In August of 2006, nearly 50 bands assembled for a four-night, two-day experimental music festival, Bummer in the Summer, at Toronto’s Tranzac Club. Avant-garde, free jazz, noise, folk, psychedelic …

In August of 2006, nearly 50 bands assembled for a four-night, two-day experimental music festival, Bummer in the Summer, at Toronto’s Tranzac Club.

The Canadian government is planning to cut $42 million in arts and culture funding, sources say. Citing unnamed sources, the Toronto Globe and Mail said the proposed cuts from the ruling Conservative Party would hit 10 Canadian Heritage programs. The plans have drawn protests from the mayors of Toronto and Montreal who have sent a joint letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, the newspaper …

Their Excellencies, the Right Honourable Michaelle Jean, Governor General of Canada, and Mr. Jean-Daniel Lafond will attend the opening ceremony of the Montreal World Film Festival on Thursday, August 21, 2008, at 7:30 p.m., at the Theatre Maisonneuve de la Place des Arts.

Director Paul W.S. Anderson and producer Jeremy Bolt have quietly made over a half-billion in box office; now can their Death Race beat a law suit? …

Drug makers call the rapid deployment of a vaccine against cervical cancer education, but their critics call it marketing.

Stay in Touch: Abbie Cornish is about to dust off her acting skills for a part in the screen adaptation of Emily Bronte’s Gothic bodice-ripper Wuthering Heights .

Lights, cameras and, hopefully soon, some action.

As advertised? “Mad Men” continues to shed its audience at an alarm ing rate. AMC’s much-bally hooed series has lost 1 million viewers since its July 27 sea son premiere, which snared 2.1 million viewers. The numbers have fallen each successive…

This movie is the first Filipino film to compete at the 49th Thessaloniki International Film Festival in Greece.

Rob Cohen knows how to walk away from a franchise. The director behind such high-octane hits as XXX and The Fast and the Furious wasn’t involved in what he calls the ”lackluster sequels” to his movies that studios churned out without him.

In two years, cervical cancer has gone from obscure killer confined mostly to poor nations to the West’s disease of the moment.

The rapid deployment of a vaccine to protect women from cervical cancer represents a triumph of what the manufacturers call education and their critics call marketing.