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'Adventurous' new album tracks my life, Swift says

'Adventurous' new album tracks my life, Swift says

Country-pop star Taylor Swift has won over a legion of devoted fans in the past six years with her raw, honest lyrics of romance and heartbreak.
Viennese can't bear nude-men posters

Viennese can't bear nude-men posters

Naked men of all sizes and shapes are appearing on Vienna kiosks as a prestigious museum kicks off an exhibit on male nudity.
Biel, Timberlake wed

Biel, Timberlake wed

Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel are married. The couple released a statement Friday to People magazine saying the ceremony was beautiful and it was special to be surrounded by their family and friends.

Drake celebrates graduation

A day after earning his high school diploma, an excited Drake performed hit songs for a few hundred people at an event for Tyra Banks.

Madonna fans upset by guns

Some Colorado fans are upset after music superstar Madonna used guns during a performance in a community that is still raw from a mass shooting at a local theatre and a violent summer that includes the unsolved slaying of a 10year-old girl.

Filming the unfilmable

Turning the epic novel Cloud Atlas into a movie was so tricky, it took three directors to pull it off

Islands noted for plethora of fine pottery

Southern Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands are a magnet for creative people. Since the Second World War, they have come here, leaving behind Germany, which was being partitioned, England and its rationing, the U.S.

Edwards wins songwriting prize

She lost out on the Polaris Music Prize, but Kathleen Edwards has won the 2012 SOCAN Echo Songwriting Prize for A Soft Place to Land.

'Happy' begins with cast that clicks

The half-dozen stars of Happy Endings, a TV comedy about six friends being funny in Chicago, got lucky, says one of them. "We clicked," says Adam Pally. "We're all playful and don't take anything too seriously. The six of us are troublemakers.

Sculptor shows furniture pieces

Saanich sculptor Maarten Schaddelee will unveil his new furniture pieces this weekend at an exhibition of work inspired by the natural beauty surrounding his home and the Maarnada Gallery and Sculpture Garden.