Entertainment

Central Alberta musicians can win the chance to perform at an outdoor festival this summer — and get paid for it.

The Fox network is letting employees of some troubled small businesses decide which one of their colleagues will be laid off and turning the results into a reality show.

TORONTO — Actor Billy Bob Thornton has laid claim to his own Joaquin Phoenix moment.

A crowd of about 600, consisting mostly of punk rock enthusiasts, filled the Memorial Centre to listen to three different acts on Tuesday evening. Shiloh, appearing immediately after Canadian Idol contestant Carly Rae Jepsen, mesmerized the crowd with a rich voice not normally associated with a 15-year-old. The evening came to a close with the final act, Marianas Trench.

The era of one-price-fits-all-songs on iTunes came to an end Tuesday as Apple Inc., the Internet’s dominant digital music retailer, began selling some of its most-downloaded songs for US$1.29 apiece.

Ethan Hawke might want to avoid crossing paths with Toby Keith in the near future.

Wilderness guru Les Stroud is known for putting himself in extreme survival situations — he’s swum through shark-infested waters, been stranded in the Arctic with little more than a seal hook and marooned in the rainforests of Costa Rica.Kid stuff, right?

Farrah Fawcett is being treated for anal cancer that has spread to her liver and has been hospitalized for a complication from a routine treatment, a producer who worked with the actress and her doctor said Monday.

Notre Dame High School students are getting ready for “another op’nin’ of another show.”A crew of 65 fine arts students will stage the ever-popular musical Kiss Me Kate from April 15 to 18 at Red Deer’s Memorial Centre.

NEW YORK — An all-star concert on meditation brought Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr together for their first performance together in seven years.