Scotty McCreery won the American Idol battle of the fresh-faced country crooners Wednesday, pulling more of a record 122 million-plus viewer votes than competitor Lauren Alaina.

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Organizers of the BlackCreek Summer Music Festival have worked to turn the Rexall Centre – a venue best known for the annual Rogers Cup tennis tournament – into a musical mecca.

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The Shaw Festival begins its season Wednesday evening with the opening night of Heartbreak House, a bold parody of a society teetering on the brink of disaster.

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After a star-studded final season, Oprah Winfrey appeared solo onstage for the last episode of her landmark daytime talk show.

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Bestselling author Henning Mankell, who was held in Israel for participating in the Gaza-bound aid flotilla in 2010, plans to be aboard a new convoy to sail this June.

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Canadian filmmaker Norman Jewison is seeing a retrospective of his work at the Lincoln Center in New York this week.

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Academy Award organizers plan to move voting online, replacing the current mailed ballot system.

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The Montreal Gazette, the city’s only English-language newspaper, is introducing a pay-for the-web model on its online site as of Wednesday afternoon at 1 p.m.

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On vacation in Los Angeles, Walter, the world’s biggest Muppet fan, and his friends Gary and Mary from Smalltown, USA, discover the nefarious plan of oilman Tex Richman to raze the Muppet Theater and drill for the oil recently discovered beneath the Mu…

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Fed up with her boyfriend (Michael Madsen), live-wire Arkansas waitress Louise Sawyer (Susan Sarandon) persuades her friend Thelma Dickinson (Geena Davis), a naive housewife burdened with a negligent, sexist husband (Christopher McDonald), to hit the r…

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