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Pop Forecast for Sept. 11: American Assassin, American Vandal
Chris Lackner “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows,” Bob Dylan sang. But these days, a guide through the seemingly endless flurry of pop culture offerings is just what we need....
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5 stunning Banff-and-area sights in 24 hours
It’s no secret Banff is a tourist haven. So you can imagine how busy it is this year, given Canada’s 150th anniversary and the fact that National Park passes are free. But that doesn’t mean your family...
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Fall TV preview 2017
With great debt to The Sound of Music, this fall TV season’s screening choices may best be summed up with a song to the tune of My Favourite Things. Sing along in your head (and we won’t tell anyone if...
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Viceland series Beerland seeks best home brewers
Name a TV show Beerland and you’re pretty much guaranteed an audience. For a certain segment of the population it’s automatically more appealing than something called Tofu Town or Brussels Sprouts...
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Global Voices: Volunteering a way to ease worried students’ minds
Across the country, students are starting high school and facing life’s biggest questions: Where’s my locker? Do I know anyone in homeroom? What is that grey stuff on my cafeteria tray? And they’re...
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New YA novels explore leaving home
Sherie Posesorski “Some people go, some people stay,” writes S. E. Hinton in Tex, one of her best known novels about teens growing up in Tulsa. That life-defining choice is faced by teens in three...
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Viking rolls out European river, ocean cruise combos
I’ll just put it out there: I love river cruising. Despite not being in the standard 50-something demographic that most lines target, I think river cruises are one of the best ways to explore Europe in...
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Jessica Biel reinvents herself with The Sinner
Jessica Biel has more in common with the murderer she plays in the miniseries The Sinner than you’d think. No, she hasn’t stabbed someone to death for unexplained reasons. And she doesn’t have memories...
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Raven-Symoné talks Raven’s Home, female friendships
Strutting onto The Cosby Show in the ’80s with more sass than any three-year-old has a right to have, Raven-Symoné was a child star to be reckoned with. Fast-forward a couple decades, and she was...
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Pop Forecast for Sept. 18: Kingsman sequel, Star Trek: Discovery
Chris Lackner “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows,” Bob Dylan sang. But these days, a guide through the seemingly endless flurry of pop culture offerings is just what we need....
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Global Voices: An ode to the shipping container
While visiting Ghana a few years ago, some unusual kiosks caught the eye of Kevin Lee. Local vendors had cut windows and doors into abandoned shipping containers, and turned them into storefronts....
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More to discover with these Avalon river cruises
If you sail all the way from Amsterdam to Budapest on Avalon Waterways (cruise.center/avalon) magnificent 15-day Magnificent Europe river cruise, you’ll cover five countries, three rivers, one canal,...
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Murdoch Mysteries returns for season 11 after cliffhanger
With the action in Murdoch Mysteries’ season finale squeezed in tighter than a size 10 gal in a size six corset, fans have been eagerly awaiting the period drama’s return. And with the episode Up From...
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CBC’s The Wild Canadian Year celebrates amazing wildlife
When was the last time you trekked into the Canadian wild? The last time you let your feet sink into the soil, heard birds fill a forest or simply sat riverside? Whether it was last week or last year,...
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Reality Check for Sept. 23: DWTS, The Launch, The Voice
Dancing up a (bleep) storm Another season of Dancing With the Stars took over the dance floor this week, leaving behind a trail of glitter — and marital anger, possibly. Husband and wife celeb dancers...
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Pop Forecast for Sept. 25: American Made, Ghosted and more
Chris Lackner “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows,” Bob Dylan sang. But these days, a guide through the seemingly endless flurry of pop culture offerings is just what we need....
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Bull showrunner talks season 2 changes, guest-stars
Talk about a trial by fire. When Glenn Gordon Caron was tapped as a showrunner for TV’s crime drama Bull, the series was already established as a hit. After it debuted, it became one of the top new...
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Global Voices: Help break stereotypes by setting an example
The day after the 2008 U.S. presidential election, Clarence Pitterson stood in front of his students at Father Henry Carr Catholic Secondary School in Toronto’s west end, overcome with excitement as he...
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MacGyver star Lucas Till talks season 2, Hawaii Five-0 crossover
As sure as you can use a chewing gum wrapper to fix a broken fuse box, Lucas Till was born to play Angus MacGyver. The star of CBS’s action reboot MacGyver has a mother who’s a chemist and a dad who’s...
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Tuning in to Crystal’s next luxury river cruise liner
I finally got my first glimpse of Crystal River Cruises first purpose-built river cruise ships a few weeks back, in Cologne, Germany. The line’s newly launched Crystal Bach was tied up behind the...
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