The federal government will cut funding to another program aimed at promoting Canadian arts and culture abroad, a move that’s drawing fire from those in the industry.

StarTropics was probably the very best game for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). An ahead-of-its-time adventure following a teenager who tries to solve the mystery around his scientist uncle’s disappearance (killing monsters with a yo-yo in the process), it has absolutely nothing to do with Tropic Thunder . Ben Stiller’s first directorial effort since Zoolander doesn’t come out until …

DEBORAH KOONS GARCIA, widow of Jerry Garcia, will show the film “Seeds of In Good Heart: Soil and the Mystery of Fertility,” at the Wine Country Film Festival Sunday, July 27. She will appear at the festival’s Planet Party on Sunday.

British DJ James Lavelle, creator of hit electro act UNKLE, has set his sights on silver screen success with a cinematically inspired new album and a contribution to the X-Files film.

DJ James Lavelle, creator of hit electro act UNKLE, has set his sights on silver screen success with a cinematically inspired new album and a contribution to the X-Files film.

OTTAWA — The federal government will cancel a program today that sent artists abroad to promote Canadian culture because the program’s grant recipients included “a general radical,” “a left-wing and anti-globalization think-tank” and a rock band that uses an expletive as part of its name.

OTTAWA - The federal government will cancel a program today that sent artists abroad to promote Canadian culture because the program’s grant recipients included “a general radical, a left-wing and anti-globalization think-tank” and a rock band that uses an expletive as part of its name.

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