The master's voice
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By Greg Buium, CBC News
Arts & Entertainment at a Glance
Headlines
- Marianas Trench grabs 2 Indie music awards
- A host of independent music acts were celebrated at Canada's annual Indie music awards on Saturday, with Vancouver pop-punk band Marianas Trench taking home two trophies.
- Drake, Nickelback nab Canadian radio prizes
- Popular rockers Nickelback, rapper Drake and Toronto indie band Metric were among the winners at the 13th annual Canadian Radio Music Awards.
- Ray Charles musical set for Broadway
- A musical celebrating American musician Ray Charles will open on Broadway in November.
- Phil Spector's lawyers appeal murder conviction
- Lawyers for legendary music producer Phil Spector are appealing his 2009 murder conviction in California on grounds of judicial error and prosecutorial misconduct.
- Canadian artists join in Wavin' Flag for Haiti
- A remixed version of K'naan's anthem Wavin' Flag that will be available for download Thursday at midnight pulls together 57 Canadian artists in a fundraiser for Haiti.
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Entertainment news from Canadian Press
- Filmmaker gets French honour: Tim Burton made officer of arts and letters
- Peter Graves dies; found drama success with 'Mission: Impossible'; comic hit with 'Airplane'
- Charlie Sheen returning to court in domestic violence case
- Toronto funeral home says it is helping Haim family cope with memorial costs
- New season of 'Celebrity Apprentice' begins with Trump claiming his 1st victim
- Polanski's wife says their toughest moments are over, scandal may be over soon
- Nudity still shocks! NYC exhibit with naked performers causes discomfort
- Sean Penn pitches in as full-time aid worker at camp for survivors of Haiti's earthquake
- 'Alice in Wonderland' extends No. 1 box-office stay with $62M, tops $200 million total
- Meryl Streep presents leadership award to ex-Colombian hostage Ingrid Betancourt
Media news from Canadian Press
- David Beckham's injury and likely World Cup absence keep British papers working late
- Israeli journalist investigating immigration arrested by Egyptian officials along the border
- Survey: Online news consumers have favourites, but little loyalty, and don't want to pay
- Philippine police suspect personal grudge in killing of radio broadcaster
- Fearful mayor in Walkerton, Ont., wants peace bond against newspaper owner
- Venezuelan news Web site accuses Chavez of seeking to crackdown on cyber-critics
- Kate Snow leaving ABC News to join NBC this spring
- Storing carbon dioxide underground feasible, but with some risks: report
- Free news on Net fails as business model for traditional news outlets:insiders
- McLaren's romantic trials as a London scribe 'loosely' adapted for TV movie
Headlines »
- Corey Haim funeral not city-funded: Toronto
- The city of Toronto has denied claims that actor Corey Haim's funeral Tuesday will be paid for by taxpayers.
- Marianas Trench grabs 2 Indie music awards
- A host of independent music acts were celebrated at Canada's annual Indie music awards on Saturday, with Vancouver pop-punk band Marianas Trench taking home two trophies.
- 3,000-year-old coffin back in Egypt
- An ancient wooden coffin stolen from Egypt 126 years ago has finally returned home after being confiscated in the U.S. in 2008.
- Actor Peter Graves dies
- Peter Graves, who starred in the Mission: Impossible television series, died Sunday of an apparent heart attack.
- Cynthia Nixon, Joy Behar win gay media awards
- The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) handed out its annual media awards with honourees that included Cynthia Nixon and Joy Behar.
- Ex-CBC host Gary Mittelholtz dies
- Long-time CBC radio personality Gary Mittelholtz died while cross-country skiing near Sussex, N.B., on Saturday. He was 55.
- Hong Kong festival to honour Bollywood legend
- Indian screen legend Amitabh Bachchan will be getting a lifetime accolade from the Hong Kong International Film Festival.
- Cameron, studio ponder Avatar re-release
- Director James Cameron confirms he's in talks with Fox for a re-release of his 3-D sci-fi blockbuster Avatar with additional scenes.
- China bars HIV-positive Aussie author
- China has refused a visa to Australian writer Robert Dessaix on the grounds he is HIV-positive.
- Slain journalist honoured with Kandahar plaque
- The Canadian military on Saturday unveiled a memorial to the first Canadian journalist killed in Afghanistan.
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