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Twilight star kept out of sight after Stewart cheating scandal

With Vancouver Island's largest theatre festival just around the corner, hype yourself up by embracing the absurd at the Fringe Festival's Block Party and Zebra Ball.

Kenny G is playing the final note on his marriage after 20 years. Court records show the musician filed for divorce Thursday in Los Angeles, citing irreconcilable differences.

The Russian punk band Pussy Riot said on Tuesday it planned new protests against President Vladimir Putin and urged other women to stage protests, despite a trial at which three bandmates could be jailed.

The actor best known as the nerdy high-school student Arnold Horshack on Welcome Back, Kotter, has died in Florida. Ron Palillo was 63.

A murder conviction from the late 1970s is keeping Duane "Dog" Chapman out of the United Kingdom. The reality television star from Dog the Bounty Hunter was to appear on Celebrity Big Brother but he has been denied a visa.

A homegrown short made for 50 bucks and a case of beer will première next month at Toronto International Film Festival, where its Victoria writer-director will share the spotlight with such heavy-hitters as Spike Lee and Paul Thomas Anderson.

Canada's broadcast regulator has quashed a bid to stop CBC from streaming free music over the Internet. Private broadcaster Stingray Digital Group Inc.

Friends and admirers of Marvin Hamlisch, including Bill Clinton and Ann-Margret, gathered Tuesday in New York City to bid farewell to the songwriter hailed as "the people's composer." Hamlisch died Aug. 6 in Los Angeles at age 68.

Gurley Brown used magazine as voice of the sexual revolution