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Actress Amanda Bynes appeared disheveled in a long blond wig and sweats Friday in a criminal court where she was charged with reckless endangerment after police said she heaved a marijuana bong out of her Manhattan apartment building.

Celebrated Canadian nature artist Robert Bateman is opening a new gallery in Victoria this weekend, but the artist says the aim is to do much more than showcase his work.

The Rolling Stones take to the stage in Toronto Saturday night, accompanied by a Mississauga high school choir, for the first of three hotly anticipated Canadian concerts.

CBC Montreal checked out a dress rehearsal Thursday for Dachshund UN, a Festival TransAmériques show featuring dozens of dogs impersonating members of the United Nations.

In a final outing with the wolf pack, the joke's on us, says Eli Glasner. The Hangover Part 3 is a strangely serious and laugh-free sequel in the popular, offensive and raunchy series.

As the busy summer busking season approaches, the CBC Community asked Canadian street artists to share their stories about the ups and downs of the business.

Customizable objects from plastic dollhouse furniture to medical prosthetics can now be designed and printed out by almost anyone at the press of a button, and is going to lead to an 'explosion of new stuff,' predicts author Chris Anderson.

Le Démantèlement, a movie by Quebec director Sebastien Pilote, has won one of the main prizes of sidebar program Critics Week at the Cannes Film Festival.

Thieves outsmarted 80 security guards in an exclusive French Riviera hotel and made off with a necklace that creators say is worth a staggering €2 million ($2.7 million Cdn) — in the second such jewelry heist during this year's Cannes Film Festival.

The famously fickle Cannes audiences greeted Ryan Gosling's latest film, Only God Forgives, with boos, while Robert Redford received a standing ovation for All is Lost.

A Russian court has rejected parole for jailed Pussy Riot band member Maria Alekhina, despite a high-profile plea from former Beatle Paul McCartney and other top musicians.

Wayne F. Miller, the American photographer best known for his photo series The Way of the Northern Negro, which chronicled the lives of black Americans in Chicago after the Second World War, has died at the age of 94.

Somali-Canadian rapper K'naan has long drawn musical inspiration from his troubled homeland. Now he says he's ready to make a film about his war-torn roots.

U.S. President Barack Obama saluted Carole King's five decades as an award-winning singer-songwriter on Wednesday evening in Washington, presenting her with this year's Gershwin Prize for Popular Song.

CBC-TV has released a fall lineup that includes the return of Battle of the Blades and new international co-production Crossing Lines.

Life-size sculptures of ice age mammals at Whitehorse's Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre are now wearing colourful coats thanks to Yarn Bomb Yukon.

Passinho is a new dance craze coming out of Brazil. Fueled by social media, it could also mean a way out of the country's notorious slums for some Brazilian youth.

Lydia Davis, an American writer of short stories —some of them just a single line long — has won the £60,000 ($93,230 Cdn) Man Booker International Prize.

The British Library on Wednesday added substantially to its already formidable collection with handwritten lyrics to Beatles' classics Strawberry Fields Forever, She Said She Said and In My Life.

Seven years after what was thought to be the end of Arrested Development, the cult television comedy is coming back to screens of all sizes this Sunday in a first-of-its-kind Netflix resurrection.

Muppets Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy, the kooky Fraggle Rock crew, Sesame Street's Bert and Ernie as well as other puppets from Jim Henson's influential career are moving to a new home in Queens, N.Y.

Aretha Franklin is extending her current break and has cancelled performances for the month of June, including apperances in Montreal and Ottawa.

AEG Live LLC did not conduct any background checks or supervise the doctor who was later convicted of killing Michael Jackson, a corporate attorney testified Tuesday in a lawsuit claiming the concert promoter was negligent in hiring the physician.

Citing fatigue, noted Taiwanese filmmaker Ang Lee has withdrawn from plans to direct the new U.S. cable drama Tyrant.

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford's woes over crack cocaine allegations are providing plenty of late-night TV fodder for Jimmy Kimmel, Jon Stewart and other comedians south of the border.