Entertainment

A year-end list isn't a terribly difficult concept to wrap your head around. If anything, picking 10 of your favourite recordings from the thousands issued each year is a touch too easy.

Playing dead is a major part of Thea Gill's Hollywood revival

Curator and team of researchers breath new life into dismantled heritage

Nearly three decades after Lennon's murder, school band keeps Beatle's memory alive

Lead actors, singers put on a strong show; student cast is well-rehearsed

Director Kathy Kay makes social networking sites a marketing mainstay

In the past year, Bill Porteous spent weeks painting giant panels along a 152-metre long hoarding that wraps around the Atrium construction site at Blanshard, Yates and Johnson streets.

Jon Lavoie strikes chord with youth, racking up millions of YouTube hits

Michael Burke has carved out a small but effective niche in the music business

Bob Lefsetz sent an e-mail to his many subscribers last week lamenting the eye-popping chart success of Susan Boyle, the I Dreamed a Dream singer who was discovered earlier this year via YouTube.