Liane Balaban (New Waterford Girl) lived together in a dingy L.A. hotel with-unbeknownst to them-a dead cat rotting under the flooring below their kitchen [...]

LAST WEEK, the New York Times proclaimed Montreal "the most influential scene in American music." And Spin magazine said as much in its latest issue. Both articles feature critically loved [...]

Sure, Janet Jackson's exposed breast was 2004's mother of all television moments. But there were other riveting, unscripted TV events this year that are just as--if not more--deserving of a [...]

JUST WEEKS AGO, June Callwood was nearly arrested. She and two other noted authors, Mary Jo Leddy and Joy Kogawa, staged a sit-in at the Toronto constituency office of Citizenship [...]

"I THOUGHT we were going to die," says Sum 41 lead singer Deryck Whibley, while recounting a trip to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where fighting erupted while the [...]

If there was one peculiarly Canadian subject just begging to be sent up, it was minor hockey--or more specifically, minor hockey parents. And a new CBC series, The Tournament, takes [...]

1. JOHNNY DEPP. 2. Sean Penn. 3. Gael Garcia Bernal. And the list goes on. The Top 10 list of my favourite hot actors, that is. Should I be embarrassed [...]

You don't have to ask Ryan Reynolds about his fiancee Alanis Morissette. He brings her up first--casually mentioning that they share a house in Vancouver. It's a refreshing change from [...]

It may be 219 days since this blond-tressed wonder started the adventure known as Canadian Idol, but it's only been 68 days between his win and the release of his [...]

KEVIN SMITH SWEARS he could have got Ben Affleck to play a high school principal on Degrassi: The Next Generation. "Ben definitely would have done it," says the New Jersey [...]

Before Jeremy Ratchford got the role of tough-guy confession-getter Det. Nick Vera on the hit police drama, Cold Case (CBS/CTV), he put in his time on Canada's Blue Murder and [...]

A PARTY IS raging in Room 221 of the Highland Gardens Hotel in Hollywood, Calif. Eighties music is blasting, and all the food has been cleared from the fridge, replaced [...]

The rumours are swirling, Coldplay, Travis, Robbie Williams, the Darkness and Dido, along with other British faves, are said to be onboard for a remake of the 1984 Band Aid [...]

The mayor of Timmins, Ont., has declared Nov. 2 Shania Twain Day. But is 24 hours really enough? Her publicists certainly don't think so. Here's a calendar to help you [...]

ON HALLOWEEN 2002 I ran into Hal Johnson and Joanne McLeod of Body Break. Well, not the real hosts of the 90-second fitness commercials, but a couple dressed up as [...]

In this Top-10-obsessed world, the CBC has come up with the mother of all lists. Forget the 10 friendliest cities or the 10 best hockey players--the public broadcaster has named [...]

Jason Bateman's never really been in a great TV show or movie--until now. In the DVD extras for Fox's Arrested Development, Bateman mocks his resume of lame sitcoms and '80s [...]

When Montreal pop group Stars asks you to Set Yourself on Fire-the title of its third CD-you can't help but comply. After all, the band's provided a mixture of sexy [...]

Sex Traffic, a new CBC two-part miniseries featuring Canadians Wendy Crewson and Luke Kirby, takes quite a bit of time to roll out its multiple stories. There's two sisters in [...]

Gael Garcia Bernal is devouring a chocolate bar in hopes that it will give him one more burst of energy. But, the Mexican actor (Y tu mama tambien)--best known in [...]

Sarah Slean, Day One, (Warner) The Toronto-based singer-songwriter offers up a collection of wannabe show tunes, rather than a good pop album. Her strong piano play on Night Bugs (2002) [...]

ABOUT AN HOUR after being crowned the new Canadian Idol, Kalan Porter is in the bathroom attached to his dressing room, getting ready for the after-party--already in full swing at [...]

When identical twins Tegan and Sara Quin were signed to Neil Young's record label four years ago, the folky Calgary duo were living together in a basement suite in their [...]

He's still our man. Fans around the world will celebrate his 70th on Sept. 21, and he has a new CD in [...]