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Tonya Williams: The Young and the Restless, Reelworld Film Festival, and her barrier-breaking work
The Canadian actor Tonya Williams spent two decades playing Dr. Olivia Winters on “The Young and the Restless,” which made her one of the first Black…
1 year, 8 months ago
Mick Jagger: Hackney Diamonds and more than 60 years of the Rolling Stones
Tom’s conversation with Mick Jagger has won gold for best interview at this year’s New York Festivals Radio Awards! The Rolling Stones frontman sat d…
1 year, 8 months ago
Fred Nguyen Khan: The Sympathizer, training with Shaolin monks, and acting in Vietnamese for the first time
Fred Nguyen Khan is a trilingual actor and stunt performer from Montreal who’s been studying martial arts since he was four. That resume helped him b…
1 year, 8 months ago
Deryck Whibley: Why Sum 41 is disbanding after 27 years
After three decades, the Canadian pop-punk band Sum 41 is calling it quits. But when frontman Deryck Whibley started writing the group’s latest album…
1 year, 8 months ago
Leanne Toshiko Simpson: Why the rom-com is the perfect format to discuss mental illness
Leanne Toshiko Simpson is looking at romantic comedy through a new lens. The fourth-generation Japanese Canadian writer has just released her debut n…
1 year, 8 months ago
Alex Garland on his new film Civil War + Hamza Haq on how Transplant saved his career
Alex Garland’s latest film “Civil War” is unsettling even in its premise — maybe because of how real it feels. Set in a dystopian future America, the…
1 year, 8 months ago
Kyle MacLachlan: Fallout, David Lynch, and how he really feels about Dune
After making his name in series like “Twin Peaks” and “Sex and the City,” Kyle MacLachlan is now back on the small screen as the star of the new Amaz…
1 year, 9 months ago
iskwē: The ‘gut-wrenching roller coaster ride’ of making her new album
The Cree Métis singer-songwriter iskwē is back with her first solo album since 2019, “nīna.” On the record, she channels her feelings of heartbreak, …
1 year, 9 months ago
Mike Post on writing some of TV’s greatest theme songs + Joel Plaskett’s new spoken word piece
Mike Post is the multi-Grammy-winning composer behind some of the most recognizable TV theme songs of all time, from “The A-Team” and “Magnum, P.I.” …
1 year, 9 months ago
Ian Williams on courageous conversations, cancel culture and taking risks + Magdalene Odundo on her life in clay
The award-winning Canadian writer and professor Ian Williams has been named this year’s Massey lecturer. Since 1961, the Massey Lectures have invited…
1 year, 9 months ago