Harvard professor Tiya Miles wins Cundill History Prize for ‘All That She Carried’
MONTREAL – Harvard professor Tiya Miles’s book about the history of an enslaved mother and her daughter has won this year’s US$75,000 Cundill History Prize. Miles...
Britney Spears’ massive pop songs to land on Broadway, again
NEW YORK (AP) — A stage musical about woke princesses that uses hit songs by Britney Spears will land on Broadway this summer. “Once Upon a...
Revisiting ‘da Kink’: Playwright Trey Anthony on theatre, hair and Black self-love
Trey Anthony knows a thing or two about hair. So much so that she wrote a play about it. Set in a West Indian hair salon...
Ross Petty couldn’t leave 25 years of pantos behind without playing his ‘favourite evil person’
“There could be no alternative.” That’s Ross Petty’s response when asked why he’s come back to play Captain Hook in “Peter’s Final Flight,” the 25th and...
Director Lindsay MacKay on the health scare that drew her to ‘The Swearing Jar’
TORONTO – Hollywood loves a comeback story. But filmmaker Lindsay MacKay is among the rare few who can say that they came back from death. MacKay...
Snotty Nose Rez Kids give listeners some pandemic relief with ‘I’m Good, HBU?’
Boy, are these guys prolific. It’s been a little over a year since Snotty Nose Rez Kids dropped their Polaris Music Prize-shortlisted “Life After” and now...
Cormac McCarthy’s two-book, ‘literary double album’ ‘The Passenger’ and ‘Stella Maris’: Life in survival mode
The publication of “Stella Maris” only a month after “The Passenger,” Cormac McCarthy’s first novel since “The Road” in 2006, is just one of the odd...
24 book gift ideas for kids, and for adults who could use a bit of fun
Giving a child a book opens the world to them — no wonder they’re so popular as gifts. With so many to choose from, our regular...
Fernandes’ 18 lead UMass over Harvard 71-68
BOSTON (AP) — Tafara Gapare drilled a 3-pointer with just over a minute left to give UMass the lead and RJ Luis added two free throws...
Rozier, Hornets hold on to beat Wizards 117-116
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Terry Rozier scored 25 points, Kelly Oubre Jr. added 22 and the Charlotte Hornets held off a second-half rally by Bradley Beal...