National Entertainment

NASHVILLE — Country star Mac Davis, who launched his career crafting the Elvis hits “A Little Less Conversation” and “In the Ghetto,” and whose own hits include “Baby Don't Get Hooked On Me,” has died. He was 78.

TORONTO — Shawn Mendes has locked in a date for "Wonder," the title of his new single and upcoming fourth studio album. The pop singer from Pickering, Ont.

PARIS — A hybrid Paris Fashion Week continued Wednesday featuring a stand out live runway show from socially-distanced Kenzo, but no sign of any A-list celebrities.

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Joaquín Salvador Lavado, an Argentine cartoonist better known as “Quino? whose satirical comic strip about a socially conscious girl named Mafalda with a loathing for soup,found fans across Latin America, Europe and beyond,

NEW YORK — Broadway director Schele Williams is working on a book for young people about the history of enslavement.

NASHVILLE — The record that turned Shania Twain from a struggling singer-songwriter from Canada into a global superstar also changed country music for years to come.

Halloween festivities are largely off the table this October, but the biggest streaming platforms are here with some pretty scary backup plans.

TORONTO — A new exhibit on iconic New York nightclub Studio 54 will turn the Art Gallery of Ontario into a disco inferno later this year.

TORONTO — The Writers' Trust of Canada has released this year's five finalists for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction. The finalists are Lorna Crozier, Steven Heighton, Jessica J. Lee, Tessa McWatt and David A. Neel.

Kirsten Johnson's last film, the autobiographical collage “Cameraperson," was an astonishing compendium of what she, as a cinematographer, had seen in her life behind a lens.