The Writers Guild of America (WGA) has directed its members not to work on a new variety show featuring Ozzy Osbourne and his family in a dispute over reality programming.
Bruce Cockburn, Ian Tamblyn, and other Canadian folk and blues legends have just released a new album that pays tribute to Ottawa taxi driver, poet and songwriter Bill Hawkins.
The U.S. publisher of a novel based on the life of the Prophet Muhammad's favourite wife plans to push forward publication of the controversial book by 10 days to this coming Monday.
Shaw Festival artistic director Jackie Maxwell has won the 2008 Herbert Whittaker/Drama Bench Award, given annually by the Canadian Theatre Critics Association for outstanding contributions to theatre.
A debut novel about a 19-year-old widow fleeing her ruthless brothers-in-law through the Rockies in the winter of 1903 has won the $7,500 First Novel Award.
