New York singer and music producer Hank Medress, best known as the voice behind The Lion Sleeps Tonight by doo-wop group The Tokens, has died. Merrymaking and mud as Glastonbury fest ends The legendary Glastonbury music festival in England draws to a close with a record 177,500 attendees and massive rainfall that resulted in a mud-soaked event. Long-lost Cage composition to be premiered in Vancouver A long-lost work by John Cage, an influential and sometimes controversial U.
S. composer, will have its North American premiere in Vancouver Friday evening. Lauper's exuberant gay-rights concert tour stops in Toronto 1980s icon Cyndi Lauper sang the praises of Canada Tuesday night in Toronto, the only Canadian stop for her True Colors gay-rights concert tour.
Collector shares beauty of Islamic art with world Works from the world's largest private collection of Islamic art have gone on display at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. Hugh Hefner biopic in the works The life of Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner is set for the silver screen, courtesy of the director behind the Rush Hour franchise. The Istanbul Live Earth concert has been cancelled after failing to attract government support or corporate sponsorship.
The Canadian War Museum's CEO has left his post less than two weeks after a Senate subcommittee asked the museum to change a controversial display. Cameron Diaz apologizes for political fashion faux pas in Peru Cameron Diaz apologized Sunday for carrying a bag with a political slogan that evoked painful memories in Peru. New York singer and music producer Hank Medress, best known as the voice behind The Lion Sleeps Tonight by doo-wop group The Tokens, has died.